President Barack Obama will announce an alliance Friday with nearly 50 companies to boost productivity among small farmers in Africa with the goal of lifting 50 million people out of poverty.   Business...

Ahead of the 2015 elections, the 19 Northern Governors, yesterday, expressed determination to sink their differences and unite to produce the president from the region in 2015. This was the outcome of...

IF President Goodluck Jonathan obeyed Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs, he would do more to ensure that Nigerians have a sense of safety. The Hierarchy of Needs is a theory in psychology developed by...

In the course of a single interview on CNN last week, South Africa’s last apartheid-era president, the 76-year-old F.W. de Klerk, may have shattered his legacy as one of the men who set the country...

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F.W. de Klerk drew criticism for not fully repudiating the concept of 
He clarifies his remarks Wednesday, saying he has no belief in segregation
His foundations said...

  “Transparency for the management of $1 Billion Sovereign Wealth Fund” - Afripol At the on-going World Economic Forum at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia the Nigerian minister of finance, Dr. Okonjo-Iweala...

France, Greece are electing politicans that have rejected austerity policies which African leaders gladly accepted in 80s and 90s.   "In all the capitals, beyond government leaders and state leaders, there are people who, thanks to us, are hoping, are looking to us, and want to put an end to austerity,” with these liberating words the newly elected president of France, Socialist François Hollande assured French people and the rest of debt-ridden...

Nigeria was not invited to the month of May's G8 Gathering in United States Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania and Benin presidents were officially invited to the forthcoming G8 Summit later this month in the United States by U.S. President Barack Obama. United States will be hosting the next G8 summit and with the tradition of the event, the host nation can invite other world leaders that have issues that can enhanced the gathering. Nigeria, an oil rich...

March Inflation Rate stands at  12.1 percent, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Retains Monetary Interest Rate at 12 percent The country’s inflation rate is not subsiding and with March's surging inflation rate at 12.1 percent, the partial removal of fuel subsidy has begun to clamp down on the economy. The inflation rate of February was at 11.9 percent, and the new number for March (12.1 percent) shows that inflationary trend is gaining momentum as...

As South Sudan withdrew from Heglig, the dispute is far from over The newly independent nation of South Sudan has officially withdrawn its determined but insufficiently equipped military contingent on the disputed Heglig oil field and the aggressive Khartoum government to the north, The Islamic Republic of Sudan has declared victory.   The Heglig oil field or Panthou oil field as South Sudan called it, is situated in the southern Sudan but the...

ELON MUSK: AFRIPOL PERSON OF THE YEAR Elon Musk is the co-founder and CEO of Pay Pal, SpaceX, Tesla Motors and Chairman of SolarCity. Elon Musk, a South African immigrant to United States is an African success story. Born and grew up in South Africa during days of Apartheid. Musk, a young man of great vision  and emerging intellectual rejected the Apartheid system and migrated to North America to pursue his dreams and visions. "Musk was born and...

Nigeria coast braces for biggest oil spill in 13 years Nigerian authorities were putting emergency measures in place on Thursday to prevent an oil spill from a Royal Dutch Shell facility, the biggest leak in Nigeria for more than 13 years, washing up on its densely populated coast. Tuesday's spill, which Shell said happened while a tanker was loading oil, has led to the complete shutdown of the company's 200,000 barrel per day (bpd) Bonga facility,...

Images of a GREAT African- Ojukwu "The death at the age of 78 of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, former leader of the breakaway Republic of Biafra, removes a charismatic, larger-than-life figure from the Nigerian political scene. Although deeply controversial in his lifetime, he will be missed in Glimpse at Martin Lurther King Memorial