Polls Open in UK Election Tipped to CrushLabour and Crown Reform
Polling stations opened across England, Scotland and Wales at 7 a.m. local time onThursday in a sweeping set of local and devolved elections that political analysts arealready framing as the harshest verdict yet on Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labourgovernment.Around 5,000 council seats are on the ballot, alongside elections to the Welsh Seneddand the Scottish Parliament.... Read More
Safaricom Profit Soars 67% as Ethiopia BetFinally Starts Paying Off
Safaricom, the Kenyan telecoms giant and East Africa’s most valuable listed company,posted a 67 percent jump in annual net income on Thursday, smashing analystforecasts and providing the clearest signal yet that its long, costly bet on Ethiopia isfinally turning a corner.Group net income rose to 99.7 billion shillings — about $770 million — for the... Read More
Dangote Just Promised Africa $25 Billion — And A 20,000MW Power Revolution
Aliko Dangote did not come to Washington to whisper. Sitting at the IFC’s headquarters in awide-ranging conversation with Managing Director Makhtar Diop, Africa’s richest man laid out avision that has the continent buzzing — and global investors recalculating.Headline number one: up to $25 billion in dividends to African investors from a planned panAfrican listing of... Read More
EFCC Humiliated as Court Frees Ex-HoS Oyo-Ita After 6-Year ₦570m Trial
In a stinging rebuke that is still reverberating through Nigeria’s political andlegal establishment this morning, a Federal High Court has discharged and acquittedformer Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, of a ₦570 millionmoney-laundering case the EFCC has spent six years trying to prosecute.Justice James Omotosho, sitting in Abuja, upheld no-case submissions... Read More
Andes Hanta virus Hits South Africa: Minister Tracks 90 Flight Contacts
JOHANNESBURG — South African Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi on Wednesdaymorning urged the public not to panic as authorities raced to trace nearly 90 people whoshared a commercial flight with a Dutch tourist who later died of the rare Andes strain ofhantavirus.In a statement issued just hours ago, Motsoaledi confirmed that preliminary tests haveidentified the Andes... Read More
China Pushes Iran for “Comprehensive Cease fire” as Araghchi Lands in Beijing
Wang Yi presses Tehran to halt fighting and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, justone week before Trump’s high-stakes summit with Xi. BEIJING — In one of the most consequential diplomatic moves of the two-month-oldIran war, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday morning publicly called for a“comprehensive ceasefire” during talks with Iran’s top diplomat Abbas... Read More
Nigerian Universities in Lockdown – SSANU, NASU Strike Talks Resume 3pm Today
Federal Government negotiators sit down with the leadership of SSANU and NASU at 3pmTuesday in Abuja in what is shaping up to be the most consequential labour meeting of 2026so far. If it ends the way Monday’s session did – in deadlock – Nigeria’s public universities willgo into a second week of total shutdown, and... Read More
Historic: Ruto Becomes First Kenyan Leader Ever to Address Tanzanian Parliament
At 11am local time on Tuesday, Kenyan President William Ruto stood before a packedchamber in Dodoma to do something no Kenyan head of state has ever done before: deliver aformal address to the Tanzanian Parliament. It is one of the rarest diplomatic gestures ininternational affairs, reserved for foreign leaders considered exceptionally close partners, andthe symbolism... Read More
Oil Wobbles, Trump Won’t Confirm Ceasefire as Iran UAE Crisis Enters Day Two
Brent slips to $112.85 after Monday’s 6% surge, but ING says ‘you could say theceasefire has ceased. Tuesday opened with one of the most expensive question marks in the global economyhovering over the Strait of Hormuz: is the US-Iran ceasefire still alive, or did it die in the smokerising from a UAE oil port?By the... Read More
Obi and Kwankwaso Dump ADC for NDC as Nigeria’s Opposition Coalition Fractures Before2027
Two of Nigeria’s most prominent opposition figures defect to the Nigeria DemocraticCongress just days after a Supreme Court ruling was supposed to save the ADC. Thedream of a united front against Tinubu is unraveling in real time. The grand opposition coalition that was supposed to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027is falling apart. On Sunday,... Read More