African governments have been urged not to abandon their responsibilities in the public education sector to private investors. This was the crux of the agreement of Civil Society Groups across
*Says, I’m sweating Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the rising cost of diesel has adversely affected his fish business. He spoke on Tuesday at a South-west fish farmers’ congress
Gunmen have ambushed the convoy of the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 12, Audu Madaki, injuring him and killing one of his escorts. This happened on Tuesday around 2:30
Former Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University, Professor Lateef Akanni Hussein, is dead. He died on Sunday at 75. A tweet on the official handle of the institution (@LASUOfficial)
Those who respect the elderly pave their own road toward success – African proverb (Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation, Bola Dauda and Toyin Falola, Bloomsbury Academic, New York,
*Father of victim excited over court judgement Tanko Abdulmalik, and his accomplice, Hashimu Ishyaku, have been sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of the five-year-old pupil Hanifa Abubakar.
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have invaded Abaa, a community near the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, and abducted two persons. It was gathered that the gunmen stormed
On July 28, 2022, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), alongside the Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition hosted a webinar with African water justice campaigners, in commemoration
The Federal Government has ordered the immediate closure of the Federal Government College, Kwali, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, over the threat of attack by bandits. The Minister
By Toyin Falola There is always a community of Afro-pessimistic scholars, occasionally joined by their in-house accomplices, who assert that the unity and togetherness that Africans try to muster
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