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LAST WEEK, THE APPOINTMENT of a new Director General for the National Agricultural Seed Council (NASC) was announced. His name is Fatuhu Muhammed. The newly appointed DG was elected into the Federal House of Representatives, where he became popular in 2020 as a member of House Committee on Tertiary Education, for proposing the privatisation of […]

ECOWAS IS DYING. The final killers and the undertakers may well be presidents of two countries, namely France and Nigeria. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has been going through what could best be described as slow death or instalmental death over a fairly long period of time. The symptoms of what is […]

NAMIBIA’S FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT was sworn in last weekend on Friday. The epoch-making event at the country’s capital, Windhoek, was one in which Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, was inaugurated as Africa’s second directly elected female leader. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, 72, was declared the winner in Namibia’s November 27 to 30, 2024 general election and was declared winner on […]

SUDAN CEASED TO BE ONE on July 9, 2011, when the southern portion took on its own separate identity by becoming South Sudan. The formal declaration that led to the creation of South Sudan as an independent and distinct country from Sudan was a culmination of over 20 years of war and six years of […]

SUDAN WAS ONE UNTIL July 2011. The split into two had a long history behind it. The bitter wars and the inevitable division into the two countries that still retain the same name were a part of the history of these two Sudans. Although the new country is called South Sudan, it seems like it […]

SUDAN WAS ONE UNTIL July 2011. The split into two had a long history behind it. The bitter wars and the inevitable division into the two countries that still retain the same name were a part of the history of these two Sudans. Although the new country is called South Sudan, it seems like it […]

OPPORTUNITY FOR emancipation is knocking at Africa’s door now. But while this happens, it matters a great deal what Africa does in response as the continent has been lulled into some form of complacency over a fairly long period of time. Whether or not Africa seizes the moment will determine — to a significant extent […]

AFRICAN UNION (AU), the various regional economic communities (RECs), and a whole lot of heads of nations’ heads of government within Africa have repeatedly confirmed that little is to be expected from them as to what the future holds for the continent under their watch. In addition to official incoherence and low level of synergy, […]