Nigerian fans like to apply to themselves every known cliche describing loyal support. From "we are a football nation", through "nothing unites us like football" to the one that plays on the public's beliefs,...

Africa must deliver Europe from its darkness – Otabil   Motivational Speaker and Preacher, Dr Mensa Otabil says it is time for Africa - "the centre of Christianity" in the world - to rescue Europe...

Akon Looks to Bring Electricity to Homes in Africa   Grammy-nominated singer Akon has a goal of bringing solar-powered electricity to 1 million homes in Africa by the end of the year, and the singer...

" President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday flagged off the construction of a 1.8-kilometre mega-bridge linking Nigeria's southwestern and south-southern regions to the sprawling markets of the country's southeast....

The fuss that attends a party living out its slogan   I hope you wouldn't mind this attempt to exhume issues surrounding the engagement of a U.S. firm by APC to help it win future elections. The report...

  Lupita Nyong'o, the Kenyan actress who has just won an Oscar Award for  her role in critically acclaimed film, '12 Years a Slave' was also honored with the Best Breakthrough Performance Award at the...

In the  13-page  report  by The Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, FRCN revealed  the motivations and grounds for the suspension of the controversial CBN governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. The Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria  report was dated June 7, 2013.   The report indicated that “a clear display of incompetence, nonchalance, fraud, wastefulness, and abuse of due process and deliberate efforts to misrepresent facts on...

  Chinese President Xi Jinping told the  visiting Senegalese President Macky Sal that China-Africa trade surpassed $200 billion in 2013.   His words, "In 2013, Chinese-African trade surpassed the $200 billion mark for the first time, making China Africa's biggest trading partner," he added that direct investment in Africa by Chinese grew 44 percent.     "Major Recent Deals and Developments In August 2013, Yangzhou-based Perfect China...

President Jonathan has nominated Godwin Emefiele, the managing director of Zenith Bank to be the next governor of Central Bank (CBN), as a successor to the outgoing and controversial Sanusi. The nomination has been made prior to the suspension of Sanusi who was the sitting governor of CBN. Pending the approval of Nigeria's senate,  Emefiele's new position will commence  in June at  the expiration of Sanusi's term.
His nomination came as...

Naira the currency of Nigeria that has been known for a while for its stability has experienced a level of weakest that injected a little panic at Forex market and Central Bank of Nigeria.  The quick depreciation of naira must be a headache to the Nigerian financial policy makers at Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) that wasted no time in reassuring the market that Nigeria has an adequate war chest to defend naira from aggressive speculators.     At...

CAMAC Energy Inc. ("CAMAC" or the "Company") (NYSE MKT: CAK) is making a strategic move that paints a confident, optimistic and rosy outlook.  The creation of  additional 1.4348 shares of common stock held by shareholders and recent concluded oil deals I n West Africa’s  Oyo Field in OML 120 offshore Nigeria, Gambia and Kenya shows a company that is confident in the world of deal makings and strategic moves.     Camac Energy states that,...

Nkeiruka Ezekh,  black Russian  of Igbo-Nigerian heritage is participating and representing her country Russia, the host of 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. She will be participating in the Curling competition at Winter Olympics.   This is not the first time Nkeiruka will be representing Russia in Olympics; history was made in 2006 when she became the first black person to represent Russia for curling competition in Winter Olympics, in Turin,...

The whole wide world is celebrating Chiwetel Ejiofor, the Oscar and Golden Globe nominated international and sensational movie star on his superb and protagonist role in ’12 years a slave.’ Nigerians and Africans were happy and excited to see one of their own receiving such acclamation and glowing recognition from Hollywood and Academy Award. It was easy for everybody to recognize that his name CHIWETELU EJIOFOR   is not Asian or European but...

Tony Elumelu delivers the message of  'Africapitalism' at World Economic Forum(WEF), Davos
Tony Elumelu, , chairman of Lagos-based private-equity fund Heirs Holdings and former head of UBA Banker was at the  World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to bring his energetic crusade and intellectual passion on African capitalism to the world business community.   Elumelu held the view that Africans must lead the way and be at vanguard...