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 country from Uganda, tested positive overnightand is now in isolation at a private hospital in the Federal Capital Territory, authorities said thismorning.Health officials have begun contact-tracing 44 people identified as having been in... 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 $17 billion content machine. Dan Lin, the man Netflix hired less than two years ago to overhaul its film division, is out.News of his departure broke this morning and immediately ricocheted through Hollywood,where... 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 and raised fresh questions about the reach of political violence across the Great Lakes. The body of Robert Kabera, a 50-year-old former Rwandan army sergeant major turnedoutspoken government critic, was discovered on the... 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 to the dollar — a stark intervention that landed this morning as 2027 campaign pressure builds. Nigeria’s finance minister, Taiwo Oyedele, has issued one of his sharpest warnings yetagainst bringing back the petrol... Read More
Former Delta Gov Emmanuel Uduaghan Dies at 71 After Brief Illness
Dr Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, who served as governor of Delta State from 2007 to 2015,died earlier today after a brief illness. He was 71.News of his death broke in the morning and quickly spread across Nigerian political andmedia circles. Family sources confirmed he had been battling a short illness before passing inthe early hours of... Read More
France: 2,400 Arrested Overnight as Protests Spiral
France woke on Monday to its worst domestic security crisis in years. In a single day ofunrest, authorities arrested roughly 2,400 people as waves of violent protests tore throughcities, with rioters setting public buildings alight and looting shops in multiple regions.President Emmanuel Macron condemned the violence in a statement issued hours ago, callingthe scenes ‘intolerable’... Read More
South Africa’s Suspended Top Cop Walks Back Into Office — Six Months, Dropped Charges Later
PRETORIA — General Fannie Masemola walked back into the South African Police Service headquarters today,resuming full duties as National Commissioner after six months of suspension — a return that answers onequestion and immediately raises several more.Masemola was placed on precautionary suspension in April after being charged in connection with a tenderawarded to businessman Vusimuzi ‘Cat’... Read More
Alberta Votes Today On First Step Toward Leaving Canada
Polling stations opened across Alberta this morning for a referendum that has forced Canadato confront a question it long treated as unthinkable: whether its wealthiest province shouldbegin a formal process that could lead to independence.The vote, officially scheduled for October 19, 2026, does not itself separate Alberta fromCanada. Instead, Albertans are being asked whether the... Read More
Opposition ‘Single Candidate’ Deal Collapses As Kwankwaso Says Obi Won’t Step Down
The weeks-long effort to field a single opposition presidential candidate against the rulingparty in Nigeria’s 2027 election has collapsed in public view, after Senator Rabiu MusaKwankwaso declared that Peter Obi would not withdraw from the race in favour of formerVice President Atiku Abubakar.Kwankwaso, who is the vice-presidential candidate on the Nigerian Democratic Congress(NDC) ticket, made... Read More
DR Congo’s Deadliest Ebola Outbreak: 4,000 Dead, Fight Reaches Bunia
The Democratic Republic of Congo is now five months into the worst Ebola outbreak in itshistory — and this morning, officials in Ituri province say the frontline has shifted again, tothe streets of Bunia.More than 4,000 people have died since the virus re-emerged in May, according to figurescirculated by the national health ministry and summarised... Read More