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Voxafrica To Launch The First Season Of The Voice In West And Central Africa

Voxafrica To Launch The First Season Of The Voice In West And Central Africa

No production of this magnitude has ever reached this part of Africa yet. Now Voxafrica, the Pan-African television station will launch the first season of The Voice in West and Central Africa. The Voice is currently the world’s biggest music show format. Produced and aired in over 180 countries, the show will run for 17 […]

Orange Digital Ventures Invests In Afrostream

Orange Digital Ventures Invests In Afrostream

Orange Digital Ventures announces its participation in the funding of Afrostream, a subscription video on demand service (SVOD) of African, African-American and African-Caribbean films and television series, alongside TheFamily, Cross Culture Ventures I L.P. and ACE & Company. Through its corporate fund, Orange will enable Afrostream to accelerate the development of its original and innovative […]

Africa Is A Rich Continent With Poor People – Dlamini Zuma

Africa Is A Rich Continent With Poor People – Dlamini Zuma

AFRICA is a contradictory place being a rich continent with poor people, African Union Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. She also said development will be very slow in Africa if women are left out. During a cockatil held for her at Melia Habana Hotel on Friday evening, Dlamini-Zuma said only skills and education could be an […]

The Value Of Dual Citizenship For African’s Wishing To Take Advantage Of Opportunities

The Value Of Dual Citizenship For African’s Wishing To Take Advantage Of Opportunities

The Value of Dual Citizenship for African’s Wishing to Take Advantage of Opportunities within the Continent and Abroad. It is estimated that only around 1% of the world’s population have two or more passports, making dual citizenship an exclusive privilege. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 5 October 2015/ “No man is an island” is the theme of […]

Africa’s Governance Winners, Losers And Surprises

Africa’s Governance Winners, Losers And Surprises

Zimbabwe is one of the African countries where governance has improved most in the four years up to 2014. Senegal just might surge ahead of its African counterparts in the future, to become one of the continent’s powerhouses. Developments in Somalia, long the worst-governed country in Africa, can be described as “a good news story”. […]

Africans Lead With The Highest Academic Achievements In The US Beating Asians

Africans Lead With The Highest Academic Achievements In The US Beating Asians

Africans have the highest educational attainment rates of any immigrant group in the United States with higher levels of completion than the stereotyped Asian American model minority. It is not only the first generation that does well, as estimates indicate that a highly disproportionate percentage of black students at elite universities are African or the […]

Preparing for Climate Change Across Francophone Africa

Preparing for Climate Change Across Francophone Africa

Intense rain and devastating floods in Ghana, Togo and Benin in early June proved yet again the importance of preparing for extreme weather events and climate change. The Red Cross Red Crescent is committed to responding to such disasters and better preparing communities for their increasing frequency in the future. Over 200 people died during […]

Nigeria, Others Scramble for Airspace in Gulf of Guinea

Nigeria, Others Scramble for Airspace in Gulf of Guinea

THE international air space at the Gulf of Guinea may be partitioned between Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea, Togo and Republic of Benin after the ongoing scramble and diplomatic maneuvers for the control of the lucrative navigational environment in the west and Central African sub-region, literally speaking. The airspace is regarded as international air environment, the control […]

The President of Benin Republic, Boni Yayi promises to construct railway line, road to link with Nigeria

The President of Benin Republic, Boni Yayi promises to construct railway line, road to link with Nigeria

The President of Benin Republic, Boni Yayi, has promised to construct railway line and a road to link up with Nigeria through Kebbi State. He has also proposed to build a dry port at Ilwa where the country also shares border with Nigeria. This was disclosed to Leadership yesterday by the chief press secretary to […]

Benin to Investigate Extortion Allegation Against Border Officials

Benin to Investigate Extortion Allegation Against Border Officials

The Benin Republic Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Muhutalo Laleye, on Thursday pledged that his country would investigate allegations of extortion against its border officials by Nigerians. Laleye made the promise when he visited Tsamiya border settlement along with Kebbi Governor, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the visit was part […]

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