Unlike past global recessions, it appears African nations have absorbed the worse of the current economic crisis fairly well, but would the economy continue to buck the trend, and recover relatively quickly preserving the hard-won gains of the last d...

History is our witness, and the evidence establishes and demonstrates incontrovertibly that America and Europe do not have clean hands regarding the human conditions in Africa. History bear the facts of America and European horrid brutalities in Afri...

There is wide spread ignorance and poverty in Nigeria a situation which the Nigerian state has consistently failed to deal with. When one adds religious/social intolerance; youthful restiveness/idleness and unemployment to the mix, it leads to frustr...

The Score project, led by The University of Nottingham in the UK, is developing a bio-mass burning cooking stove which also converts heat into acoustic energy and then into electricity, all in one unit.

Nigerians have been eagerly looking forward to December, when we will get the promised 6,000MW of electricity. What we got instead was a strike last week, with staff of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria holding on to the little power supply availa...

Nigerian woman flees 10 years of slavery, via Associated Press, excerpts: She was a widow in a Nigerian village trying to raise six children when she says she met a man who told her he and his wife needed a nanny for their newborn. If she came with...

The United Kingdom government has frozen aid donations for educational development in Kenya over allegations of fraud and corruption. No more money will be released to Kenya’s Ministry of Education until an investigation into alleged missing funds is...

In response to the comments of “a patriolist who loves her country with all her soul and will do anything to make sure the bill is enacted”, I respectfully bring to your attention, and to the readers of AfricanLoft the following, which I have based...

Speaking at the Achebe Colloquium on Nigerian elections held at Brown University, Providence, Ambassadors Princeton Lyman, Walter Carrington and John Campbell in different words, clearly warning that Nigeria's glorious days in global estimation and the...

There are different definitions for cheating. Some believe that merely talking to the opposite sex is cheating while others say it takes more than that. Talk to Misi: What is cheating? And when is it Cheating?