The retired professor of virology, who died after being admitted to the University College Hospital Ibadan, was an elder statesman who was courted by the media for his views on issues of national significance.

The competition was hosted by free-to-use photography app, Agora, and received over 130,000 submissions from 193 countries.

The Mastercard Foundation Centre is inviting educational technology innovators to apply for funding to grow their ventures while contributing to improving the quality of education in Africa. The deadline for submissions is..

An exhibition commemorating the life of South African freedom hero and global moral icon is currently showing in Berlin, Germany.

The Presidency said media reports of a soured relationship are originating from the minds and mouths of mischief makers, who are desperate for entertaining stories from the Aso Rock Villa with which to titillate the public.

Turkish students receive worse marks for the same performance, women with headscarves are less likely to receive invitations to a job interview, Naika Foroutan, a sociologist, criticizes the systematic discrimination against migrants. In Germany, according to the German-Iranian migration researcher Naika Foroutan, Muslims are the most disadvantaged. Even if many feel that they are tolerant and open, the reality looks …

A Ghanaian comedy film set the tone for this year’s Afrikamera, the festival that showcases current feature and documentary films from Africa in Berlin. Keteke, the debut production of Peter Kofi Sedufia, kicked the 5-day festival off on Thursday (7 November). The film, a witty look-back at the inadequate transport infrastructure of the early 1980s Ghana, was well received by …

Also on the list of accused is Jessica Edosomwan, Europe's most wanted woman. She’s accused of recruiting women in Nigeria for the sex trade in Lyon, Nimes and Montpellier.

The Kaduna Division of the Court of Appeal has nullified the election of the spokesman of the Senate, Senator Dayo Adeyeye.   The Appellate Court subsequently upheld the tribunal judgment which declared Biodun Olujimi, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, as winner of the Ekiti South Senatorial election held on February 23.   The Independent National Electoral Commission had …

  German-Ghanaian actress and author Dayan Kodua has written a children’s book. Odo tells the story, in German, of Odo, a 6-year-old girl in Ghana. The day Odo saw a black doll at her girlfriend’s birthday party changed her. She was so fascinated that she could no longer think of anything else other than of how to own her own …