Eighteen galleries from Africa will be taking part in the fifth London edition of The 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair which is set to take place at Somerset House from October 5 to 8, 2017, during Frieze Week in London.

Hunting as a vocation in Africa is fast becoming history and one can’t help but wonder why an artist’s interest in such nearly extinct profession isn’t on the decline.

Football Fans in Calabar have urged the Super Eagles to win the visiting Bafana Bafana of South Africa on Saturday in the 2019 African Nations Cup (AFCON) qualifier.

AFRICA Reinsurance Corporation (Africa Re) has tasked Ambassadors and High Commissioners in Nigeria to support the needy and less privilege in the country.

The countries of West Africa’s Sahel region are requesting 50 million euros (56 million dollars) from the European Union to help set up a multinational force to take on Islamist militant groups, Mali’s military chief said Saturday.

The South African government again, on Friday, deported 90 Nigerians for allegedly committing immigration-related offences.

Former Chairman of the Association of African Maritime Administrations, AAMA, Sobantu Tilayi has called on African nations to work at growing their economies and increasing their seafarers’ base in order to grow its global trade participation beyond 2.5 percent.

Nigerian nationals have topped the list of foreigners arrested for drug smuggling in Navi Mumbai over the past five years. According to the sources from the anti-narcotic cell of Navi Mumbai police, a total of 66 narcotic related cases were registered between 2012 and April, this year in the city. Nigerian nationals were involved in 14 of these cases, the police said.

Germany’s Siemens will invest 1.1 billion dollars to build electricity networks in Africa over the coming years, the company’s boss said on Thursday.

THERE are heated debates in Africa and in diplomatic circles across the globe over the January 31, African Union, AU, Assembly’s decision that African countries carry out a collective withdrawal from the Hague-based International Criminal Court, ICC. Although the decision is technically non- binding but it carries a lot of weight and may sound the death knell for an international body that is essentially, a neo-colonial institution with 34 African countries as members.