The military junta in Burkina Faso has announced an agreement with Rosatom, the Russian public nuclear energy company, to build a nuclear power plant. The memorandum of understanding was signed recently in Moscow with the aim of promoting cooperation in the field of the use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes. The agreement was signed…
After over five years of legal battles, Nigeria has succeeded in halting the enforcement of the $11 billion arbitration award in favour of an Irish firm, P&ID, over breach of contract by the Nigerian government. A judge in London ruled in favour of the Nigerian government, agreeing that the process by which the company secured…
Liberia’s electoral commission, the National Elections Commission (NEC), has scheduled the country’s presidential election run-off for November after the two frontrunners, President George Weah and opposition leader, and former Vice-President, Joseph Boakai, had failed to secure enough votes for a landslide victory at the recent presidential polls, which recorded a record turnout of 78.86% of…
Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed the election of Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s president in the 2023 general elections. In a unanimous decision by the judges, the court held that the grounds for appeal by the two major opponents, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP),…
The Burkina Faso military government led by Capt. Ibrahim Traoré has announced the nationalisation of the sugar sector in the country. This is coming on the heels of a major drive by the government to localise ownership of the country’s economy following its recent efforts to reduce its longstanding economic reliance on France, its former…
