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Yemisi Izuora The Tony Elumelu Foundation, Africa’s leading entrepreneurship-focused philanthropy, has announced a call for entries for the 2018 TEF Entrepreneurship Forum Travel Fellowship for African journalists. The Travel Fellowship…
Agency Report A global network of NGOs has signed a ‘game-changing’ insurance policy, intended to pay out if a drought hits Senegal, enabling aid agencies to offer live-saving help before…
Yemisi Izuora The African Union has said that corruption is costing Africa $148 billion annually. At an estimated 25 percent of the continent’s average gross domestic product, the AU calls…
Agency Report Former US President Barack Obama, under whose administration the Iran nuclear agreement was reached in 2015, said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the deal was…
By Our Correspondent. For the seventh year in a row, the President and Chief Executive of Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote, was adjudged as the richest man in the continent…
Yemisi Izuora The 2018 World Day of Peace as declared by Pope Francis is scheduled to hold on New Year Day January 1, 2018 with the theme: ‘Migrants and Refugees:…
Yemisi Izuora/Agency Report At least 262 journalists have been jailed for doing their job around the world, and 66 of these, are in Africa – as of December 1, says…
Yemisi Izuora iSON Group, one of Africa’s largest IT and ITeS companies with presence in about 25 countries in Africa has bagged two awards at the recently 2017 Nigerian…
Yemisi Izuora The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has joined the United Nations and the global community in commemorating the World Human Rights Day, with the…
Hyacinth Chinweuba Group of Seven nations led by Italy is joining forces with Nigeria and other West African countries in the fight against piracy in the Gulf of…
