A troubling video of Nigerian soldiers executing two unarmed brothers in the Niger Delta sparks outrage. I have watched the video over and over again…and shuddered each time.
Is this the kind of military operation occurring in the delta?
Here is the clip, NOTE: the execution happened about 2 minutes into the video, watch with caution:

Uganda’s oil reserves could be as much as that of the Gulf countries, a senior official at the US Department of Energy has said. Based on the test flow results encountered at the wells so far drilled and other oil numbers, Ms. Sally Kornfeld, a senior analyst in the office of fossil energy went ahead [...]

Obinna Ekezie, a former professional basketball player in the United States talks about why he starts Nigeria’s first online travel portal, Zeep Travel Network.

The African Diaspora Marketplace is seeking proposals for start-up and established businesses operating (or to be operated) through partnerships between U.S.-based members of the African diaspora and local Sub-Saharan African entrepreneurs…10-20 winning businesses will be awarded matching grants of between $50,000 and $100,000 each.

Between 1960 and 1999, Nigerian officials had stolen or wasted more than $440 million. That is six times the Marshall Plan, the total sum needed to rebuild a devastated Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Instead of building tens of thousands of cell towers and still getting no signal due to power outage, how about using few hundreds floating weather balloons to provide full communication for the the whole of Africa…?

At the recent New York Mercedes-Benz and London On/Off Fashion Week, big-name black runway models — Alek Wek, Jourdan Dunn and Chanel Iman were among those showcasing Africa’s beauty, sashaying the runway in clothes and head dresses designed by Momo, a proudly Nigerian label, according to the Guardian newspaper report.
Leading luxury African label Momo has [...]

This is marketing at 25,000 feet. If you are a entrepreneur, or one yet to bud, then you might have heard of PitchTV — an idea of the the British numero uno entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, that gives you the opportunity to pitch your business idea directly to people who could make your ambition [...]

Every day, more than half a million barrels of crude oil are stolen off the Nigerian oil pipelines. At a time the oil revenue is down 50%, illegal oil theft is costing the nation more than $1.5billion annually. A recent newspaper report points to a cabal of retired military generals as the major culprit. The action of the retired general amounts to a declaration of war, but can the Nigerian head of state — handicapped by ill-health — prevail?

Just like Nigeria, Rwanda has an image problem. Its “biggest challenge is reputational. It’s associated with war. It’s seen as so poor that people think of it as a place to do charity. The opportunities are there, but it hasn’t been taken seriously as a place to do business”. How has Rwanda gone about re-branding its image and selling the Rwanda’s story?