Jacana aims to expand the provision of growth capital funding and resources to small and medium-sized growth businesses throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.

Treating HIV patients in remote areas of Africa soon after they are infected and using community care teams instead of doctors can cut costs and help people live longer than those treated later, a charity said Thursday. Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said research in Mozambique and in Lesotho, where 23 percent of adults have HIV, suggested [...]

Researchers revealed on Monday that a three-year trial of a vaginal gel in South Africa successfully cut the risk of HIV infection during sex by 39 per cent. The results of the study conducted among 889 women by the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa were presented on Monday at an [...]

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the creation of a new government agency to buy out bad debts from the banking system. The move, announced on Monday, aims to solve the country’s financial crisis by absorbing some of the estimated 10 billion US dollars of bad loans that rocked its banking system in 2009. During [...]

Segun Gele started his business when he saw a lady struggling with her headtie in a park lot at a wedding party. Today, he earns approximately $60,000.00 per annum just from tying geles and has been global trotting every weekend for events since his business started.

The first time I saw the girls in lingerie behind their windows, I was stunned... it was a cultural shock on a massive scale.

A month-long sexual abstinence campaign in Africa could reduce new HIV infections by up to 45 per cent, according to researchers.

The Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab, which claims links with Al-Qaeda, has claimed responsibility for a twin bomb attack in Kampala on Sunday that killed at least 74 people and injured more than 70.

Desperate heroin users in a few African cities, particularly in East Africa, have begun engaging in a practice that is so dangerous it is almost unthinkable: they deliberately inject themselves with another addict’s blood, researchers say, in an effort to share the high or stave off the pangs of withdrawal, the New York Times reports. The [...]

The BET Awards is the biggest guilty pleasure on TV; a huge occasion which feeds our endless appetite for star gawking has emerged as one of the biggest nights in black entertainment.

Facebook, a social networking website with over 400 million users around the world, is a site where people spend over 500 billion minutes per month saying what’s on their mind, commenting on them and simply gawking at other people’s pictures. Sort of like a cyber hangout spot, where people can write sensible or dumb [...]

Last year I wrote an article “Antifreeze Tainted Baby Medication – How can you tell?” about the death of over 80 babies after using a teething powder called “My Pikin”. It was a very devasting story and some people were arrested for the dastardly crime and their operations were shutdown by Nigerian National Agency [...]

Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu, a Nigerian activist and entrepreneur develops a sustainable, community-owned and managed radio through which farmers can share knowledge with each other.

Two staff members from Zimbabwe’s first independent daily newspaper in seven years, were arrested on Friday when the paper hit the streets for the first time. The NewsDay staff members and two distribution agents, were picked up by police while distributing Friday’s special free edition of the paper. Scores of excited people had mobbed the [...]

Renewed violence in Darfur killed at least 597 people in May, making it the deadliest month since peacekeepers were deployed to the conflict-ridden west Sudan region in January 2008. News agency AFP reported the death toll from a joint United Nations and African Union document on Monday. In May, according to the document, fighting between [...]

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The saying, ‘As poor as a church rat’ is now a misnomer because churches are no longer poor. According to the article by Opeyemi Adesina, Tayo Salami and Chika Morkah, the four richest Nigerian pastors were identified as: Bishop David Oyedepo President and Founder of the Living Faith World Outreach Ministry, aka Winners Chapel; [...]

Nigeria-based telecommunications operator, Glo Mobile, has decided to pull out of Ghana, an authoritative source close to the company has disclosed. It was gathered at the weekend that the telecommunications giant had decided to divest its investment in the country and exit Ghana as it faces several challenges from some interests bent on sabotaging the company’s [...]

Yinka Shonibare MBE, says his piece is a celebration of London’s immense ethnic wealth, giving expression to and honouring the many cultures and ethnicities that are still breathing precious wind into the sails of the United Kingdom.

The seven-time Grand Slam champion wowed the crowd at the Roland Garros, French Open on May 23, 2010 by wearing a lacy, lack overlay giving it the illusion of being see-through, and bright red trim on the bodice during her first-round match against Patty Schnyder. Even though she looked like she was auditioning for a spot [...]