- Sunday, June 07, 2026
BusinessDay
The US justice department on Thursday charged two Chinese nationals with conducting a global hacking campaign, in a co-ordinated move...
China’s share of global output will fall over the next two decades, a leading consultancy is forecasting, upending the expectations...
Sunday’s presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now likely to be postponed by at least a week...
On December 13, the US outlined its new Africa strategy, stating that it would seek to promote intraregional trade and commercial ties with its African allies, shifting its focus from “indiscriminate aid” to one of trade and investment and positioning itself as a more sustainable alternative to what it termed “predatory” lending to promote Chinese and Russia interests in Africa....
A Walt Disney trademark on “hakuna matata”, a Swahili phrase meaning “no worries”, is stirring up controversy in Africa where a petition demanding the US entertainment company rescind its intellectual property is rapidly gaining signatures....
Access Bank has reached an agreement in principle to buy Diamond Bank in a deal that values Diamond at just over $200m and would create Nigeria’s biggest bank by both deposits and assets....
The Trump administration has unveiled what John Bolton, the national security adviser, has billed as a “new” Africa strategy for the US. ...
Africa over the past four years made the most legislative progress aimed at tackling gender discrimination, however laws and social norms in the region and around the world stil hamper equality, according to new OECD figures. ...
Northeastern Nigeria is suffering one of the worst malnutrition crises in the world, sparked by the nearly decade-long Boko Haram insurgency....
Bottles of Sprite spin along a gleaming new production line at the Coca-Cola plant in Maiduguri, not far from the one-time headquarters of Boko Haram, the jihadi group that continues to terrorise north-eastern Nigeria....
Muna Custom House camp lies on the edge of Maiduguri, near one of many trenches surrounding the northern Nigerian city...
I was surprised to read the editorial “ Museums should rise to Macron’s art challenge” (December 1), which included a number of errors, not least the confusion of Benin City in Nigeria with the Republic of Benin....
South Africa emerged from recession in the third quarter of the year, easing pressure on President Cyril Ramaphosa over his handling of the economy....
Blink and another Burger King will have opened somewhere across the globe, serving up french fries and double cheeseburgers to a world hungry for fast food....
Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari would like voters to know that he is not dead — and has not even been cloned....
