For decades, infectious diseases led the way in the number of deaths caused by ill-health, especially in less developed countries like Nigeria. These infectious diseases have been contained in recent years because of advances in medicine and safer practices...
Canadian hip-hop artist Tory Lanez has has come through with a cover of no one else other than the two biggest Nigerian music hit exports Wizkid and Davido.
The American musician, Tory Lanez who dropped his mixtape International Fargo a...
Data from the International Monetary Fund shows that tourism-rich Mauritius is the wealthiest country in Africa.
With a modest population, extending towards two million, tourism, textiles, sugar, and financial services are the mainstays of the East African country’s economy.
In recent...
A report by Steve Hanke, an economist from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, United States, has ranked Nigeria the 6th miserable country in the world.
According to the report, Venezuela was listed as the most miserable country in the world,...
She started working at Harvard Law School in 2007 and she is also Deputy Director and Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School Criminal Justice Institute (CJI).
At just 43, Dehlia Umunna has become the first Nigerian to be appointed Professor...
South Sudan tops the list of Saddest nations in not just Africa followed by Central African Republic and Tanzania, according to the 7th World Happiness Report.
(Here's the latest report: Top 20 Happiest (and Saddest) Countries in Africa 2020)
The new...
None of the about 5000 inhabitants of Mafi Dove, a village in southern Ghana, was born there. The village is considered to be a holy land and consequently has a myriad of customs and traditions that have been upheld...
Researchers are unanimous that talc or talcum powder can cause lung, ovarian, stomach and endometrial (uterine) cancers. They said talc consisting of asbestos is generally accepted as being able to cause cancer if it is inhaled or/and used regularly...
A report by the Borderless Alliance group has revealed that The Economic Community of West Africa States, ECOWAS, is the least integrated region in the world in terms of cross border trade.
According to the report, the non- application of...
Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a Nigerian kid living as a refugee in the United States won the New York State chess championship for his category last weekend. Tanitoluwa won the trophy for kindergarten, defeating other third graders.
Tanitoluwa reportedly learned chess a...
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.
