Igbo Ora, a town 80 kilometers from Lagos, Nigeria, is easily the twin capital of the world: unconfirmed estimates from the town say it boasts a mind-blowing 158 sets of twins for every 1,000 live births.
Twins, the birth of...
In partnership with unicef's U-Report, ONE polled 170,000 Nigerian citizens across every state to find out what issues mattered most to them with the February 2019 general election in view. The online poll asked citizens about the most important...
Africa is contributing 47.7 percent (143.1 million) to the French-speaking population thereby making French a global language. This is more than 45.7 percent (137.1 million) of the whole of Europe and France with a population of 67.12 million.
According to...
A new Harvard study investigated the health and mental health of children and teenagers who were raised with religious or spiritual practices. What they found was fascinating.
The research, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, finds that Those who...
In spite of the current Internet penetration in Nigeria, rankings in terms of connectivity index have consistently not favoured the country.
Earlier this year, data Cable extracted from 63 million broadband speeds around the world and in the report, Nigeria...
"I do odd jobs such as plumbing and electrical wiring during weekends and I hope to use the money to look after my children and their mothers,” said a 17 year boy who impregnated 3 teen girls.
South Africa’s Limpopo...
Calzedonia, an Italian clothing manufacturer has opened its first factory in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray regional state.
The factory located in the regional capital Mekelle is Calzedonia’s first factory on the continent. Photos shared by government showed workers working at a...
Nigeria has been ranked 152 out of 157 countries in the first-ever Human Capital Index released by the World Bank Group.
Unveiling the report on Thursday at the ongoing annual meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund...
In Nigeria, a statistically average child has an earning potential of only 34 percent of what it could be if the country were fully invested in human capital.
The World Bank has recently released its Human Capital Index, part of...
Female employees at Liberia’s finance ministry are to be subjected to a new regulation. No more wigs, no more hair dye.
The ministry has disclosed a decision to enforce a 2014 policy that bars employees from wearing coloured hair extensions...
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.
