By Henry Ojelu & Onozure Dania As nations across the world mark this year’s Human Rights Day, lawyers have lamented the increasing cases of human rights abuse under President Muhammadu…
A World Bank affiliated group may scuttle Nigeria’s bid to successfully prosecute illicit funds associated with the controversial OPL 245, a coalition of international anti-corruption groups has said. In a…
The head of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum is among scores of volunteers who have offered to serve time in a Nigerian prison on behalf of a teenage boy jailed…
By Aaron Ross DAKAR (Reuters) - Until this year, West Africa looked to have shed its "coup-belt" moniker, winning plaudits as a model of democratic progress on the continent. But…
Businesses fail and close down everyday. Statistics show that globally, about 20% of small businesses fail within their first year. There are many reasons why these businesses fail. In Nigeria,…
The former Barcelona playmaker has heaped praise upon the man who picked up the Premier League Player of the Year award last season Kevin De Bruyne is the "best midfielder…
Aug 29th 2020Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader and anti-corruption activist, fell into a coma after being poisoned. He was held for two days in a Russian hospital, before…
Conflict Resolution in the Time of COVID-19--Voices from Seven Continents of the World: Africa Editor's Note: In this article series, seven leading mediators and conflict resolution practitioners share their…
The Human Rights Council this morning adopted six resolutions in which it, among other actions, extended the mandates of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus,…
The World Wildlife Crime Report 2020 launched recently by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) emphasises the threat that wildlife trafficking poses to nature and the biodiversity…
Rare images of a group belonging to one of the most endangered gorilla subspecies in the world suggest their numbers could be recovering after decades of persecution, conservationists in Nigeria…
I don’t think this headline is exactly correct. Reason is that the world does not even have an order anymore before we look for a new one. The world at…
President Xi Jinping is China’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. He rose to power in 2013 and since then, he has focused his energies on proving to the world…
The US reported more than 55,000 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, a new daily global record for the coronavirus pandemic, as infections rose in a majority of states, according to…
By Joseph Ushie Still as within the precincts of the metaphor of the racist knee on the neck of the African American George Floyd, we also consider complicit in the…
By Samuel Smith, CP Reporter | Wednesday, July 01, 2020 Christians in Nigeria take part in funeral festivities in April 2019. | IntersocietyA genocide expert and former Congressman Frank Wolf…
Islamist militants have abducted four aid workers and a private security worker in north-east Nigeria, the hostages have said in a video. The hostages identified themselves and said they each…
Acceptance of homosexuality is rising broadly internationally, in line with a survey revealed on Thursday, whilst sharp divisions persist by area and financial growth. Assist has grown from as far…
A member of the LGBT group takes half in a 2019 pleasure stroll in India. (Diptendu Dutta/AFP by way of Getty Photos) This evaluation focuses on whether or not individuals…
The idea of this credit score system in China is just not acquainted to most Africans since there may be nothing fairly like that in Africa, and maybe it’s higher…
