LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-FIFA is joining forces with the African Union, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to jointly address the issue of domestic violence by launching the #SafeHome campaign across the African continent. The initiative is designed to support women and children victims of domestic violence, particularly as…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Comrade Timi Frank, former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has told African Union (AU) leaders to withdraw the African Union’s Anti-corruption Champion Award conferred on President Muhammadu Buhari in 2018, or he would lead a protest in the next AU meeting in Addis Ababa. Frank had in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)- – The African Union confirmed Thursday that it expected to send a temporary deployment of 3,000 troops to West Africa’s Sahel region, where regional forces are struggling to respond to a nearly eight-year-old onslaught by armed Islamists. The decision was made at the AU summit earlier this month, Smail Chergui, head…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Forty-nine out of the 55 members of the African Union have signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. However, Nigeria and five other countries failed to sign the deal. This was revealed by AU Chairperson and President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, as he made the announcement in Nouakchott during the…
