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...
South Africa have been found to have the highest number of millionaires (HNWIs) in Africa according to a report by AfrAsia Bank and New World Wealth.
This report is the result of New World Wealth’s extensive research covering the wealth...
The United States has threatened to cut funding to South Africa, after it emerged that South Africa is among the countries in the United Nations that is most likely to vote against the US.
The US, through its USAID programme,...
The Israeli government said on Tuesday it had abandoned a plan to forcibly deport African migrants who entered the country illegally after failing to find a willing country to take in the migrants.
The government had been working for months...
Located in the New Guinea in the Papua province of Indonesia lies the Asmat people. Although the meaning of Asmat is often disputed with some claiming it means man from tree while her neighbours, the Mimika, say the name...
Most typical churches in Africa do not openly endorse the consumption of alcohol and a few have even banned their members from consuming or selling alcoholic drinks. But one newly formed church in South Africa not only welcomes alcohol,...
BBC - A Liberian warlord known as "Jungle Jabbah" has been sentenced to 30 years in prison in the US for lying about his role in his country's civil war.
Mohammed Jabbateh aka jungle jabbah was found guilty of immigration...
Parents are introducing their children to booze too early, experts say.
According to a new study by Researchers at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at the UCL Institute of Education, and Pennsylvania State University, it was found that, one in...
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