Sep 11, 2015 As the MTV Europe Music Awards 2015 inches closer, the Best African Act award nominees have been unveiled, with Nigeria on the lead with Johnny singer Yemi Alade and O.B.O Davido. Also nominated for the prestigious award is Tanzanian bongo flava singer Diamond Platnumz as well as South African self-acclaimed king of ... Read More
Sep 11, 2015 And this story comes Straight Outta Wole Soyinka’s famous Play Death and A King’s Horesman. We’re talking about Abobaku – the late Ooni of Ife’s designated escort to the afterlife who was rumoured to have disappeared for destinations unknown. We were soon assured Mr Abobaku was not AWOL and was ‘ready and ... Read More
Sep 11, 2015 Before we end this Friday news with Google, here are the Top 5 Nigerian musicians who have been trending online: They are Skiibii, Harry Song, Olamide, Dekunle Gold and Yemi Alade.
Sep 11, 2015 After two years of planning, a trimaran recently set sail across the Arctic Sea in an attempt to set a non-stop sailing record for the route from Europe to the Pacific. The crew, Jochen Krauth and Quentin Monegier of France, Boris Herrmann and Tim Bastian Frank of Germany, and Sergei Nizovtsev from ... Read More
Sep 11, 2015 Hundreds of Somalian women recently took to the streets of Mogadishu in protested against the militant group, Al-Shabab. Gathered with the common purpose of condemning terrorism, the women sent a clear message to Al-Shabaab, saying; “your time is over”. With over 500 Somali women in attendance, the rally garnered support for the ... Read More
Sep 11, 2015 The Euromoney Egypt Conference recently held in Cairo. The two day event, which was tagged “Financing the Future”, was the 20th installment of the annual financial summit. According to the conference’s website, the two day event focused on the role of investors in the country’s financial future. Speaking at the event’s opening, ... Read More
Sep 11, 2015 South Koreans who were separated from their family members in the North by the Korean War recently welcomed an agreement reached by the two Korean governments to hold family reunions. The agreement came on the heels of a recent armed confrontation between the two Korean countries. The family reunion was necessitated after ... Read More
Sep 11, 2015 Japanese stocks recently took a dip, taking the benchmark Nikkei index into negative territory. This occurred after soft trade data out of China evoked concerns over the economic health of the Asian giant. Defensive shares such as drug makers and food companies were battered; a sharp reversal of their spectacular outperformance earlier ... Read More
Sep 10, 2015 According to Libyan authorities, no less than 100 migrant, heading to Europe, were recently detained after arriving at the port of Tripoli. The migrants, who consisted of various nationalities, were apprehended as they prepared to make the dangerous sea-crossing to Europe in an inflatable dinghy. Ashram Badri, head of the Tripoli coast ... Read More
Sep 10, 2015 During the 4th Annual Biosafety Conference, Kenya’s vice president William Ruto recently announced that within two months the ban on Genetically Modified Foods will be lifted. The announcement re-igniting debates over biosafety in a country where 75 percent of its population rely on agriculture for sustenance. Kenya had set up a biosafety ... Read More
