Moroccan billionaire Alami Lazraq has seen his personal fortune grow by $46 million in just two weeks, following a surge in the share price of his flagship company, Alliances Développement Immobilier (ADI). The Casablanca Stock Exchange recorded a 9.11 percent rise in ADI’s stock, boosting the market valuation of Lazraq’s 51.7 percent stake to approximately $618 million. While ADI […]
When Funke Egberongbe received a letter from Irish immigration authorities years ago, it felt like the final blow. It wasn’t just the threat of deportation, it was the fear that everything she had hoped, prayed, and endured for would be erased in a single decision. But she didn’t fold. She held on. Nearly two decades later, that same woman, […]
Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has been elected Chair of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government. The announcement came during this week’s 67th Ordinary Session, held in Abuja, Nigeria, where he formally succeeded Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu . President Bio’s elevation comes at a critical moment for the regional bloc. ECOWAS is grappling with deepening […]
For the first time in its history, the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux in Louisiana, United States, will be led by a Ugandan. It was recently officially announced in Washington, D.C., that Pope Leo XIV has appointed 53-year-old Simon Peter Engurait as the next Bishop of Houma-Thibodaux. The announcement came through Većeslav Tumir, chargé d’affaires at the Apostolic Nunciature, in the […]
Dr Akinwumi Adesina, the outgoing President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), has been appointed to the Council of Advisors of the prestigious World Food Prize Foundation. The announcement, made by the Foundation’s President, Mashal Husain, reinforces Adesina’s enduring legacy as a global voice in agriculture, food security, and economic transformation. Adesina, a Nigerian economist and internationally respected development […]
At 17, most teenagers are focused on navigating adolescence. Mongiwa Hazel Ntuli was navigating university-level actuarial formulas—and graduating. One of the youngest-ever graduates from the University of Pretoria, Hazel earned her degree in Actuarial Science before many students her age had even chosen a career path. But this isn’t just a feel-good story about academic brilliance. It’s a story […]
Sidi Ould Tah of Mauritania has been elected as the new President of the African Development Bank Group. The announcement was made during the closing sessions of the Bank’s 2025 Annual Meetings held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, on May 30. Tah, a veteran of African economic reform and international finance, will succeed Nigeria’s Dr Akinwumi Adesina, whose decade-long presidency […]
Nigeria’s Central Bank Governor, Olayemi Cardoso, was crowned Central Bank Governor of the Year at the prestigious 2025 African Banker Awards held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The honour, bestowed during a high-level gala last Wednesday, was a recognition of Cardoso’s “bold and strategic” reforms that have helped stabilise Nigeria’s financial system in one of its most challenging periods. Award […]
Grammy-winning artist Damini Ogulu, known worldwide as Burna Boy, joins an elite list of changemakers named among the 2025 ‘100 Most Notable Peace Icons in Africa’, unveiled in Abuja this week by the organisers of the Pan-African recognition initiative. Joining him are Africa’s wealthiest industrialist Aliko Dangote, World Trade Organisation Director-General Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, top banker and philanthropist Tony […]
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o did not just write novels. He cracked open history’s locked vaults, tore pages from the colonial playbook, and rewrote what it meant to be African. To call Weep Not, Child his greatest book is not merely literary opinion, it is historical fact. First published in 1964, and the first major novel by an East African writer […]
