The U.S. on Wednesday unlocked new opportunities for trade, investment with Africa by signing an historic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the new African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat. U.S. President Joe Biden announced this at the U.S. Africa Business Forum in Washington D.C. The News Agency of Nigeria...
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Parents who broke record when they welcomed nine babies at once (nonuplets) have finally returned home after 19 months in an intensive care clinic. Mother Halima Cissé, 27, and her husband Abdelkader Arby, 36, from Mali, spent almost two years at the specialist Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca, Morocco, following the...
ope Francis has urged people to celebrate Christmas more modestly and donate the savings to Ukraine. The head of the Catholic Church said during a general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday that people could cut back on festive spending this year and celebrate with more humble gifts. “Let...
An Italian air force pilot was killed when his fighter plane crashed on the island of Sicily. Rescue forces found the man’s body early on Wednesday, news agency ANSA reported. The Italian military had confirmed the crash late Tuesday, saying the aircraft did not return from a training mission...
Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo on Tuesday called on all African leaders to stop begging for aid and allow the continent assume its rightful position in the world. Akufo-Addo who made the call at the ongoing 3-day U.S.- African Leaders Summit said countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, others have what...
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Tuesday said the U.S, would commit more than $55 billion dollars to support health and climate adaption in Africa. Sullivan announced this on the sidelines of the U.S.-Africa summit in Washington D.C. According to him, the U.S. is committed to investing...
Police on Friday reported that five people were killed and more than 40 injured after a cooking gas cylinder exploded in at a wedding gathering. Police official, Anil Kayal said the explosion occurred in a village in Rajasthan when the guests at the wedding were gathering for lunch. Kayal...
The U.S. House of Representatives has given final congressional approval to legislation that provides federal recognition of same-sex marriages, a measure born out of concern that the Supreme Court could reverse its support for legal recognition of such relationships. The House vote was 258-169, with all of the chamber’s...
Prince Harry has said he “sacrificed everything” to be a part of his wife, Meghan Markle’s world. In their new Netflix docuseries titled ‘Harry and Meghan’, Harry said Meghan gave up her freedom and everything she ever knew to join him in his world of royalty. He added that when the...
Ericsson, a Swedish multinational telecommunications company, has projected that 5G subscriptions in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will grow from seven million in 2022 to 150 million by the end of 2028. Ericsson made this known on Thursday during a webinar organised to discuss its latest 2022 edition of the Mobility...
Twitter owner and Tesla CEO, Elon Musk briefly lost his title as the world’s richest person on Wednesday, to Bernard Arnault, the chief executive of luxury brand Louis Vuitton’s parent company LVMH, according to Forbes. Bernard Arnault, CEO of the French luxury goods firm LVMH, temporarily topped Musk on...
A US judge dismissed Tuesday a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for his alleged role in the 2018 murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Washington federal judge John Bates accepted a US government’s stance that Prince Mohammed, who was designated prime minister of Saudi Arabia...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari will on Wednesday in Bissau, Guinea Bissau, be decorated with the country’s highest honour in recognition of his contributions to the political stability of the West African nation. The President’s spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu stated this in a statement on Tuesday...
Malawi Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Director General, Martha Chizuma was on Tuesday arrested by the police over an alleged leaked audio conversation, local media reported. Malawi’s police spokesperson, Peter Kalaya confirmed the arrest but he is yet to outline the arrest details. According to the police, Chizuma is being kept...
Somali forces and allied militias have pushed al Shabaab fighters out of a strategic town in central Somalia that the Islamist group has controlled for six years, officials and the African Union (AU) said on Tuesday. The government, backed by AU troops and clan militias, says it has killed...
South Africa’s parliament has postponed a vote on impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa by one week. The vote had been scheduled for Tuesday. A few hours earlier, the 70-year-old leader filed an application with the country’s Constitutional Court to have serious corruption allegations against him investigated. The ruling...
West African leaders agreed on Sunday to create a regional force to intervene against jihadism and in the event of coups. President of the ECOWAS Commission, Omar Alieu Touray, stated this on Sunday while addressing journalists at a summit in Nigeria. Mr. Touray said the leaders of the Economic...
President Muhammadu Buhari has performed the official ground-breaking ceremony of the new ECOWAS Headquarters complex also known as the Eye of West Africa, to be constructed by the Chinese Government. President Buhari declared that the edifice will strengthen the brotherhood of African countries. The building which comes in the...
Brazilian football legend Pele is in a stable condition after he was admitted to hospital on Tuesday to re-evaluate his cancer treatment, the hospital said in a statement on Wednesday. “After medical evaluation, the patient was taken to a common room, with no need for admission in a semi-intensive...