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On September 13, the Naija Artificial Intelligence Film Festival (NAIFF) is set to host the continent’s first-ever artificial intelligence film festival at Lagos’s Alliance Française. It drew over 490 submissions from filmmakers across Africa, exploring the intersection of technology and storytelling. Founded in April 2025 by Obinna Okerekeocha, the NAIFF has quickly grown into a […]
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Ghana has become the first ECOWAS country to formally receive undocumented West African migrants deported from the United States under a bilateral arrangement, raising urgent questions about sovereignty, regional responsibility, and migrant protection. The announcement came on September 10, when President Mahama confirmed that the first group of 14 deportees including several Nigerians and one […]
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Islamic State affiliated militants have intensified their assault on civilians in western Niger, resulting in at least 127 deaths across five separate attacks since March, The international rights organization, Human Rights Watch, has criticized the Nigerien government for failing to adequately protect vulnerable populations in the Tillabéri region, which borders Burkina Faso and Mali. According […]
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Ethiopia has officially inaugurated the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Africa’s largest hydroelectric project, marking the culmination of more than a century of ambition, decades of political battles, and 14 years of construction. The $5 billion megastructure, standing at 170 meters high and stretching nearly two kilometers across the Blue Nile in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz region, […]
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Mutinga Wa Nkunda is one of the few working Rwandan filmmakers. Trained as a journalist, the filmmaker’s interest in cinema, though etched from childhood, found expression when he started writing about cinema for a local press outfit upon graduating university. In his stint as a journalist, he discovered Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and since then […]
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The Federal Government has stated that there are no immediate plans to implement the five per cent fuel surcharge provision recently highlighted in the 2025 Nigerian Tax Administration Act. In June 2025, Nigeria introduced a 5% fuel surcharge under the Tax Administration Act, requiring petrol and diesel buyers to pay extra at the pump, with […]
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A Johannesburg high court has sentenced seven Chinese nationals to 20 years in prison each for trafficking and exploiting 91 undocumented Malawian migrants, including 37 children, at an illegal textile factory in Village Deep. The convicted traffickers, Shu-Uei Tsao (42), Biao Ma (50), Hui Chen (50), Quin Li (56), Zhou Jiaquing (46), Junying Dai (58), […]
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FAME Week Africa is an annual event that brings together African creatives across film, television, animation, music, fashion and entertainment technology. Aimed at showcasing their inherent talent, stories and culture, the event recently concluded its latest edition in the host city of Cape Town, South Africa. For this year, the week-long event spanned the 1st […]
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