Nigerian authors look West to gain their fame The chaos of Nigeria's largest city of Lagos gets boiled down to prose as a narrator notes "how unpretty" its sprawl looks, with "its unplanned houses sprouting...

  Obama's singing of 'Let's Stay Together' at Apollo Theater last week upped sales of iconic 1972 hit.   Sure, clean energy, the return of manufacturing, a boost in education spending and saving the...

Hafiz Ringim, Inspector of Police and his six deputies has been sacked by President Jonathan with immediate effect.   The Office of the presidency at Aso Rock has announced that President Goodluck Jonathan...

Press Statement Victoria Nuland Department Spokesperson, Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC January 24, 2012   The United States strongly condemns the terrorist attacks in the city of Kano...

  Nigeria is big, but greatness has eluded it; who will rescue the nationhood project? The Federal Republic of Nigeria denotes a big country that has all the hallmarks of a great nation but has sadly...

At  least 100 were killed in the Kano co-ordinated bombing attack reported by William Wallis and Tom Burgis, Financial Times of London: "The scale of the bloodshed caused by a wave of bombings in the...

African National Congress made it to 100years... it was no easy journey As racism and oppression against Black Africans gained momentum in the newly established Union of South African, Pixley ka Isaka Seme a visionary leader in 1911 appeal to all non- European ethnic groups in South Africa to unite together. Pixley ka Isaka Seme rallying words - "Forget all the past differences among Africans and unite in one national organisation" led to the formation...

PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN ADDRESSED THE NATION ON PARTIAL REVERTING TO FUEL SUBSIDY, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012 Dear Compatriots,   1.    This is the second time in two weeks I will address you on the deregulation of the downstream petroleum sector. In the last seven days, the nation has witnessed a disruption of economic activities.  Although, the economic imperatives for the policy have been well articulated by government, the Nigerian Labour...

PHOTO NEWS - fuel subsidy removal protests "On January 1 2012, Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer, ended oil subsidies that had kept gasoline prices artificially low. The cost of a liter of gasoline shot up from 65 naira (40 cents) to at least 141 naira (86 cents) virtually overnight.Furious Nigerians have since taken to the streets, staging 'Occupy Nigeria' protests and mass demonstrations across the country. Police have responded forcefully...

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...

Nigerian Blasts Mar Pope's Christmas Peace Appeal Pope Benedict XVI's Christmas pleas for peace around the world were brutally ignored in Nigeria, where an explosion Sunday claimed by Muslim extremists ripped through a Catholic church during Mass. Authorities say at least 25 people were killed by the explosion at the St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, near the Nigerian capital, Abuja. Boko Haram, a radical Muslim sect waging a sectarian fight...

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 Five Richest Nigerian Stockholders