A teenager from Abraham Iyambo Senior Secondary School in Namibia, Simon Petrus invented a mobile phone that works with radio frequencies, without sim card or airtime recharge is required. Calls can be made without interruptions to anywhere and anyone as long as they are done in an area with radio frequency. Petrus used scraps of […]
A 29-year old Kenyan woman, Nzambi Matee recycles plastic into beautiful bricks Nzambi Matee majored in Material Engineering and worked as an Engineer in Kenya’s oil industry. In 2017 she quit her job to start creating pavers, which are a combination of plastic and sand. Through experimentation, she understood which plastics bind better together and […]
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) within the framework of the Global Initiative for Cancer Registry Development (GICR), announced that the Nairobi Population-Based Cancer Registry has become an IARC-GICR Collaborating Centre for training in cancer registration in sub-saharan Africa. On 17th November, the official inauguration took place in Nairobi, Kenya in the presence […]
The Teranga Lions have qualified for the first knockout stage of the 2022 Qatar FIFA World Cup as they defeated Ecuador in a thrilling 2-1 match, which has booked the African team a place in the World Cup’s round of 16. Ecuador and Senegal kicked-off their group A match at the Khalifa International Stadium in […]
A Pan-African solar company, Solarise Africa has raised $33.4 million to expand its portfolio in Kenya and other countries. Solarise Africa is a company that provides reliable and affordable energy solutions across Africa. It collaborates with only the most experienced and quality focused solar and other energy solution companies to offer innovative full-service solutions that […]
On Thursday, Ghana’s Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Arra presented the 2023 budget in parliament and also announced that there will be more spending cuts, including a freeze on government hiring and hike in the Value Added Tax. It also looked into using gold to buy oil rather than U.S dollars as the country’s currency depreciates against […]
At the African Union Summit on Industrialization and Economic Diversification, African leaders have called for a doubling of efforts to promote industrialization in Africa, which took place between November 20 to 25, 2022 in the capital city of Niger Republic, Niamey. The Extraordinary Summit of African Union was tagged: “Industrializing Africa: Renewed Commitments towards an […]
Adewale Yusuf is a Nigerian, born and raised in Ibadan. He attended secondary school at Loyola college. He had to leave home when he was 16 years old. They could not send him to a tertiary institution but he has always loved school. He was able to save doing some jobs and the day he […]
Senegal and Ghana made Africans proud as the Black Stars and Lions of Teranga defeated their counterparts in the ongoing World Cup tournament in Qatar and became the first two African countries to have a victory-win in the tournament. THE GLORY OF SENEGAL RESTORED The Lions of Teranga played their first match against Netherlands on […]
Anthony Onyemaechi Elumelu is a Nigerian serial entrepreneur and philanthropist who has made great waves nationally and internationally. He was born on the 22nd of March, 1963. He worked in the Nigerian Union Bank as a Youth Corper in 1985 before starting his career as a salesman, a copier salesman to be precise. Subsequently, he […]
