Coronavirus: Africa’s death toll hits 50,000
The death toll from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Africa has peaked at 50,000 people since the first outbreak on the continent was declared, head of the African Centre for Disease Control (Africa CDC), John Nkengasong, announced in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Thursday. African countries recorded at least 94,000 new cases of the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
US federal judge orders Trump administration to resume visa lottery
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to resume issuing diversity visas for immigrants from underrepresented countries, partially reversing a pandemic-related freeze on a wide range of immigrant and temporary visas. The US issues up to 55,000 visas a year to people from countries with low representation in the US, many in Africa. They are […]
Africa’s underdevelopment result of poor curriculum?
The state of the black continent usually associated with abject poverty, diseases, hunger, strife etc, has been blamed on so many things, especially slavery and colonialism. Recently, a video in which a Zambian man attributed Africa’s poor state to the curriculum bequeathed to her by the colonialists went viral.
Case by case: How nations are going back to school or not
The United Nations says it’s urgent to get kids back to schools after months-long coronavirus lockdowns, but with the virus still raging in parts of the United States and resurging in countries from South Korea to France, Spain and Britain, medical authorities are urging caution. Governments are taking different strategies toward the new school year, depending on […]
ICYMI: WHO declares Africa free of polio
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday declared that Africa was free of the virus that causes polio, a landmark in a decades-long campaign to eradicate the notorious disease around the world. “Today is a historic day for Africa,” said Professor Rose Gana Fomban Leke, whose commission certified that no polio cases had occurred on […]
Just in: WHO declares Nigeria, other Africa countries polio-free
The independent Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC) for polio eradication, Tuesday declared Nigeria and other Africa countries polio free. Disclosing this, Rose Leke, ARCC Chairperson, said: “Today is a historic day for Africa. The African Regional Certification Commission for Polio eradication (ARCC) is pleased to announce that the Region has successfully met the certification criteria […]
Economic War: Generating billions through inter trading among African Nations
“Africans must inter-trade in order to break economic barriers, defeat poverty, and win the Economic War” – Charles N Lambert, Africa’s economic Activist “Africans do not have a global vision of development. For me, the most important thing is the economic integration of Africa” -Kingsley Moghalu, a Nigerian political economist Now let’s start from asking […]
Now that democracy has failed in Africa, what is next?
A couple of days back, a friend had asked, in a Whatsapp group which I belong to, if there is any country in Africa where the military is in power. He said his son had asked him and he wanted to confirm from his ‘fellow daddies’ before giving the appropriate answer to the young boy.
We must repatriate some of our wealth home to make our zone great — Ndigbo
*It will provide jobs and curb social vices — Diwe
*South-East govs must be ready to provide enabling environment, adequate security of their investment and tax waiver — Attama
*It will quicken development of South-East — Ebonyi leaders
Africa’s COVID-19 cases hit 1m
The number of COVID-19 cases on the African continent have surpassed 1 million, figures from the Centre of Disease Control (CDC) showed on Friday, with South Africa the worst-affected. Some 1,007,336 cases have now been confirmed, with 22,066 deaths, the data showed, but infections on the continent still only account for a small percentage of […]
Africa surpasses a million coronavirus cases
Coronavirus has now infected more than a million people in Africa, but hopes that the pandemic may be peaking in some countries are also leavened by fear of a second wave. Nations across the Africa continent have recorded 1,000,054 coronavirus infections and at least 21,724 deaths, accounting for around five per cent of global cases, […]
