By Adewale Adeeyo In his 27 years as a civil servant in Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode was a quiet, solid achiever of immense gifts and remarkable ethos. With a bachelor’s and master’s in Accounting, he was focused early enough to start his working career from the modest position of Assistant Treasurer, Badagry Local Government in […]
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By Ambrose Akor That harmattan night on 31 December 1983, millions of Nigerians, who gathered around their radio sets, were enthralled by the strident voice detailing the failings of the past governments. The man behind the voice charted an assured, precise direction for a new Nigeria. The voice was as austere as the man behind […]
By George Kelley In the past week, the Nigerian and indeed African media has been enchanted by the phenomenal benevolence of Air Peace airlines and its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Allen Ifechuku Onyema. Earlier in the week, Air Peace airlines, Africa’s largest private airline, under the instruction of its owner and CEO airlifted and […]
By Rotimi Bello The street urchins, called “Almajiri” in the Hausa language, is an electromagnetic phenomenon that has festered and grown exponentially to become an institution synonymous with northern culture and traditions. Historically, the word “Almajiri” was derived from the Arabic word “Al-Muhajirun”, meaning the person that migrates from his enclave to another to seek […]
By Kemi Adeosun Descriptions of Nigeria’s economy often include such phrases as ‘Africa’s largest oil producer’ and ‘the oil rich African nation’ but oil economies are typically characterised by low population densities and abundant oil resources. Saudi Arabia with 10 million barrels of oil per day and 30 million people, Kuwait with 2.7 million barrels […]
By Agnes Kalibata In 2020, the entire world knew what it was to be hungry. Millions of people went without enough to eat, with the most desperate now facing famine. At the same time, isolation took on a new meaning, in which the lonely and most remote were deprived of human contact when they most needed it, while the many […]
By Glenn Harlan Reynolds Black Africans are being sold in open-air slave markets right now, and it’s Hillary Clinton’s fault. But you won’t hear much about that from the press or the foreign-policy pundits, so let me explain. Footage from Libya, released last week by CNN, showed young men from sub-Saharan Africa being auctioned off […]
By Oulie Keita Africa has been blessed, not only with natural resources but also an abundance of youth, yet we fail to adequately invest in them. At least 60% of Africa’s young people are under the age of 30 but unemployment continues to rear its ugly head leaving frustrated youth so desperate that they are […]
Photo: Pew Research Center Origin by country of African immigrants in the United States. By Bernadette Paolo African immigrants to the United States account for less than five percent of the total, but they are better educated than most and their earnings are among the highest. African immigration is likely to decline, however, if a […]
Sriram by Sriram Madhusoodanan and Philip Jakpor You would never invite the arsonist who set fire to your house to put it out by adding more kerosene. So why are Big Polluters (that, for decades, have derailed progress to address the climate crisis) and their dangerous distractions such as market mechanisms poised to be front and […]