JNIM Kills 47 Beninese Soldiers as Sahel Crisis Expands Toward Nigeria
The Sahel crisis has crashed through Benin’s northern frontier with a brutality that has shaken the small West African nation. In an attack attributed to the al-Qaeda affiliate Jama’at Nusrat...
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Burkina Faso and Venezuela Strengthen Ties as Venezuelan Socialist Party Hails RPP Revolutionary Drive
The United Socialist Party of Venezuela has praised the revolutionary momentum driven by Burkina Faso’s Popular Progressive Revolution during a high level diplomatic...
For First Time in 15 Years Nigeria’s Budget Office Fails to Publish Three Consecutive Quarterly Reports Under Tinubu
The Nigerian government has chosen to violate the Fiscal Responsibility Act rather than publish statutory budget implementation reports for three consecutive quarters, an...
Tinubu wants to borrow Nigeria into more debt as citizens storm World Bank comments to block fresh loan
The World Bank’s social media pages have become an unlikely battleground this week, overwhelmed by a torrent of angry Nigerian voices demanding the...
Burkina Faso and Niger Join Mali to Launch Retaliatory Air Campaign Against Rebel Targets
The Alliance of Sahel States (AES), a military coalition comprising Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, has confirmed that its joint force conducted “intense...
Ivory Coast Rushes to Calm Cocoa Farmer Protests as Unpaid Beans Rot and Crisis Spirals
The world’s top cocoa producer is rushing to defuse an escalating crisis in its rural heartland, where unpaid farmers blocked roads and clashed...
Bill Gates Ebola Vaccine Grant Matches Deadly Outbreak as FBI Probes Scientist Smuggling Pathogens From DR Congo
A new Ebola outbreak in central Africa has ignited a firestorm of criticism against billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, as the timing of a...
From False Visa Promises to Drug Controversies, Tinubu Keeps Demarketing Nigeria on the Global Stage
The credibility of President Bola Tinubu’s government has plunged into crisis, both at home and abroad, as a pattern of debunked official claims,...
Tinubu’s Actions Signal A Colonial-Era Comeback As He Scraps Key National Traditions
The Tinubu regime has cancelled the Independence Anniversary parade, previously scheduled to mark Nigeria’s 65th Anniversary of Independence on Wednesday, October 1. This...
Bill Gates Ebola Vaccine Grant Matches Deadly Outbreak as FBI Probes Scientist Smuggling Pathogens From DR Congo
A new Ebola outbreak in central Africa has ignited a firestorm of criticism against billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, as the timing of a...
For The First Time Ever Nigeria’s Ginger Export Fell From N26 Billion To Zero Under Tinubu’s Government Despite Being The World’s Top Producer
Nigeria was once the world’s third largest producer of ginger and the undisputed leader in quality. The native varieties Tafin Giwa and Yatsun...
AES Countries Meet in Niamey to Forge Common Strategy on Ex-Combatant Reintegration
The surrender, demobilisation and reintegration of former combatants is at the heart of a major regional forum taking place in Niamey from May...
Mali Appoints Brigadier General Daouda Traoré as New Chief of Staff of the National Guard
Mali has appointed Brigadier General Daouda Traoré as the new Chief of Staff of the National Guard, a move aimed at strengthening the...
Burkina Faso and Venezuela Strengthen Ties as Venezuelan Socialist Party Hails RPP Revolutionary Drive
The United Socialist Party of Venezuela has praised the revolutionary momentum driven by Burkina Faso’s Popular Progressive Revolution during a high level diplomatic...
Over 70 APC Lawmakers Lose Return Tickets as Party Primaries Shake National Assembly
A major political earthquake has hit the ruling All Progressives Congress following the party primaries held on May 16, with more than 70...
Tinubu’s Government Demands New Tax ID for Every Nigerian While Bandits Keep Kidnapping, Hunger Bites, and Electricity Dies
Just as families across Nigeria are burying loved ones killed by bandits and counting ransom payments that have drained generational savings, the administration...
