Oct 30, 2009

President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday 09/10/09 for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear...

Oct 29, 2009

Youngest school headmaster Around the world millions of children are not getting a proper education because their families are too poor to afford to send them to school. In India, one schoolboy is trying to change that. In the first report in the BBC’s Hunger to Learn series, Damian Grammaticas meets Babar Ali, whose remarkable education project is...

Oct 29, 2009

Young girl plans on surviving life alone after quake in Malaysia.  Indonesia recently went through various earthquakes that took lots of lives. A particular village Malalak was totally destroyed and is now a mass grave. Septiani, 18, was at her boarding school when it all happened. She learned from the news that her village was damaged and tried frantically to...

Oct 29, 2009

The Future Awards is looking for talented young singers from across the country! Apart from talking about Nigeria when we go on our town hall meetings across 8 states, and getting quality nominations from different parts of the country, we also want to uncover and promote new talent that should take Naija by storm!   SO, as we go from state to state, we will...

Oct 28, 2009

Every once in a while, some people step up to us – we call them professional cynics – and say: how can The Future Awards be celebrating Nigeria? What is there to celebrate? We should be protesting, we should be mourning; there’s nothing to be happy about! And we tell them: you obviously haven’t been paying attention. How can you say there is nothing to...