Ekeomah Atuonwu The country’s accountant-general Mr. Ahmed Idris has been arrested, accused of stealing millions of dollars from government coffers. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said in a statement Monday that Ahmed Idris was arrested “in connection with fund diversion and money laundering activities totaling N80 billion ($192.4 million).” SEE TWEET BELOW: EFCC Arrests […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Mustapha Gajibo, a Nigerian entrepreneur, has been converting petrol minibuses to electric vehicles at his workshop, but he is now taking it a step further by designing and building solar battery-powered buses from the ground up in an effort to promote sustainable energy and reduce pollution. Africa’s largest crude oil producer and exporter has […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The leaders of the UAE’s numerous sheikhdoms have picked a new president in a display of unity. It was unsurprising that the half-brother of the recently dead president was chosen so quickly. The leaders of the seven sheikhdoms that make up the United Arab Emirates declared on Saturday that Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan would succeed […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he wants to address national parliaments in Africa and Asia as he seeks their support for Ukraine in its ongoing fight against Russia’s invasion. He stressed that his government is doing everything to maintain the world’s attention on the conflict. “Information about our needs should be in the news of […]
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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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