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No Hope For Africans If The Reading Culture Is Not Embraced

June 8, 2023 3:18 am

According to Lord Bacon, ‘reading maketh a man whole’, If we go by this maxim, then it is safe to conclude that the indisposition of Africans to reading is one of the reasons Africans especially black people are not wholesome, lacking in many areas of human endeavour.

The truth is that there is no single area in life where Africans are not lagging behind. Even in sports and entertainment, where they appear to excel, it is because of the infrastructure and managerial skills the white folks have made available in various parts of the world.

A careful study of this …

'146,000 Africans Die Yearly From Tobacco-Related Diseases'

‘146,000 Africans Die Yearly From Tobacco-Related Diseases’

June 19, 2021 5:38 am

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has asserted that no fewer than 146,000 Africans die annually from tobacco-related diseases and it could increase if urgent steps are not taken.

Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa said this on Thursday during a virtual press conference.

Moeti said tobacco was the leading cause of preventable deaths in the world and emphasised that ‘smoking damages nearly every organ in the body.’

The director stressed that ‘globally, exposure to secondhand smoke kills more than 1.2 million people yearly.’

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She explained that the use …

Does Trump Really Care About African Christians

Does Trump Really Care About African Christians?

September 8, 2020 10:15 am

Oftentimes, many Africans cringe whenever “Trump” and their continent are mentioned together. President Donald Trump of the United States has made no bones about his lack of interest in Africa. The continent is full of what he has described as “shit-hole countries”. Religion-speaking, Trump has also on several occasions subtly blasted African religious fanatics and Religious leaders, tagging them as ‘Misguided priorities’.

President Donald Trump does not have any particular ties with the Christen community in Nigeria or any other African country despite what the African Christian community believes. Trump’s world view is consistent with the virulent white ethnic nationalism …

South Africa Arrests Two Police Officers For Teen’s Murder

African Community Targeted In China Virus Crackdown

April 11, 2020 6:14 pm

African Communities in southern China’s largest city say they have become targets of suspicion and subjected to forced evictions, arbitrary quarantines and mass coronavirus testing as the country steps up its fight against imported infections.

China says it has largely curbed its COVID-19 outbreak but a recent cluster of cases linked to the Nigerian community in Guangzhou sparked the alleged discrimination by locals and virus prevention officials.

Local authorities in the industrial centre of 15 million said at least eight people diagnosed with the illness had spent time in the city’s Yuexiu district, known as “Little Africa”.

Five were Nigerian …

Africans And Foreign Organised Religions

Africans And Foreign Organised Religions

January 22, 2020 8:08 pm

Foreign organised religions from the West and Arab nations which were used to further subjugate and make Africans better slaves to the slave masters in the colonial days, unfortunately, are very much prevalent in the contemporary African society.

The Catholic faith which was the pioneer of Christianity invented “Confession,” purposely for the white priests to know and checkmate the activities of slaves that might be rebellious, and Africans ignorantly thought that they were confessing their sins to a Supreme Being up in the sky that had the power to cleanse them of their so-called sins through the Catholic priests. 

Quite …

‘Don’t Open Nigeria For Africans Without Visas’

December 22, 2019 1:39 pm

A Rights group, Human, Right, Liberty Access, and Peace Defenders’ Foundation (HURIDE), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to plunge Nigeria into dangerous religious war with his new foreign policy of opening Nigerian borders to Africans without visas.

The group made the call after its national executive end of the year meeting, expressing shock that President Buhari who few months ago closed border ahead of 2019 Christmas will immediately open it for people from other parts of the continent to troop into.

The group urged Buhari to immediately stop the policy, or carry on with it at the risk …

Chimamanda, Aliko, Make Top 5 In Most Influentian Africans

Adichie, Aliko, Make Top 5 In Most Influentian Africans

November 2, 2019 10:38 am
Multiple award-winning Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been named as one of the 100 Most Influential People of African descent by the Africa Report.
Adichie is number four on the list, and is the only other Nigerian on in the Top 5 apart from Aliko Dangote who is number one.

She is also the only woman in the Top 5. Adichie is followed on this list by number 5, Trevor Noah, South-African born television personality and comedian who is one of the leading talk show hosts in the US, having taken over from Jon Stewart on the award-winning “Daily

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Aisha Urges Africans To Stop Stigmatising Infertile Women

Aisha Urges Africans To Stop Stigmatising Infertile Women

October 30, 2019 5:04 pm

First Lady Aisha Muhammadu Buhari has urged Africans to change their perception of women’s infertility as an abnormal condition and also desist from attaching stigma to women having the condition.

According to a statement by the first lady’s Special Assistant, Media and Publicity, Aliyu Abdullahi, she made the call during the high-level panel discussion of African First Ladies on the challenges of “Building Healthcare Capacity” on the African Continent.

The event was the sixth edition of MERK AFRICA-ASIA LUMINARY/MORE THAN A MOTHER INITIATIVE” organised for African first ladies which was co-chaired by the first lady of Ghana Madam Rebecca Akufo-Addo, …

Five Injured As South Africans Resume Attack On Nigerians

Five Injured As South Africans Resume Attack On Nigerians

October 23, 2019 4:22 am

For the umpteenth time, Nigerians living in South Africa bore the brunt of a fresh wave of xenophobia that broke out yesterday, which left five persons injured.

According to reports, the latest attack occurred at Mpumalamga Province and in some parts of Witbank where the residents attacked their Nigerian neighbours.

This is coming barely weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari visited South Africa to dialogue with his South African counterpart to address the incessant xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other African migrants.

It was gathered from Nigerians living in South Africa that the attack started with the indigenes attacking shops and …

Again, South Africans Resume Fresh Attack On Nigerians

Again, South Africans Resume Fresh Attack On Nigerians

October 22, 2019 11:53 am
South Africans have once again pounced on Nigerians living in South Africa, subjecting them to a terrible anti-foreigner attack on Tuesday.

South Africans living in Mpumalamga province attacked Nigerians in fresh violence which the leadership of Nigerian Citizens In South Africa (NICASA) confirmed.

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Nigeria’s Consular General to South Africa is also on their way to Witbank in Mpumalanga province to address the issue.

In early September fresh outbursts of violence against foreigners erupted in parts of South Africa. Over a dozen people were killed when mobs torched and looted

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Xenophobia: The jealousy of South Africans will slay them

Xenophobia: The jealousy of South Africans will slay them

September 4, 2019 3:02 am

By MarkAnthony Nze

South Africa is supposedly, among the most seemingly developed countries in Africa currently, however it is a a huge shame that the country is enmeshed heavily in xenophobia, a shameless act, so despicable for her to be involved in. It is even more disheartening that the country is launching the heinous attacks on African immigrants.

It is quite disappointing that a country like South Africa that other African countries with Nigeria in the fore-front, supported to fight apartheid is now turning around to fight Nigerians, and other African nationals just because they are doing better than the …

200 million West Africans live below poverty line

May 6, 2019 11:14 pm

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Office for West Africa has raised the alarm that 200 million or 53.5 per cent of West Africans live below poverty line.

It said that West Africa had a population of about 377 million in 2018.

The of Director UNECA, Bakary Dosso, said at the Expert Group Meeting
Draft Agenda in Liberia that the situation demonstrated the magnitude of the challenges the sub-region was facing.

The countries in the sub-region needed to institute major reforms to their macro-economic and financial frameworks, invest in human capital, tackle infrastructure deficits.

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