Angola’s Petro Football Team Run Pre-Competitive Training in Portugal

[ad_1] Luanda — Angola's Petro de Luanda football team (national champions) will spend a pre-competitive training period in Portugal in the next few days, following the domestic championship mid-season break, a source of the club told ANGOP. Angola's domestic competition has been interrupted due to the participation of the country's national football team in the Africa Cup of Nations to take place from January 13 to February 11, in Côte d' Ivoire. The resumption of the domestic competition the Angolan […]

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News

Angolan Olympic Committee President Rules Out Possibility of a New Term

[ad_1] Luanda — The president of the Angolan Olympic Committee (COA), Gustavo da Conceição, is unwilling to run for another term as director of the country's sports institution. According to the former basketball player, who this year is serving his second term, the time has come to make room for other COA staff, who have management skills and experience, for Olympic purposes, in statements to Radio 5. He added that he spent many years directing the COA and that he […]

January 4, 2024 3

Africa

Africa: 10 Major International Events That Made Headlines in 2023

[ad_1] The year 2023 will be remembered as one of the most eventful years in recent history. The year 2023 will be remembered as one of the most eventful in recent history with many events making international headlines from different parts of the world. These include the Nigerian elections in February and March, the Sudan crisis that erupted in April, the Sierra Leone elections in June, and the Niger coup of July. This 2023 wrap-up by PREMIUM TIMES also looks […]

January 4, 2024 2

Entertainment

South Africa: Ngema Was Working On a Play About My Life – Zuma

[ad_1] Former president Jacob Zuma told mourners at Durban's Playhouse that legendary playwright, theatre director and musician Mbongeni Ngema was working on a play about Zuma's life. He said Ngema's death came after they had agreed to do a play on the life and times of how an uneducated village boy from Nkandla in rural KwaZulu-Natal became president of South Africa. "He was a freedom fighter with a rare talent for expressing messages about how apartheid oppression affected ordinary people. […]

January 4, 2024 3

News

Nigeria: Ndidi Ruled Out of Afcon Due to Injury,Yusuf in As Replacement

[ad_1] Super Eagles midfielder, Wilfred Ndidi, has been ruled out of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations due to injury. Ndidi missed Leicester City's 4-1 home win over Huddersfield Town on Monday on account of the injury. Antwerp midfielder Alhassan Yusuf has been drafted in as a late replacement. All 24 teams for the AFCON will submit to CAF a final squad tomorrow, but have till January 10 to make changes in the event of injury. The 23-year-old is now […]

January 4, 2024 3

Entertainment

Nigeria: Remembering Mohbad On Posthumous 28th Birthday

[ad_1] Nigerians celebrate the talented young singer whose songs have made more waves in his death than in his lifetime. It's been 111 days since the unexpected and tragic death of Nigerian musician Ilerioluwa Aloba, widely known as Mohbad. Today, he would have been 28. Nigerians are celebrating the talented young singer whose songs have made more waves in his death than in his lifetime. Mohbad died on 13 September 2023, and less than 24 hours after his tragic passing, […]

January 4, 2024 3

Africa

Africa: The Destructive Drive in African Politics

[ad_1] The descent into normlessness in various African countries calls for a new scholarly and policy approach. In the middle of December, the protracted political tussle between incumbent Governor of oil-producing Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor and now Nigerian Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, took a bizarre turn when Governor Fubara ordered and briefly oversaw the demolition of the State House of Assembly complex in Port Harcourt, the state capital. In a statement to the media, […]

January 4, 2024 2

Africa

Africa: Artificial intelligence Expert Warns of ‘Digital Colonization’ in Africa

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence (AI) is ripe to help resolve certain major problems in Africa, from farming to the health sector, but Senegalese expert Seydina Moussa Ndiaye is warning of a new "colonization" of the continent by this new technology if foreign companies continue to feed on African data without involving local actors. One of 38 people members of the new UN advisory body on machine learning, Mr. Ndiaye spoke with UN News about the landscape ahead, building on his experience […]

January 4, 2024 2

Africa

Africa: AU Provides One Million Usd to Support DDR

[ad_1] Addis Ababa — The African Union (AU) has provided one million US dollar grant to support the Disarmament, Demobilization and Rehabilitation (DDR) efforts in Ethiopia today. The grant was signed by Commissioner of National Rehabilitation Commission,Teshome Toga and Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security of the African Union Commission, Bankole Adeoye. During the signing ceremony, Teshoma said the grant will help to support efforts in the implementation of DDR. This AU's initiative would encourage other partners to provide […]

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