Ekeomah Atuonwu The President of United Arab Emirates (UAE) 🇦🇪, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has passed away at age 73, state news agency reported today. The Ministry of Presidential Affairs announced 40 days of mourning with flags at half-mast, with work suspended in the public and private sector for the first three days. The leader had been battling […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu According to two witnesses, Deborah Samuel, a female student of Nigeria’s Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, was beaten and set on fire by fellow students who accused her of making “blasphemous” words in a WhatsApp group. Following the attack, the school in Sokoto, Nigeria’s northern state, was immediately closed. According to the witness, “She composed an audio in Hausa that contains […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The Cameroon-headquartered Bank of Central African States (BEAC) has urged the Central African Republic (CAR) to annul a law it passed in late April that made the cryptocurrency Bitcoin legal tender. AEM had reported that the country legalised usage of cryptocurrencies, as announced by its president. The bank warned in a letter made public last week that the […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, former President of Nigeria, has been appointed to the international advisory board of the European Corporate Council on Africa and the Middle East (ECAM Council). In a statement on Wednesday, Jonathan’s Special Adviser, Ikechukwu Eze, explained that with the appointment, the former president becomes the first Sub-Saharan African leader to serve on the […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu According to Somali police, at least four people were killed on Wednesday by a suicide bomber who targeted a checkpoint near the airport in the capital, Mogadishu. “I saw four bodies at the scene. Two of them were government soldiers who died immediately after the attack,” said Ali Hassan, a police officer. According to witness Hamdi Nur, a […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Ghana’s inflation rate increased to 23.6 percent in April, up from 19.4 percent in March. The new mark is the highest since January 2004. This was revealed by Ghana’s Government Statistician, Samuel Kobina Annim, who stated that imported items surpassed locally produced items for the first time in 29 months. The war in Ukraine and Indonesia’s […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The police have charged four Chrisland School teachers in the Magistrate Court in Lagos State’s Yaba district. The teachers who accompanied some Chrisland students to the World School Games in Dubai were brought to court on Tuesday. The Lagos police command, for its part, said at the time that it had launched an investigation into the case to determine […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The military court in Ouagadougou sentenced former Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaoré and nine other defendants to pay more than 800 million CFA francs ($1,389,282) in damages to the beneficiaries of the 1987 assassination of former President Thomas Sankara and his companions. According to Judge Urbain Méda, the amount of damages for “reparation of moral and economic prejudice” is […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The Israeli army shot and killed an Al Jazeera reporter in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry and the Qatar-based news channel. Shireen Abu Akleh was “assassinated” by Israeli forces on Wednesday while reporting on a raid in Jenin, which has seen increased army raids in recent weeks as violence has […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Ethio Telecom, a state-owned operator, launched a 5G mobile phone service on Monday, putting it one step ahead of new entrants in an industry that has been closed to international players. Next-generation 5G networks, which can provide data speeds at least 20 times faster than 4G, are seen as critical for emerging technologies such […]
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