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Jing made this declaration on Thursday in Abuja at a roundtable on the Review Dialogue on the just concluded 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.

Rob Shuter told Reuters at a telecoms conference in Durban that his position was due to the fact that most phones in Africa worked fine on just 3G.

Female lawmakers with artificial nails and false eyelashes have been banned from Tanzania’s parliament, local media reported on Monday.

New York-based broker-dealer, Marco Polo Securities, has announced that Coronation Securities Limited, a major Nigerian financial institution, is expanding its access to US investors via the Marco Polo regulatory platform.

The President disclosed this in Beijing, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu.

Feet and Tricks International, organisers of the first ever African Football Freestyle Championship in Africa, have assured participants, stakeholders and ardent followers of the sport that the first ever championship in Africa scheduled to…

Nigeria's partnership with China through the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation has resulted in the execution of vital infrastructure projects across the country, valued at over $5 billion in the last three years of the current…

US First Lady, Melania Trump, will be travelling to Africa in October, but without her husband, President Donald Trump.

China and Africa will step up cooperation to reduce poverty in the continent, a Chinese poverty relief official said on Tuesday.

The Government of Singapore, through Enterprise Singapore has invited the Chief Executive Officer of Jumia Nigeria, Juliet Anammah, to join other respected business leaders across Africa and Asia to lead discussions around digital economy,…

IAAF President Sebastian Coe made the assertion on Wednesday in Asaba while lauding the 16 athletes who were inducted into the African Athletics Confederation Hall of Fame on Tuesday.

The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has urged Nigeria and Africa to push for review of the current World Economic Order to address the issue of migration on the continent.

The executive meeting, convened by the Women Advancement for Economic and Leadership Empowerment in Africa (WAELE/ARCELFA), seeks to address the various conflicts facing the continent by empowering women, who are the most affected by them,…

Former US president, Barack Obama, advised talented young Africans on Wednesday to drive change at home rather than emigrating, and urged their governments to do more to curb a brain drain.

Speaking at the on-going three-day High-Level Policy Dialogue on Development Planning in Africa, which is underway in Cairo, Egypt, Boko, Principal Regional Advisor and Head of Development Planning and Statistics at the ECA, said it was…

Guterres, who made the appeal in Addis Ababa at the Second Annual UN-African Union Conference, said African resources should remain in Africa to support the development of the continent.

All five African teams - Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal and Tunisia - exited this year's competition in the group stages.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, made the call at the just concluded 33rd Session of Executive Council of African Union in Mauritania.

Jamie Angus, the Director of BBC World Service Group, who featured on Monday’s edition of Channels TV programme, “Sunrise Daily,” said desperate politicians would use the opportunity of the elections to plant and spread malicious stories.

This is contained in the ECA’s report on Sub-regional Profile for West Africa, released at the 21st Session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts for West Africa on Wednesday in Cotonou.