Lagos-Calabar Highway Costs $15.7m Per Kilometre, Nigeria Pays More Than Benin, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal Combined
The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is costing Nigeria far more per kilometre than similar road projects in neighbouring West African countries, and the disparity is now impossible to ignore. New figures...
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TikTok Users in Northern Nigeria Turn to VPNs as Access Disruption Enters Fourth Day
TikTok users across several northern Nigerian states, including Kaduna, Kano and Sokoto, have been unable to access the platform normally since Monday, forcing...
El-Rufai’s February Letter to NSA Over Alleged Importation of Deadly Poison From Poland Resurfaces
A letter written by former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, to the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, in February 2026, demanding clarification over...
Gambia Bans Protests Without Permits After Blackout Unrest Erupts Ahead of December Election
Gambia’s police chief has banned all public protests without official permits after days of violent demonstrations over prolonged power cuts, a move that...
Gambia Protests Turn Chaotic as Power Outages Worsen Ahead of December Elections
Thousands of Gambians took to the streets overnight in Banjul and surrounding cities, burning tyres and blocking roads to protest prolonged power blackouts...
Algeria Severs Diplomatic Ties With UAE, Closes Airspace to Emirati Aircraft
Algeria announced on Thursday that it was cutting diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates, accusing Abu Dhabi of years of “provocative and...
ASUU Strike Threatens to Shut Down Federal Universities as Nigerians Accuse Media of Ignoring the Crisis
The Academic Staff Union of Universities is on the verge of a nationwide strike, with branches in several states already downing tools, yet...
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...
Niger Accuses France and Ukraine of Backing Proxies to Attack Its Territory in Fiery UN Speech
Niger’s representative at the United Nations General Assembly has accused France and Ukraine of leading a proxy war against his country, saying armed...
Sidya Touré, Guinea’s Former Prime Minister and Leading Opposition Figure, Dies in Paris at 81
Sidya Touré, a former prime minister of Guinea and one of the country’s most prominent opposition leaders, has died in Paris at the...
Burkina Faso Orders NGOs to Spend 80% of Budgets Locally as Russia Fills Void Left by West
Burkina Faso’s military government has adopted strict new regulations requiring non-governmental organisations to allocate at least 80 per cent of their total budgets...
Gambia’s FGM Ban Under Threat as Imam Abdoulie Fatty and MP Almameh Gibba Push to Make Cutting Girls Legal Again
Two men are leading the charge to overturn The Gambia’s ban on female genital mutilation, and if they succeed, the practice that has...
Senegal Signs $3.5bn Refinery Deal With Turkey’s Yamata to Process Local Crude, Target West African Fuel Market
Senegal’s state refiner, the Société Africaine de Raffinage (SAR), has signed a memorandum of understanding with Turkish company Yamata to build a second...
Tinubu Awards $7bn Ogun Deep Seaport Deal to Chagoury-Linked DP World as Nigerians Question His Priorities
President Bola Tinubu’s administration has awarded two major Ogun State deep seaport contracts worth more than $7 billion to DP World MEA FZE,...
World Bank Pledges $25m for Nigeria’s $300m Off-Grid Power Fund, Leaving $275m Unaccounted For
The World Bank has committed an initial $25 million to Nigeria’s newly launched $300 million Distributed Renewable Energy Fund, a contribution that represents...
From Yemen’s Khat Fields to Nigeria’s Gold Mines, Dehumanisation Fuels a Shared Drug Crisis
A social media post about Yemen’s khat addiction has sparked a conversation about how drug abuse is used to dehumanise entire populations, and...
Awoniyi Replaces Injured Osimhen in Super Eagles Squad for AFCON Qualifiers
Victor Osimhen has been ruled out of Nigeria’s opening 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Madagascar and Guinea-Bissau after failing to recover...
Uganda Suspends All Military Cooperation With Turkey Over Refusal to Extradite Government Critic
Uganda’s army has suspended all defence and military cooperation with Turkey with immediate effect, citing unresolved issues between the two countries. The announcement...
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...
Ethiopia and Eritrea Cut Diplomatic Ties as Tigray Conflict Escalates
Ethiopia and Eritrea have severed diplomatic relations as renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia raises fears of a wider regional conflict. On Thursday, Ethiopia...
Tinubu Cannot Even Speak for Himself, Nigerians Say After Edited Broadcast Exposed
Nigerians on social media have accused the Presidency of manipulating President Bola Tinubu’s 66th Independence Day broadcast, after a viral video showed what...
Tinubu’s Cancer Analogy Backfires as Nigerians Remind Him He Was in Power Since 2015
President Bola Tinubu’s attempt to paint himself as the leader who inherited a dying nation and is now nursing it back to health...
Declassified intelligence records reveal how Western networks leveraged NADECO activists to engineer Nigeria’s modern underdevelopment
The narrative surrounding Nigeria’s Fourth Republic is undergoing a profound historical revision as declassified diplomatic cables and intelligence agency disclosures reframe the legacy...
Apostle Babalola’s Legacy At Stake: Why The CAC Must Hold INEC Chairman Amupitan Accountable Before The Next Polls
The intense scrutiny surrounding the Independent National Electoral Commission Chairman, Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan, has transcended the boundaries of secular politics. It has...
Barrick Reaches Deal With Mali Unions to Avert Strike at Loulo-Gounkoto as Government Tightens Grip on Gold
Barrick Mining has signed a new collective bargaining agreement with unions at its Loulo-Gounkoto gold complex in western Mali, averting strike action that...
