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Source: TheNation. At 98, Pa Shara Oboh, the landlord of Obudu Mountain Ranch and Resort in Nigeria, is proof that the Newton Law of Gravity which states that what goes up must come down may not be a hundred per cent correct. At this advanced age, when most of his contemporaries who are alive by God’s grace don’t venture out ...

The United Nations body tasked with combating the spread of HIV/AIDS and the United States scheme that funds global efforts against the pandemic today launched a five-year action framework to accelerate the scaling up of voluntary medical male circumcision as a prevention measure in Africa. “Voluntary medical male circumcision is a high-impact and cost-effective prevention tool that will bring us ...

Kenyan pupils have been ranked second to those from Mauritius in maths in southern and eastern Africa. But they lag behind Tanzania, Seychelles, Mauritius and Swaziland in reading skills, according to a report by a regional education coalition. The Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Education Quality study involved a sample of 4,436 Class Six pupils in 193 schools ...

This week on Keeping It Real, Adeola examined the Nigerian gay protest in front of the Nigerian Consulate in New York, the Ugandan space craft built by a 26-year-old in his mother’s backyard, and many other issues. Enjoy!

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid an unannounced visit to Mogadishu today together with the President of the General Assembly, Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, to express the solidarity of the United Nations at what he called a “critical juncture” for the future of the Somali people. “We have come here to see for [ourselves] the changes under way and show the strong solidarity ...