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Africa’s natural resources and fast-growing population will help ensure the continent prospers even if the developed world suffers another economic meltdown, Nigeria’s president said. Goodluck Jonathan told a business forum in the Australian city of Perth he was confident that strong economic growth seen since 2000 in Africa would be maintained thanks to increasingly strong financial and political fundamentals. “Africa ...

The General Overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, Prophet T.B. Joshua has called on all Ex-Presidents of African Countries to denounce their political affiliations and declare their neutrality in spearheading developmental issues in their respective countries. Speaking on the way forward for Africa as a continent at the headquarters of SCOAN in Lagos, Prophet T. B. Joshua ...

U.S. officials have acknowledged they are sending drone aircraft from Ethiopia to conduct surveillance in Somalia, but say it has nothing to do with Kenya’s ongoing military operation there. Kenya has vowed to continue fighting until it has curtailed the activities of the Somali militant group al-Shabab. U.S. military officials say they have begun launching drone aircraft over Somalia from ...

Their days of sitting in a ramshackle, sweltering school building, or taking lessons under the shade of a tree, could be about to change. Children in the farthest corners of rural Africa are the target of a mobile, solar-powered classroom that was launched in Johannesburg this week. The classroom, built inside a 12-metre-long shipping container by electronics firm Samsung, has ...

The European Union has given assurance to partner with the Nigerian Government on job creation to address the problem of unemployment in the country. Mr. David Macrae, Head of European Union delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS, stated this Thursday when he met with the Minister of Labor and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu in Abuja. The Head of European delegation informed ...