Formula One returns to Africa as Rwanda secures 10-Year Grand Prix deal
Formula One will return to Africa in the early 2030s as Rwanda signs a 10-year deal to host a Grand Prix at a planned circuit in Bugesera. Formula One (F1)…
Kristalina Georgieva
IMF warns AI could disrupt jobs Worldwide, calls for urgent skills reforms
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva warns AI could augment, downgrade or eliminate 40% of global jobs, with young workers particularly vulnerable to losing entry-level opportunities. Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the…
UK migrant workers sing Asa’s ‘Jailer’ in protest against 15-year visa plan
UK Migrant workers chained themselves symbolically and sang the Nigerian singer’s 2007 hit outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, opposing proposed settlement reforms that could extend their wait for…
Enhanced image of Tafawa Balewa giving the first Independence Day Speech
Nigeria Independence Day: 66 years of political twists and turns
Six decades, six republics, countless political dramas, and one recurring lesson: independence was only ever the beginning Nigeria gained independence from British rule on 1 October 1960, closing one long…
Resident Doctors give FG two weeks to address welfare demands
The National Association of Resident Doctors has given the federal government two weeks to resolve outstanding welfare and professional issues or face possible industrial action. The National Association of Resident…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo
Obasanjo: Nigeria’s support helped bring apartheid to an end
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says South Africa would not have ended apartheid when it did without Nigeria’s support for the anti-apartheid struggle. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says apartheid would not…
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The fake food scare Nigeria’s regulators can’t fully answer
Nigeria’s fake food scare has exposed a deeper crisis of trust, as Nigerians demand evidence from NAFDAC and stronger food safety enforcement. A few months ago, I bought a bottle…
Gboyega Nasir Isiaka
Why subsidy should never crawl back into Nigeria’s economic discourse, By Gboyega Nasir Isiaka
Gboyega Nasir Isiaka argues that reversing subsidy reforms would restore fiscal pressures and leave the structural weaknesses in Nigeria’s economy unresolved. I have followed with considerable interest the continuing debate…
EFCC extradites two Nigerians to US over sextortion of teen boys
The EFCC has extradited two Nigerians to the US to face charges over separate sextortion schemes linked to the suicides of two teenage boys, as part of continuing FBI-EFCC cooperation…
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How convicted murderer on death row became Tik Tok famous from Abeokuta jail
Elijah Oyebode is on death row at Ibara prison in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State in Nigeria. He was convicted in 2019 of the 2016 murder of Rofiat Adebisi,…
