Femi & Yeni Kuti Celebrate Their Grandma As She Clocks 93
Femi and Yeni’s maternal grandmother turned 93 today and Femi Anikulapo-Kuti broke the news on twitter to celebrate old lady. Fela and his first...
Author : Jide Adesina
Femi & Yeni Kuti Celebrate Their Grandma As She Clocks 93
Femi and Yeni’s maternal grandmother turned 93 today and Femi Anikulapo-Kuti broke the news on twitter to celebrate old lady. Fela and his first...
Algeria TO Lunch Five Years Investment Plan Worth $262bn
By Nigel Wilson Algeria’s president Bouteflika walks with nephews after casting ballot during parliamentary elections in Algiers(Reuters) Algeria has announced a new investment plan to be...
Natural Disasters Cause $41bn Losses
Zurich -Natural disasters caused total economic losses of $41bn in the first six months of this year, much less than usual, reinsurance group Swiss Re...
Ban Welcomes Signing Of Blueprint To Implement South Sudan Ceasefire
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. UN Photo/Mark Garten (file) United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the signing by the South Sudanese Government and the opposition of a...
Top 10 Richest Women In Africa 2014
Women in Africa have come a long way. In almost all the indigenous cultures across the continent, they were considered less valuable. To some extent,...
The Reason Every Book About Africa Has The Same Cover—And It’s Not Pretty
The tree that launched a thousand books.Reuters/Ed Harris Last week, Africa Is a Country, a blog that documents and skewers Western misconceptions of Africa, ran a fascinating...
BG Group Mulls US$4bn sale of Tanzania LNG Stake
Deutsche Bank reckons the Tanzanian stake could fetch in the order of US$4bn (or 50p per share) for BG – on the basis that partner...
U.N. Helicopter Shot Down In South Sudan, 3 killed.
U.N. peacekeeping helicopter in South Sudan was shot down on Tuesday and three of its crew were killed, Russian airline UTair, which owns the aircraft....
WHO Shuts Sierra Leone Lab After Worker Infected with Ebola
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday it had shut a laboratory in Sierra Leone after a health worker there was infected with Ebola,...
Tourism Becomes Uganda’s Main Export
WRITTEN BY ALON MWESIGWA Uganda has a new top export earner. Tourism has for the first time become Uganda’s biggest export earner after it fetched...
US Confirms UAE Bombed Libya From Egypt Bases
TRIPOLI/ARBIL: UAE warplanes secretly bombed Islamist militia targets in Libya, apparently catching Washington off guard, as turmoil in the North African country deepened with the...
Africa National Congress welcomes economic growth
The South African economy is Resilient And Has Managed To Withstand Extreme Pressure, The ANC Said On Tuesday In Reaction To The Latest GDP Figures....
Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan Agree On Impact Studies On Nile Dam
In a state of cautious optimism, the Egyptian authorities dealing with the Nile waters file have begun to prepare for the return of technical negotiations...
Boko Haram Seizes Villages, Towns
Boko Haram on Tuesday attempted to blow up a bridge on the Nigerian border with Cameroon after overrunning a town and sending residents and soldiers...
Video Game Used To Recruit Kids to Jihadism
British muslims are being recruited to fight for Islamic State by playing video game Call of Duty, a heartbroken father has claimed. Ahmed Muthana, 57,...
Germany-Based Nigerian, Ahmed Ibrahim Mistaken For Terrorist
The Nigeria Immigration Service, has released a Germany-based Nigerian, Ahmed Ibrahim, who was detained at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos State, for being a...
OYO STATE ACCORD ADOPTS SENATOR RASHEED ADEWOLU LADOJA FOR OYO GOVERNORSHIP
The Accord party of Oyo State held a mass rally today at Mapo hall, Ibadan, with party members and new members adopting the National Leader,...
Picking Mining Stocks In A Bear Market
n the first part of this three-part series, I discussed the importance of cycles such as four-year presidential elections and the life of a gold...
Gold Rises As Dollar Pauses But US Data Eyed
Gold jumped 1% on Tuesday after a pause in dollar and equity market rallies prompted a break above $1,280 an ounce that triggered chart-based buying,...