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Forty-three years ago, Nigeria and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) collaborated to host the second edition of the World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture. The year was 1977, and Nigeria played host to a celebration...

The Honourable Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Faruq met with leaders in the business and development sector in Lagos at a roundtable with the aim of rallying stakeholders’ support to boost efforts of...

Through the media, Nigeria has only recently been notified of a preexisting monster which has apparently been among us this whole time, one that threatens to tear down the very fabric of basic human decency, targeting and victimising those...

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The fight for natural gas in the northern part of Mozambique rages on between it's government and the Islamist insurgent group occupying the area. This fight is neck and neck only because the military arm of the insurgent group...

News that President of Zimbabwe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has approved the compensation of white farmers in Zimbabwe shocked the country's citizens beyond words. Basically some 3,500 white farmers will share a compensation pot of $3.5bn (£2.6bn). This move is not...

Source: BBC Africa declared polio free  Africa has been declared free from wild polio by the independent body, the Africa Regional Certification Commission.  Polio usually affects children under five, sometimes leading to irreversible paralysis. Death can occur when breathing muscles are affected.  Twenty-five...

Patriarch of rumba and Congolese music, co-founder of the Bantous de la capitale in 1959, a year before the country’s independence, Edouard Nganga is dead, aged 87. Edo Nganga was the last survivng member of one of Africa’s oldest...

Packing for a trip, domestic or international, can be quite mentally tasking; especially for first time travellers, or people visiting somewhere for the first time. Most people don't even know where to start from because when you under pack,...