Talkie-Talkie
By Toyin Falola August 28, 2023. Delta Air, Flight 54. 10.45 PM, Lagos to Atlanta. The flight took off. I had not slept for two days running—not because I was thinking about money, like my neighbour to the left, or how to resolve the Zaddy issues for my friend in Kano. Power to the People! […]
Breaking: NNPP expels Kwankwaso
The crisis rocking the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has taken a new twist as National Executive Committee of the party has expelled Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso, following his alleged refusal to appear before the party’s Disciplinary Committee. Kwankwaso, the 2023 Presidential candidate of NNPP, had earlier been suspended by the party’s leadership at the National […]
Nigeria’s cinema generates N603m in August – CEAN
The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN) says it generated N603 million from tickets sold across the country in August. Its National Chairman, Mr Opeyemi Ajayi, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos, saying patronage at the cinemas in August was quite encouraging. According to Ajayi, 212, […]
Kim meets Putin as Russia seeks closer military ties with N. Korea
Kim Jong Un plans to travel to Russia this month to meet President Vladimir Putin and discuss supplying Moscow with weapons for the war in Ukraine, according to a New York Times report, as Russia seeks closer military ties with North Korea. In a rare trip abroad, Kim would travel from Pyongyang, […]
Technology Vital for Robust Ocean Economy, Dakuku Tells Beijing Int’l Maritime Confab
As the world seeks strategies for safer and more sustainable exploitation of maritime resources for transportation and other commercial purposes, the immediate past Director-general of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has said development of robust technology infrastructure and leveraging smart applications are key to enhancement of safety and growth in […]
DSS frees embattled Ogun council boss
The Department of State Security Service, (DSS) has released the suspended Chairman of Ogun East Local Government, Wale Adedayo. Adedayo had dragged Gov. Dapo Abiodun before the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) demanding the investigation of the governor over alleged mismanagement of local government funds. The […]
Putin, Erdoğan meet in Sochi
Negotiations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on reviving the Black Sea grain deal have begun. Putin received his guest outside his residence in Sochi on Monday afternoon, according to local media reports. Erdoğan travelled to Russia to persuade Putin to rejoin the agreement. Erdogan In […]
France bans Muslim students from wearing abayas in state schools
France is banning girls from wearing abayas and boys from wearing qamis at state schools in a move that is controversial. The step, coming as the new school year begins, was decreed by France’s new Education Minister Gabriel Attal, although French law imposes a strict separation between the state and religion. The abaya is […]
Gabon: Crooks in Power
By Toyin Falola Gabon demonstrates everything that is wrong with Africa, a tiny country with enormous resources stolen by a few kleptocrats. One family in over fifty years converted Gabon into a private estate—even the coup brings to power the cousin of the deposed president to prevent opposition from taking over power. Gabon is […]
Niger and Gabon: Points to Ponder
By BioDun J. Ogundayo France is due a whole lot of Karma. Ivory Coast, Togo, Cameroon, or Congo. Which is next? Take your pick from the neocolonialist witches’ brew and the Franco-contraption that we call Francophonie, this latter term pretentious, and contemptuous of the layers of African identity and history, and its immoral grafting […]
