South Africa’s xenophobia is no longer a domestic crisis. It is a direct threat to African integration, continental mobility, and the future of AfCFTA. By TMN Editorial Board When African migrants are hunted through the streets of Johannesburg, when Somali shopkeepers are burned out of townships, when Nigerian-owned businesses are looted in Durban, or when […]
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Abuja/Brazzaville — The African Development Bank (AfDB) has appointed Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, as the African champion of its Integrated Aviation Transformation Programme for Africa (IATP), a major continental initiative backed by a proposed $7 billion investment framework. The Bank said the appointment reflects Nigeria’s “leadership and vision” in implementing
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Lagos/Abuja — Nigerian fintech company Moniepoint Inc. has unveiled a ₦3 billion investment plan to establish innovation hubs across three major Nigerian universities, in what is being described as a significant private-sector intervention in technology education and talent development. The investment, scheduled to run over the next three years, will fund the development of modern
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Abuja — Former Rivers State governor and ex-Minister of Transportation Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has rejected the outcome of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential primaries, alleging widespread voter disenfranchisement and electoral irregularities during the exercise. In a strongly worded statement issued after the primaries, Amaechi described the announced results as “concocted” and insisted he would
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Abuja —Nigeria has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Türkiye to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the solid minerals sector, in a move aimed at expanding economic ties and accelerating investment in Nigeria’s mining industry. The agreement is expected to boost collaboration in: Nigerian officials described the partnership as another strategic step toward transforming
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More than 800 Palestinians have died since the ceasefire began. In Gaza, families are still waiting for the missing to come home. Maysaa al-Najjar has memorised the sound of her phone not ringing. The 37-year-old mother of six from the Jabalia Refugee Camp has lived inside a particular kind of torment since Israeli forces detained
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When a failing chemical tank at a California aerospace plant forced 50,000 people to flee with nowhere certain to return to Dennis Christian grabbed his dog, Rue, stuffed what he could into a bag, and walked out of the only home he knew in Garden Groove, California. He did not know when — or whether
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Inside the Ebola epidemic tearing through eastern Congo — where burying the dead has become a death sentence They came to bury a neighbour. They left carrying a virus. That is how Ebola has always moved through eastern **** — not only through blood and fever, but through grief itself. Through the hands that wash
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Nigeria’s education sector has entered a historic new phase following the appointment of Segun Aina as Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. At just 39 years old, Prof Aina becomes the youngest individual ever appointed to lead the examination body, succeeding Is-haq Oloyede, whose tenure ends on
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Democracy is often celebrated as government by popular consent. Yet, in many emerging democracies, the real struggle is not whether elections are conducted, but whether political participation remains genuinely competitive. In contemporary time, this tension is increasingly reflected in the growing culture of “consensus candidacy” within political parties — a practice that, while legally permissible
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