The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that emergency food assistance in Nigeria is grinding to a halt due to a critical funding shortage, raising concerns of a worsening hunger crisis across the country. As economic hardship deepens and insecurity persists, millions of Nigerians face the threat of food insecurity without immediate international […]
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Not that it was under much doubt, but there’s a certain inevitability that by 2027, Nigeria’s perennial presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar will once again be on the ballot paper when the citizenry decides in the country’s eighth general election since the return of democracy in 1999. About two years after his fifth consecutive unsuccessful shot […]
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To begin with, that your parents worked two jobs to send you to a private university does not quite make your story one of poverty, because no matter how many meals were skipped or how many sacrifices were made, the ability to make those sacrifices in the first place already sets your family apart. Millions […]
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When Femi Adesina, former presidential spokesperson, recently said that former President Muhammadu Buhari could have died a long time ago if he had relied on Nigerian hospitals, he reignited the troubling conversation around medical tourism. “If he had said, ‘I will do my medicals in Nigeria’ just as a show-off or something, he could have […]
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Nigeria’s former president and military ruler, Muhammadu Buhari, has died at age 82 in London, according to a statement released today by his spokesperson, Garba Shehu. Buhari, who governed Nigeria as a military head of state from December 1983 to August 1985 and later as a democratically elected president from 2015 to 2023, had been […]
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At least nine people have been killed and four others injured in a recent attack by Boko Haram militants in the northeastern Nigerian town of Malam Fatori, located in Borno State near the border with Chad. The assault on the remote community was confirmed by local officials. Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum, represented by the […]
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On June 27, 2025, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda signed a U.S.-brokered peace agreement in Washington, D.C., aimed at ending decades of brutal conflict in eastern Congo. The peace deal was signed in the U.S. State Department’s Treaty Room and later celebrated by President Trump in the Oval Office. Both Congo’s Foreign […]
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In June 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered military strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites: Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow. These bombings were a major turning point in the Israel–Iran crisis, which had been escalating since Hamas’ October 2023 attack on Israel. That incident triggered Israel’s overwhelming retaliation on Gaza and set off a chain reaction: […]
The suspension of major U.S. foreign aid programmes under President Donald Trump is triggering severe humanitarian consequences across Africa, particularly for refugees and vulnerable communities dependent on HIV prevention services. As aid flows dry up, refugee camps are descending into hunger crises, while decades of progress against HIV face a critical threat. One of […]
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A gruesome massacre in Nigeria’s Benue State has left as many as 200 people dead. The attacks, which targeted the community of Yelewata in Guma Local Government Area between Friday, June 13, and Saturday, June 14, 2025, represent one of the deadliest episodes this year in the long-running conflict gripping Nigeria’s Middle Belt. Survivors and […]
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As expected, the news of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s passing on May 28 brought in a global wave of tributes, eulogies, and critical re-evaluations of his monumental contributions to African literature. Few intellectuals shaped the colonial African imagination as profoundly as Ngũgĩ. He was a man of sharp intellect. His writings, which continue to shape generations […]
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Sudan’s de facto military government has appointed former United Nations official and career diplomat Kamil al-Taib Idris as the country’s new Prime Minister. This appointment comes over two years into a brutal civil war that has ravaged the nation, displaced millions, and pushed it to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe. The decision by Army chief […]
