Confed Cup Loss: We Lost Because Horoya AC Used the Devil’s Beans on Enyimba FC – Osho Alleges

AfricaSportsConfed Cup Loss: We Lost Because Horoya AC Used the Devil’s Beans on Enyimba FC – Osho Alleges

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)March 16, 2020

Fatai Osho, Enyimba FC coach, said Horoya AC used the devil’s bean on his boys during a CAF confederation cup on March 8 in Conakry. The second leg match saw Horoya AC thrashing Enyimba 2 goals to nil and ending the Nigerian side’s dream of making it to the semi-final stage and then claiming the CAF Confederation Cup. Responding to the loss on Facebook, the former Remo Stars coach who became the Aba Elephant’s coach...

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Breaking: One suspected coronavirus case in Enugu State

AfricaHealthNewsNigeriaBreaking: One suspected coronavirus case in Enugu State

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)March 15, 2020

The faith of a patient who has shown signs of the novel coronavirus will be known by Monday, few hours from now. According to reliable medical personnel, the patient has been sick and undergoing treatment before now. However based on suggestive signs of the dreaded virus, the patient was isolated, samples collected and tested for the virus; results of the test will be known tomorrow. The scope of the virus spread in the country has...

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Africa: Oil and Debt

AfricaEconomyAfrica: Oil and Debt

PilotnewsMarch 15, 2020

Last month, World Bank’s managing director David Malpass expressed concern about the amount of debt some of Africa’s economies were piling on. In particular, he worried about the lack of transparency in some of the loan deals being struck with China. Africa’s debt load has soared some 150% to over $583 billion in 2018 from $236 billion 10 years earlier, according to World Bank data. A sizable chunk of that debt in Africa is made...

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FIFA postpones South American World Cup qualifiers over coronavirus

AfricaNewsSportsWorldFIFA postpones South American World Cup qualifiers over coronavirus

PilotnewsMarch 12, 2020

World football governing body FIFA has postponed South American qualifying matches for the 2022 Qatar World Cup. This was after a request from the region’s football federation amid concerns over the spread of coronavirus. FIFA said in a letter to the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), which the federation tweeted, that it would seek to reschedule the 10 matches. They were due to take place between March 23 and March 31. A number of Latin...

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COVID-19 outbreak proves global business needs China

AfricaHealthOpinionWorld NewsCOVID-19 outbreak proves global business needs China

PilotnewsMarch 3, 2020

Nigeria’s effort to rapidly identify and contain the spread of the index case of COVID-19 may have been successful – with no new case as at March 2 – but as the disease spreads to over fifty countries, the global economy is panicking and some experts say this is not looking good for many countries, including Nigeria. It is a typical case of ‘when China sneezes, global business catches a cold.’ The wake of coronavirus...

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Virus enigma: Experts ask why Africa seems to have few cases

AfricaHealthNewsVirus enigma: Experts ask why Africa seems to have few cases

PilotnewsFebruary 28, 2020

The coronavirus is spreading fast beyond its China birthplace but sub-Saharan Africa, one of the world’s most vulnerable regions, has so far been almost spared — and experts want to know why. More than 2,760 people worldwide have died of COVID-19 and almost 81,000 infected in over 45 countries. Most of these have been in China, but cases are now rising fast in parts of Europe and the Middle East, while the first infection in...

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Joint French-Nigerien military operation kills more than 100 jihadists in Niger

AfricaNewsNigeriaJoint French-Nigerien military operation kills more than 100 jihadists in Niger

PilotnewsFebruary 28, 2020

A joint operation by Nigerien and French troops in southwest Niger killed 120 “terrorists” and seized bomb-making equipment and vehicles, the country’s defence ministry said Friday.  As of February 20 “120 terrorists have been neutralised” in the operation in the vast Tillaberi region near the border with Mali and Burkina Faso, the statement said, adding there had been no losses among Nigerien or French troops. Niger’s defence minister Issoufou Katambe praised the “cooperation… in the...

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East Africa: locust swarms as big as cities threaten millions with starvation

AfricaNewsWorldEast Africa: locust swarms as big as cities threaten millions with starvation

PilotnewsFebruary 20, 2020

Locust swarms the size of cities have been ravaging large parts of East Africa, the Middle East and southwestern Asia, devastating cropland and threatening the livelihoods of millions of people. Billions of the voracious insects have descended on Kenya in the worst outbreak in 70 years, are threatening Ethiopia’s vital grain regions after devastating Somalia and Djibouti, and have this week reached South Sudan, a country where roughly half the population already faces hunger after...

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More Cameroonians enter Nigeria to flee violence

AfricaNewsNigeriaMore Cameroonians enter Nigeria to flee violence

PilotnewsFebruary 13, 2020

Almost 8,000 people have fled into Nigeria from Cameroon in the past two weeks to escape clashes between the security forces and armed separatists, according to the UN refugee agency. The latest arrivals are crossing the border into Taraba and Cross Rivers states in eastern and southern Nigeria, bringing the number of refugees to almost 60,000, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement. “Refugees reported fleeing violence and some even arrived...

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Spending power: top six African countries rank in the bottom 10

AfricaEconomyMarketsSpending power: top six African countries rank in the bottom 10

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)February 10, 2020

In the early 2010s, African tech ecosystems were defined by the promise of e-commerce with a simple mission: getting hundreds of millions of young Africans to make online purchases. A decade on, the mission still remains a work in progress with question marks lingering around logistics and last mile delivery problems—and that’s reflected in the level of spending among African shoppers. Across the continent, recently released data shows South African shoppers spent an average of...

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