The UNESCO’s Institute for Statistics (UIS) says 16 million girls, below age 11, will not get basic education, if current trends continue. Irina Bokova, UNESCO’s director-general, described this as worrisome,
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Six months to the main draw for the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, the Super Eagles of Nigeria remain 66 in the world and 14 in Africa. In the latest ranking of
Pope Francis is set to visit Africa on a five-day visit. While addressing Christain faithful at the Vatican city on Sunday, he prayed for Africa and also asked the congregation
The growth in gross domestic product (GDP) in Nigeria and the rest of sub-Sahara Africa is set to drop to a six-year low in 2015, World Bank projections have revealed. The
At least 61 people have been confirmed dead, following a massive heatwave in Egypt, the country’s ministry of health has
President Barrack Obama of the United States (US) says corruption is affecting the economic potentials of Africa, urging continental leaders
Senegalese-American R&B and hip hop artiste, Akon, inaugurated a solar academy, ‘Akon Lighting Africa’, in Bamako, capital of Mali, on
Decline in oil prices has affected Africa more than Ebola if both situations were to be judged on purely economic
Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) has cost Africa’s economy less than expected, a World Bank chief has said. Francisco Ferreira, World
World’s number one social networking site, Facebook, says it is considering opening an office in Africa by the year 2015.
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