M. Durosinmi is a West Africa Weekly investigative reporter covering Politics, Human Rights, Health, and Security in West Africa and the Sahel Region
907 Articles73 CommentsKenya’s William Ruto has proposed to mediate the Nile Dam dispute between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia following the inauguration of the $5 billion...
ByMayowa DurosinmiSeptember 12, 2025A Nigerian social media influencer has resurfaced a four-month-old news report from Arise News, subtly suggesting that under President Bola Tinubu’s regime, the...
ByMayowa DurosinmiSeptember 12, 2025Ethiopia, a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa, on Tuesday, inaugurated the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), the...
ByMayowa DurosinmiSeptember 11, 2025Nigerian president Bola Tinubu has intervened via his lawyer, Oluwole O. Afolabi, in the ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit at the...
ByMayowa DurosinmiSeptember 9, 2025KoBold Metals, a California-based mining company backed by U.S. billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, received seven exploration permits for lithium and other...
ByMayowa DurosinmiSeptember 7, 2025Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), has been criticised again for amplifying an ethnic slur depicting the entire Igbo...
ByMayowa DurosinmiSeptember 4, 2025The Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), on Tuesday attacked a road construction site along the Bamako-Kayes corridor, setting fire...
ByMayowa DurosinmiSeptember 3, 2025An explosive investigation by The Grayzone has revealed that BBC Media Action, which portrays itself as the “charitable” arm of the British Broadcasting...
ByMayowa DurosinmiSeptember 3, 2025Unlabeled genetically modified (GM) TELA Maize is being sold openly on the Nigerian online marketplace Jiji for as low as ₦4,000 ($2.62), highlighting...
ByMayowa DurosinmiSeptember 1, 2025Western leaders, including France, the European Union (EU), and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), continue to frame African cooperation with Russia as...
ByMayowa DurosinmiAugust 31, 2025On August 30, a post on X by Arise News, a Nigerian media outlet, amplified misinformation shared by Ishiyaku Mohammad, the former Executive...
ByMayowa DurosinmiAugust 31, 2025As Nigeria’s global image struggles to recover from an avoidable embarrassment after its booth was left conspicuously empty at the 9th Tokyo International...
ByMayowa DurosinmiAugust 30, 2025