NGLHRC Optimism As Kenya Set to Rule On Decriminalizing Gay Sex
There is a quiet air of excitement at the offices of the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC), as the countdown draws closer to Friday when a much-awaited…
Race Against Time: Palm oil Users Nestle, Unilever, Others Look to New Technology Satelliteto Track Deforestation
Some of the world’s major palm oil users, including Nestle, Unilever, and Mondelez, are trying out new satellite technology to track deforestation, as pressure grows on them to…
Ugandans Kick Against ‘Miss Curvy Uganda’ Beauty Contest, Call for Resignation of Tourism Minister
Uganda must cancel a beauty contest that seeks to attract more visitors by showcasing “curvy women” because it objectifies women and promotes sex tourism, campaigners said on Thursday. Tourism…
10 Developments That Will Shape Africa’s Energy Sector in 2019 as Nigeria, Algeria, Libya, Senegal and Mozambique Go To The Polls
After a year of rebound and recovery, Africa’s old and new hydrocarbons markets have an opportunity to further entrench the continent’s position as the world’s hottest oil and…
Why Buhari must be stopped, by Obasanjo
Barely one year after former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, bombed incumbent President Muhammdu Buhari describing him as a failure, Obasanjo has again written another letter to Buhari in which he…
Reasons Nigerian military appears weaker than Boko Haram
Nigeria’s Islamic State West Africa Province, a faction of Boko Haram affiliated to the Islamic State militant group, has intensified attacks against the army in the northeast of the country…
Chief Sony Iwedike Odogwu: A tribute
By Hugo Odiogor For those that the bell tolls, only they could tell the pangs of the pains and emotional topsy-turvey that swirls around their head in the heat of…
Mambilla: How Abba Kyari unilaterally approved $5.8bn power project; Buhari angry
Details have emerged on how Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mallam Abba Kyari, took advantage of the President’s ill-health to approve N2 trillion ($5.8 billion) Mambilla Power project…
Atiku’s criticism of 2019 budget: All noise, no substance
By Femi Adesina The presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, last weekend, issued a statement in which he described President Buhari’s 2019 budget proposal as…
Nigeria’s Depleting Fish Stocks May Pose a Threat to Regional Security
By: Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood Sometime in the next year or two, Nigeria will become the seventh country to reach a population of 200 million or more. It is…