President Muhammadu Buhari’s 12th hour decision to snub the African Union Extra-ordinary summit on the endorsement of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), in Kigali, March 20 – 22 is a diplomatic blunder. The excuse that has been offered is not convincing, the management of the entire episode is untidy. Simple courtesies matter in diplomacy, unpredictability, surprise and ambush [...]
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Local government authorities in Kigali, Rwanda's capital, have suspended activities in 714 churches over noise pollution and failing to meet minimum safety operating standards.The New Times, a local newspaper, reports that the action is being carried out by respective urban district authorities in partnership with the Rwanda governance board.Justus Kangwagye, head of political parties and civil society department at the [...]
Salisu Yusuf, coach of the home-based Super Eagles, says his charges can beat any team in the African Nations Championship (CHAN) holding in Morocco.The Nigerian team opened their CHAN campaign with a 0-0 draw against Rwanda on Monday night.During the post-match interview, Yusuf said the result is not a setback, describing it as a wake-up call for his team.He said the [...]
Nigeria and Rwanda played a 0-0 draw in their first game of the Africa Nations Championship (CHAN) on Monday night.The CHAN Eagles thrice hit the woodwork in a dominating performance in Tangier.Nigeria had the first chance of the game but Sunday Faleye's effort came off the woodwork.The home-based Eagles could have taken the lead after the ball fell nicely for [...]
Salisu Yusuf says the home-based Super Eagles can win the 2018 Africa Nations Championship.The home-based Eagles coach admitted that the team is under pressure but assured of a positive result at the end of the tournament."Whether people think we can win or cannot, the pressure to get a result is expected. I think the job goes with the pressure. It's a [...]
Nigeria's 2018 Africa Nations Championship campaign will kick off against Rwanda at the Stade Ibn Batouta on Monday.In their respective final warm-up matches, Nigeria played a 0-0 draw with Cameroon while Rwanda slumped to a 4-1 defeat by Algeria.The CHAN Eagles will face a side that is built on solid defending but with few technically gifted players in attack. The [...]
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria has demonstrated that Africa can solve its problems.Osinbajo said this in Kigali, Rwanda capital, after attending the inauguration of President Paul Kagame.The acting president said the federal government was already working to solve insurgency and humanitarian crisis in the north-eastern part of the country.He said Africans could take up leadership of the continent's economy [...]
Rwanda’s incumbent president Paul Kagame has sealed a crushing victory in presidential elections that granted him a third term in office, extending his 17 years in power.With 80 per cent of votes accounted for, the 59-year-old former guerrilla leader secured 98.66 percent, Charles Munyaneza, the national electoral commission’s executive secretary, told a news conference.“We expect that even if we get [...]
Rwandan voters queued in long lines on Friday to cast their ballots in a presidential election that incumbent president Paul Kagame is expected to win by a landslide after 17 years in power.Kagame has won international plaudits for presiding over a peaceful and rapid economic recovery in the tiny central African nation since the 1994 genocide, when an estimated 800,000 [...]
Tony Elumelu, chairman of Heirs Holdings and founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, says Africa can be self-reliant if governments put infrastructure in place for businesses to thrive.Elumelu, who said this in a statement issued on Sunday, called on African leaders and development institutions to help address the deepening job and employment crisis bedevilling the continent by lending support and paying more attention towards the agricultural [...]
It takes a deep level of forgiveness to shake hands with the killer of one's father but Gabriel Ndutiye does it – a couple of times every year.He was 11 years old during the Rwandan genocide of 1994 that killed over a million people. He alone survived, losing five brothers and both parents. Although he can never forget, Gabriel has [...]
Nigerian governors say those advocating for a separate country are wasting their time.The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is in the frontline of the struggle to carve out a country out of Nigeria.But the governors appealled to citizens to embrace peace, saying they do not want the country to witness a hate war like Rwanda did.In 1994, Hutu militias in Rwanda [...]
Samson Siasia, former gaffer of the Super Eagles, is among eight coaches being considered to head the Rwandan national football team.His biggest rival for the job is Winifried Schafer, who won the 2002 African Cup of Nations with Cameroon.Siasia, who made his name as a top international striker, scored 16 goals for the Nigerian national team in 51 games before he [...]
Claver Gatete, Rwanda’s minister of finance and economic planning, has called on African leaders to tackle illicit financial flows, alleging that the continent had lost over $1.7 trillion to the menace in the last 50 years.According to a statement by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Gatete made the call while speaking at the third annual customer due diligence and [...]
Brett Goschen, MTN's group chief financial officer, is to step down in September after more than a decade at Africa's biggest telecoms operator, the company said on Monday.In a statement, the company in Johannesburg said Brett Goschen had held the position since 2013.According to MTN, its Rwanda chief executive, Gunter Engling, will assume the position of acting group CFO on [...]
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has claimed that pressure from his people made him extend his term in office.Rwanda’s constitution had to be amended to enable Kagame run for a third term, but speaking at the World Economic Forum on Africa holding in Kigali, the country’s capital, Kagame said he was aware that changing the constitution to allow him to [...]
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