Mobile and cloud may be global technologies, but African start-ups have explored their functionalities, shaped their applications and used them to build differentiated business models suited to their markets.

Apostle Suleiman, senior pastor of Omega Fire Ministries recently received phone calls twice, alerting him of imminent attack on his church by Fulani herdsmen and orchestrated assassination of his person. Then said he to his aides, in his narrative to his Sunday morning congregation ; “any Fulani herdsmen you see around you or in the church premises, kill him…”.

THE Roman Emperor Pliny is often quoted to have observed that “out of Africa, there is always something new”. We can take liberties with this position and say that out of the state of OSUN in Nigeria’s South west we have seen a host of policy thrusts and initiatives now been adopted at the centre.

DURING a visit to her office in Abuja by the Executive Secretary of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, PTAD, Mrs. Sharon Ikeazor, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, was greeted with the news that the nation’s pension scheme will now be extended to Nigerians in the Diaspora who had worked diligently and had served their country but relocated to different corners of the world after retirement.

“Not a single soul has been prosecuted, let alone jailed for the genocide in Southern Kaduna and you are blaming someone for preaching self defense? You are INSANE. Yes, INSANE”- Olufemi Korode, Twitter, 24th January 2017.