In just a few weeks, all the excitement around the AMVCA will come to a head. Since the nominations dropped, the conversations haven’t stopped: the front-runners, the AMVCA debutantes, the creators reshaping digital storytelling. We’ve taken a walk through the Best Lead Actor category. Now, it’s the women’s turn. Chioma Chukwuka. Gbugbemi Ejeye. Uzoamaka Onuoha….
Pascal Dozie, a Nigerian entrepreneur who played a defining role in the development of Nigeria’s modern banking and telecommunications industries, has died. He was 85. Mr Dozie passed away on 8 April, according to a family statement issued by his son, Uzoma Dozie, who described him as a “devoted husband, father, grandfather, and a man…
Rwandan President Paul Kagame said Monday that countries sanctioning Kigali could “go to hell”, weeks after some nations imposed the measures over Rwanda’s involvement in the eastern DR Congo conflict. The Rwandan-backed M23 group has taken swathes of the Democratic Republic of Congo, seizing and holding the eastern regional capitals Goma and Bukavu, to international…
Moscow, April 8, 2025 Photo: patriarchia.ru     Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the great Holy Hierarch and Confessor Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, a beloved saint for the churches in both America and Russia. That his feast not be eclipsed by the great feast of the Annunciation, it was moved to the day prior, April…
Convener of the Take It Back Movement, Omoyele Sowore, on Monday, strongly criticised the conduct of police officers during Monday’s nationwide protests, condemning their treatment of demonstrators who were reportedly teargassed in various locations. Ahead of the protest, the Nigeria Police Force had issued an advisory urging organisers to cancel the demonstration, citing the observance…
There is currently anger at the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), a key agency in the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Education, over allegations of abuse of office, sexual harrassment and unfair transfer of married female workers.   Insider sources at the TETFUND alleged that Adams Echono, the younger brother of Executive Secretary, Sonny Echono,…
