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Jerome Boateng’s ex-girlfriend commits suicide after splitting from him

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Jerome Boateng has been granted early leave from Bayern Munich’s Club World Cup preparations in Qatar following the tragic news about his former girlfriend’s death. Kasia Lenhardt, 25, was found dead at a luxury apartment thought to belong to Boateng in Berlin’s upmarket Charlottenborg neighbourhood on Tuesday night by police. The couple had only split last week and Lenhardt killed… Read More
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Nigerian banks closing accounts dealing with cryptocurrency

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– – Nigeria’s Central Bank has told banks and other financial institutions in the country to close all cryptocurrency-related accounts. Last week the bank in a statement said all financial institutions were prohibited from facilitating crypto currency payments. “Further to earlier regulatory directives on the subject, the Bank hereby wishes to remind regulated institutions that dealing in cryptocurrencies or facilitating… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

#OccupyLekkiTollGate: Governor Sanwo-Olu Wants To Use Lekki Toll Charges To Fund Tinubu’s 2023 Ambition By Buhari Olanrewaju Ahmed

Elwin Mandowa,
Nigeria’s hostile situation is created by the hoodlums in power. They have derailed from their primary responsibility of protecting the lives and properties of citizens. Alas, the cloud swirls with the dark colour of fear; thunderstorm serves as a warning  for the deaf and blind politicians. The cloud is heavily pregnant and the day of its delivery is near. People… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Sunday Igboho And The Fetish Hubris By Ozodinukwe Okenwa

Elwin Mandowa,
The popular Yoruba rights activist Chief Sunday Adisa Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, has suddenly become a superstar, a celebrity, for his audacious utterances and actions aimed towards intimidating and forcing the Fulani cattle herders in Yorubaland to change their aggressive ways or quit outright the land of Oduduwa. Igboho may not be a terrorist but he has succeeded in… Read More
Africa Investments 

African Development Bank President says vaccines and debt relief will be key to Africa’s recovery from COVID-19

Elwin Mandowa,
The President of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, has called for fair access to COVID-19 vaccines for Africans and said debt relief would help African economies recover faster and better from the pandemic. Speaking on 8 February at a virtual event held in his honour as the outgoing African of the Year of African Leadership Magazine, the… Read More
Africa Featured Ghana West Africa World 

Ghana’s parliament suspends sitting amid Covid-19 infections

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Ghana’s parliament has suspended sitting for at least three weeks following reports of Covid-19 infections among lawmakers. More than 100 cases of the virus had been detected among MPs and their staffers. On Tuesday the speaker of the house, Alban Bagbin said he had “decided, in consultation with political leaders, that the Assembly session will be adjourned for three weeks.”… Read More
Africa Ghana West Africa World 

Ghanaian-born surgeon ‘to help Gorilla Glue woman’

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– – Dr Michael Obeng, a top Ghana-American plastic surgeon, has offered to help a woman whose story of a hair mishap has captured the attention and sympathy of many online, a CBSN Los Angeles TV station has reported. Tessica Brown shared a video on TikTok last week saying she had used Gorilla Glue instead of hairspray to hold her hair… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Violence And Social Crises In Nigeria: When Should A Transitional Government Step In? By Ndidi Uwechue

Elwin Mandowa,
Are there still savages in Africa today? Savages are characterised by creating societies that are extremely violent, cruel, and wild. In such societies, those who seize powereither by force of arms or by rigging elections, rather than protect those they rule over, prey upon them. Let us go back in time to understand why Nigerian society seems to berushing to fit that description. Under the headship of General Abdulsalami Abubakar there had been much jubilation that military rule was finally coming to… Read More
Africa Investments 

Autonomisation des femmes : une priorité au cœur des interventions de la Banque africaine de développement

Elwin Mandowa,
Dans la mise en place des projets qu’elle finance, la Banque africaine de développement place l’autonomisation des femmes au centre de ses interventions, notamment pour la réduction de la pauvreté et la résilience des communautés. La Banque s’est dotée le 3 février 2021 d’une stratégie du genre pour la période 2021-2025 qui ambitionne de transformer les secteurs clés du développement… Read More
Africa Central Africa Rwanda World 

Paul Kagame accuses the West of hoarding Covid-19 vaccines

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Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has accused the West of hoarding Covid-19 vaccines and “purchasing many times more doses than they need.” In an opinion article published on the news website The Guardian, the outspoken African leader “the current situation with regard to the access and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines vividly illustrates the decades-old contradictions of the world order.” “Rich and… Read More
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