(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Prime Minister of Ivory Coast, Hamed Bakayoko, is dead Authorities disclosed that Bakayoko passed on in an hospital in Germany, while receiving treatment for cancer on Wednesday, just days after his 56th birthday. He was appointed prime minister in July, following the sudden death of his predecessor Amadou Gon Coulibaly. Aside […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mahamadou Issoufou, who is stepping down as president of coup-prone Niger after two terms in office, on Monday won Africa’s top prize for leadership. He was awarded the 2020 Mo Ibrahim Prize for facing “seemingly insurmountable challenges”, ranging from deep poverty to jihadism and desertification. Despite these enduring problems, “Issoufou has led […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, has enjoined the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to review the protocol on free movement so that the influx of foreign herders into Nigeria will be curtailed. Tambuwal disclosed this on Saturday when he appeared on Television Continental Programme on Saturday saying that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghana is preparing to become the first Liquefied Natural Gas importer in sub-Saharan Africa, with the terminal at the port of Tema set to receive its maiden cargo in the coming weeks. LNG will add to Ghana’s own gas production and imports from Nigeria via the West African Gas Pipeline, though these […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Internet connectivity was restored in Niger late Friday, an AFP journalist found, after ten days of interruption following unrest over official results handing the ruling-party candidate a win in last month’s presidential elections. Neither the government nor the west African country’s four telecoms firms explained the outage, which hobbled communications and the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ordered the Nigerian Government to pay over N53 million to a German national, Mr Martin Gegenheimer, for unlawful arrest and detention. The Court’s Communications Department disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja, following the judgment of the court on the matter on Thursday. According […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has enjoined d youths not to copy “vagabonds”, saying that destruction won’t assist them to get to their destinations. Tinubu disclosed this during the inauguration of the Agege-Pen Cinema Bridge. He said: “To all of you youths, if you see the kind […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senegalese police clashed with supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko on Thursday, leaving one person dead, a police official said — the first death in protests sparked by Sonko’s arrest the previous day. Sonko, leader of the opposition Pastef party and former presidential candidate, is considered a key potential challenger to President […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Enugu Zonal Office on Wednesday arraigned a fake Chevron Nigeria staff, identified as Mr. Uguru Ozoemena Justus, before Justice Phoebe Msuan Ayua of the Federal High Court, Abakaliki, Ebonyi state He was arrainged on one count Charge of obtaining money by false pretense to the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ghanaian’s Supreme Court has upheld the election victory of incumbent President Nana Addo Dankwa AKufo-Addo. The seven-member panel Thursday unanimously dismissed the petition filed by the Presidential candidate of the main opposition candidate, former President John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). The court, which was presided over by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Frederick Shava was sworn in as Zimbabwe’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade at the State House in the capital Harare on Tuesday. Shava, who has held various portfolios in government since Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980, was appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa last month following the death of Sibusiso Moyo, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Egypt and Sudan on Tuesday signed an agreement for military cooperation between both countries. The agreement was signed during a visit by Egypt’s army chief of staff, Mohamed Farid, to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, a Sputnik correspondent reported. “We reached a goal regarding the national security of the two countries to build […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Somali President Mohamed Farmajo has called for consultative talks on March 4, with federal member state leaders to break an election deadlock and avert a constitutional crisis. Farmajo said in a statement that the day-long event would take place in Mogadishu to help finalise talks on delayed elections and findings tabled by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – WaterAid Nigeria and Heineken Africa Foundation have assisted 21 milllion Nigerians across six states in protecting themselves against COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. The support was delivered through the completion of a seven-month project that expanded hygiene access for marginalised and vulnerable communities in Bauchi, Benue, Ekiti, Enugu, Kaduna and Oyo states. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent reached 3,869,522 as of Friday, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. According to the continental disease control and prevention agency’s COVID-19 dashboard, the death toll related to the pandemic stood at 102,843 as of Friday. A total […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ECOWAS Court of Justice has dismissed the application of a third-party applicant, representing 6,500 parties seeking inclusion to benefit from a N50 billion consent judgment of the court. The court had awarded a consent judgement on the matter in 2017, ordering N50 billion as compensation to the victims of remnants of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe’s Vice President Kembo Mohadi who is caught in a storm of having office sex with various married women, has claimed he is an innocent victim of well-choreographed attempts to destroy his political career. Mohadi was elevated by President Mnangagwa into the country’s number two position in 2017 after the military coup […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe kick-started the Covid-19 vaccination programme after receiving a donation of 200 000 shots of the Sinopharm vaccine from China. Vice President Costantino Chiwenga who is also Health Minister volunteered to be the first citizen to be jabbed. Zimbabwe hopes to vaccinate about 10 million citizens using donated doses from China as […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UN humanitarian agency on Wednesday condemned a recent violent attack on aid workers delivering polio vaccines to South Sudan’s Lakes state. Alain Noudehou, UN Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Humanitarian Coordinator, said the attack that took place on Feb. 14 at Malek in Lakes state, claimed three lives and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) says a new case of the Ebola virus has emerged just a few months after the outbreak was declared to have ended in the Central African country. The ministry of health disclosed this on Sunday saying that a patient who has since died contracted the virus […]
