SOCIETY
Feb. 9 | By Kerry Cullinan, Durban, South Africa
Schoolgirl Nomasonto Masango giggles as she lists the things she and her friends want boyfriends to buy them. “If you have an older boyfriend, he can buy you things and it is nice to show your friends that you...
Feb. 5 | Gone are the days when bombings were only witnessed on big movie screen. This is no longer the case. The best selling news in town is now about Boko Haram and its violent attacks on people and institution.
This security menace upsetting national stability...
Jan. 21 | Protesters at location of Lekkki Toll Gate in Lagos, In December 2011
By Babatunde Gbadamosi
Today, scores of residents of Lekki defied the ban on public rallies by the Lagos State police command as they stormed the Admiralty Way roundabout in Lekki phase,...
Jan. 17 | Oba of Lagos HRH Oba Rilwan Babatunde Osuolale Aremu Akiolu I.
BY NAL Staff reporter
President “Goodluck Jonathan is a confusionist, who is fast losing the credibility to continue governing Nigeria in peace.”
These were the words of a group that identifies...
Jan. 3 | Photos from rallies against fuel subsidy removal in Nigeria, which has caused an increase in petrol prices have become viral on social media sites, such as Twitter and Facebook. Latest report from trade unionist protest in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial...
Dec. 23 | By Kingsley Ighobor
Jerry Rawlings, a former president of Ghana and now the high representative for Somalia for the African Union (AU), visited a number of African capitals in July and August to drum up support for a pan-African conference on the famine...
Oct. 6 | Nigeria's 51 independent celebration in Lagos, Oct. 1 2011. Photo Source: Reuters
Keeping mute in the face of tyranny and maintaining passivity when actions are required is not ordinarily an act of cowardice, it is inhuman, it is deplorable and it...
Sep. 29 | Press Release – LEADERS of the 54 Commonwealth nations are being urged to end early and forced marriage.
One month ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth Australia, the Royal Commonwealth Society and charity Plan International...
Sep. 15 | An unidentified activist leader speaks with a German police officer during a peaceful protest against poor living conditions of asylum seekers in Germany.
By NAL staff writer
In 2009, Salomom Wantchoucou, a Beninois asylum seeker was to be deported by...
Aug. 24 | By David Mehdi Hamam and Oliver Schwank
The honeymoon with microfinance is over. Since the idea of lending small sums of money to poor people was pioneered by Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, the approach has been taken up by many non-governmental organizations,...