June 21, 2021 A recent survey by a renowned medical journal, The Lancet, predicts that Nigeria may soon become a global power, owing to its favourable population indices. This is based on the premise that Nigeria will become the world’s ninth-largest economy with a life expectancy higher than 80 years by 2100 A popular philanthropist ...

April 18, 2021 On Monday, April 12, news broke that Twitter has announced it will be opening its first office in Africa. That’s good news. The bad side of the news for Nigerians is that the new Twitter office will be based in Ghana, not in Nigeria. There was grumble and mumble from Nigerians. Why ...

Two senior African journalists Olumide Iyanda from Nigeria and Francis Kokutse from Ghana have shared their experience of getting the COVID-19 vaccine in their respective countries. They both spoke on Saturday on Platforms Africa e-Discourse, an e-community of intellectuals, opinion leaders and policy moulders across the African continent. Ghana and Nigeria are administering the  AstraZeneca ...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Geoffrey Onyeama, says the Republic of Benin is not aspiring to be the 37 State of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but only wished to be very close to Nigeria, diplomatically. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs made this disclaimer in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Mr Ferdinand Nwonye, ...

A major conduit for global money laundering and tax evasion has been blocked by a new law requiring disclosure of owners of US shell companies used to hide billions of dollars. The legislation sets penalties for not reporting a company’s beneficial owners of up to two years in jail and a $10,000 fine The Corporate ...

South Africa’s Trade and Industry Minister Ebrahim Patel on Friday urged manufacturers and farmers in the country to prepare themselves for opportunities in export markets following the launch of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). He urged them to target markets in West Africa including Nigeria (the largest single market in Africa), East Africa ...

A new and deadlier strain of the Coronavirus has hit Africa and it shows in the rising cases among a people once thought to possess some immunity against the virus. A new genetic mutation of the coronavirus was first reported in the U.K. earlier this month which is said to spread faster and has the ...

South African Eeben Barlow, the mercenary once recruited by Nigerian government to fight Boko Haram has staged a come-back with his ‘Executive Outcomes.’ Barlow is often described as a security expert with knowledge of Africa conflicts and crimes. Barlow and his private army was hired by the  Goodluck Jonathan government to help fight Boko Haram ...

More than 200 million Nigerians will slide further into poverty as the coronavirus pandemic has sent oil prices tumbling and pushed Africa’s largest economy into recession. To many in oil-rich Nigeria, Saturday’s announcement of a recession was no surprise — even the president had warned a downturn was coming. “It feels like we have been ...

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, said Nigerians should be proud that the country is importing petrol from Niger Republic as a way of boosting intra-regional trade. He spoke as guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday evening. Some Nigerians had expressed their displeasure at the MoU signed between Nigeria and Niger ...