Facts Square: AFRICA
Showing posts with label AFRICA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AFRICA. Show all posts

Friday, 30 November 2018

Cinewax Launches First Ever Online Film Festival For African Films

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African films are increasingly present at re nowned festivals. They receive awards and prizes. However, very few of them are then visible...
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Wednesday, 8 March 2017

N541.8 billion Debt: Three Nigerian Banks Set To Take Over Etisalat

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Despite the intervention of the Nigerian Communication Commission, NCC, to broker a peaceful resolution between Etisalat Nigeria and a cons...
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Monday, 27 February 2017

Fresh Xenophobic Attacks, Looting In South Africa

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Xenophobic attacks in South Africa About 100 people ransacked shops in Johannesburg overnight, police said on Monday,...
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Friday, 24 February 2017

Xenophobia: Nigerian students threaten South African companie

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The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has given 48 hours ultimatum to all South African companies in Nigeria to reloc...
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Thursday, 23 February 2017

How Nigeria’s brutal response to security concerns caused several deaths – Amnesty International

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Nigerian Soldiers Amnesty International, AI, in its annual State of the World’s Human Rights report, which analyses the state...
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Gambian Police Arrest Jammeh's Intelligence Chief, Deputy

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Former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh is living in exile in Equatorial Guinea Police have arrested Gambia’s former head of the na...
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Nigerian Parliament Condemns Xenophobic Attacks In South Africa

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South African President Jacob Zuma and Nigerian President Muhammdu Buhari Nigeria’s House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a re...
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Saturday, 21 January 2017

Army Officer Attacks Nigeria’s Service Chiefs, Says They Are ‘Nollywood Actors’

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Angered by what he described as the inability of the military to provide the needed weapons and equipment to defeat the Boko Haram terr...
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VIDEO: Disgraced Gambian Dictator Yahaya Jammeh Announces He Is Finally Leaving Power

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The game is finally over for recalcitrant Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh as ECOWAS soldiers began heading towards his palace in Banjul he t...
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Trapped in dying tea gardens, workers lose children to traffickers

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Lured by fancy clothes and a better life, young girls working in tea gardens leave their families only to be trafficked or exploited.
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"I saw intestines on the ground" - aid worker recalls Nigerian refugee camp bombing

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Aid worker Alfred Davies and his colleagues were providing vaccinations and giving out food in a refugee camp in northeast Nigeria when...
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Thursday, 19 January 2017

Wednesday, 4 January 2017

Gambian Army Chief Reaffirms Loyalty To Jammeh

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Gambian Army Chief Ousman Badjie confirmed his loyalty and support for outgoing President Yahya Jammeh in a letter published on Wednesd...
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Saturday, 24 December 2016

Gambia: Nigeria, Senegal, Other ECOWAS Members Set To Remove President Yahya Jammeh By Force

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West Africa’s regional bloc, ECOWAS, has put standby military forces on alert in case Gambian President Yahya Jammeh does not step down...
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Thursday, 22 December 2016

FIFA ranking: Super Eagles end 2016 as 8th best team in Africa

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The Super Eagles on Thursday dropped one spot from 50th to 51st in the final FIFA world ranking to end the year as the eighth best team on...
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BREAKING: Black Queens of Ghana protest unpaid allowances

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Borrowing a leaf from the Nigerian counterpart, the Black Queens of Ghana on Wednesday stormed the Ghanaian parliament in protest over unp...
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Saturday, 17 December 2016

AfDB approves $100m for Kainji, Jebba hydro power projects

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The  African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a financing package of $100 million, comprising $80 million loan and $ 20 million equity...
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