African News

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode appears to be pained by the state of the Nation. In a twitter thread he posted today, FFK listed the ills of Nigeria and how things are getting...

By Agencies Aid workers said Cameroon is edging towards full-blown war, as the country got the crown for harbouring the world’s most neglected displacement crisis, arising from a conflict that has forced half a million...

By Agencies Zambian President Edgar Lungu on Tuesday pledged to dissolve KCM, the country’s largest copper producer, in a deepening dispute with foreign mining companies over tax and employment. KCM is owned by London-based Vedanta Resources,...

By Agencies The United Nations received 37 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse against its personnel in the first quarter of 2019, according to one of its spokespersons. Mr Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General...

By Brendan Umoren The Director General of the Nigerian Association of Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mine and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Ambassador Ayo Olukanni, has said yesterday’s landing incident of the Ethiopian Airlines flight 901 from Addis...

By Agencies An African free-trade zone came into force Thursday, a step toward creating what the African Union hopes will be a continent-wide market of 1.2 billion people worth $2.5 trillion. “This is a historic...

By Agencies A Freetown high court has acquitted former Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) president Isha Johansen of all corruption charges on Monday. Also acquitted alongside Johansen was SLFA general secretary Christopher Kamara, triggering jubilation...

By Agencies Botswana, home to almost one-third of Africa’s elephants, lifted a ban on elephant hunting on Wednesday saying the population had increased and farmers’ livelihoods were being impacted. Conservationists estimate the southern African country has...

Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Entrepreneurship Forum 2018 took place at the Balmoral Event Centre, Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos. The event brought together entrepreneurs, guests, investors and dignitaries together under one roof to mark the...

The World football governing body, FIFA, will pay the Super Eagles of Nigeria and other nations that crashed out from the group stages of the 2018 World Cup tournament £6.1m each. According to reports, Nigeria would have received £9.1...