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Stakeholders raise alarm over environmental impact of extractive sector, call for just energy transition

Nigeria, June 23 -- Stakeholders in Nigeria's extractive industries have called for urgent reforms in the country's approach to resource governance, stressing that while oil, gas, and mineral wealth h... Read More


INTERVIEW: How I use AI to promote food security - Farmer

Nigeria, June 23 -- Donald Iheaturu is a lecturer at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, and a farmer who uses technology to promote food security in his environment. In this interview, Mr Iheaturu s... Read More


EFCC witness links defendant to N3.4 billion crypto fraud syndicate in Lagos trial

Nigeria, June 23 -- A Union Bank compliance officer, Chidubem Ogbura, has testified in the ongoing trial of Friday Audu and three others accused of orchestrating a cryptocurrency and romance fraud syn... Read More


Kenny Oshadipe launches new musical identity 11 years after her twin's death

Nigeria, June 23 -- Over a decade after the demise of her twin sister, Taiwo, Kehinde Oshadipe, the surviving member of the musical group Oshadipe Twins, has dusted off her act and is set to relaunch ... Read More


Zambian-American writer, Iris Nwanza, launches corruption-themed novel, 'The Lion's Den'

Nigeria, June 23 -- Zambian-American author Iris Nwanza launched her debut novel, The Lion's Den, in Lagos on Saturday. The novel centres on prevailing corruption in the justice system of African cou... Read More


Many Nigerian universities are censoring free speech, clamping down on student journalists

Nigeria, June 23 -- Muheeb Moshood, a student journalist at Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, UDUS, never imagined that reporting about students' struggles at the university clinic would spark a cha... Read More


Zambian bill proposes jail for unlicensed journalists. CPJ fumes

Nigeria, June 23 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists on Monday expressed alarm at a Zambian bill that could jail journalists who work without a license for up to five years if it were to become la... Read More


Israel-Iran conflict: Then Nigerian connection, By Dakuku Peterside

Nigeria, June 23 -- When Israel launched Operation Rising Lion in the early hours of 13 June, most Nigerians were asleep. The footage came in fragments - precision airstrikes, sirens over Tel Aviv, de... Read More


Nigeria's tax reforms are promising but who will hold the (new) NRS accountable?, By Edidiong Bassey

Nigeria, June 23 -- When I learnt that the Tinubu administration was inaugurating a Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, I was cautiously optimistic. As one who has spent nearly a ... Read More


Alleged copyright infringement: 'Don't make Olamide my enemy'- Yemi My Lover to Nigerians

Nigeria, June 23 -- Veteran actor Yemi Ayebo, known as Yemi My Lover, has broken his silence regarding rumours that rapper Olamide used his name in a song and subsequently avoided his calls to sideste... Read More