Yearly Archives: 2017
May to spend £2bn on housing
British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday the government would spend an additional two billion pounds ($2.7 billion) to create a new generation...
Kachikwu reports Baru to Buhari
The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, has described as "distressing," the circulation of an internal memo he wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari about...
Bizman offers Eagles $20,000 per goal
The Nigerian senior national football team, Super Eagles, have been promised $20,000 per goal in the second leg of the 2018 FIFA World Cup...
‘African corruption fuelled by European, Chinese, American business people’
Mo Ibrahim, Sudanese-British business mogul and philanthropist, Mo Ibrahim, says people outside Africa are those that fuel the much talked about corruption on the...
Ethiopian diplomat seeks asylum in US
An Ethiopian diplomat who was part of the government delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in New York last month has sought political...
Prince’ tour excludes Myanmar
Prince Charles will tour southeast Asia and India later this month, but the heir to the throne will not visit Myanmar, after a spate...
Kenya acts tough to pass world’s toughest law
Kenya took a stand to pass the acid test on pollution and has very well done so but is it without some sacrifice to...
San Suu Kyi loses human rights awards
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been stripped of a human rights award by the City of Oxford, where she was an undergraduate,...
Boris Sirte-an joke almost a satire
Boris Johnson has dismissed as "ridiculous" the furore over his comments that the Libyan city of Sirte could become the next Dubai if they...
EU to sue Ireland over Apple’s $13bn state aid
The EU is taking Ireland to court over its failure to recover up to €13bn in illegal state aid from tech giant Apple.
Ireland was...
