Homosexuality: It’s time Africa, other developing countries gave World Bank and IMF a wide berth
African leaders who become rich only after they have become leaders through primitive accumulation of wealth are victims. The loot the make, if they do not encourage domestic production, will be foreign loans-based.
New trends emerge in Nigeria’s banditry menace as rising number of women enroll in gunrunning
The most recent Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) shows that 80 per cent of people in north-west Nigeria are poor. Although the MPI doesn’t disaggregate by gender, women bear the brunt of poverty in Nigeria. Most women in the country’s rural north depend on subsistence farming for food and income, and comprise the bulk of people experiencing poverty in rural communities.
Republican presidential aspirant Alycia Barnard prepares to break tradition of GOP ignoring Africa
In a follow up WhatsApp message, she shed more light on her activities: “I’m the owner of Alycia Worldwide Inc in Saint Cloud, Florida. Our mission is to help women and children globally. (We have) setup small business in the United States through my consulting firm Alycia’s Consulting Firm. I am a CEO of 3 companies. I am an external CEO for other construction companies. I am the CEO of US Doors Direct that I co-own with my husband.”
President Museveni tells off World Bank over funding cuts to arm-twist Uganda to accept homosexuality
In response to the World Bank’s decision, Uganda’s state minister for foreign affairs Okello Oryem queried the consistency of the move compared to other countries.
Africa needed Nigeria’s Falcons’ confident display against England’s Lionesses for self-belief
A late red card for England forward Lauren James for stomping on Nigeria defender Michelle Alozie took the focus off two tight halves of football on Monday night that could have gone either way.
Rwandan horrors: Was genocide was part of a political programme of vengeance directed against Hutu?
Hundreds of thousands of people have died in the Great Lakes Region of Africa over the past four years. Most of them were innocent civilians massacred by armies or militias or decimated by disease or starvation as they fled from danger. These horrors can be traced to intense struggles overpower...
Africa: There is need to rethink teaching; the greatest teachers like Jesus Christ, Socrates, Albert Einstein, etc, had no degrees
It is common these days to come across learners complaining, like Galileo did more than 450 years ago, that their teachers and professors do not put their own thinking and ideas in their teaching; that they regurgitate writings of others, which they coerce them to reproduce in examinations to earn grades and/or degrees. While the situation is not too bad in the West, it is becoming serious in poor countries such as Uganda where knowledge workers now find it a burden to read and write and/or what they write are reproductions of the minds of their lecturers and professors.
African teams at Fifa Women’s World Cup 2023: Nigeria’s Falcons storm Round of 16 in style
Has an African nation ever won Women’s World Cup? In the previous eight editions of the tournament, no African side has ever won the Women’s World Cup. Additionally, even when African sides have made the knockout rounds of the tournament, none have been able to win a knockout game at the Women’s World Cup.
Niger coup, seventh in Sahel region, alarms West Africa economic bloc, which threatens sanctions
ECOWAS and the eight-member West African Economic and Monetary Union said that with immediate effect borders with Niger would be closed, commercial flights banned, financial transactions halted, national assets frozen and aid ended.
Arab-Africa trade agency launches $1.5 billion food security programme in Egypt
The executive committee of the Arab-Africa Trade Bridges (AATB) Programme, a multi-donor, Inter-regional programme has launched a $1.5 billion food security programme to address the issues of food insecurity in the Arab and African regions amidst the ongoing global food security crisis. The crisis is a critical challenge facing the...
