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Nigeria launches campaign to repatriate stolen and smuggled artifacts

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NoireTv  Africa     If you live in the USA, NoireTV now showing nationwide on Verizon Fios on channel 269. Press 269 on  your remote control.   NoireTV now on Verizon Fios Channel 269. Press 269 on your remot e control. Follow us on Instagram   @ no i r etv afri ca   and on Fa c eboo k  ...  www.facebook.com/caspennoire The Federal Government has launched the campaign for the return and restitution of Nigeria’s looted and smuggled Artifacts from around the world. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, launched the campaign at a press conference in Lagos on Thursday, November 28th saying “ with this announcement, we are putting on notice all those who are holding on to Nigeria’s cultural property anywhere in the world that we are coming for them, using all legal and diplomatic instruments available. Gentlemen, we are under no illusion that this will be an easy task, but no one should also doubt our determination to make a success of this campaign ”.  Mohamm

Police arrest man who raped and brutally murdered 21-year-old South African student by stabbing her 52 times

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NoireTv  Africa     If you live in the USA, NoireTV now showing nationwide on Verizon Fios on channel 269. Press 269 on  your remote control.   NoireTV now on Verizon Fios Channel 269. Press 269 on your remot e control. Follow us on Instagram   @ no i r etv afri ca   and on Fa c eboo k  ...  www.facebook.com/caspennoire A suspect in the brutal murder of South African student, Precious Ramabulana has been arrested. The 21-year old, who was a Business Management student of Capricorn TVET College, Ramokhopha campus, Limpopo, was stabbed to death on Sunday morning just after 2am. Ramabulana had also been raped and had died from 52 stab wounds. Provincial police spokesperson Brig Motlafela Mojapelo had earlier said that the student had been asleep in her rented room when she was attacked by an unknown man. "It is alleged that the deceased was asleep in her rented room at GaJoel Section in Mokomene when the suspect gained entry through the window and started att

Ghana's local rice to be listed on Ghana Commodity Exchange

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NoireTv  Africa     If you live in the USA, NoireTV now showing nationwide on Verizon Fios on channel 269. Press 269 on  your remote control.   NoireTV now on Verizon Fios Channel 269. Press 269 on your remot e control. Follow us on Instagram   @ no i r etv afri ca   and on Fa c eboo k  ...  www.facebook.com/caspennoire Ghana’s local rice will soon be listed on the Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX), Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GCX, Dr Kadri Alfah, has announced. Mr Alfah said his outfit will, by the end of the year, list the product as one of the commodities to be traded on the exchange. The listing of the local rice on the exchange is expected to be finalized in December this year, after clearance and certification from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). “So by the end of the year, the Ghana Commodity Exchange will be trading rice, we will be listing Paddy rice and Mill rice. We’re currently in talks with SEC to give us permission to trade rice,

Crisis rocks Nigeria's investment agency over 'anti-Buhari' comment, internal wrangling

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NoireTv  Africa     If you live in the USA, NoireTV now showing nationwide on Verizon Fios on channel 269. Press 269 on  your remote control.   NoireTV now on Verizon Fios Channel 269. Press 269 on your remot e control. Follow us on Instagram   @ no i r etv afri ca   and on Fa c eboo k  ...  www.facebook.com/caspennoire A crisis is brewing in Nigeria’s agency responsible for sourcing and coordinating foreign investment, the Nigeria Investment Promotion Council (NIPC). A frosty relationship between the executive secretary of the commission Yewande Sadiku, and the governing council of the commission led by Babangida Nguroje, a former deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, has blown open. Investigations reveal that the relationship between the council and the executive secretary had gone sour leading to a confrontation between the two sides. Earlier this year, a member of the governing council, Ali Sani, wrote to the executive secretary questioning the payment

Russian mercenaries fight shadowy battle in gas-rich Mozambique

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NoireTv  Africa     If you live in the USA, NoireTV now showing nationwide on Verizon Fios on channel 269. Press 269 on  your remote control.   NoireTV now on Verizon Fios Channel 269. Press 269 on your remot e control. Follow us on Instagram   @ no i r etv afri ca   and on Fa c eboo k  ...  www.facebook.com/caspennoire A deployment of  Russian  guns-for-hire, with links to the Kremlin, has sustained casualties in its fight against Islamist militants in Mozambique, multiple sources have told CNN. In another example of  Russia's growing reach into Africa , dozens of private military contractors are aiding the Mozambique army which is battling an insurgency in its northernmost province. The mercenaries in this resource-rich southern African country appear associated with  Yevgeny Prigozhin , a St. Petersburg oligarch so close to the Kremlin that he is known as President Vladimir Putin's "chef." Prigozhin, whose reach in the region stretches into

Zimbabwe on verge of 'manmade starvation', UN warns

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NoireTv  Africa     If you live in the USA, NoireTV now showing nationwide on Verizon Fios on channel 269. Press 269 on  your remote control.   NoireTV now on Verizon Fios Channel 269. Press 269 on your remot e control. Follow us on Instagram   @ no i r etv afri ca   and on Fa c eboo k  ...  www.facebook.com/caspennoire Zimbabwe is on the brink of manmade starvation with close to 60% of the population now food insecure, a UN envoy has said. Hilal Elver, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, said the situation was likely to escalate political instability in the southern African nation. After an 11-day visit to parts of the country worst hit by the El Niño-induced drought, Elver said widespread food insecurity was being exacerbated by hyperinflation. “The people of Zimbabwe are slowly getting to a point of suffering a manmade starvation,” said Elver. “More than 60% of the population of a country once seen as the breadbasket of Africa is now considered food

Too many African startups are looking at funding as a measure of success

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NoireTv  Africa     If you live in the USA, NoireTV now showing nationwide on Verizon Fios on channel 269. Press 269 on  your remote control.   NoireTV now on Verizon Fios Channel 269. Press 269 on your remot e control. Follow us on Instagram   @ no i r etv afri ca   and on Fa c eboo k  ...  www.facebook.com/caspennoire African startups too often fall into the trap of viewing funding as a real measure of success rather than focusing on execution and building their businesses. That is according to panelists at the Africa Early Stage Investor Summit in Cape Town earlier this month, who agreed that execution was key but also that the investor community could do more to assist startups on their growth trajectory. Anne Njuki is investment manager at  DOB Equity , a Dutch family office investing in innovative, scalable and impactful companies in East Africa that counts the likes of Twiga Foods, Sendy, M-KOPA Solar and Copia amongst its portfolio companies. She said that