54° Across Africa

The Covid-19 pandemic being a peculiar situation in itself creates rather unique and sometimes expected regional problems. For the people of East Africa, particularly those whose wealth is questionable, they must be careful and calculated in seeking aid, as...

Kedu onye bu Olive Emodi? Born July 26,1989, she is an award winning Television idol , a Radio Personality, Writer, Actress. While at Delta State University, she started building a career by anchoring events, modeling, writing poems and performing them...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) announced Thursday evening, the launch of an independent investigation into allegations against its president, Akinwumi Adesina, the only candidate for re-election to a new term.  Go deeper: The United States had discredited a previous internal investigation...

In the 1980s, Africa was forced to open up the African Development Bank, one of its most enduring symbols of Pan African autonomy to non-African equity. This decision, the consequence of several decades of Western interference in African politics,...

Imrana's business is peace. He does this in war-torn Northern Nigeria where people die every other day; also where people have gotten used to '...die as gunmen attack villages' and care less. He is a Nigerian social entrepreneur and...

Lesotho’s former first lady Maesaiah Thabane was arrested Wednesday, over the murder of the previous wife of her husband, former prime minister Thomas Thabane, police said.  Backstory: Lesotho’s Appeal Court revoked her bail last week on suspicion that procedure was not followed correctly when her...

Wait fess, who is Kemi Lala-Akindoju? Well, she is an award-winning always animated Nigerian actress, born March 8, 1987, and has a degree in Insurance and a Master’s Degree in Media and Communication. Now, what else do we know? Kemi was nominated...

The Sudanese army have used barbed wire and concrete to stop people from reaching its headquarters in the capital, Khartoum. Go deeper: More than 100 people were killed on June 3 last year, when the army attacked and cleared a...

Denrele Edun, was born as Adenrele Oluwafemi Edun on June 13, 1981, to a Yoruba father and Indian-Mauritius mother in Hamburg, Germany. Denrele is a flamboyant man-about-town, a television host, who has been recognised with many awards including The...

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has issued out cheques for its association members. The continental football body will release more than 6,393 million CFA francs through financial channels alloting nearly 120 million to each Federation as a subsidy...