•AfDB President-elect Sidi Ould Tah After a decade of impact as the president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Nigeria’s pride, Akinwumi Adesina, will take a bow, leaving a trail of legacies captured in his five priorities to light up, feed, industrialise, integrate, and improve quality of life. To mount the saddle after Nigeria’s forme...
•The major contestants: Asue Ighodalo (PDP), Monday Okpebholo (APC) and Olumide Akpata (LP) Today, Saturday, September 21, 2024, the people of Edo State in South-South Nigeria will elect a new governor to succeed the incumbent, Godwin Obaseki, whose constitutional eight-year double terms will end on November 12, 2024. Edo is one of the eight s...
•Mpox (previously Monkeypox) A surging mpox outbreak in Africa, which was declared an emergency by the continent’s health agency on Tuesday, is being driven by a new, more transmissible strain of the virus. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) declared its first-ever Public Health Emergency of Continental Security...

