Nigeria
Can We Stop to Catch Our Breaths?
Photo by Aarón Blanco Tejedor on Unsplash By Aniemeke Isioma Prisca Twentieth of October 2020 You carry army go kill many youth…
Nigeria
Buhari: The Messiah Who Will Not Save Nigeria
Bayo Omoboriowo, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Shamusudeen Kareem The Yorubas have a saying that if a child would…
Nigeria
Nigeria's university grading system; the hack, the stories and the success
By Yusuf Akinyemi When I got into the university, I knew I wanted to graduate with a second class (Upper Division) commonly…
Nigeria
Tinubu, 2023 Presidential Election, and Impending National Disaster
By Shamsudeen Kareem "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold," is a line from "The Second Coming" written by the Romantic poet,…
Trade
Kenya signs post-brexit trade agreement with the UK
The UK has today (Tuesday 8 December) signed an Economic Partnership Agreement with Kenya. The deal was signed in London by International…
Africa
Ethiopia's troubled history provides clues to why an all-out civil war is possible
A man enters a polling station for Tigray’s regional elections, which Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed deemed illegal. EDUARDO SOTERAS/AFP via Getty Images…
COVID-19
COVID-19: examining theories for Africa’s low death rates
Kevin Marsh, University of Oxford and Moses Alobo, African Academy of Sciences As the threat of a COVID-19 pandemic emerged earlier this…
Science
New UK science funding to support Kenya’s coronavirus response
The UK announced support for innovative scientific research that will help individual Kenyan scientists detect coronavirus antibodies in blood donors, visitors to…
News
NIH to invest $58M to catalyze data science and health research innovation in Africa
The National Institutes of Health launched a $58 million initiative to advance data science, catalyze innovation and spur health discoveries across Africa.…
Africa
Why history will judge Burundi’s Pierre Nkurunziza harshly
President Pierre Nkurunziza arrives to inaugurate Burundi’s Chinese-built state house on September 27, 2019. (Photo by ONESPHORE NibigIra/AFP via Getty Images) David…