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Amaechi Claims Tinubu Spent N12 Billion to Change National Anthem, But Was It Budgeted For?

Former Minister of Transportation and 2027 African Democratic Congress vice presidential candidate, Rotimi Amaechi, has alleged that the President Bola Tinubu government spent...

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Burkina Faso’s Traoré Says God Is Angry With Black People for Refusing to Use Their Brains

Burkina Faso’s military leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has said God is angry with Black people because they have refused to use their brains,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Guinea-Bissau’s Ousted President Embalo to Return From Exile and Run in December Election

Guinea-Bissau’s exiled former president, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, has announced that he will return to the country and run for president in an election...

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Aaron Greenspan Accuses Tinubu of Lying to Court Over 1993 Political Status in FOIA Case

Aaron Greenspan, who is pursuing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration, has accused President Bola Tinubu...

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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...

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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...

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Tinubu Seeks Fresh $1.5bn World Bank Loan as Nigeria’s Debt Hits Record N166.79tn

President Bola Tinubu’s administration has opened fresh discussions with the World Bank for three new loans totalling $1.5 billion, even as Nigeria’s public...

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Peter Obi Rejects $123m Anambra Debt Claim, Says He Left Over $150m in Funds

Peter Obi has rejected claims that he left Anambra State with $123 million in debt, insisting he handed over a financially strong government...

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Niger Introduces Prior Declaration for Large Cash Transports in Anti-Terrorism Push

Niger’s government has announced new rules requiring a prior declaration for the physical transport of funds exceeding the maximum thresholds set by banking...