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The justification of the huge debts incurred by the Buhari’s administration by Nigeria’s Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, and the debts of N2trn owed by the electricity distribution companies are some of the trending stories in Nigerian newspapers on Friday.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said the Cameroonian authorities should drop the prosecution of journalist Malcom Bernabé Paho and decriminalize journalism in the country.

The Government of Nigeria, UNICEF and partners have launched the Nigeria Learning Passport (NLP), an online, mobile and soon-to-be offline learning platform that will provide continuous education to 3 million learners in 2022 alone, and a total of 12 million by 2025.

Strengthening the judiciary’s independence will be a key target in his term as leader of South Africa’s judiciary, the incoming Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has said.

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has announced that 29 ships are expected to arrive at the port from March 17 to March 31.

Nineteen-year-old Armande* recalls her disastrous first visit to a health centre. “It was awful,” says the teen from Kongo Central, in western Democratic Republic of the Congo. “I was younger then and looking for information on HIV, and the nurse there made fun of me in front of everyone because of my age.”

Rwanda on Monday joined the rest of the 53 member countries of the Commonwealth to celebrate the annual Commonwealth Day.

South Africa has the tools to catch those who steal from government with impunity, President Cyril Ramaphosa warned on Monday.

President Uhuru Kenyatta has condoled with the family of Kiambu businessman Francis Mwaura Ngugi who died on Sunday.

Officials from Uganda and Rwanda are giving fresh impetus to their drive to rekindle ties between Kampala and Kigali which have been strained in the course of the past few years, APA can report on Monday.