Poised to take full advantage of emerging opportunities in local content administration, key stakeholders and policy leaders in Africa’s Oil and Gas, and other related sectors, yesterday met in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, and have unanimously advocated for a new local content strategy for Africa with a focus on adequate regulatory framework, funding, human capacity development […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) is supporting a recent move by the Jigawa State Government to sponsor research on malaria, a preventable but persistent disease in Nigeria. On a recent weekday, WHO officials toured and certified for use a new Entomological Surveillance Site located at the Federal University Dutse (FUD), a state-funded research institution. The […]

Panafrican Energy Services Group today announced it has signed a contract with Petroci CI-11 to provide 5 Wells intervention services in the Block CI-11. Under the contract Panafrican Energy Services Group will maximize the Block CI-11 oil and gas field asset value using gaslift, and carry out work activities starting this month. “We are pleased to be […]

Merck Foundation (www.Merck-Foundation.com), the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany introduced their new award, the Merck Foundation Africa Song Award  ‘More Than a Mother’ 2021 in partnership with African First Ladies who are also  the Ambassadors of Merck Foundation More Than a Mother, for All African Singers, Musical Artists and emerging talents, to create a […]

Download logo Newly confirmed cases: 722 Recoveries: 256 Active cases : 6221 Deaths : 16 Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Health and Social Services, Namibia. Source: Apo-Opa

Ninety-eight patients have been diagnosed positive for COVID-19 in tests carried out today at Quarantine Centers and OPD Services in the Central, Northern Red Sea, Southern, and Anseba Regions. Out of these, seventy-one patients are from Quarantine Centers and OPD Services in Asmara, Central Region.  Fifteen patients are from Quarantine Centers in Afabet (14), and […]

Questions for Mudiwa Mundawarara – Referee Manager at Rugby Africa (www.RugbyAfrique.com) 1. Kindly elaborate on what the planned online course will touch base on? This is a World Rugby Level 2 Course for match officiating. As such it will follow the course outline as prescribed by World Rugby which includes game management, planning, technical aspects […]

Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokić is the recipient of the Maurice Podoloff Trophy as the 2020-21 Kia NBA Most Valuable Player, the NBA (www.NBA.com) announced today. With the first Kia NBA MVP Award of his career, Jokić becomes the first player to earn the honor as a member of the Nuggets.  He is also the […]

Ada Labs (www.AdaLabsAfrica.com) Africa and AI Center of Excellence (AICE) have today announced an initiative with NVIDIA to contribute to the digitization of the African continent through artificial intelligence (AI) and collaborate on a number of data science and AI projects. The CEO of Ada Labs Africa, John Kamara, said the relationship will strengthen the […]

World Rugby (www.World.Rugby) has announced details of a transformative five-year partnership with Mastercard to accelerate the development of Women in Rugby, which will supercharge the international federation’s ambitious Accelerating the Development of Women in Rugby 2017-25 strategic plan (https://bit.ly/3x9MHRs). The ground-breaking partnership will deliver a series of firsts, with Mastercard becoming: The founding Global Partner […]