Why Nigeria’s Billionaire Had to Look to India for Skills
The revelation that Aliko Dangote recruited 11,000 Indian technicians to run his refinery because Nigeria couldn’t find 100 qualified locally isn’t a scandal but one that shows uncomfortable truths about Africa’s educational failures.…
Milk and Mirrors Wins Best Short Film at London Indie Film Festival
This short film tastefully shines light on Postpartum Identity. Part of its recurring theme is the emotional fracture and the invisible labour of motherhood that helped the movie take top honours at one of the United Kingdom’s leading independent cinema…
Yoruba Language is Fading into The Background and The Warning Signs Are Everywhere
The words arrive smoothly, effortlessly, with the polished cadence of someone educated in Nigeria’s finest schools. They are articulate. They are precise. They are, almost invariably, English. Gather a group of young professionals in Lagos or any…
Female Genital Schistosomiasis and the Politics of Neglect: Why Universal Health Coverage Must Confront Gendered Blind Spots
For centuries, medicine has treated pain differently depending on whose body it lives in. When a man falls ill and cannot work, the problem is seen as economic. It affects productivity. Therefore, solutions are pursued. When a woman experiences pain…
Cat Tumours Could Unlock New Hope in the Fight Against Cancer
Could the answer to some of humanity’s most stubborn cancers be quietly padding around our living rooms? In a groundbreaking international study, scientists have mapped the tumour DNA of nearly 500 domestic cats, revealing striking genetic similarities…
Why Always Vini?
Vini, why him always? Its a simply question that exposes a major Achilles heel in football – Racism. For all its worth Vinicius is not the only black player in the world, but he seems to carry much of the weight of ‘slurs’ hurled at…
Oyebanji Receives Ex-Reps Candidate Akomolafe, Secures Backing Ahead of June Poll
Ekiti State Governor Biodun Oyebanji and his deputy, Chief Monisade Afuye, on Tuesday welcomed former House of Representatives candidate, Engr. Henrich Akomolafe, to the Governor’s Office in Ado-Ekiti. The visit came days after Akomolafe publicly…
Your Life Is Boring Because You Abandoned Side Quests
The feeling descends somewhere between Thursday evening and Sunday afternoon. You have completed your obligations, responded to the messages that demanded responses, performed the tasks that earn your living. And now you are horizontal, scrolling,…
From Labour to Neighbour: A Metamorphosis – By Bolutife Oluwadele
From Labour to Neighbour: A Metamorphosis From the precinct tucked in Tejuoso Yaba Gathered in generations of labour activists. Some great brains trained in the defunct Soviet Union of old Enigmatic soapbox orators giving hope to the unlearned.…
Trump Scraps OBAMA-ERA Climate Document, Opens Legal Battle Over Clean Air
A lot of lawyers are already reacting to thia development. Some describes it as the most significant climate deregulation in American history. President Donald Trump has formally reversed the 2009 “endangerment finding”, the scientific and legal…
