According to Greenpeace, highly detailed satellite data has revelead that Mpumalanga, South Africa is the world's "worst" air pollution hotspot on the planet due to its cluster of twelve coal-fired power plants and South Africa's "relatively weak" minimum emission...
According to the latest Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), Nigeria is the 33rd most governed Country in Africa
The 2018 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) is the 12 iteration of this Index, and is the most comprehensive annual...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says Nigeria still has the highest number of out-of-school children in the world, with 60 per cent of the children located in Northern Nigeria.
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) also disclosed...
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...
"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...
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...
