Ekeomah Atuonwu The European Union is attempting to strengthen ties with Nigeria as it seeks to diversify its natural gas import sources in an effort to reduce reliance on Russian energy. Nigeria is Europe’s fourth largest supplier of liquefied natural gas. Currently, at least 40% of Nigeria’s gas is exported to Europe. In response to […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appealed to the African Union (AU) for assistance in dealing with Russia’s aggression and has requested to address the continental body. Mr Zelensky spoke with Senegalese President Macky Sall on Monday, and they discussed an AU statement issued in February calling for an immediate ceasefire and a return to negotiations. In response to Russia’s invasion of […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Elon Musk will not be joining Twitter’s board of directors, the social media company’s CEO announced late Sunday, in a reversal less than a week after announcing the Tesla CEO’s appointment. Musk was appointed to the Twitter board of directors after acquiring a 9.2% significant stake in the company and becoming its largest […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Michael Tetteh, Ghana’s sole professional glassblower, clenched his teeth as he gripped a red-hot ball of molten glass, his burned and blistered hands exposed against the steaming stack of wet newspaper he used to protect them. The 44-year-old toiled in the sweltering heat of scrap-metal kilns that reached nearly 1,500 degrees Celsius (2,700 degrees […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Another video have been obtained from the Kaduna train attack on March 28 showing victims pleading with the government to intervene, surrounded by their armed abductors in a vast expanse of forest. In the most recent clips, which differs significantly from the one released a week ago as AEM reported, about 15 terrorists are lined […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Nigeria’s national electricity grid has failed for the second time in a month, according to the federal ministry of power, leaving parts of the country without power, including the capital Abuja and Africa’s largest city, Lagos. According to the power ministry, the outage occurred overnight. It did not disclose when the grid that […]
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Maina wa Njuguna Meet Babatope (Tope) Awotona, one of the richest immigrants from Nigeria 🇳🇬 in the USA with a net worth of $1.4 billion according to Forbes. Babatope Awotona is the founder and CEO of Calendly LLC, the modern scheduling platform for high-performing teams and individuals accelerating business forward. He launched Calendly in 2013 […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Nigerian billionaires rose in the latest Forbes World’s Billionaire List, which compiles the fortunes of the world’s wealthiest people. The feat was accomplished despite rising global prices caused by the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war. Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, saw his fortune rise from $11.5 billion in 2021 to […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Gunmen who attacked a train in northwest Nigeria, killing at least eight people, have released a video of a bank executive who was one of the unspecified number of passengers kidnapped. The attack on the train between Abuja and Kaduna last week marked a significant increase in violence in northwest Nigeria, which has […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Lawyers for ex-Burkina Faso leader Thomas Sankara’s family demanded on Thursday that former President Blaise Compaore be extradited after he was sentenced to life in prison in absentia for the assassination of the revolutionary icon in 1987. After a six-month trial, a military court sentenced Compaore, who seized power in a coup that coincided with Sankara’s death in 1987 […]
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