More Than 1,100 Abducted in Four Months While Tinubu’s Campaign Machinery Moves Quietly Toward a Second Term
As heavily armed bandits behead a teacher in Oyo State, kill a former lawmaker after nine days in captivity, and abduct at least...
AES Pushes Resource Control as Niger Secures $1 Billion Oil Pact With China
Niger’s military led government has signed a sweeping series of oil agreements with Chinese energy firms, marking a major strategic pivot for the...
Ghana Seeks Bigger Share of Gold Wealth With New Refining Mandate
Ghana has launched an ambitious plan to secure a larger share of its gold wealth, proposing that large scale mines must sell at...
For Bolé Festival, The Future Still Tastes Like Home
There is a unique energy in Port Harcourt every August and September. The smell of smoky plantains roasting over open flames fills the...
Babatunde Apalowo’s Next Nollywood Film, Londoner, Is Personal, but Its Questions Are Collective
Babatunde Apalowo has always been drawn to stories that feel intimate. His debut, All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and...
Nnamdi Kanaga’s “Water Girl” and the New Wave of Mythmaking in Nigerian Cinema
The crackle of a Montana winter seems worlds away from the humid whispers of Igbo folklore. Yet, in a Bozeman editing suite, filmmaker...
Exclusive: MI6, CIA-linked NGOs, Bill Gates Are Directly Writing Nigeria’s Security, Health, Food And Tax Laws
Foreign intelligence agencies and foreign organisations – including those tied to the CIA, Britain’s MI6, and US billionaire Bill Gates – are directly...
EXPOSED: US Embassy in Uganda Runs Clandestine Foreign Interference Program Targeting East African Journalists
The United States Embassy in Kampala, Uganda is actively involved in Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) activities targeting audiences in East Africa....
Biyi Toluwalase Puts Story First in Every Nollywood Film He Edits
The editor behind Gangs of Lagos, Sista, and Makemation talks about invisible storytelling, creative trust, and why caring about the project is everything—often...
Why “The Fire and the Moth” Feels Like Taiwo Egunjobi’s Truest Story
Taiwo Egunjobi returns with “The Fire and the Moth,” a tense thriller we previewed after a private screening, delving into local lore and...
Hundeyin and Greenspan Win FOIA Suit as US Court Orders FBI, Other Federal Agencies To Release Unredacted Files on Tinubu’s Heroin Trafficking
West Africa Weekly’s EIC David Hundeyin and Aaron Greenspan of Plainsite have won the lawsuit [No. 23-1816 (BAH)] which they jointly instituted against...
Kenya government confirms readiness to accept Ebola patients under US deal as court suspends plan
A Kenyan government official has confirmed that the country is prepared to accept Ebola patients from abroad under a reported arrangement with the...
DR Congo Asks FIFA for World Cup Ticket Refunds After Ebola Travel Ban Blocks Fans from Attending
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has made a formal request to FIFA for a full refund of World Cup tickets purchased by...
Pray for the Kidnappers Tinubu Tells Nigeria as Two Year Old Still Held in Oyo Forest
On a Children’s Day when dozens of Nigerian children are still held hostage by armed bandits in Oyo State, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu...
World Bank Cancels $717 Million After Tinubu Government Took $796 Million to Fix Electricity Yet Most Nigerians Still in Darkness
In a devastating blow to Nigeria’s already crippled power sector, the World Bank has cancelled $717.7 million in undisbursed electricity loans. The decision...
ECOWAS Mediator Received by Captain Ibrahim Traoré in Ouagadougou to Discuss AES Relations
The ECOWAS mediator for the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Lansana Kouyaté, was granted an audience by Captain Ibrahim Traoré on Tuesday to...
Bank of Ghana Suspends Planned 0.75% Mobile Money Transfer Fee
The Bank of Ghana has suspended a proposed 0.75 percent fee on direct transfers from mobile money wallets to bank accounts, directing Mobile...
