Yearly Archives: 2017
6 yr-old boy creates computer game
The six-year-old child, Ethan Theodore Yona, a first grader, launched an android app that features a superhero character called Ethan Man who talks about...
Climate change threatens Ethiopia’s coffee
Up to 60 percent of Ethiopia's coffee production area could become unsuitable for coffee farming before the end of the century, says a new...
Kenya may lose 2018 hosting rights
While it was not exactly an easy win to have the hosting rights for 2018 African Nations Championship (Chan), it does appear that the...
Tiote rests in Abidjan
Cote D’ivoire international Cheick Tiote, whose sudden death in China at just 30 years old shocked his country, was laid to rest on Sunday...
Buhari’s speech impaired
President Muhammad Buhari, who left Nigeria 45 days ago to resume treatment for an undisclosed medical condition believed to be cancer, has developed speech...
Growing rates of sickle cell disease prompt urgent call for blood donors
To mark National Blood Week (19th – 25th June), NHS Blood and Transplant is launching an appeal for black donors to register to give...
World Sickle Cell Day – a time for awareness
By Iyamide Thomas - I wonder how many readers know that there is a World Sickle Cell Day and that this is commemorated each...
Lives torched up the Kensington night
By Peter Olorunnisomo - The sight was ghastly to behold. The multi-storey building took on gory blaze of a persecution down the ages when...
Nigerian Nurses UK to celebrate Dame Anionwu
The Nigerian Nurses Charitable Association (NNCAUK) and their compatriots in the UK are organising a charitable ball in honour of Emeritius Professor of Nursing,...
African Newsround – South African girl killed a ‘would-be rapist’
South African girl killed a 'would-be rapist'
A SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD girl has handed herself to the south African police and has been charged with murder after...
