The US state of California has a larger gross domestic product than that of all African countries put together, a popular Twitter account claimed in January 2019.In a tweet to its nearly 900,000 followers The Spectator Index said the...
South Africa is the largest market for the sale of illicit drugs in sub-Sahara Africa. This is according to the United States’ Department of State to Congress 2018 International Narcotics Control Strategy (INCS) Report.
The INCS report which was...
Nigeria's Federal Government will receive the sum of $75m in the next five years from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for routine childhood immunisation.
This is just as the government reiterated its commitment to childhood immunisation through innovative financing...
According to Corruption Perception Index, Only 5 African countries made tremendous progress in fighting corruption in 2018 and they are Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, Gambia, Seychelles and Eritrea.
Africa is still struggling in its fight against corruption, cites the 2018 Corruption...
According to world bank, 736 million extreme poor live in five countries as at 2015. The countries are India, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, and Bangladesh.The report also suggests that Nigeria is now the country with the poorest...
The wealthiest authors in the world write a wide range of topics. From romance to financial management, these authors found a hungry audience and satisfied them with their words. Here are top 10 wealthiest authors in the world.
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The nations of sub-Saharan Africa are still perceived on average to have the world's most corrupt governments, according to the latest index published by Transparency International (TI).
The Berlin-based organisation says in its annual report, released on Tuesday, that sub-Saharan...
According to a study published in the journal Learning and Individual Differences, Being conscientious is linked to having a high IQ, but only among females. Among males, however, those who are more careless and indifferent have higher IQs.
The aim...
Sub-Saharan Africa has been discovered, once again, to have the weakest average performance on the 2019 Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI). No fewer than 16 of the Sub-Saharan African countries are on the bottom quartile of the index.
The Global...
An Egyptian TV host has been sentenced to one year in prison after interviewing a gay man on his talk show.
Mohamed al-Gheiti, who previously expressed his stance against homosexuality, invited the man to discuss his lifestyle on air in...
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.
