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Covid-19 graft scandals fuel South Africans’ anger with ruling ANC

A SPATE of corruption scandals during the Covid-19 pandemic has further fuelled some South Africans’ frustration with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party and its failure to tackle graft despite renewed promises from President Cyril Ramaphosa. Reports of suspect…

AAU Ekpoma Management indictes Obaseki of coordinating corruption in state-owned University

n this exclusive report, Sunday Ehigiator highlights the lingering crisis between the Vice- Chancellor, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Prof. Ignatius Onimawo and the Chairman, Governing Council of the institution, Chief Lawson Omokhodion, which is capable of hampering the peace of…

Release All Detained Children Immediately, Amnesty International Tells President Buhari In Open Letter

Amnesty International on Tuesday in an open to letter called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately order the release of children detained in Giwa Barracks, Kainji Military Base, Maiduguri Maximum Prison, Operation Safe Corridor facility outside Gombe and other detention…

Guinea-Bissau migration agency boss arrested for alleged cocaine trafficking

THE head of Guinea-Bissau’s migration agency has been arrested for suspected involvement in cocaine trafficking, the police said, becoming one of the most senior officials in the West African country detained in connection with drug smuggling. Guinea-Bissau is a major…

Op-Ed: Building the ‘Wall Street’ of Africa

WALL Street is the historic headquarters of some of the largest US brokerages and investment banks, however, as Africans, we can recreate this and build our own ‘Wall Street’ on the African continent, writes John Lombela. Africa is at a…

Gates Foundation’s Annual Goalkeepers Report says Covid-19 has stalled 20 years of progress

THE Bill Melinda Gates Foundation today launched its fourth annual Goalkeepers Report, featuring new data showing how the ripple effects of Covid-19 have stopped 20 years of progress toward the The report provides the most contemporary global data set for…

Fuel: The day of reckoning is here

By Louis Odion, FNGE It is a factual error to conflate the subsidy uprising of 2012 and the crisis of 2020. True, both speak to a national emergency, but the circumstances are starkly dissimilar. Nigerians that marched across the nation…

Hotel Rwanda’ hero appears in court on terror charges

PAUL Rusesabagina, portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood movie about Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, faced 12 charges including terrorism in a Kigali court on Monday in a case shining a spotlight on opposition to President Paul Kagame. Rusesabagina, who once…

Shiite Group Raises Fresh Concerns Over El-Zakzaky, Wife’s Health

The Academic Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria has expressed concern over the deteriorating health of leader of the group, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenat. The group said information at its disposal revealed that bullets lodged in…