Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
John Terry has backed Chelsea team-mate Didier Drogba to be a success on his return to the Premier League. The Ivory Coast striker is back at Stamford Bridge after signing a one-year deal last month. Drogba, 36, scored 157 goals in 342 games in his first spell with the club, which spanned eight years. Terry, […]
By Tunde Eludini Team Nigeria to the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, finished eighth on the final medal tables for the multi sports event. A string of silver medals on the penultimate day of the competition and the stripping of teenage Weightlifter, Chika Amalaha, denied Team Nigeria from making history at the tournament. The […]
by Grant Jarvie Chair of Sports, Univ. of Edinburgh With the end of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games, it is tempting to suggest that its success might just have saved the event. Certainly what has not been in question is that its future has been in doubt in recent years. For one thing, the number […]
by James Hamblin The HPV vaccine could prevent thousands of people every year from getting cancer. But a new CDC report says most children still do not receive it. Every 20 minutes a person in the U.S. is diagnosed with with a human-papilloma virus-associated cancer. Most of those cancers could be prevented with an HPV […]
Andrew Kitchenman Health commissioner promotes WIC as way of reaching 40,000 potential clients currently outside of program For Trenton resident Linda Bailey, the vouchers for fresh food and baby formula that she receives from a federally funded nutrition program are essential to making ends meet. “It’s very expensive nowadays,” Bailey said, adding that she spent […]
By Uchenna Ekwo As the international press corps waited for President Barack Obama’s press conference inside the State Department auditorium to zip the three-day US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington DC, I was engaged in a discussion with two journalists from Nigeria and Cameroon who came to cover the summit. Both reporters —Amarachi Ubani, Chief Foreign […]
by Daniel Pelz, The US-Africa summit focused on economics but sidelined issues of democracy and human rights. Daniel Pelz, DW’s head of English for Africa, thinks the meeting’s emphasis was a big mistake. It was a textbook summit for diplomats and heads of state. It boasted warm words about “a continent full of opportunity,” investment […]
By Dave Lee Technology reporter, Cyber-security experts have dramatically called into question the safety and security of using USB to connect devices to computers. Berlin-based researchers Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell demonstrated how any USB device could be used to infect a computer without the user’s knowledge. The duo said there is no practical way […]
25-year old Akosua Ayim (also known by her stage name, Sillage), recently published her first book, entitled “Sometimes the heart breaks”. The 63-page book consists of 27 poems and is a collection of her original poetry that she has written over the past 10 years. The poems range from full-blown spoken word performance pieces to […]
by Drew Hinshaw in Gombe, Nigeria, and Dion Nissenbaum in Washington Recent U.S. surveillance flights over northeastern Nigeria showed what appeared to be large groups of girls held together in remote locations, raising hopes among domestic and foreign officials that they are among the group that Boko Haram abducted from a boarding school in April, […]