2025 World Teachers’ Day: Together for Teachers, Together for the Future

Demonstrations, calls for increased investment in quality, inclusive education systems and educators, poems, dances, and more. On October 5th, 2025, education unions celebrated World Teachers’ Day, around the globe. Africa: Education union leaders...

Celebrating the enduring legacy of Professor Charles Ngwena

- Advertisement - One of The Gambia’s outstanding academics, Dr Satang Nabaneh, has once again made an indelible mark on the global academic stage through her continued influence as she was joined by two other professors to edit three ground...

My Reflections on the WATAF Policy Dialogue In Sierra Leone

Partial view of West African Tax Experts who gathered for the WATAF 7th High-Level Policy Dialogue and the 21st General Assembly, held in the halls of the Foreign Service Academy on Tower Hill, in Freetown, Sierra Leone Sept 15-19, 2025 ABSTRACT I...

WHO issues health alert after death of 20 children linked to Coldrif cough syrup: Here’s what to know

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a health alert after identifying three contaminated cough syrups in India that may be linked to the deaths of at least 20 children in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district. The global health agency has...

Sports Apprentice’s inaugural football forum, career bootcamp hold in Abuja

Sports industry development and mentorship platform, Sports Apprentice, will hold its inaugural football forum in Abuja, Nigeria, on November 27, 2025, which will be followed by a career bootcamp on November 29, 2025, the organisers have said....

WHO Warns of Deadly Cough Syrups After Child Deaths in India

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday issued a health advisory warning about three contaminated cough syrups produced in India, urging governments worldwide to report any detection of the medicines and remove them from circulation....

asia India's Tamil Nadu cancels license of cough syrup-maker linked to child deaths

CHENNAI, India — India's southern state of Tamil Nadu has cancelled the licenses of a cough syrup-maker linked to the deaths of several children over the past month, it said on Monday (Oct 13), as authorities search some of the firm's sites on...

Immigration crackdown blamed for expulsion of students

GAMBIA-MAURITANIA Gambian student organisations and diplomats have been warning that students from their country are being expelled from Mauritania as part of a general immigration crackdown. The alarm has been raised by a Solidarity With Gambians...

Former NUC boss launches new method to boost STEM education

A former Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Emeritus Peter Okebukola, has launched another method for delivering quality Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education. This was officially...

FinTech diplomacy can be a tool of peace, prosperity, and purpose, much like trade, says Ministry of External Affairs’ Mahaveer Singhvi

FinTech diplomacy can be a tool of peace, prosperity, and purpose, much like trade, says Ministry of External Affairs’ Mahaveer Singhvi Digital finance is no longer just a technological innovation, it is also shaping societies, empowering...

ED Raids Sresan Pharma

The decision comes after Coldrif cough syrup, manufactured by the Chennai-based firm, was found contaminated with dangerously high levels of diethylene glycol (DEG) — a toxic industrial chemical linked to the deaths of more than 19 children in...

How justice was denied to Jammu children killed five years ago by deadly cough syrup

It was a harsh winter morning in October 2019 in a Jammu village, when Makhno Devi took her 11-year-old son, Rutav, to the nearest sub-district hospital. For three days, Rutav had stopped urinating, his body temperature had risen and he was...

India searches premises of cough syrup maker linked to child deaths: Source

NEW DELHI - India’s financial crime-fighting agency is searching seven sites on suspicion of money laundering by Sresan Pharma, the cough syrup maker linked to the deaths of several children over the last month, a source told Reuters on Oct 13. At...

Outsourcing war: Holding Russia and its African partners accountable for Wagner’s crimes

Since 2017, Russian private military companies such as Wagner, and now its successor, Africa Corps, have become a fixture of Africa’s security landscape. These shadow armies have trained local troops, guarded oilfields and gold mines, and helped...

Former NUC boss, Okebukola, unveils new method to boost STEM education

A former Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Emeritus Peter Okebukola, has launched another method for delivering quality Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education. The new approach, the...

GTHI orientates 200 new intakes

He highlighted that the new students are the first cohort to study under GTHI’s newly developed curriculum, which he described as “an innovation born of vision, collaboration, and a deep commitment to excellence.” “Education is more than the...

Okebukola Launches New Method to Boost STEM Education

Kuni Tyessi in Abuja A former Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Emeritus Peter Okebukola, has launched another method for delivering quality Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)...

Tamil Nadu cancels licence of cough syrup-maker after child deaths

CHENNAI: India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu has cancelled the manufacturing licences of a cough syrup-maker linked to the deaths of several children. The state government announced the complete cancellation of Sresan Pharmaceuticals’ licences...

COP30 in Brazil Aims for a United Front Against Climate Change

Brazil is set to host the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) from November 10 to 21 in the Amazonian city of Belém, facing a major challenge: uniting the world around continued climate action despite mounting global crises —...

Sresan Pharmaceuticals: India cancels licence of cough syrup-maker linked to child deaths

CHENNAI, India, Oct 13: India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu has cancelled the licenses of a cough syrup-maker linked to the deaths of several children over the past month, it said on Monday, as authorities search some of the firm’s sites on...