The Lagos Food Bank, vital for residents, faces dwindling supplies as inflation skyrockets in Nigeria while President Bola Tinubu's unpopular economic reforms worsened the cost of living crisis, as per a Reuters report.
Many residents struggle with (...)
Nigeria's taxation authority has lodged allegations of tax evasion against the cryptocurrency platform Binance, as per a Reuters' report citing released statement on Monday.
Filed by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) in Abuja, the case (...)
Nigeria's central bank governor, Olayemi Cardoso is facing a difficult challenge as he is about to announce his first interest-rate decision, with investors eager for decisive measures amidst public outrage over the steep rise in living expenses, (...)
Niger plans to construct a $100 million Sports Arena to be constructed between Abuja and Suleija, in an effort to promote sporting activities, its governor Mohammed Umaru Bago announced on Saturday.
The facility is part of his commitment to sports (...)
Aisha Shuaibu, President of Abuja-headquartered SWA Sports, said business of sports will be able to achieve many solutions for the continent especially in Egypt and Nigeria, for example providing employment.
Shuaibu made her remark during an (...)
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عقد المركز الطبي الأفريقي للتميز «AMCE Abuja» الذي أنشأه أفريكسيم بنك، اجتماع مجلس إدارته الافتتاحي في القاهرة، خلال شهر أكتوبر الجاري.
يمثل المركز مبادرة من قبل بنك التصدير والاستيراد الأفريقي «أفريكسيم بنك»، بهدف تنفيذ وتشغيل منشأة طبية من (...)
Niger's junta appointed 21 ministers late Wednesday, ahead of a meeting of West African leaders who will discuss their response to a military coup in Niger.
Abdourahamane Tchiani, president of the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (...)
The African Development Bank's (AfDB) board has approved on Tuesday a $11.7 million budgetary allocation to the African Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (AFFM) for its 2023 operations.
The approval adds more than of $16.4 million extended to the (...)
The Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping, and Peacebuilding (CCCPA) held a training course in Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria's Borno State, focusing on "strengthening the role of women's community leaders to prevent (...)
Nearly a decade ago, when then newly-elected leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) made its debut at the Great Hall of People after the first plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, the world was speculating how the world's (...)
Nigeria's economy has continued to be resilient and maintains an upward trajectory, despite the disruptions in the global economy, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said on Friday.
Buhari, while inaugurating an 11-man Presidential Committee on the (...)
Living Design for engineering consultancy aims to expand in the Egyptian real estate market this year, especially in the hotel sector.
Tarek Hegazy, CEO of Living Design, said that the company is currently negotiating with a number of real estate (...)
Egypt is hosting the 17th conference of the Committee of Intelligence & Security Service of Africa (CISSA) in Cairo.
It is the largest African intelligence conference, it will be running from 12 to 13 December.
Egypt's General Intelligence Service (...)
China is the main trading partner of Africa, accounting for nearly 20% of the continent's foreign trade, according to Ibrahim El-Araby, President of the Union of African Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Agriculture, and Professions (...)
At a COVID-19 vaccination site in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, tempers flared among those waiting for scarce AstraZeneca jabs, with some accusing others of trying to jump the queue.
Nurses intervened, telling them the accused had been waiting since (...)
Gunmen kidnapped around 30 students in an overnight raid on a forestry college in northwest Nigeria, an official said on Friday, the fourth mass school abduction since December in a country where violence is on the increase.
An armed gang broke into (...)
Hundreds of Nigerian girls abducted last week from a boarding school in the country's northwest have been released, a state governor said Tuesday, as the West African nation faces a spate of school kidnappings.
The girls, ages 10 and up, dressed in (...)
By using every possible means to achieve its illegitimate and illegal goals in Africa, Iran has not been reluctant to support outlawed groups and militias in countries suffering from political and social instability. It has done this either with the (...)
Egypt has extended condolences to Nigeria on Sunday night after a military plane crashed near the capital Abuja killing all seven people onboard.
“Egypt affirms its sincere condolences to the families of the innocent victims, reiterating its (...)
A Nigerian air force plane crashed while approaching the Abuja airport runway due to engine failure on Sunday, Nigeria's aviation minister said.
Hadi Sirika said on his Twitter account that "a military aircraft King Air 350 has just crashed short of (...)
Nigeria's protests against police brutality turned violent Monday when a crowd stormed a prison and freed some 200 inmates in Benin in southern Nigeria.
Some prisoners jumped from a high fence of the institution while others were seen running away (...)
Hundreds of protesters marched to the gates of Nigeria's parliament on Thursday, hours after the army said it was ready to step in and restore order after more than a week of demonstrations against police brutality.
The protest defied a ban on mass (...)
EgyptAir resumed on Friday flights between Borg El-Arab International Airport in the northern goveronorate of Alexandria and Dubai International Airport.
Egypt's flagship carrier said it will operate three weekly flights between the two (...)
So the rumours that have been circulating for some time now turned out to be true. Rene Weiler has officially left Ahly. The Swiss coach was growing increasingly agitated by living in Egypt away from his family because of the coronavirus and made (...)
In what could mark a major historical feat ending 17 years of civil warfare and bloodshed in Sudan, the government in Khartoum signed a comprehensive and final peace agreement on Saturday, 3 October, with most of the rebel movements in Darfur, South (...)