Here are some facts you may not know about Africa biggest masquerade, ijele masquerade.
1. Ijele Masquerade aka King of all Masquerades is the biggest Masquerade in Africa, it can be found in Anambra and Enugu State, Nigeria.
It is so...
Three people have been arrested in Nigeria for allegedly tying late students to crosses and flogging them with horsewhips on a Nigerian roadside.The three - including the headteacher - were taken into custody after a police officer stumbled across...
Imported cargoes stay longer days in Nigerian seaports before being taken to importers’ warehouses, compared to other competing seaports in four different countries in the West African sub-region.
Imported cargoes stay longer days in Nigerian seaports before being taken to...
The African countries with the worst reputation in the world have been announced by the Reputation Insitute in its annual RepTrak index.
Rankings are based on a number of key drivers, including tolerance, safety, standard of living and attractiveness to...
BBC - The World Health Organization is planning to send Ebola vaccines to the town of Bikoro in north-western Democratic Republic of Congo, which is grappling with an outbreak of the deadly virus, news agency Reuters reports, quoting a...
Seychelles quality of nationality is the best in Africa, according to the latest Henley & Partners Kochenov Quality of Nationality Index (QNI), which launched in London on Friday (20th of April, 2018)
The QNI which claims to be the first...
Africa’s economy is projected to continue to rise to 3.2 percent in 2018 and to a further 3.5 in 2019, this is according to the latest World Bank report released early 2018.
As forecasted by the World Bank, these are...
Sierra Leone’s new President Julius Maada Bio on Thursday announced the introduction of free education for both primary and secondary school age children, in line with a major campaign pledge.
“Free education will be introduced effective September 2018 for all...
A legal practitioner, Ogedi Ogu, has filed a $29,000 lawsuit against the Oxford University Press, publisher of Oxford Dictionary, over the alleged wrongful definition of the words “mortgagee" and “mortgagor” in the dictionary.
The first defendant in the suit filed...
Measuring democracy is a highly complex task and there is no universal metric for it. As in everything politics, any measure in this regard is going to be subject to debate and interpretation. Nevertheless, here is one metric, the...
Anele is a web developer and a Pan-Africanist who believes bad leadership is the only thing keeping Africa from taking its rightful place in the modern world.
