Some 60 people were killed and 200 others injured at a stampede in Abidjan. At least 60 people were crushed to death early yesterday morning during 2013 New Year eve festivities in Côte d’Ivoire’s commercial capital, Abidjan, the BBC reported. The incident occurred in the early hours of Tuesday, January 1 in the central Plateau Continue Reading...

Nigeria has achieved impressive economic growth between 1999 and 2010, as the economy grew fifteen fold from US$36 to nearly US$555 billion, according to “The 2012 Gender in Nigeria Report by the British Council, Nigeria”. The report states that the figure of US$555 billion “may even be an underestimate, because they do not include the Continue Reading...

Recent statistics released by the UK General Medical Council give Nigeria-trained doctors practising in the United Kingdom a terrible reputation. Figures released under the Freedom of Information Request by a British tabloid, the Daily Mail, reveal that three-quarters of the doctors struck off the General Medical Council (GMC) register in the past years are foreign-trained Continue Reading...