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There is something quietly heartbreaking about being physically close to someone every single day and being miles away from them emotionally, all at once. Maureen and Funsho share a home, relationship and a life, but increasingly, they seem to exist beside each other rather than with each other. Their phones fill the silences between them, […]
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Announcing a crackdown on foreign hawkers is a low cost way to appear responsive to ordinary traders without addressing the deeper structural problems of debt servicing, taxation, and stagnant real incomes.
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Absa, and its partner SANAVA, is proud to announce the opening of the solo exhibition of Moses Oyeleye, one of our Absa L’Atelier Art 2024 Ambassadors, titled The City People. The exhibition will be hosted in partnership at Alliance Française de Lagos, Nigeria, opening on Saturday, 5 September 2026. The City People is a compelling […]
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From Ghana’s brightest star of the 2020s to an Alté giant down to mainstream neo-fuji excellence, here are 5 projects we’ll be on the lookout for going into September.
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A New York Times report on August 27, 2026, announced that the United States would withdraw roughly 200 of its military personnel from Nigeria, months after deploying them to support counterterrorism operations in the country’s northeast. The move is expected to be completed by late September, while a small team of trainers and intelligence analysts will remain behind.
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The Kenya-Nigeria co-production One Woman One Bra is finally returning to Kenya in September, nearly a year after its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and a subsequent run through major international festivals. What makes its Kenyan premiere particularly interesting is where that homecoming begins. According to a Sinema Focus exclusive interview with writer […]
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What makes the outbreak striking is that diphtheria is almost entirely preventable. A cheap, effective vaccine, usually given as part of the routine DPT (diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus) immunisation series, has existed for decades and has all but eliminated the disease from most of the world. Nigeria’s neighbors and peer economies with strong routine immunisation systems rarely see outbreaks like this one; when cases do appear elsewhere, they are typically isolated and quickly contained.
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Two Nigerian filmmakers, Leeds-based Jumafor Ajogwu, Bold Pictures and British-Nigerian Yemi Adegbulu, Sleepwalker Studios, have been selected as part of the six BFI-supported entrepreneurial UK Black and Global Majority producers to attend TIFF: The Market, the inaugural market at the Toronto International Film Festival. Supported by the BFI National Lottery International Connections Fund, these producers […]
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