By Cyber Era NG Special Correspondent The Nigerian government has subscribed to a free and secure Internet for Africa, which is capable of bridging the digital divide and creating innovative opportunities within the continent. This is according to a press statement  just sighted by our correspondent, from the Director of...

By Angeline Mgbele, Bureau Chief, North Considering the immense natural and human resources inherent in Africa which can be leveraged to enhance technological advancement in the continent, the Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mallam Kashifu Inuwa believes that effective collaborations among the nations in the continent...

US President Joe Biden has invited the heads of 49 African states and the African Union (AU) to the US-Africa Leaders summit in Washington next month, Special Assistant to the President and National Security Council Senior Advisor for the US-Africa Leaders Summit Dana Banks said on Tuesday. "President Biden has...

By Richard Porter The ongoing war on Ukraine – heading towards three months after the Russian-led invasion – will dominate the first in-person Annual Meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to take place in three years. Representatives from the Bank’s 73 country and institutional shareholders will...

By Jeffrey Donovan, IAEA Department of Nuclear Energy The ongoing energy crisis gripping Europe and other regions of the world further highlights the need for nuclear energy as the world works to meet climate change goals and transition out of fossil fuels. This was among the topics of a wide-ranging...

With Nigeria’s fast movement towards diversifying its economy using technology, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has proposed partnership with Republic of Namibia in the areas of Innovations and Entrepreneurship through African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). This is because Africa as a continent lost out during the First,...

By Godson Umejiego, Correspondent USA The US Africa Energy Forum 2021 – organized by Africa Oil & Power, in partnership with the African Energy Chamber’s US-Africa Committee – will foster alignment between US and African governments’ energy policies and highlight African oil, gas, power and renewable projects across the energy...

By Godson Umejiego, Correspondent USA Africa will not meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target of eliminating extreme poverty by 2030. This slow progress derives from resource leakages and increasing poverty rates, as 64.3 per cent of sub-Saharan Africa is still living in multidimensional poverty. While other regions of the...

Next November 9th will open the "doors" of the fourth edition of Italia Africa Business Week IABW. Starting at 10:00 a.m., online, hundreds of entrepreneurs, professionals, opinion leaders but also ministers and diplomats will gather for IABW 2020, the first and most important Italian-African business forum now at its fourth...

From African Trade Insurance Agency Private sector investment in Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Senegal, will be strengthened following European Investment Bank support for the countries in their membership and share capital increase in the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI). The West and Central African states, Burkina, Chad and Senegal...