AFRICA

A UN plane flew the bodies of Ivorian peacekeepers killed in Mali home on Friday. On the ground, the head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, government officials, and the soldiers’ families waited to receive them. The head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA) Dennis Gyllensporre was …

Nigerian exporters that have not repatriated export proceeds will be barred from all banking services from January 31, the central bank said. The new directive applies to exports up until June last year, central bank spokesman, Osita Nwanisobi said by text message on Saturday. “Proceeds for oil is to be …

The Emir of Maru in Zamfara State, Alhaji Abubakar Gado Maigari, has confirmed that 35 people were killed during an attack on five villages in his emirate. The Emir was briefing Governor Bello Matawalle who paid a sympathy visit to the affected villages. The villages according to the Emir are …

Nigerian blogger and founder of the 360 Group, Noble Igwe has said that people seem not to be going forward or progressing in life because they are not often happy with the success of other people. For reasons best known to those who engage in it, the success of other …

Minister in the presidency Jackson Mthembu, who died of Covid-19 related complications on Thursday, will be given an official state funeral at the weekend. The presidency announced on Friday that he would get an “Official Funeral Category 1”, and that the national flag will be flown at half-mast at every flag …

A 20-year-old school leaver, Peter Nwoke has been arrested for allegedly leaking a ‘sex video’ of lawyer and Federal Commissioner of Imo State Office of Public Complaints Commission, Chief Willie Amadi naked in a room with two girls. The 12-second ‘sex tape’ suggested that the appointee of President Muhammadu Buhari had a threesome, but it was gathered that …

President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Political Party Funding Act into operation with effect from April 1. This was announced by the presidency in a statement on Friday morning. Ramaphosa signed the Political Party Funding Bill into law early last year but no date of commencement was promulgated at the …

“You may wonder that this counter insurgency operation has lingered for too long. We all know globally that counter-terrorism is very complex. There are some countries that have fought counter terrorism for close to 50years. But, we’re not going to leave it to linger that long. We will have to …

Prominent South African politician, Jackson Mthembu, has died of Covid-related complications, President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced. Mr Mthembu, who since 2019 had been serving as the minister in the presidency, was a parliamentarian and long-serving member of the governing African National Congress (ANC). He had worked his way up the …

The police in Kano state have arrested a 20-year-old lady identified as Suwaiba Shuaibu, for stabbing to death a 17-year-old girl, Aisha Kabir, who her husband had planned to get married to. A statement released by the spokesperson of the state police command, Abdullahi Haruna, says that on January 2, …