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Niger Coup: ECOWAS Deploying Back-Channel Strategies To Avoid Bloodshed – Tinubu

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is deploying back-channel strategies to restore constitutional order in Niger Republic. The regional bloc, while trying to avoid bloodshed in the West…

Gong November 3, 2023

Africa Aviation Business

Nigerians resumes flight operations as UAE lifts visa ban

The United Arab Emirates, on Monday, lifted its months-long visa ban on Nigerians. Consequently, Etihad and Emirates Airlines will resume flight operations in Nigeria immediately. “President Bola Tinubu and President…

Gong September 11, 2023

Africa News Nigeria

FG assures refugees, migrants safe home return by 2024

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu has disclosed the federal government’s readiness to return refugees and migrants to their various homes by 2024. She said structures…

Gong September 8, 2023

Africa Entertainment

2023 Headies Awards: Rema, Burna Boy, Davido, Asake, others win big [Full List]

The 16th Headies Awards was held at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, USA, on Sunday amid pomp and pageantry. The event, tagged “Celebrating African Renaissance,” was hosted…

Gong September 4, 2023

Africa News Politics

Coup leader sworn in as interim president in Gabon

Gabonese General, Brice Oligui Nguema, who last week led a coup ending 55 years of rule by the Bongo dynasty, was sworn in on Monday as interim president, AFP journalists…

Gong September 4, 2023

Africa News Nigeria

Tinubu declares support to supply eyeglasses to 5million needy Nigerians

President Bola Tinubu, on Friday, September 1, declared his support for a partnership between the Federal Ministry of Health’s National Eye Health Programme and the Peek Vision Foundation to provide…

Gong September 1, 2023

Africa Business News

Why Igbo apprenticeship is world’s ‘largest business incubator system’

A Professor of Marketing at the Lagos Business School in Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos State, Ogechi Adeola, has explained why the Igbo apprenticeship is the largest business incubator system in the…

Gong September 1, 2023

Africa News Politics

Rwanda retires 12 generals, Cameroon reshuffles officers in response to Niger coup

The Rwandan and Cameroonian governments have reshuffled their military in what is believed to be a reaction to the recent coups in Niger and Gabon. According to a Rwandan national…

Gong August 31, 2023

Tinubu orders security agencies to crush oil theft

Africa Politics

Military option will be the last choice for ECOWAS in Niger coup– Tinubu

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday, August 31, assured those intervening in the political crisis in Niger Republic that the military option would come last for the Economic Community of West…

Gong August 31, 2023