A video of a Zambian football player being awarded five crates of eggs for being the man of a match has gone viral. Pulse reports that the player scored the only goal of the game which gave his team, Power Dynamos a 1-0 victory against their opponents, Nkana in a Zambian Super League fixture. After the match, officials named him the man of the match and rewarded him for his stellar performance. “Presenting to Kennedy...
The Ghanaian Police has cautioned clerics against instilling fear in people’s minds by making false and misleading new year prophecies during the customary crossover services on 31 December. In 2021, the police proscribed new year prophecies that could cause fear, and anxiety and are likely to endanger lives, saying anyone found guilty risks up to five years imprisonment. On Tuesday, the Ghana police spokesperson, Grace Ansah-Akrofi, said the law, which is to ensure continuous security,...
The Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) on Tuesday honoured Oluwatobilola Amusan for her record-breaking feats on the track this year with the ‘Africa’s best female athlete for the year 2022’ title. In July, Amusan set a new world record of 12.12 seconds during the 100m hurdles semifinal at the World Athletics Championships held in Eugene, Oregon, United States, breaking the 12.20s record set by America’s Kendra Harrison in 2016. She followed it up with a...
Nigeria has ranked sixth in the Africa Visa Openness Index (AVOI) while Benin, Seychelles and The Gambia ranked first, second and third, respectively. The AVOI report, the seventh edition, was released by the African Union (AU) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) at the 2022 African Economic Conference (AEC) held in Balaclava, Mauritius, on Sunday. AVOI measures the extent to which African countries are open to visitors from other countries by analyzing each country’s visa...
Ms. Linda Anukwuem, the founder and MD of the AIX Firm, LLC. based in Houston, TX speaks to WAP’s Dr. Anthony Obi Ogbo about an upcoming First African Union Ambassadors Ball to be hosted by Hilda Suka-Mafudze, the Ambassador of the African Union to the US. The AIX is coordinating this global event.
The Africa Illustrious Award is set to honour outstanding Africans in diverse works of life, in an even scheduled to hold early December, 2022. The Award reserved for those who are making an impact in their community was instituted about five years ago, as a meritorious recognition that seeks to balance stories across Africa by beaming its search light on the bright-side of Africa that is often underreported. Some of the award categories include; public...
Donation will help tackle hunger, disease, poverty and gender inequality In the next four years, Nigeria and other African countries would receive aid of $7 billion from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation said in a statement is committing the money towards tackling hunger, disease, poverty and gender inequality. According to Reuters report, the organisation said Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, will take the lion share. “The European budgets are deeply affected by...
Much more than material support for the democratic process, Africa—and the developing world—needs the United States to reaffirm its commitment to democratic principles. It is far from surprising that the just concluded Brazilian presidential election attracted more than the usual attention from observers of the democratic process across Latin America. Over the course of his presidency, and particularly in the months leading to the election, President Jair Bolsonaro had made statements seemingly calculated to undermine trust in...
An absence of political will may prove a far harder problem than complicated logistics Nearly two years after war broke out in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the fighting is intensifying, and the interstate dimension to the conflict is as undeniable as ever. Reports indicate that some one hundred thousand Eritrean troops are assaulting Tigray, apparently in coordination with the Ethiopian military. The region has been under siege since June of 2021, with only piecemeal exceptions during the lull...
The latest military coup d’état would seem to be the least of Burkina Faso’s problems. Over the weekend, a small group of soldiers led by 34-year-old Captain Ibrahim Traore overthrew the military junta of Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba. Damiba had occupied Burkina Faso’s Kosyam Palace for all of nine months, having assumed power in January following the deposition of democratically elected president Roch Marc Christian Kabore. The Traore coup is the country’s ninth since...
