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Written by FRANCE 24 Billed as Africa’s first home-grown military aircraft, the Advanced High-Performance Reconnaissance Light Aircraft (AHRLAC) made its first test flight in South Africa this week, marking a milestone in the continent’s aviation history. On Wednesday, August, 13, as the AHRLAC descended from the Pretoria skies and taxied to a halt outside a hangar at … [Read more...] about First African military aircraft takes to the skies, making aviation history

Written by Tmii Soleye Why Nigeria Generates So Little Power Nigeria is the greenest populous country in the world, but it is so entirely by accident. We fuel a population north of 170 million -- the seventh largest in the world -- on an available installed grid electricity generation capacity of fewer than 6GW. In the context of Barack Obama's initiative last week … [Read more...] about Why Nigeria is Poor Power Generator

Written by Associated Press The Nigeria Football Federation says it has offered Stephen Keshi a new contract to stay on as coach of the national team and expects him to sign it in the next few days. The NFF made the announcement on Tuesday without disclosing any terms relating to the contract. In a brief comment on the contract, the NFF said its executive committee … [Read more...] about Nigeria federation: Keshi offered new contract

Written by Geoffrey York Africa accounted for only 9 per cent of the world’s population in 1950, but by the end of this century about 40 per cent of all humans (and nearly half of all children) will be African, heralding one of the fastest and most radical demographic changes in history, the report says. While every other continent is seeing a slower rise in births, or … [Read more...] about Population boom: 40% of all humans will be African by end of century

Written by Chidinma Nwoye Wednesday marked the last day of U.S. efforts to strengthen ties with Africa through the first-ever U.S.-Africa summit, for which nearly 50 African heads of state traveled to Washington, D.C. While the summit seems to have gone smoothly, some have asked an uncomfortable question: Why wasn't a meeting of 50 Africans and one American president held … [Read more...] about Why Wasn’t the U.S.-Africa Summit Held in Africa?