APA
Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said the agriculture sector of the economy measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 18.58 percent year-on-year in nominal terms in fourth quarter of 2018.
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described as false alarm and blackmail, the allegations that it was plotting to create panic among Nigerians with alleged plan to discredit Saturday’s presidential election, resulting to a constitutional crisis.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s promise to probe $16 billion electricity money and his final endorsement by northern elders are some of the leading stories in Nigerian newspapers on Wednesday.
Botswana has joined the chorus for an immediate end to economic sanctions imposed by the West on Zimbabwe.
The Zimbabwean government has approved the repeal of the controversial Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) which is seen as one of the relics of a media crackdown by former president Robert Mugabe’s government.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office has set up a National Health Insurance (NHI) “war room” to address challenges in the public healthcare system, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has said.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa should not absolve himself from the role he played in government under former president Jacob Zuma’s alleged corruption and “nine wasted years” that in February 2018, opposition Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane has said.
South Africa’s unemployment rate decreased by 0.4 of a percentage point to 27.1% for the fourth quarter of 2018, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has said.
Members of the EU Parliament have voted in favour of a landmark new fisheries agreement and a prtotocol with Morocco to facilitate sustainable fishing by European vessels that would stick to the allowable catch surplus as enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
A host of professional media organizations have issued a joint statement, demanding an investigation into the violence witnessed in the eastern town of Tambacounda in which one man died on Monday.