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3 projects exemplifying the uptake of digital solutions in Africa
ESI Africa
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July 14, 2025
Beninese, Nigerian and Kenyan projects have been selected among The Elites nominees into how digitalisation forms the backbone of smart solutions, changing the way that people in Africa interact with power, energy and water. Planning and...
How KIKE Technologies Green Energy Network Is Empowering Women With Clean Biofuel Solutions
Daily Independent
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July 11, 2025
1 Lilian Aremu, Vice President of Operation Green Energy Biofuels and Co-Founder of Kike Technologies, is a social entrepreneur and transformational leader. In this interview with SEYI TAIWO-OGUNTUASE, she speaks on the organisation’s pioneering...
Africa wants its critical minerals to yield jobs, not just dollars
Mint
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July 9, 2025
Nearly half of Africa’s 54 countries—from Angola to Zimbabwe—have restricted or banned raw-material exports over the past two years, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Zimbabwe, Africa’s top producer of...
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The New Hampshire Gazette
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July 11, 2025
2003—Condi Rice lies about White House knowledge of Joe Wilson’s Niger investigation; Ari Fleischer outs Valerie Plame as a CIA officer; Karl Rove lies to Time about Wilson’s wife, Plame; and CIA head George Tenet takes the rap for the White...
Mali's military helicopter airlifts $117 million worth of gold from Barrick's mine amidst tension
Business Insider Africa
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July 11, 2025
Malian military helicopters made an unannounced landing at Barrick Gold Corp.'s mine on Thursday and seized over a metric ton of gold, the company said. On Thursday morning, a brown-and-green military helicopter landed at the Loulo-Gounkoto gold...
Senegal joins growing list of countries that have eliminated trachoma
Media Monitors Network
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July 14, 2025
The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Senegal becomes the ninth country in WHO’s African Region to have achieved this feat. “I commend Senegal for freeing its population...
Ukraine Faces Terror Accusations From Sahel Alliance, Ghana on Alert
News Ghana
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July 11, 2025
Foreign ministers of the Sahel States Alliance (AES) – Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso – have formally branded Ukraine a “terrorist state,” alleging coordinated foreign interference in West Africa’s security. At a joint briefing, ministers accused...
Housemaid sentenced to life imprisonment for murder of FUT Minna lecturer
Daily Post
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July 10, 2025
After nearly two years of legal proceedings, a High Court sitting in Minna, Niger State has sentenced 16-year-old Joy Afekafe to life imprisonment for the murder of Dr. Funmilayo Sherifat Adefolalu, a lecturer at the Federal University of...
Tinubu, Shettima, Dignitaries Bid Ex-President Buhari Farewell As He’s Interred In Daura
This Day
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July 15, 2025
Deji Elumoye in Abuja Former President Muhammadu Buhari was on Tuesday evening laid to rest at his residence in Daura, Katsina State, following funeral prayers and interment attended by numerous dignitaries led by President Bola Tinubu. Large...
A CURIOUS COALITION OF POLITICIANS
This Day
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July 14, 2025
BAMIDELE ATOYEBI reckons that the ADC is a coalition of expired ambitions A new political front has emerged loud, self-righteous, and curiously united. But what binds them isn’t ideology. It isn’t patriotism. It certainly isn’t love for the...
Gunmen kill two vigilantes in suspected reprisal near FCT border
Abuja Inquirer
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July 11, 2025
By Sarah NEGEDU Two vigilante members have been shot dead by suspected gunmen in Mayaki, a village near Zago, along the border between Abaji Area Council of the FCT and Lapai Local Government Area of Niger State. The Abuja Inquirer reports that...
Sotheby’s poised for red hot bidding battle as largest Martian meteorite goes up for auction in NY
The Print
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July 15, 2025
Bengaluru: The largest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction Wednesday in New York. The bid amount for this meteorite collision remnant is set to open at USD 1.6 million, according to Sotheby’s auction house. The NWA 16788 was discovered...
Former President Buhari buried in Daura amid prayers, tributes
Eagle Online
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July 15, 2025
Former President Muhammadu Buhari was laid to rest on Tuesday evening in his Daura residence in Katsina State in a solemn ceremony that drew dignitaries from across the nation and beyond. His body was committed to Mother Earth at about 5:50 p.m....
SMRs 'hold immense promise' for Africa
World Nuclear News
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Thursday, 10 July 2025 The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa says that participants at the recent Nuclear Energy Innovation Summit for Africa agreed "that small modular reactors hold immense promise for accelerating Africa's energy...
16-year-old girl bags life sentence over murder of university lecturer
Premium Times
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July 10, 2025
A state high court in Minna, Niger State, has sentenced a 16-year-old girl, Joy Afekafe, to life imprisonment for her role in the murder of Funmilayo Adefolalu, a lecturer at the Federal University of Technology, Minna. Justice Mohammed Mohammed...
Boss Mustapha’s full lecture at Garba Shehu’s book launch
Eagle Online
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July 11, 2025
The theme of this lecture: “President Muhammadu Buhari’s Contribution to National Development,” is both a reflection on leadership and an exploration of the institutions, policies, and principles that defined his presidency. While we are gathered...
New imperialist powers, capitalist unipolarity and proletarian internationalism: An interview with Rasti Delizo (Part II)
LINKS
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July 12, 2025
Rasti Delizo is a global affairs analyst, veteran socialist activist and former vice-president of the Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP, Solidarity of Filipino Workers). In the second part of this extensive interview with Federico Fuentes for...
Trump courts African mineral-rich nations, snubs Nigeria and South Africa in strategic White House summit
Nairametrics
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July 9, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to host a select group of African leaders this week at the White House, focusing on expanding American access to critical minerals and natural resources. However, conspicuously absent from the invite list are the...
Renewed Hope Agenda Providing Measurable Opportunities – Minister
TVC News Nigeria
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July 10, 2025
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has said the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Tinubu is a practical framework for national transformation, built on real and measurable opportunities for prosperity across all...
Teenager Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for M^rder of FUT Minna Lecturer
Nigerian Eye
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July 10, 2025
A state high court in Minna, Niger State, has sentenced 16-year-old Joy Afekafe to life imprisonment for her involvement in the m^rder of Dr. Mrs. Funmilayo Sherifat Adefolalu, a lecturer at the Federal University of Technology (FUT) Minna. The...