Flavoured Smoke and False Promises: How Tobacco Firms Are Targeting Nigerian Women and Girls
A new study has raised alarm over what experts describe as a growing and calculated push by tobacco companies to capture a new market in Nigeria: women and adolescent girls. Presented recently by Gatefield, an Abuja-based public policy firm, the study…
Messi Sets World Cup Scoring Record as Mbappe and Haaland Keep Pace in Battle of Football’s Modern Greats
Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland continued their remarkable World Cup exploits with each superstar producing a brace in another thrilling chapter of football’s grandest stage. Messi struck first, making history with two goals in…
Japan Raises Visa Fees for Nigerians, Other Foreign Nationals in First Review Since 1978
The Japanese government has approved a significant increase in visa fees for Nigerians and other foreign nationals, marking the first revision of such charges in nearly five decades. According to local media reports, the decision was adopted at a Cabinet…
Climate Action Has a Populism Problem Even as the Green Economy Booms
For all the political turbulence surrounding climate change, the numbers tell a remarkably different story. Far from stalling, the global clean economy is experiencing one of the most significant expansions in modern history, growing sixfold over the…
Netflix’s ‘The Polygamist’ Has Become Africa’s Guilty Pleasure
Fast-paced, provocative and unapologetically melodramatic, The Polygamist arrives with all the ingredients of addictive television. In 22 episodes, Netflix’s latest South African drama has transformed from a local adaptation into one of the…
Reflections: Should Writers Mind Their Business? – Bolutife Oluwadele
The choice to become a writer is not always a deliberate one. Yes, there are those who, through inspiration from other writers, choose to enter the ring and experience what it means to put words together. Others are pushed into it by an obsession with…
Ekiti 2026: Obafemi Thrashes Withdrawal Rumours After Voting, Slams INEC Logistics Cash-for-Votes Schemes
Social Democratic Party (SDP) governorship candidate, Otunba Olugbenga Peter Obafemi, has forcefully debunked rumors of his withdrawal from the Ekiti Governorship race, declaring that he remains fully on the ballot and is in the contest to win. Obafemi…
South Africa Confronts a New HIV Reality as US Pulls the Plug on Lifeline Funding
For more than two decades, American funding helped underpin one of the world’s most ambitious responses to HIV and Aids. Now, that era is drawing to a close. The United States government has announced that it will discontinue support for HIV and…
World Sickle Cell Day: Why Half of Children Born With Sickle Cell Disease May Never Reach Age Five
Long before science explained the mysteries of genetics, many Nigerian communities sought answers in folklore. Among the Yoruba, children who died repeatedly in infancy were believed to be Abiku, spirits doomed to return to the world only to die again.…
London Marathon to Be Staged Over Two Days in Historic 2027 Expansion
The London Marathon will be held across two days for the first time in 2027, in a special one-off format designed to accommodate a record number of participants and boost fundraising for charitable causes. Organisers announced that the iconic race will…