Taiwo Akinwunmi, who designed the Nigerian flag, died on Tuesday at age 87.
His son, Akinkunmi Samuel, announced his death via his Facebook page.
“Life is...
The alleged coup leader in Gabon, Brice Oligui Nguema, heads the Gabonese Presidency’s Republican Guard, the country’s most powerful security unit.
Minutes after Gabon’s electoral...
Determining the strength and scale of African nations' military aircraft capability involves more than a simple count of combat aircraft.
The metrics provided for...
By Balogun Kamilu Lekan
Biography
Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi (OFR) was a retired Nigerian civil servant, famously known as "Mr. Flag Man".
He's the designer of the Nigerian...
Generally, a divorce settlement agreement is a legal document laying out the terms of your divorce.
Divorce is sometimes beyond signing a legal document to...
Army officers have appeared on national television in Gabon to say they have taken power.
They said they were annulling the results of Saturday's election,...
Army officers have appeared on national television in Gabon to say they have taken power.
They said they were annulling the results of Saturday's election,...
Gabon – officially known as the Gabonese Republic – isn’t on most people’s radar. Squeezed between Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of Congo and...
Army officers have appeared on national television in Gabon to say they have taken power.
They said they were annulling the results of Saturday's election,...
Police in Edo have arrested a 24-year-old student of the University of Port Harcourt for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend to death.
Commissioner of Police in...
LAFIA — Retired General Nuhu Angbazo has emerged victorious from the Africa Democratic Congress, ADC, governorship primaries in Nasarawa State, calling on all party faithful to sheathe their swords and rally behind a common vision for the state's development.
In a press statement issued shortly after his victory...
Nigeria has enough installed generation to power a mid-sized country. The grid delivers less than half of it. Around the world, the race to build AI-ready power infrastructure is already underway — and the decisions African governments and investors make in the next eighteen months will determine...
by Cheta Nwanze
The 1990 film Green Card told a relatively innocent story: a French immigrant and an American woman enter a marriage of convenience so he can stay in the US. They barely know each other. They hope never to see each other again after the deal...
In the competitive landscape of legal services, personal injury and medical malpractice attorneys are finding themselves overshadowed by competitors who dominate online visibility. The root of this issue lies in the digital presence that many firms lack. While traditional word-of-mouth referrals still hold value, the digital age...
Dr. Lazarus AngbazoThe nascent AI revolution is not just driving electricity consumption and massive demand for additional capacity—it is reshaping how power is built, maintained, and delivered. For Africa, the real risk is no longer just insufficient capacity—it is also losing control and ability to manage the capacity it...
By Bunmi Onabanjo-Kuku
The first thing you feel when you land in a country is not its culture, not its cuisine, not its people. It is its airport. That threshold, the space between the jet bridge and the city beyond, tells you everything a nation believes about itself...
How inflation, energy insecurity, power scarcity, and geopolitical fragmentation are reshaping the risk-return case for African infrastructure
By Dr. Lazarus Angbazo
At a recent global infrastructure summit, the prevailing mood among institutional investors was unmistakable. Faced with surging capital requirements for energy transition, grid expansion, and digital infrastructure in Europe and...
Nigeria’s biggest local investor, Aliko Dangote, is moving ahead with plans to launch what could become Africa’s largest initial public offering, as Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals prepares to raise up to $5 billion from investors.
The share sale is expected to open as early as May, with...
Criminal networks have turned Nigeria’s telecom towers into open-air warehouses for theft, looting 656 critical power assets across 14 states in 2025 alone and keeping up the pace in early 2026.
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) data showed the haul included 152 generators and 504 batteries stolen from...
I have seen enough cycles of tension and resolution to recognise when restraint must prevail over confrontation. The current standoff between the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the African Democratic Congress (ADC) is one such moment. In early April 2026, INEC withdrew recognition of the Senator...
10 months until the 2027 general elections, Nigeria’s opposition landscape appears increasingly fractured, disorganised and strategically weakened.
Although no fewer than 21 political parties have been registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to participate in the polls, developments within the parties, including internal crises, litigations and other destabilising factors, may...
Nigeria’s business environment continued to expand in March 2026 but slowed as rising input costs and power supply deficits weighed on performance, according to the latest Business Confidence Monitor (BCM) report by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG).
The report indicates that the Current Business Performance Index declined...
