A law that punishes the messenger protects the officials who most need scrutiny.
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Beauty in the Motherland (BITML) 2026 opened in Lagos on October 5, with Vaseline and Dove putting skin health at the centre of the experience.
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The future now looks bleak to far too many Nigerians, who watch their currency fall, their best and brightest leave, and their leaders promise renewal once more. Hope, which should be a renewable resource, has been spent so often that the people who once carried it now treat it with suspicion. Nigerians are not tired because they have stopped caring. They are tired because they have cared, repeatedly, and been made to pay for it.
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Young Moroccans who took to the streets will judge her on jobs, prices and clinics rather than on the symbolism of her being the first woman prime minister. Still, her appointment marks a genuine first in a kingdom where the outgoing government had just four women ministers. Whether it becomes a turning point, or simply a new face on an old system, will depend on what she achieves in the coming months.
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Abuja will host its first Festival of Literature and Ideas (AFLI) on October 9 and 10, 2026, at The Nordic Hotel, Jabi. The festival is the realisation of a dream the Book Buzz Foundation Director, Lola Shoneyin, had 14 years ago while curating Infusion, the popular monthly gathering for music, art and culture that ran in Abuja from 2009 to 2012.
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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.
2 months ago
Tik Tok users across several parts of Nigeria’s northern region have been struggling to access the platform, and many have turned to VPNs to get around the problem, according to multiple X posts about the subject. Comments from users in Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto and other areas in the region show that the app either won’t load at all or becomes nearly unusable when connected through standard mobile data.
2 months ago
Classes across more than 100 schools were supposed to resume on Monday, September 14, as Nigeria’s Federal Unity Colleges opened for the first term of the 2026/2027 academic session. Instead, many remained shut. Workers under the Joint Congress of Unions of the Federal Ministry of Education suspended resumption nationwide after the Federal Government’s push to hand over the management of King’s College, Lagos, one of the country’s oldest and most revered schools, to Kings College Lagos Old Boys Association (KCOBA) under a proposed 35-year concession arrangement.
2 months ago
Security forces fired tear gas and arrested demonstrators across the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, September 16, as protests against President Félix Tshisekedi’s proposed constitutional changes escalated into some of the most sustained unrest the country has seen in months. The country is already stretched thin by a record breaking Ebola outbreak, an entrenched conflict over its mineral rich mining regions, and a humanitarian emergency that the United Nations has repeatedly described as among the most severe and neglected in the world.
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