West Africa wants establishment of anti-Islamist force
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.
“we’re all from Africa originally”, Do you agree with Meryl Streep?
Meryl Streep, the most admired actress of her generation, fueled Hollywood’s diversity controversy on Thursday when she said that all of humanity originated in Africa.
Photo: ‘Africa’s biggest Jesus statue’
More than 100 priests and hundreds of Catholic worshippers attended the nine-metre (30-foot) statue’s official unveiling in the village of Abajah in southeastern Nigeria. It was commissioned by Obinna Onuoha, a local businessman who hired a Chinese company to carve it and placed it in the grounds of a 2000-capacity church that he built in 2012.
Calabar Carnival is the largest street party in Africa – Gov Ayade
Gov. Ben Ayade of Cross River, has described the annual Calabar Carnival as the “largest street party in Africa.’’
Ondo, Nigeria’s medical tourism destination
As Nigeria continues to struggle with the realities of the dwindling global oil price, it is unquestionable that the country is desperately in need of an economic diversification plan, which is crucial to her survival.
Democracy has come of age in Africa, says Osinbajo
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said that with the conduct of peaceful elections and transitions from one government to the other on the continent, it was clear that democracy had come of age in Africa.
