Nigerian entrepreneur’s clean fuel stove given ‘gender’ award

Nigerian Okey Esse has developed a low-cost, clean fuel burning cookstove that is 100 percent smokeless and has been recognised with a Gender Lens Impact Investing Award for his invention.

Plus the top story on the ambush of a passenger bus by gunmen police in the north-western Nigerian state of Sokoto. Several passengers were burnt to death as the bus caught fire.

And descendants of Sierra Leone’s first post-independence cabinet have met for the first time since their parents left office in the mid-1960s.

Photo: Okey Esse collects his award in Geneva, Switzerland. Credit: Anne Colliard/UNDP.