Just when you thought award show season was over, the red carpet will make another appearance at the first-ever Africa Magic Viewer’s Choice Awards (AMVCA) in Lagos, Nigeria! Premiering on Sunday, March 9th, the award show boasts an exciting, live, one-hour red carpet pre-show where the best of African film and TV will dazzle before
Paul and Peter Okoye are the names behind the mega-popular R&B duo, P-Square. These identical twins have crossed geographical boundaries, making them not only the most popular artists in their native Nigeria, but also a hit sensation all over Africa and around the globe. P-Square’s music combines Western and African rhythms in a hip-shaking blend
The Secretariat of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) recently announced that it has recovered US$443 million of the $2.6 billion owed to the government as revenue by oil and gas companies. Audits produced for the period 1999 to 2008 uncovered huge discrepancies in reported payments and receipts. This information spearheaded efforts by the NEITI
Devex: The American Dream in an interdependent world – At the center of every election is America’s prosperity. How we can grow and progress socially and economically as a nation is a constant priority in politics, but in an interconnected word, could some of the answers actually lie in the prosperity of other nations, particularly
Earlier this week, before I was fired up to watch the first presidential debate, I had the privilege to view a screening of “Into the Niger Delta,” a documentary about the catastrophic oil spills in the Niger Delta at a special screening at the George Washington University in D.C. Oil pipeline in the Niger Delta
Nigerian journalist Sam Otti, the winner of our ONE Act a Week essay contest with Roger Thurow, shares an essay on why the US should invest in agriculture in Africa. There is a popular saying in my community that if money grew on trees, several women would marry monkeys. Unfortunately, not every woman would like
By now, I am sure you heard about the plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria last Sunday that killed 193 people, many of them Nigerians. One of our ONE staffers knew some of the people on that flight, so this is a tragedy that is particularly close to home for us here at ONE. We are
A decision by the Nigerian government to halt a hefty fuel subsidy on January 1 prompted one of the largest and most coordinated protests in Nigeria’s history. Though the protests are over, the issues that prompted them remain. UPDATE, 2/9/2012: Yesterday, President Goodluck Jonathan appointed his rival in last year’s presidential election, Nuhu Ribadu, as
Earlier this week, the Nigerian government removed a fuel subsidy that had kept gas prices in Nigeria artificially low. Because of this action, gas prices doubled basically overnight. As you could imagine, many people in Nigeria are not happy with this development (from CNN): Furious Nigerians have since taken to the streets, staging ‘Occupy Nigeria’
Read the original post on ONE’s Africa Blog. The Nigerian elections were scheduled to commence on Saturday, April 2nd with the parliamentary elections preceding the April 9th presidential elections and the April 16th gubernatorial elections. The elections started hours late and after millions of people successfully cast their votes, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
Once again, Nigerians have been ranked the happiest, most optimistic and most hopeful in the world. As one of many Nigerians dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country, it’s easy to disagree, especially given how the country and its people are portrayed in the media. Nigerians have spent the majority of our
This week in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, the critically important party conventions to decide the candidates for the April 2011 elections have been underway. The incumbent party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), proceeded first on January 13th. The convention took place in the middle of Abuja, the capital city, amidst tight security aimed at
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