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Charlotte Obasa and her Anfani bus service (1913), By Tayo Agunbiade

Nigeria, July 12 -- Charlotte Olajumoke Obasa was one of the daughters of the Lagos merchant, RB Blaize. In 1913, she launched Anfani Motor Bus Service on the roads of Lagos, and this attracted much i... Read More


Palestine and Western Sahara: Two intersecting causes and resistance paths, By Oubi Bouchraya Bachir

Nigeria, July 11 -- The Palestinian cause has strongly returned to the forefront of events since 7 October 2023, in the context of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood in the Gaza Strip. Regardless of the differen... Read More


Full text of Ribadu's remark at Niger Delta Stakeholders Summit 2024

Nigeria, July 11 -- A Paper Presented by the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, at the Technical Session of Niger Delta Stakeholders Summit I am very delighted to be here today as the Special Gu... Read More


Monumental corruption and the challenge of a continental anti-corruption day, By John G. Ikubaje

Nigeria, July 11 -- Corruption is a global phenomenon, and no society is immune to it. According to the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (I-IDEA), while corruption is uni... Read More


Doctors in Kyiv: Shielding children from Russian missile fragments, By Anna Mamonova & Angelina Kariakina

Nigeria, July 10 -- On 8 July, Russia fired 38 missiles of various types at Ukraine, Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk informed. Because of the scale, and how sophisticated the attack was... Read More


What Tinubu said about new livestock ministry, dairy production, farmers-herders violence (TRANSCRIPT)

Nigeria, July 10 -- President Bola Tinubu Tuesday inaugurated a committee to implement his government's livestock policy. At the event at the State House in Abuja, the president announced that he wou... Read More


Kongi at 90, By Louis Odion

Nigeria, July 9 -- Yes, take a glimpse at this photograph. You would probably imagine, momentarily, a model among the bevy paraded by, say, the popular ritzy GQ magazine. If so, well, you just fell f... Read More


N30,000 national minimum wage no longer tenable - Akpabio

Nigeria, July 9 -- The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, said the N30,000 national minimum wage is no longer tenable. Mr Akpabio disclosed this on Monday at a one-day retreat organised by the Natio... Read More


ECOWAS: As Tinubu's first tenure ends, By Olu Jacobs

Nigeria, July 9 -- There is a viral video of the Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo, arriving the Ouagadougou airport and being given a cold shoulder by Burkinabe ministers in the presence of their l... Read More


Expensively fiddling as country careens (EFCC), By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Nigeria, July 8 -- In the last week of April 2024, Pastor and Chairman of Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, swore that he would "resign as EFCC chairman if emba... Read More