Executive Director of the Dangote Group, Hajiya Halima Dangote, has urged millennials in Nigeria and across Africa to diversify from service-oriented enterprises to manufacturing and agriculture in a bid to fast-track the development of the continent and better life for…
Fake doctor arrested after performing abortion on 17-year-old girl (Punch)
A 59-year-old man, Kenneth Kwarteng, suspected to be a quack doctor, has been arrested by Ghana police after he performed an abortion on a 17-year-old girl. The suspect, Kwarteng, who uses various names, including Kwame Kwarteng and K. K. Kwarteng,…
Ghana’s president expresses sorrow at death of Kofi Annan (Xinhuanet)
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo expressed great sorrow here Saturday at news of the death of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. “The Government and people of Ghana, First Lady Rebecca and I are deeply saddened by the news of the death,…
Maiden Lagos Fringe Festival holds November
The Inaugural Lagos Fringe Festival will take place from November 11 through 18, 2018 in Lagos, Nigeria. It is a festival for performing arts and interdisciplinary conversations, and will feature local and international artistes from South Africa, UK., U.S.A., Ghana,…
Q2: Dangote Cement invests $3bn across Africa, employs 27,952 Nigerians in 2017
Group Chief Executive Officer of Dangote Cement, Joe Makoju, said the company has invested a whopping $3 billion to build manufacturing plants and import/grinding terminals across Africa. The company’s operations, according to Makoju are in Cameroon (1.5Mta clinker grinding), Congo…
Sahara Group set to fast-track attainment of SDGs in Africa
Sahara Group has appointed Zuriel Oduwole, a globally acclaimed girl child education advocate as ambassador in its bid to accelerate the achievement of the triad of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The said goals focus on improving the access of children…
Funke Opeke: Woman in the room full of men
Funke Opeke’s vision to run a 7,000-kilometre undersea high capacity submarine cable from Portugal to Lagos, Nigeria seemed unachievable, downright ambitious and perhaps even ridiculous but no one and nothing could stop her from making it happen. So, today, MainOne…
African Union, Ghana partner to unveil calendar for AFRIMA 2018
The 2018 All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) annual calendar of programmes will be unveiled on Monday, May 21, 2018 by the African Union Commission (AUC) in collaboration with Government of the Republic of Ghana, and the International Committee of AFRIMA…
Visiting Ghanaian lawmakers watch as thugs invade Senate, steal mace (Punch)
Lawmakers from Ghana were on a visit to the National Assembly on Wednesday when the hoodlums invaded the Senate chamber and stole the mace. The Ghanaians, who were also as confused as the Nigerians scampering to safety, watched in amazement.…
Stretched Terrains art project leaves for DaK’Art in Senegal tomorrow
The Goethe-Institut Nigeria mobile residency set to take artists to Dak’Art in Dakar, Senegal will hit the road from Lagos, Nigeria tomorrow, April 10. Goethe-Institut Nigeria Director, Friederike Moschel, said at a press conference in Lagos Monday that the project…