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Nigeria basketball team wins AfroBasket, qualify for 2016 Rio Olympics Nigeria beat Angola 74-65 Source: Team Nigeria Basketball Rades, Tunisia- 43 years, 17 tournaments and 4 finals was what it took for the Senior Men’s Nigerian basketball team to etch their name into the history books and become the 8th African country to lift the […]

New York Forum Africa 2015 -Libreville, Gabon Source: NYFA The business and political leaders that will gather in Libreville, August 28-30, to engage in intense, collaborative sessions to draw up a road map – for individual businesses as well as national policy-makers – as a guide and spur to action. The New York Forum AFRICA […]

Water pollution, a tricky issue for Rio de Janeiro Olympics Xinhua RIO DE JANEIRO- Different from last year’s World Cup, an event which attracted widespread protests and was criticized by slow stadium construction, organizers of the 2016 Rio Olympics that start within year from now are facing new tricky issues, the water pollution. The issue […]

UNWTO Regional Conference Enhancing Brand Africa Fostering Tourism Development, Accra, Ghana, 17-19 August 2015 Source: United Nations World Tourism Organization MADRID- The UNWTO Regional Conference Enhancing Brand Africa – Fostering Tourism Development will bring together a wide variety of African tourism stakeholders to explore how build a stronger brand for Africa as a tourism destination […]

Kenya vows to spearhead Pan-Africanism Xinhua NAIROBI- Kenya on Monday vowed to spearhead Pan-Africanism in order to enable the continent to chart its own destiny. Deputy President William Ruto told a region forum in Nairobi that Africa’s political and economic liberation will only be achieved if the continent sets aside tribal, religious and nationalists divisions. […]

Nigeria: Kano light rail system receives boost from Czech Republic via Memorandum of Understanding Gov.Ganduje , Czeck Ambassador sign MoU for Kano Light Rail Kano State Government KANO, NIGERIA- Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State and the Czech Republic Ambassador to Nigeria, Pavel Mikes, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the provision of […]

China to issue new 100 yuan bank note Xinhua BEIJING- The People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, announced it would issue a new 100-yuan bank note from Nov. 12 on Monday. The new bank note will be harder to counterfeit and easier for machines to read. Part of the fifth set of bank notes […]

Some international leaders congratulate Beijing on successful 2022 Winter Olympic bid Xinhua BEIJING- Leaders of some countries and international organizations have sent messages to China, congratulating Beijing on its successful bid to host the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. In a congratulatory message sent to Chinese President Xi Jinping, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said that […]

Sydney’s Badgerys Creek airport will not have a rail connection Jamie Freed The Sydney Morning Herald The second Sydney airport at Badgerys Creek in the city’s west will be capable of handling 10 million domestic and international passengers a year through a single terminal when it opens in 2025, but it will lack a rail […]

Brazil: Racial inequality continues as Statute of Racial Equality turns five While the Statute of Racial Equality in Brazil turned five, the country still struggles with inequality By Lise Alves The Rio Times SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The Statute of Racial Equality in Brazil completes five years of existence on Monday, July 20th but still […]