About 20,000 Nigerian Women, Girls Trafficked From Nigeria to Mali- NAPTIP
NAPTIP Boss, Julie Okah-Donli As many as 20,000 women and girls are feared to have been trafficked from Nigeria to Mali where they are stranded after being forced into prostitution,…
Nigeria to Host 10 African Universities in First ASFU Invitational Championship
A total of 10 African universities would be participating in the maiden edition of the Africa Students Football Union (ASFU) Invitational Championship to be hosted in Nigeria…
Africa, Europe Must Collaborate To Advance The Benefits of Digital Economy- VP Osinbajo At Europe-Africa Forum
Africa and Europe must work together to advance and harvest the economic benefits of digital economy, and at the same time prevent a counter-productive widening of the…
UK court convicts Nigerians, Ghanaians involved in airport protests
Fifteen protesters who cut through Stansted Airport’s perimeter fence and locked themselves together around a chartered deportation plane have been found guilty of an aviation security offence following a nine-week…
CSR: Dangote Group Wins Top 5 Recognition in ‘Most Responsible Business In Africa’ Award
In recognition of its 2017 Sustainability Report and significant progress in Sustainability Best Practices and Reporting in 2018, Dangote Industries Limited (DIL) received two awards at…
Chocolate Companies Have Failed on Pledge to Stop deforestation in W/A- Report
Major chocolate companies have failed to keep a promise they made a year ago to stop forests in West Africa, WA, being destroyed for cocoa production, a campaign group said…
AEC Urges OPEC, Others to Restore Stability to the Oil Markets With Continued Production Cuts
The African Energy Chamber, AEC, urges the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC and other key global oil producers, including Russia, to continue with the…
Aid Campaigns: Africans Call for a Move to Look Beyond Pictures of Poor Children
Communities that benefit from aid want international charities to move beyond pictures of poor children and show a more balanced view of Africa, a study showed on…
Zee Collaborates with Nigerian, Ghanaian Channels for Drama Co-Production
India’s Zee collaborates with Nigerian agency MACE and two Ghanaian channels for a local version of a major drama, Deceptive Measures (Pavitra Rishta); one of the…
Single Currency: ECOWAS Presidential Task Force to Meet Dec.
ECOWAS President, Jean-Claude Brou The ECOWAS Presidential Task Force on single currency would meet in December to achieve the 2020 target for a monetary union, the commission’s President,…