ShareMay 31, 2024 Dr Akinwumi Adesina, the President, African Development Bank (AfDB), says an increase in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) must translate to job creation for youths to ensure growth on the continent. Adesina said this at a presentation on the African Economic Outlook held on the sidelines ofContinue Reading
ShareMay 30, 2024 Growth rate of Nigeria and other West African countries is projected to rise from an estimated 3.6 per cent in 2023 to 4.2 and 4.4 per cent in 2024/2025. The African Development Bank (AfDB) Vice-President and Chief Economist, Kevin Urama, said this at Thursday’s highlight of theContinue Reading
ShareMay 23, 2024 Flights carrying migrants from Britain to Rwanda will take off “after the election’’, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said. He urged UK voters to back him at the polls if they want to see this happen. Sunak made the admission ahead of a two-day trip across theContinue Reading
ShareMay 22, 2024 Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, who had been serving a four-year sentence for reporting on the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in locked-down Wuhan, has been released from prison. This is according to the supporters. The former lawyer had been sentenced to four years in prisonContinue Reading
ShareMay 22, 2024 Israel is recalling its ambassadors from Norway and Ireland following the European countries’ drive to recognise Palestinian statehood, Israel’s foreign minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday. “I have instructed the immediate recall of Israel’s ambassadors to Ireland and Norway for consultations in light of these countries’ decisionsContinue Reading
ShareMay 21, 2024 Funeral ceremonies has begun in Iran for president Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and other victims of Sundays helicopter crash. State media reported that thousands of government supporters flocked to the start of the ceremony in the north-western city of Tabriz on Tuesday to bid farewell.Continue Reading
ShareMay 21, 2024 The Israeli army said on Tuesday that it killed the commander of the pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah movement’s rocket unit in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon. The army said it hit and eliminated the commander late Monday near the Lebanese southern port city of Tyre. It saidContinue Reading
ShareMay 20, 2024 China has placed three defence companies in the United States on its list of “unreliable companies’’ for selling weapons to Taiwan. China’s Ministry of Commerce announced on Monday. The three companies added to China’s list of “unreliable companies’’ are Boeing Defence, Space & Security, General Atomics AeronauticalContinue Reading
ShareMay 20, 2024 Lai Ching-te of Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been sworn in and took office as the self-governing island’s president on Monday. According to Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry, more than 500 foreign guests from 51 delegations attended the inauguration ceremony and related activities, including the national leadersContinue Reading
ShareMay 20, 2024 Saudi King Salman has fallen ill with a lung infection, according to the country’s state media. The 88-year-old had to be treated with antibiotics, the Saudi news agency SPA posted on X on Sunday evening. He had previously been examined in the Royal Clinics of the Al-SalamContinue Reading