March 8

• Nigeria: Developing Nations Should Emulate Chavez NLC

  Leaders of developing nations should emulate the leadership style of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, the president of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Abdulwahed Omar... Read more »

January 12

• Africa: Kicking Off! [column]

  With exactly one week to the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, ,most discussions on football in the continent are centered on the forth coming football extravaganza in South Africa. Read more »

January 5

• Nigeria: Govt to Distribute 10 Million Cell Phones to Farmers

  Federal government said yesterday that no fewer than 10 million cell phones would be distributed to farmers to boost agricultural production in the country. Read more »

November 9, 2012

• Africa: Daily Trust Names Thabo Mbeki As African of the Year

  Former South African President Thabo Mbeki has been named as winner of the Daily Trust African of the Year 2012 award. Read more »

July 29, 2012

• Nigeria: The Best Sprinters in the World Are All West Africans! [column]

  Welcome to the 2012 Olympic games. Read more »

June 14, 2012

• Nigeria: Nigeria Lists Priorities for Rio+20 Summit

  As the world gather in Rio de Janerio, Brazil for the United Nations backed Sustainable Development Summit, Nigeria has prioritized seven key areas to focus negotiations on at the... Read more »

March 27, 2012

• Nigeria: 'African Electoral Bodies Need Functional Autonomy'

  Any system of appointing Commissioners of Electoral Monitoring Bodies (EMBs) where government has the say carries with it danger that the commission can be bent to government's... Read more »

March 9, 2012

• Africa: Al-Amoudi Now Richest Black Man - Forbes

  Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote is no longer the richest black person in the world, according to Forbes 2012 list. Read more »

December 2, 2011

• Africa: African of the Year Nominees 2011

  Wael Ghonim Read more »

October 20, 2011

• Africa: Mo Ibrahim - Celebrating Our Own [opinion]

  Writers are often accused of being good at finding what has gone wrong but rarely of what is going right. I believe this is an extreme view, though I concede that because the... Read more »

October 18, 2011

• Ghana: Kufuor, DA Silva Get 2011 World Food Prize

  Former Presidents John Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil have been awarded the 2011 World Food Prize for improving food security among the rural poor... Read more »

August 23, 2011

• Nigeria: National Appointed City Administrator in U.S.

  A Nigerian, Ms Bola Akande, has emerged the First African to be appointed the City Administrator of Brentwood in the state of Missouri, U.S. Read more »