The Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) was held in Dakar, capital of Senegal, from November 29 to 30, at which opening ceremomy President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech entitled “Uphold the Tradition of Always Standing Together And Jointly Build a China-Africa Community With a Shared Future in the New Era” via video link in Beijing.

By Kene Obiezu AFTER a year of heart-wrenching hearings, the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for victims of SARS-related abuses and other matters which also investigated the Lekki Toll Gate shootings put its signature to a scorching 309-page report that has caught the Nigerian Army, the Nigeria Police and the Lekki Concession […]

By Jackson Olali IT has taken Mohammed Bello Koko, the Acting Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, just six months to justify President Muhammadu Buhari’s confidence in him. And it took him even far less time, barely two hours, to convince the House of Representatives that he’s the right man for the job. […]

By Qasim Akinreti FIFTY years is remarkable in the life of anyone, organisation or even a nation. Instructively, the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, NIJ, – Center of Excellence for media training in Africa, is celebrating. At inception in 1963, three journalism training centres focusing mainlyon the training of journalists and professionals (on the job) in the […]

In order to stop megalomaniac officers like Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan from seizing political power at gunpoint, upsetting the apple cat and returning the African continent to the dark ages, should citizens own guns?