The Joint Association of Persons Living with Disabilities (JONAPID) in Lagos has said that as long as disabled people continue to shun reproductive health services available at hospitals, the country can’t have significant improvements in its current health indicators. This…
New smartphone apps designed to simplify mobile money payments Youtap (www.Youtap.com), a global provider of contactless mobile payments and financial services software, has launched a QR code solution and smartphone apps for mobile money services in Africa and Asia. Youtap’s…
Reading through the presidential broadcast, however, one cannot but express a sense of utter disappointment. This is a president who virtually sneaked out of Nigeria, who breached his own self-declaration of transparency, by keeping Nigerians in the dark for over…
Civil society groups have called on the Supreme Court to ensure its verdict in the petition against the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta is fair. The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), the Africa Centre for Open Governance (Africog) and the…
Tronc, the parent company of The Los Angeles Times, abruptly replaced the newspaper’s top leadership on Monday in a shake-up that stunned many in the newsroom. Ross Levinsohn, a longtime media executive who held a senior position at Fox’s digital…
Let us begin this by acknowledging that our leaders are terrible. In doing that however, we should also acknowledge the fact that as followers, we are awful as well. We should also bring out the oftentimes overlooked fact that our…
Farmers in central Kenya have resorted to coffee hawking, blaming their societies for taking months to pay them. Poor payment, high prices of inputs and poor management have driven farmers over the edge to earn easy and desperately-needed cash from…
But Democrats on Capitol Hill said it was woefully short on specifics. In going against his instincts on Afghanistan, President Donald Trump won the praise of some of his toughest critics — defense hawks in Congress. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.)…
Abiodun Doherty – One of the most surprising discoveries that I have made about real estate investment and investors is that the size of your income does not necessarily determine your long term success in real estate investment. There…
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo said on Monday that the Buhari administration spent N1.3 trillion on capital projects in 2016, the highest in the history of the country. Osinbajo disclosed this at a plenary of the 2017 Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) national…
