Burundi: Premier Warns Citizens Against Alliance With Rwandan Militants
Burundian Prime Minister Gervais Ndirakobuca has urged residents of Mabayi district to avoid any collaboration with Rwandan terrorists operating in Kibira forest on the border with Rwanda, local media reports say. Ndirakobuca was in Mabayi, Cibitoke Province on Tuesday and met with local leaders and military leaders. In no uncertain terms, the Burundian Prime Minister […]
AU Rights Commission Quietly Liquidates Inquiry On Tigray
Addis Abeba — The African Union’s Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), had quietly liquidated the mandate of the Commission of Inquiry on the Situation in the Tigray Region, the first Commission established to monitor reports of grave human rights violations in the peak of Ethiopia’s two years war in the Tigray region. ACHPR […]
Angola, Cuba Prepare Bilateral Economic Agenda
Angola and Cuba are working on concluding the bilateral economic agenda for the 2024/2026 period, said a diploma that is already being consulted between the parties. The Cuban President Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said this on Monday, who did not provide further details about the bilateral economic agenda. At the end of signing ceremony of […]
Pakistani Firm to Set Up Industrial Park in Rwanda – Envoy
In 2021, Pakistan opened for the first time its high commission in Rwanda having residence in Kigali, a move that was attributed to the growing interest of bilateral and economic cooperation between both countries which spans over 60 years. Close to three years down the road, a lot has happened between Rwanda and the Asian […]
Ethiopia to Probe ‘Mass Killings’ of Migrants by Saudi Guards
The government of Ethiopia says it will “promptly investigate the incident in tandem with the Saudi suthorities” after a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), revealed massive allegations of killings of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers attempting to cross the Yemen-Saudi border by Saudi border guards. The statement by the Ethiopian ministry of foreign affairs […]
House of Assembly Staff Bags Two Years in Jail over N14.5m Salary Fraud
A staff of the Delta State House of Assembly, Mr. John Adjeke Akpoghene, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment over N14.5 million salary fraud. Akpoghene was charged by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) before the Delta State High Court, Asaba. ICPC had, in a one-count charge before Justice Onome […]
Again, ICPC arraigns Assistant Director on Fresh Charges over Job Racketeering
For the second time in a week, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned an Assistant Director in the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF), Mr. Yildiyel Musa Takat over fresh allegations bordering on fraud and employment racketeering. The defendant was dragged before Honourable Justice A. A. Fashola […]
NDIC to Probe Directors of 183 failed Micro-Finance Banks, Others
The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC, has hinted that directors of the recently closed 183 microfinance banks, MfBs, and Primary Mortgage Banks, PMBs, will soon be investigated for their roles in the collapse of their institutions. Managing Director/ Chief Executive, NDIC, Bello Hassan, disclosed this in Lagos during a workshop organised by the Corporation for […]
Budgit Demands Transparency in Distribution of N5bn Palliatives
BudgIT, a civic-tech organization advocating for transparency and accountability in Nigeria’s public finance has called for openness and accountability concerning the distribution of the N5 billion relief fund approved by the Nigerian Federal Government to state governments. The organization stated this in a statement made available to Nairametrics. The recent economic crisis and escalating cost […]
Chukkol Charges CSOs to be more involved in Anti-Graft War
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Abdulkarim Chukkol, has called on Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, across the country to show more commitment to the fight against economic and financial crimes. He made the call in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Thursday, August 17, 2023 at a One- Day Interactive […]