Members of the Rwandan Diaspora have started a ‘One Dollar Campaign’ charity initiative that will see approximately 20,000 Diaspora members mobilise a symbolic one dollar each to raise money to provide shelter for Genocide survivors in different parts of Rwanda.

I read with dismay a few days ago that our president, a highly educated man, attacked the teaching and student personnel of my worthy Alma Mata Great Ife (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, Nigeria). I cringed at the use of words in the speech given by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Dr Goke [...]

Nuhu Ribadu, the former administrator of Nigeria’s anti-corruption unit (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC) has been dismissed from the Nigerian Police Force.
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A statement signed by the Nigerian Police Forc’s spokesman, Akpoebi Agberebi, confirmed Ribadu’s sack, this afternoon. He was sacked for indiscipline, insurbordination and absence from duty. Ribadu was [...]

In Zimbabwe’s city, Mutare, residents are shunning regular commuter operators and using other forms of transport – like open lorries – saying buses are simply too expensive. Trucks usually travel to the city center daily to hire laborers. Now, however, drivers say their business has picked up dramatically since they began ferrying residents to and [...]

Xmas is time to go on holiday. A time to take a long rest from everyday work activities, and a time to check daily the weather report for it must be a WHITE XMAS. We teach the children about Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, make them visit Father Santa Claus in his grotto, and give them gifts, yes make them laugh, make them happy, but no one remembers to sit the kids down and teach them the true meaning of Christmas.

NEXT - the newest addition to the burgeoning Nigerian media-sphere launched its online edition on Friday. It was a ’soft launch’ - the web site is still sparely populated as I write and far from perfect, just as Jeremy Waite, the publisher of Naija Blog and NEXT project leader discloses in his blog. The screenshot [...]

I’m sick and tired of people acting like the only fraudsters in town are Nigerians. Whenever a scam (a.k.a. 419 or “yahoo yahoo”) occurs the world automatically assumes the perpetrator is a Nigerian hence making it hard for innocent Nigerians to transact business globally. So, to those who feel Nigerians are the only [...]

The UN refugee agency, with the help of American actor-director Ben Affleck and British rock legend Sir Mick Jagger, on Wednesday launched a major new campaign to raise US$23 million to help tens of thousands of displaced Congolese civilians.

As African communities develop and modernize, proponents of traditional medicine are evolving new faces of the practice to keep up. Naomi Seck reports from a holistic healing center in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, where traditional healing practices are infused into luxurious treatments like pedicures and massage.
Wind chimes twinkle as a breeze passes through the sculpted garden [...]

You have to be a parent to appreciate the picture below; as a recent father, I can relate, to some extent.

The picture, taken of a father, in the rain, pushing his two children and few belongings a bicycle. The man is one of several thousands displaced by the war in Kivu in the eastern [...]