For the past twenty years, African countries have passed laws and regulations on the usage data protection. This involves the collection, treatment, transmission, storage, and use of personal data by persons, the government, local authorities, and legal persons, as well as automated processing and non-automated processing of personal data contained in…
Africa’s Biggest National Carriers by Fleet Size Ethiopian Airlines dominates the African airspace and is 100% owned by the government. With a fleet of 131 and 38 on order (as at the time of this publication), Ethiopian Airlines has the largest fleet in Africa (and partnership deals with other African countries). Other…
Costs, Polling Units and Voters’ Register Over the years, Nigeria has faced issues relating to the voters register; the 2006 voters’ register for instance, had alien names like Hillary Clinton, Mike Tyson, Michael Jordan among others – this led to updates of the voters’ register (which cost money). Since 119,973 polling units were formed…
The Africa Cup of Nations tournament originally scheduled for June and July 2021, is being held in Cameroon between January 9 and February 6, 2022 with 24 African teams. There are 19 national teams with sport kits made by foreign companies while 5 national teams partnered with home-based companies. Of the 19 national teams…
Academic Discipline of Nigerian University Students This analysis displays the total number of students in different academic fields across Nigerian universities from 100 level to 600 level (depending on the duration of the course). Less than 5% of the total number of students are registered in Veterinary Medicine, Pharmacy, Medicine and Environmental Sciences – 0.2%,…
Public Holidays in Africa Madagascar and Uganda have the highest number of days (19) spent observing public holidays yearly. Along with Madagascar and Uganda, Senegal, Tanzania and Morocco all spend 5% of the calendar year observing public holidays. Eritrea, Mauritania São Tomé & Príncipe and Sudan have the least number of days (8) observed as…
Africa at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Of the 55 African countries that participated in the Olympics, only 13 won at las a medal at Tokyo 2020. Seven (7) of them won at least a gold medal while two (2) countries (Kenya and Uganda) won more than a gold medal. East African Countries produce the…
On December 9, 2020, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) embarked on another audit of the Subscriber Registration Database. This announcement led to the suspension of registration and sale of SIM cards by operators which was later lifted on April 19, 2021 with some new guidelines. From December 2020 to March 2021, there was…
The top African countries on the global list are from West Africa and Southern Africa. The African countries that ranked low on the list were from North Africa, East Africa and Central Africa. The lowest ranking country, Eritrea is the least ranked globally.