Mali military-led government has detained four senior Malian employees of Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold, according to sources on Friday. The arrests, which reportedly occurred on Wednesday, come amidst growing pressure on international mining operations in the West African country since…
A NEWLY-PUBLISHED memoir by Robert Bourgi has shed light on the clandestine funding of French political campaigns by African leaders, revealing the murky connections that linked Paris to African capitals for decades. Bourgi, once a key figure in the…
DJIBOUTI’S Finance Minister, Ilyas Moussa Dawaleh, has assured the public that President Ismail Omar Guelleh is in good health, dismissing recent rumours suggesting otherwise. Over the weekend, unconfirmed reports claimed that President Guelleh had been flown to Paris for…
By Emma ELEKWA A smallholder poultry farmer Anthonia Nwabueze, in Otuocha community in Anambra East Local Government Area (LGA) of Anambra State, woke up to see about 250 birds lying lifeless in her poultry. It was her worst day, having…
WHEN the federal government launched its Citizens’ Delivery Tracker App in April, it promised Nigerians the opportunity to view ministries’ deliverables and key performance indices. This move, it said, would help Nigerians assess the Bola Tinubu administration, but six months…
DESPITE allocating over N1.65 billion to address flooding and erosion issues in Borno state, findings by The ICIR revealed that only 1.2 per cent of the allocation has been released. The ICIR gathered this data by reviewing the budget implementation reports…
IN 2021, Nigeria made a pledge to reach net zero by 2060 but two-thirds — 42 out of 62 — of the oil companies in Nigeria audited by the National Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) had no concrete climate plans…
By Newton Agbonluai Owan west people are intelligent and capable of thinking for themselves; we reject violence and oppression. The people are not fooled by the desperate accusations from the APC, particularly from inexperienced politicians who lost their units. It’s…
NIGERIAN cross-dresser Idris Okuneye, known as Bobrisky, has filed a lawsuit against internet activist and critic, VeryDarkMan, VDM, over an audio posted by the latter on his social media handle. The post captured an alleged voice record of the crossdresser…
SOCIAL media influencer, Martins Vincent Otse aka VeryDarkMan will appear before the House of Representatives on Monday over the bribery allegations made against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. VeryDarkMan had released an audio of crossdresser, Idris Okuneye aka…
