The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has disclosed that the Dangote Petroleum Refinery is now 97 percent completed. The refinery, with 650,000 barrels…
Author: Babatunde Oguntimehin
The World Bank has said Nigeria has not requested for debt restructuring from the international financial institutions as allowed under the Common Framework for debt treatment…
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has named Maj Gen Dick Olum as new commander of the army’s Mountain Brigade based in the Rwenzori Mountains, at the country’s…
The United Nations General Assembly has voted to pass a resolution condemning Russia. Thirty countries from Africa voted in favour of a UN resolution rejecting Moscow’s…
Chadian junta leader Mahamat Idriss Déby has appointed opposition politician Saleh Kebzabo as the new Prime Minister just two days after he was sworn in as…
His Majesty King Mswati III of the Kingdom of Eswatini says the Southern African Development Community (SADC) must accelerate implementation of programmes that aim to increase…
World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has stated that clinical trials could start within weeks on vaccines to combat the strain of Ebola behind…
Nigeria will loan seven Benin Bronzes to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art (NMAfA) for the next five years. In August, the Horniman Museum and…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R Congo) has received bids from nine qualifying companies for three gas blocks on Lake Kivu which it put up…
Severe climate disaster, drought followed by the worst floods in 30 years have led to rocketing food prices and left a record 2.1 million people in…