Why the Back-to-Africa movement failed three times, and what Ghana’s 2019 “Year of Return” can learn from it

The desire to return to Africa has been recurring in the social and political imagination of African-Americans and other descendants of former slaves who were uprooted from the continent during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Africa’s highest mountain Kilimanjaro is on fire

Firefighters and hundreds of volunteers in Tanzania are battling to contain a reported fire outbreak on Africa’s tallest mountain, Kilimanjaro, the country’s National Parks Service (TANAPA) confirmed in a statement on Monday.

Michael Ibru introduced frozen fish to Nigeria and became a millionaire

When Michael Ibru began the production and the marketing of frozen fish in Nigeria in 1957, many thought it was a ridiculous business idea. There was no appetite for the product then, and even earlier attempts by Europeans to introduce a similar venture had failed. But a daring Ibru, who had then just entered the world of commerce and only in his mid-20s, presented frozen fish before Nigerians even while they mockingly labeled his product ‘mortuary fish’.

Man rushed to hospital after sticking beer glass up his butthole

A 53-year-old man was rushed into surgery after he inserted a beer glass into his butt hole and couldn't get it out.

What is #EndSARS? – How hundreds of thousands of Nigeria’s youth brought gov’t to a standstill over rogue police unit

On Sunday, the Nigerian government folded under the pressure of more than three million tweets and hundreds of thousands of young Nigerians who matched in the country’s most influential states to force an end to a notorious police unit accused of state-sanctioned violence against citizens.