President Bola Tinubu was with other African leaders at the Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania on Tuesday. Tinubu was spotted alongside Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan at the summit. Other leaders reportedly at the summit include King Letsie III of Lesotho, President Ismail Guelleh of Djibouti, Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville, Azali Assoumani of Comoros, …

The co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates is visiting Nigeria this week, as part of the foundation’s ongoing commitment to Africa’s development. Gates will be meeting with national and local leaders, partners, grantees, and innovators to discuss advancing health, innovation, and nutrition across Africa. Gates, alongside other foundation leaders, will meet with experts in primary health …

President Bola Tinubu has said that Africans must demand from their leaders standards of democratic behaviour that uphold free, fair and credible elections. In his keynote address at the summit on state of democracy in Africa held on Wednesday in Abuja, the President also kicked against incumbent leaders’ attempts to remove constitutionally stipulated term limits, as he called for respect …

Most of us agree with Chinua Achebe, Africa’s late literary colossus, that Nigeria’s chief post-Independence headache has been the challenge of leadership. He said in his 1983 book, The Trouble with Nigeria: ‘’The trouble with Nigeria is simply a failure of leadership… The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the …

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has urged African leaders to focus on the cause of the recent spike in military coups across the continent. Expressing his worries over the trend of military takeovers in Africa, Atiku noted on Thursday on his official X handle that the Gabon coup is the eighth in Africa …

Prominent Liberia politician, Sheikh Al-Moustapha Kouyateh has warned President Bola Tinubu Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) not to adopt military intervention in ongoing Niger Republic political crisis. Kouyateh, who was a presidential aspirant of the Liberia First Movement in the buildup to the West African country’s 10th …

Former President of Nigeria and African Union High Representative for the Horn of Africa region, Olusegun Obasanjo; President of the Union of the Comoros and Chairperson of the African Union, Azali Assoumani; President of the Republic of Ghana and the African Union Champion of Financial Institutions, Nana Akufo-Addo; and the President of the Republic of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, have …

Former Nigerian President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan has urged African leaders to make life easy for their citizens. The former Nigerian leader who spoke at the maiden edition of the African Heritage Concert and Awards in Kigali, Rwanda, on Saturday, said such leaders should be concerned about the legacies they are going leave behind. According to a statement on Monday by …