On March 8, the world marked international women’s day. On this day, there was a reenactment of the achievements and contributions of women, a remembrance of the challenges that women faced, and a focus on gender equality, and human rights, including violence and abuse against women. But as in...
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Nitin Gajria, Managing Director, Google Africa, on Tuesday said that the search interest on private browsing increased in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. Gajria said at the Africa Ads Privacy immersion for press in Lagos that search in private browsing increased in Kenya by 110 per cent, Nigeria by...
A Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed Nov 18 for hearing a N20bn suit filed by leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, against the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, SAN. Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed the date for hearing the suit, which also...
A Federal High Court in Umuahia, Abia, on Wednesday, ordered the Federal Government to return Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, to Kenya before his rendition on June 19, 2021. Delivering judgment, Justice Evelyn Anyadike, also awarded Kanu N500m in general damages. The News Agency...
Kenya’s foreign exchange reserves declined by 12.5 billion shillings (about 103 million U.S. dollars) this week to hit a five-year low as the shilling fell to the lowest level in history against the dollar, the Central Bank of Kenya said in its weekly update of the financial markets. The...
The World Food Programme (WFP) says it is scaling up operations to support millions going hungry who “cannot wait” for assistance as the threat of famine looms in the Horn of Africa. The region is in the grip of a historic drought, brought on by four consecutive failed rains....
At least 30 passengers were killed and several others injured on Sunday evening when their bus fell off a bridge and plunged into a river along the highway in Tharaka Nithi. The Eastern Regional Police Commander Rono Brunei said on Monday. The bus, travelling from Meru town to the...
A high court in Kenya has stopped the tax authority from demanding tax on tithes, donations and offerings given to churches. The Kenya Revenue Authority *KRA) had demanded 5.5m Kenyan shillings ($47,000; £37,000) from Thika Road Baptist Church in unpaid taxes, arguing that it failed to produce a tax...
World Health Organisation (WHO) says one million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have now received one or more doses of the world’s first malaria vaccine, through a programme it piloted. The malaria vaccine pilots, first launched by the Government of Malawi in April 2019, have shown the vaccine...
Nnamdi Kanu has demanded a compensation of N25 billion from the Nigerian Government over his arrest and repatriation from Kenya. Kanu is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. He made the demand before a Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, Abia State. He explained that the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has returned from London after a routine medical check-up. The presidential aircraft carrying the president landed at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, at about 7.09 p.m. NATIONAL ACCORD has reported that President Buhari had earlier departed...
Police authority in Mwiyala in the outskirts of Kakamega town, Kenya have arrested a 32-year-old woman who served her two children with food laced with poison leading to their death. Pherine Maero, a nurse by profession, poisoned her two children, aged 7 and 9, on Saturday night, March 5...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday returned to Abuja after attending the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) at 50 in Nairobi, Kenya. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president, who initially planned to proceed to London for medical check-up, returned to Abuja on Friday at about 1.p.m....
Uganda says the fuel shortage in some parts of the country is due to the interruption in the supply chain at the common border with Kenya. The interruption was caused by transit truck drivers who were protesting charges for COVID-19 tests at the border. Uganda’s Ministry of Energy and...
Kenyan police said, on Tuesday, they arrested five suspects in connection with the killing of seven civilians in the coastal region on Monday. National Police Service Spokesperson, Bruno Shioso, said the suspects were nabbed on Tuesday over the attack at Widhu Majembeni and Bobo-Sunkia – both in Lamu. Shioso...
Six people have been killed and homes torched in a grisly attack Monday by suspected Al-Shabaab militants in a Kenyan coastal region bordering Somalia, police and government officials said. One man was beheaded and five others shot or burned to death in the attack in a village in Lamu...
A Kenyan police officer on Tuesday shot dead six people, including his wife, and wounded two others before turning the gun on himself, police said. The rampage in the capital Nairobi triggered protests by angry residents who blocked the road with burning tyres. Police said the AK-47-rifle-wielding officer first...
Spotify, a music streaming service provider, has launched a self-serve advertising platform, Ad Studio, in Jamaica, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The innovative advertising medium has been made available to even more artists around the globe. Christopher Li, Director of Digital Planning and Products at Live Nation and...
Kenyan authorities have arrested seven prison wardens following the escape of three convicts who were serving jail terms for terrorism-related crimes. Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi said on Tuesday that preliminary investigations revealed that the escape from the heavily guarded prison facility was abetted by laxity and incompetence. “We...
Ibrahim Rotich, the husband of slain Kenyan Olympic runner, Agnes Tirop, was charged with her murder and pleaded not guilty in a Kenyan court on Tuesday. Rotich, 41, had been ordered last week to undergo a mental health test before entering a plea. Tirop was found stabbed to death...