Nigeria’s defense minister claims that Boko Haram will be vanquished from its final stronghold in the Sambisa Forest within three months. Mansur Dan Ali, a retired general in the Nigerian Army who took over the defense ministry in November 2015, said on Wednesday that President Muhammadu Buhari had “changed the game” in the battle against Boko Haram, which has pledged ...

British colonialists would travel from the countryside to watch planes take off in Nairobi. Back in 1945, then British territory and Colonial Office had set up the East African Airways Corp. with a budget of just 50,000 pounds. Flight technology was new and exciting an elite toy operated by the colonial overlords of Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika, now Tanzania. Check ...

There’s a whole turn of bad habits people do first thing in the morning. Some of them may seem innocent enough (i.e. slamming your hand on the snooze button and sleeping in a few extra minutes every weekday, they can lead to negative health implications that can sabotage your life. Check also: 5 things you need every morning in order ...

When rock band Queen asked us “Who wants to live forever?” back in 1986, we interpreted it as standard lyrical rhetoric. But now, three decades and what feels like light years in technological, medical, and scientific advances later, the answer to that age-old question may have changed. And according to Ray Kurzweil, the famous American inventor who has been described ...

Someone might reasonably and understandably think that all passports are made equal, which is to say that a passport from most any country will provide a consistent level of travel access across all corners of the globe. Check also: 47 none African countries you can travel to from Uganda without visas The laws governing international travel, however, are much more nuanced than you might ...