Let’s Redesign Curriculum To Emphasize Leadership, Innovation, Entrepreneurship – Anyaso Challenges EBSU, Nigerian Academia

2 In a bold and forward-looking address at the Maiden Alumni Lecture Series of Ebonyi State University, Dr. Chimaobi Desmond Anyaso issued a compelling call to action, urging Nigerian universities to radically overhaul their academic curricula....

SAVCA 2025 Industry Awards Spotlight Africa’s Most Ambitious Private Capital-Backed Innovators

With the nomination deadline fast approaching, the Southern African Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SAVCA) has issued a final call for entries for the 2025 SAVCA Industry Awards, set to take place on 7 November. Now in its seventh...

Reparations, justice and the 2025 Africa Anti-Corruption Day

The African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption (AUCPCC) was adopted on 11 July 2003, during the 2nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government in Maputo, Mozambique. To affirm the continent’s commitment...

African leaders ask if Trump should win Nobel Peace Prize

Propak W’Africa Opens Registration For Manufacturing, Exhibition, Conference

Regional packing and packaging company, Propak West Africa, has opened registration for the 12th edition of its yearly event billed for September 11 – 13 at the Landmark Event Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos. The Regional Director, Afrocet...

Aliko Dangote says Africa can become “heaven” in five years with the right leadership

Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest industrialist and founder of the Dangote Group, has declared that Africa could become a “heaven” within five years through strategic investments and visionary leadership. He made this remark during a sit-down...

Uba Sani: Taking governance beyond brick-and-mortar

BY ALIYU A. AHMED In a nation often enamoured with the optics of infrastructure – towering flyovers, imposing government edifices, and gleaming new highways – Senator Uba Sani, the Governor of Kaduna State, is carving out a unique legacy. His...

Trump’s Pacific and Africa strategies: A critical minerals gamble to counter China

Trump’s Pacific and Africa strategies: A critical minerals gamble to counter China Trump’s executive order prioritizes seabed mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) through partnerships like Nauru to reduce reliance on China. U.S. summit...

ADC leadership, 37 chairmen meet, deflate shorthchange rumour

The leadership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Thursday deflated the rumour making the rounds that the leadership of the party has taken over the party and was on the verge pushing away the 37 state chairmen including FCT out if its...

Inside the fall of Okra: How Africa’s most promising open banking startup shut down at its peak 

The news of Okra’s shutdown has left the Nigerian fintech industry watchers stunned, given the pivotal role the startup was playing in the open banking space in Nigeria. Back in 2020, Okra had all the makings of a breakout African tech story:...

Firm Offers Scholarship Opportunities To African Youths

An integrated energy services and solutions provider, Kenyon International West Africa, has offered scholarship opportunities to young Africans to upscale their skills as the continent drives upstream oil sector growth. According to the chief...

War vet slams Trump after jarring gaffe with foreign leader

President Donald Trump had a cringeworthy moment with world leaders this week, an MSNBC panel argued on Thursday. Trump was meeting with five African leaders, including Liberian President Joseph Boakai. “Where did you learn to speak so...

G7 climate rhetoric rings hollow as Africa demands real reform

Zimbabwe has recently taken bold steps to move up the value chain by banning raw lithium exports and promoting local beneficiation and processing. The June 2025 G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, served up a familiar chorus of grand statements on...

Voice of a Nation, Voice of the World: PM Modi’s Historic Addresses to Foreign Parliaments

An Unprecedented Journey of Words and Will In the grand halls of parliaments across continents, where voices echo the aspirations of nations, one leader has risen to stand not merely as a head of state, but as a storyteller of a civilisation....

Technip Energies bags preliminary FLNG deal in Africa

French-based engineering company Technip Energies has won a contract to perform early-stage work relating to a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) unit offshore Africa. Coral Sul FLNG; Source: Eni As disclosed, the deal covers preliminary...

Liberia to Lead Newly Formed MRU Parliament

Liberia is poised to take a leading role in West Africa’s regional integration efforts as House Speaker Richard Nagbe Koon is expected to become the first Speaker of the newly established Mano River Union Parliamentary Body (MRUPB). The official...

History made as Indian PM addresses Namibian Parliament

Moses Magadza The prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, on Wednesday addressed the Parliament of Namibia, becoming the first Indian prime minister to do so in 27 years. The Speaker of the National Assembly of Namibia, Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila,...

World Bank Flags Nigeria’s Governance Woes Despite Modest Policy Gains

The World Bank has stressed the need for the Nigerian government as well as countries in Sub Saharan Africa to improve the delivery of essential services to promote inclusive, sustainable growth. This is as Nigeria continues to trail in governance...

Trump tariffs unsettle SA farmers as Africa eyes agricultural growth

The overall economic impact on agricultural exports may be modest, but the Western Cape in particular ‘could face serious disruption’. Farmers and analysts have raised concerns over the impact of recently announced US tariffs on South African...

JUDITH FEBRUARY | Ramaphosa’s cabinet scandals and the collapse of credible leadership

President Ramaphosa’s decision to fire DA deputy minister of Trade Industry and Competition Andrew Whitfield for travelling abroad without permission was followed by the inevitable melodrama of ‘will they (the DA) or won’t they’ leave the GNU? In...