Africa Political & Economic Strategic Center (AFRIPOL) nominates Stevland Hardaway Morris aka Stevie Wonder for Nobel Prize in Literature. Stevie Wonder, the iconic modern day poet and song writer...

  On September 11, 2021, Nigerian singer-songwriter and music producer, Chukwuka Ekwean a.k.a Ckay's 'Love Nwantiti' became the No. 1 song on Shazam's global charts. The chart tracks the most-searched...

President Emmanuel Macron listened as Adelle Onyango of Kenya assailed France's 'denial' of its colonial past   President Emmanuel Macron vowed Friday a full reckoning with the legacy of colonialism...

The World Health Organization on Wednesday endorsed the world's first malaria vaccine and said it should be given to children across Africa in the hope that it will spur stalled efforts to curb...

  What’s in a name?
The modus letters are enumerated
The way it’s voiced
Or to whom it belongs
Then, what’s to a name?
To the history it belongs
Or how...

Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, center, and writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, right, are guided through the exhibition by Hartmut Dorgerloh, General Director and Chairman of the Board of...

 
There is a land of beckoning star
Shining from mountain to sea
Land calling the displaced, marginalized
Those wallowing in sorrow and sadness
With tears of regrets and disappointments


When the eclipse of decency stuns in alien lands
American the beauty calls you to come


The thriving star of the day
She spread her hands like a mother
Embracing the downtrodden
Embracing...

Documentary marking 50 years since Nigerian-Biafran War launches in London   Dr Louisa Egbunike’s documentary weaves together an engaging narrative of reflections from authors touched by one of the most devastating conflicts of the 1960s, one that still casts its shadow on Nigerians around the world
On Saturday 25th January 2020, a sold-out Curzon Bloomsbury cinema played host to the launch of In The Shadow of Biafra, a documentary reflecting...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday he's optimistic that Nigeria will take the steps needed to remove itself from U.S. visa restrictions that were imposed last week. Pompeo did not offer a timeline for the removal of the restrictions that the country's foreign minister said had “blindsided” Nigerian officials.


The restrictions announced on Friday bar Nigerians from receiving immigrant visas to live permanently in the...

Nigeria is set to receive around $308 million seized from former military dictator Sani Abacha under a deal backed by the United States and the island of Jersey, US prosecutors said Monday.


The sum is the latest to be recovered from the accounts of Abacha, an army officer who ruled Nigeria from 1993 until his death in 1998 aged 54, which sparked an ongoing search for hundreds of millions of dollars he stole and hid abroad.

Olaudah Equiano, an Igbo free slave, a  freedom fighter and an abolitionist. He joined William Wilberforce in abolition movement  and became the wealthiest black man in the English-speaking world.


When Olaudah Equiano published his autobiography in England in 1789, he achieved instant celebrity. Several thousand copies were sold, the subscribers including the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York and the Duke of Cumberland. The book...

  It is difficult to believe that it is over 50 years since the end of Nigeria Civil War, what with the scars and the wounds that seem to fester and become more malignant and the ensuing cold war that has refused to abate.


Although the war ended on a no-victor-no-vanquished note and a promise of reconstruction, rehabilitation and reconciliation as pronounced by the Gowon-led federal government, yet the real war continued in a more...

President Trump has placed travel restrictions and outright immigration ban on Nigeria and other five countries Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar,   Sudanese and Tanzanian.



These two Asian and four more African countries  travel were restricted and Trump suspended immigrant visas for citizens of Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, and Nigeria and suspended Sudanese and Tanzanian citizens from participating in the U.S. “visa lottery”...

For now it has been taken for granted in American political sphere that racial minorities stand with the political Left and vote for Democratic Party.  It's like a gospel truth that most Blacks and Hispanics always identify with liberal policies and recent immigrants are expected to follow put.


But it is beginning to change in Nigerian American community and some of them are stripping away their liberal identity and replacing...