Nollywood Just Signed Its Way Into China’s $10Billion Film Market
Nollywood is going global in a way it has never gone before. At the 23rd Abuja InternationalFilm Festival this morning, Nigerian film... Read More
Russia Pounds Kyiv Overnight With 269 Drones As Peace Talks Collapse In Hours
Russia launched one of its heaviest overnight air assaults on Kyiv in weeks, pounding theUkrainian capital with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and... Read More
Burkina Faso Brings Back The Death Penalty In Unanimous Vote
Burkina Faso’s military-appointed parliament has unanimously adopted a sweeping newpenal code that restores the death penalty, a dramatic reversal that lands less... Read More
Ghana’s $11.6bn Gold Boom: How Artisanal Miners Rewrote the Trade
Ghana’s gold export numbers released today confirm what West African commodity traders havebeen whispering about since the summer: the country’s small-scale and... Read More
Tinubu Shuts the Door on Fuel Subsidy: “Moses Does Not Go Back to Egypt”
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has definitively ruled out any return of the fuel subsidy,delivering his sharpest rejection yet of a policy reversal... Read More
Russia frees American Stephen Hubbard after over 4 years in prison, during a visit by US envoy
Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin announced Wednesday that Moscow has freedAmerican teacher Stephen Hubbard from a Russian prison, saying the release was... Read More
Ebola Is In Abuja. Nigeria Just Confirmed Its First Case.
Nigeria has officially confirmed its first case of Ebola in the current regional outbreak. Thepatient, a woman who recently travelled into the... Read More
Netflix Film Chief Dan Lin Exits Amid a Sweeping Executive Reshuffle
The streamer’s film chief departs amid a sweeping executive reshuffle, triggering fresh questions about Netflix’s movie strategy and the direction of its... Read More
Rwandan Dissident Found Beheaded Near Kampala, Reigniting Exile Fears
The killing of Robert Kabera, a vocal Kagame critic who had sought refuge in Uganda, has triggered demands for an urgent investigation... Read More
Oyedele’s Warning: Bring Back Fuel Subsidy and the Naira Could Crack
Finance Minister Taiwo Oyedele says reinstating petrol subsidy would drive pump prices past ₦2,000 a litre and push the naira toward ₦3,000... Read More