Popular media personality, Uti Nwachukwu has taken to Twitter to reveal what he hates about African pastors. The former reality TV star and Big Brother Africa winner disclosed that he detests that most African pastors love instilling fear into the hearts of their followers and that is not what God has commanded them to do. He…

This year’s general elections may have been concluded technically, with supplementary elections yet to be held in some states notwithstanding. The February 23 Presidential and National Assembly first leg of the exercise may have set the pattern for which subsequent ones would follow after being shifted for one week on election day, February 16, by…

I am in New York, where the United Nations 63rd annual CSW (Commission on the Status of Women) event is taking place till March 22nd, 2019. The UN Secretary General has already spoken to open the event, and there are people they called ‘High Level Delegates’, dashing madly from one hall or meeting, to another.…

AXA Mansard Insurance Plc, a member of the AXA Group and global leader in insurance and asset management organisation, has revealed plans to increase growth in the African market, with Nigeria as a top priority, to boost its market share across the continent's economies. The Chief Executive Officer, International and New Market at AXA, Benoit…

To promote African market through marketing of social and opinion research activities to the rest of the world, the African Marketing Research Association (AMRA), in conjunction with Nigerian Marketing Research Association (NiMRA), is set to hold the third edition of its yearly Africa Forum in Lagos. The forum provides opportunity for business moguls and brands…

The results are in the giant of Africa, Nigeria, just completed its Federal election for president. The former military dictator and current president, Buhari, was re-elected. Or was he? The 36 international and 120 domestic observers, overseeing voting in 119,973 polling places in 8,809 electoral wards, declared the election free and fair. But local civil society groups,…

Herewith the latest breakdown of the nationalities of most among the 157 people aboard Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines ET 302 which crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa on Sunday morning. The list of 35 nationalities was tweeted by Ethiopian Airlines, with no destinction made between the 149 passengers and eight crew. The count is not…

President, Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote, has reiterated his Group’s commitment to Nigeria’s economic development through continuous innovation, value creation, and investments. This is just as he disclosed that Dangote Cement’s exports to other countries are targeted to rise to $600million annually, with the management intensifying efforts on actualising the planned increase. Declaring that his…

Five artists with links to ‘Mbari’ Movement of the 60s are among Africans showing at the 2019 Art Dubai, in United Arab Emirate. Represented by London-based Tafeta Gallery, the artists include, Uche Okeke, Demas Nwoko, Muraina Oyelami, Jimoh Buraimoh and Susanne Wenger. Nwoko, Oyelami and Buraimoh are the only living artists on the list. The…

Processors, farmers and scientists have suggested ways to prevent monumental losses emanating from rejection of agro-allied products exported from Nigeria to other countries, especially Europe and America. Some of the solutions, as identified by stakeholders, are good agronomical practices on the part of farmers and exporters, efficiency on of regulatory agencies, effective coordination by the…

There is a school of thought that wants African countries to copy something China is doing today. It is not the way they are controlling their population. We may copy a modified version of it later but for now that should not be our priority. In fact, there are other things we are going to…

Amid continuous depletion of African Pangolin population, especially for international trade cumulating to the loss of over $900million yearly, environmentalists have stressed the need to raise awareness on the endangered species and put in place reward system for those who help in ensuring seizures of the highly priced mammal. Pangolins are African /Asian mammal that…