CBN expected to raise interest rate further as naira strengthens
The Central Bank of Nigeria will announce its latest interest rate decision today, a month after delivering a huge increase of 4 percentage points...
Senegal: Opposition’s Diomaye Faye leads in presidential election
Opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye has emerged as the frontrunner to win Senegal's presidential election, following the concession of several rivals.
The peaceful vote on...
Nigerian bakeries fuelling deforestation and climate change, study says
A new study by researchers from the UK and Nigeria has shed light on a surprising contributor to deforestation and climate change in the...
As naira gains, Nigerians promptly ask: When will prices drop?
A surge in the value of the naira has sparked a wave of optimism and a pointed question from Nigerian consumers: when will this...
World TB Day: Africans can solve the disease that haunts us — here’s how
I was born in Brakpan, Johannesburg, South Africa, and grew up in eSwatini (known then as Swaziland). People in these two countries share one predominant fear:...