The Black Satellites of Ghana defeated their Brazilian counterpart to win the FIFA U-20 World cup. The 10-man Ghanaian team 4-3 victory came in a sudden death penalties shoot-our in the finals of Egypt 2009 tournament. Ghana makes history being the first African team to win the coveted cup. Ghana... [view entry]

Nigeria’s president, Umaru Yar’Adua, told a visiting OPEC delegation that Nigeria can now meet its current production quota of 1.8 million barrels per day. The president declared the conflict that plagued the oil producing Niger Delta has ended after a recent amnesty for rebels in the region that he called... [view entry]

The UK most popular talent show, X - Factor, has been exciting this year, the show has produced names like JLS, Leona Lewis, Alexandra Burke etc. As the Show grinds to its finale, a Nigerian is among the final 12, will Rachel Adedeji get the nod? With your vote she... [view entry]

Nigeria artists hauled in five award while the Kenya got three at the 2009 MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMA) in Nairobi, Kenya. Nigeria's hip-hop star, D'banj, demonstrated his prominence winning the Artist of the Year Award, which he won at the maiden event in 2008. [view entry]

China’s investments in Africa are doing more for the continent’s development than Western aid programmes, Rwandan President Paul Kagame has said. Current trade flows between China and Africa are estimated to be of over 100 billion US dollars per year. Kagame told the German business newspaper Handelsblatt that Chinese investments... [view entry]

President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism. Nobel observers were shocked by the unexpected choice so early in the... [view entry]

"At first I thought that perhaps they had made a giant mistake in offering me the role,” laughs Pounder, referring to her latest role in the Fox television comedy “Brothers”... Pounder and her anthropologist husband, Boubacar Kone, divide their time between Los Angeles and his native Dakar, Senegal. [view entry]

A 5% royalty payment to oil communities in the Niger Delta is likely to be announced on Friday by President Umaru Yar’Adua, who is basking at home in the success of the amnesty package, and is being applauded on it abroad by oil consuming nations. The five per cent royalty... [view entry]

The Nigerian government is considering a temporary nationalisation of some underperforming banks, according to the country’s finance minister Mansur Muhtar. He talked about the possibility during a press conference in Istanbul, but emphasised that long-term nationalisation is not in the government’s plans. Nigeria announced it was rescuing four banks with... [view entry]

The African cities of Alexandria, in Egypt, Lagos, in Nigeria, and Monrovia, in Liberia, are among the top five cities most vulnerable to sea level rises, according to a report by the Centre for Global Development. The US think tank’s based its projections on the vulnerability of coastal populations to... [view entry]