Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has released its latest World Press Freedom Index, which ranks 180 countries based on the level of press freedom available to journalists. It, however, said press freedom remains highly fragile in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The latest Reporters...
The Police in Jigawa State have arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly killing his underaged wife days after their marriage.
According to the Spokesman of the command, SP Abdu Jinjiri, the incident happened in Dutse on the 21/4/2020 at about...
According to reports, sometime in May last year, a zebra had strayed on its own out of the Tsavo East National Park, one of the oldest and largest parks in Kenya, into a local community that borders it.
Surprisingly, she...
According to reports, Tshekede Bufton Pitso, who was the United Democratic Movement (UDM) leader for Eastern Cape, was laid to rest in Sterkspruit over the weekend. However, instead of being buried in a usual coffin, his body was lowered...
At 23, Emma Theofilus is Namibia's youngest sitting deputy minister after being selected by President Hage Geingob's as one of the eight presidential nominees for the country’s national assembly.
The appointment of Theofilus by President Hage Geingob as deputy information...
South Africa has the most open government in Africa according to the World Justice Project (WJP) in its 2020 report on open governments globally.
The WJP Open Government Index, which ranks 128 countries based on how open their governments are,...
According to the World Justice Project’s latest Rule of Law Index Africa's giant Nigeria ranks 127th out of 128 countries in terms of how well it ensured the security of its people and property, performing worse than some countries...
The United Nations has ranked Nigeria as the 115th happiest nation in the world and the 18th in Africa 2020 World Happiness Report.The report, which ranked 153 countries, was released on Friday, March 20 – UN ’s annual International...
Mauritius, Libya, Ivory Coast and Benin are amongst the happiest countries in Africa, according to the UN’s World Happiness Index.Mauritius has been named the happiest country in Africa by the World Happiness Report - and South Sudan ranked saddest.The...
Born in the Egba Land of the Yoruba people of West Africa at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Madam Efunroye Tinubu was a politically significant figure in Nigerian history because of her role as a powerful female aristocrat...
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.
