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...
At least 110 million of the 600 million people still living without access to electricity in Africa live in urban areas. Most are within a stone's throw from existing power grid infrastructure.
In Nigeria, Tanzania, Ghana and Liberia alone there...
Swaziland's King Mswati III has announced he is renaming the country as the Kingdom of eSwatini..
King Mswati III of Swaziland announced on Wednesday that he was renaming the country "the Kingdom of eSwatini".
The monarch announced the official change in...
The African continent has seen tremendous growth in the mobile phone industry in recent years, with a rising demand for affordable and reliable smartphones. To meet this demand, several indigenous companies have emerged as key players in the market,...
What is soot?
Soot is the common term for a type of particle pollution called PM 2.5 — particulate matter that is 2.5 micrometers in diameter or smaller. Such fine particles are even smaller than dust and mold particles, or approximately 1/30...
People who stay up late and have to drag themselves out of bed are likelier to die younger than those who rise and set with the Sun, researchers said Thursday.
A survey of more than 430,000 people in Britain found...
Nigeria will this week host leaders of the World Health Organisation, an international health agency which has been working on various health interventions in the country.
According to a press statement released by WHO on Sunday, Nigeria will be hosting...
For most of us, bank notes are simply a means of buying the goods and services we need to get through life. For others, however, the style and composition of bank notes is a serious matter.
There's even a global...
In a history-making election, Epsy Campbell became the first Afro-Latina vice president in Costa Rica, as well as the first black female vice president in Latin America.
Winning alongside President-elect Carlos Alvarado Quesada, the two ran on a platform of...
Africas most useless passports have been revealed in a new report by the Nomad Passport Index (NPI). And they are mostly in East, north and central Africa.
According to the Nomad Passport Index, Eritrea and Libya have the most useless...
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.
