Rose Gidado, Nigeria’s GMO Regulator and TELA Maize Advocate, Defends Safety – ‘We Won’t Poison Our Own People’
Rose Gidado, Director at the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology of the National Biotechnology Research and Development Agency (NBRDA), has recently insisted that the...
Burkina Faso and Mali Boycott African Defence Summit in Nigeria
Burkina Faso and Mali were notably absent from the African Chiefs of Defence Summit in Nigeria, a key regional security meeting held in...
Nigeria Arrests Palestinian Community Leader Ten Days After Signing ‘Security’ Pact with Israel
Ramzy Ibrahim Abusafiah, the leader of the Palestinian community in Nigeria, has been reportedly arrested by suspected operatives of the Nigeria Police’s Anti-Terrorism...
Nigeria’s NIMC Behind Over 3M DDoS Attack On FIJ, Violating Cybercrimes Act
Nigeria’s National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has been accused of launching and executing a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack on the website of the...
Nigeria Lost ₦826bn In Gas, 15,400 GWh of Electricity, And ₦472bn In Flaring Fines Between January and May 2025
Nigeria has lost an estimated ₦826 billion ($539.2 million) worth of gas to flaring between January and May 2025. This volume of wasted...
Burkina Faso Bans Gates-Backed GM Mosquito Experiments, Samples To Be Destroyed Nationwide
Burkina Faso has announced a nationwide end to the activities of Target Malaria, the research consortium funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates...
Tinubu’s Budget Office Fails To Publish Q1 And Q2 2025 Budget Performance Reports, First Delay In 15 Years
For the first time since 2010, Nigeria’s Budget Office of the Federation (BOF), under the Bola Tinubu-led regime, has failed to publish the...
EXCLUSIVE: Wike Hides $2 Million Florida Mansion Under Wife and Childrens’ Names, Documents Expose Wife As Registered U.S. Democrat
Damning US public records obtained by West Africa Weekly have revealed that Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, secretly acquired a...
Foundation Urges Nigeria’s House Of Reps To Fast-Track Anti-Gas Flaring Bill To Safeguard Niger Delta Communities
AdvoKC Foundation, a youth-led organisation dedicated to governance, transparency, and accountability, has called on Nigeria’s 10th House of Representatives to set a definitive...
France Revives 2023 Claims, Citing Vienna Convention To Secure Release Of French Spy In Mali Coup Plot
As the Sahel steadily moves away from imperial and neocolonial influence, France, backed by its state-owned media outlet France24, has once again resorted...
$346M U.S. Arms Deal with Nigeria Sparks Allegations of Tinubu Drug File Cover-Up
The U.S. State Department has approved a potential $346 million weapons sale to Nigeria, according to the Defence Security Cooperation Agency. The deal,...
Pfizer and Gates Pushing Dangerous Depo-Provera Contraceptive in Africa as Brain Tumor and Population Control Allegations Mount
An injectable birth control drug, medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA), widely known as Depo-Provera and marketed globally as Sayana Press, is at the centre of...