Across Nigeria’s urban landscape, billboards promise transformative beauty through skin lightening creams, featuring models with conspicuously lighter complexions. This imagery perpetuates a colonial-era legacy that equates lighter skin with...
Can you track your cryptocurrency if it gets stolen? Erm….NO! Theft carries a unique and excruciating sting: you can often watch your stolen assets sit in a digital wallet, visible on the blockchain’s public ledger, yet completely beyond...
A leading anti-corruption organization has formally requested Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate the alleged mismanagement of N30 billion in federal relief funds allocated to Oyo State following the catastrophic...
Before the Robot Came With aluminum lanterns, we braved the night, Studying, dozing, giggling, Before dawn flushed our rooms And left us begging for more minutes. We sat on stories in the backyard, Leapt on broomsticks, Satisfied with...
Expectant mothers can feel confident taking paracetamol for pain or fever, according to a definitive new scientific analysis that finds no credible link between the medication and autism or ADHD in children. The research, hailed as a “gold-standard”...
The World Food Programme (WFP) has issued an urgent warning of a record-level hunger crisis in Northeast Nigeria, where a “toxic combination” of 15 years of violent insurgency, escalating conflict, and severe funding shortages is pushing millions...
The New Initiative for Social Development (NISD) has officially launched the Male Feminist Network (MFN) in Ondo State, rallying men as active allies in the fight against gender-based violence and the promotion of equality. Flagged off on Tuesday...
Famous Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting at the White House on Thursday, framing the gesture as recognition of his “unique commitment”...
President Bola Tinubu has announced a major national initiative designed to unlock between $20 billion and $30 billion in annual climate finance, a cornerstone of his administration’s plan to drive green industrialization and accelerate...
Nigeria’s crisis-ridden university system has been given a breather. The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have signed a landmark agreement, featuring a 40% salary increase for academic staff, designed to end...
