On Saturday September 12, Abuja became the first stop of Indomie Palooza 2026, a nationwide tour built around the theme “Where Moments Meet Fun.” It felt less like a conventional brand event, and more like a meeting point to have fun and celebrate together.
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Raised in Abuja and born in Nasarawa State, FirstKlaz has built his name on a genre-fluid style he calls kalangu sound, weaving Hausa melodies and traditional Northern rhythms into Afrobeats and contemporary pop production.
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Two deaths in eight months, both linked to the pressure the institution places on the young people in its care, should not be treated as unrelated tragedies. They are data points, the pattern describes a school that too often treats collapse, mental, physical, and sometimes fatal, as an acceptable cost of doing business.
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What makes Authors of the Estate resonate beyond its immediate subject is that it isn’t simply a documentary about a book project. It is a case study in what becomes possible when marginalised communities made up of working-class, often non-white, historically written about rather than writing, are given the means to author their own narratives, on their own terms, without translation or permission.
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The incident carries implications far larger than the immediate death toll suggests. At risk is the survival of a peace agreement meant to close the book on one of Africa’s deadliest modern wars and the stability of an already fragile Horn of Africa, and the credibility of African led conflict resolution itself.
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Lasting solutions will require more than emergency meetings and last-minute cheques. Health sector unions and independent observers have repeatedly called for full implementation of collective bargaining agreements rather than partial disbursements, a transparent and time-bound payment system that does not require doctors to strike before arrears are released, and a functional joint monitoring mechanism involving government, NARD and the NMA to track implementation after each agreement, so that “the strike ended” does not simply mean the crisis went quiet for a few months.
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African fiction has never been short on women who refuse to be simple. They lie, scheme, endure, break, and rebuild themselves in ways that this list cannot do justice to, and that’s exactly why they stay with us. These are fifteen characters who got under our skin. Some for their quiet courage, others for their contradictions, and a few because we recognised pieces of ourselves, or someone we know and love, in them. This is not a ranking of the “best” women in African literature, it is a biased list of the ones we have kept thinking about long after we closed the books.
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Belonwu believes design can become the bridge between local cultural significance and global cultural relevance, the same way it became the bridge between a scrappy Lagos startup and the trust of international investors and users.
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On July 23, 2026, a Federal High Court judge in Abuja sentenced three men to life in prison over the mass abduction of schoolchildren and teachers in Oriire Local Government Area, Oyo State. Justice Salim Ibrahim handed down the sentence after Abdulrazak Umar (also known as Abu Khalifa or Abu Khalid), Yunusa Musa (also known as Yunusa bin Musa) and Shamsu Adamu Sani (also known as Abu Itisar) pleaded guilty to some of the charges against them. The sentence takes effect from the date of their arrest.
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