By AP Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni told the nation on Sunday that his landslide election victory showed the dominance of his party, which has governed the east African country for four decades. Museveni said a day after he was declared the winner that the result gave “a good taste of the strength” of his party. “The opposition was lucky,” he said about his victory despite low voter turnout in Thursday’s election. “10 million of my people did not turn up. They (the opposition) would have been embarrassed badly,” said Museveni. Voter turnout stood at 52 percent, the lowest since Uganda’s…
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The Nigerian government has finally set the stage for the trial of a foremost legal luminary, Professor Mike Ozekhome, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), over alleged forgery and use of false documents in a disputed property case in the United Kingdom. An indication to this effect emerged with the filing of a criminal charge against the human rights crusader and constitutional legal practitioner. A three-count charge marked FCT/HC/CR/010/2026 was filed against him at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Abuja by Osuobeni Akponimisingha, Head of the High-Profile Prosecution Department at the Independent Corrupt Practices and…
The World Bank approved $100 million in financing from the International Development Association (IDA) to help Benin promote access to finance and growth for women entrepreneurs in both the formal and informal sectors. The Women Entrepreneurship Development and Access to Finance Program (WEDAF) is a results-based program (PforR). It will support the government in setting up a Women’s Business Center and provide more than 10,000 women-led micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) with access to loans, training, mentoring, and career advice. This results-based program will competitively select a cohort of promising enterprises led or owned by women-Les Agodjié, who are the champions of…
Nigeria has taken a major step toward becoming a regional minerals-processing powerhouse with the launch of a high-purity gold refinery in Lagos and the near-commissioning of a $600 million lithium processing plant in Nasarawa State. Announced by Solid Minerals Development Minister Dele Alake, the projects signal a clear shift away from exporting raw minerals toward value-added production. Three additional gold refineries are also in development, a move expected to curb illegal exports, improve traceability, and boost investor confidence. The lithium plant is set to feed global battery and renewable energy supply chains, aligning Nigeria with the green energy transition. By prioritizing value…
By Agencies Residents of Makoko, one of Lagos’ oldest fishing communities, are struggling to survive after the Lagos State government demolished parts of the densely populated waterfront settlement, leaving thousands without shelter and livelihoods. Bulldozers moved into sections of Makoko in late December, pulling down wooden homes and shops built on stilts above the lagoon. State authorities say the demolitions were carried out for safety and urban planning reasons, citing environmental risks and the presence of buildings near high-voltage power lines. But displaced residents say they received little or no warning and were left with nowhere to go. “On January…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP 23-year-old Mariam Soumah initially came to Belarus in the hope of getting to Europe. There, she gave birth to her daughter – and was deported back to her home country without her child. The Guinean embassy in Moscow, which oversees Belarus, is reportedly following the case. It’s been nine months since Mariam Soumah, a 23-year-old Guinean woman, says she last saw her baby girl Sabina. The mother is in Guinea, while her daughter is – against her will – in an orphanage in Belarus. Several months ago, Belarus forcibly deported the young migrant mother to…
A suspected human trafficker has been apprehended in Gyado Villa, Makurdi, Benue State, by vigilant youths while attempting to transport seven underage boys from Ukum Local Government Area of the state for forced labour on farms in Ondo State. DAILY POST learnt that the suspect is an alleged human trafficker who specialised in luring young boys into forced labour. Sources said he had lodged the boys at 247 Hotel in Gyado Villa, Makurdi, as a staging point before continuing the journey southwards. The operation was foiled when vigilant youths in Gyado Villa became suspicious and apprehended the suspect for interrogation.…
By Agencies Nigeria’s statistics authority says it will revise its inflation reporting methodology after data due next week is expected to show an artificial spike in December inflation, officials and economists said. The expected jump comes from a technical quirk in how price data are weighted late in the year — a factor that could temporarily push headline inflation to more than double October levels. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) have agreed to adjust how they calculate and present inflation figures to ensure the reported numbers better reflect underlying price trends rather than…
By Agencies Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has cast his ballot as the country votes in a tense election that could extend his rule into a fifth decade. The 81-year-old leader, in power for 40 years, is widely expected to secure a seventh term, backed by firm control of state institutions and the security forces. Voting on Thursday was marred by delays across parts of the capital Kampala and nearby Jinja, with malfunctioning biometric machines and missing ballot boxes leaving some polling stations unopened hours after the official start. Opposition leaders accused authorities of deliberately slowing the process, a claim the…
By Mukwae Wabei Siyolwe The African Diaspora International Film Festival has just completed its 33rd year–and it has reached a turning point at exactly the moment the world’s relationship to storytelling is being transformed. Technology has shifted exhibition, production and attention: everyday people are now content creators, character narrators, and archivists of their own realities. Audiences are no longer gathered only by geography or a single annual calendar slot; they are formed by habits, platforms, and communities that can be built year-round. For ADIFF and ArtMattan Films, that shift meets an older truth: the work has never been only about…