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Head of Public Service Felix Koskei wants regular people getting in the faces of corrupt officials by calling out sketchy behavior and filing reports through legal channels. He dropped a three-step playbook that tells citizens to interrupt crooked deals when they spot them, push back against...

Azerbaijan and Kenya doubled down on their partnership around climate stuff and city planning after wrapping up the UN Environment Assembly session in Nairobi. Deputy Environment Minister Umaira Taghiyeva showed up at a reception where she talked about how both countries need to team up on water...

Ruto had to step in and clear up the mess happening in Kiambu, where people thought they were voting for governor when really it was just internal UDA party stuff happening. He told everyone at a church event that the polls are strictly for grassroots party positions and not county leadership...

Majority Leader Kimani Ichung'wah told Ruto that Kiambu County will deliver more ballots than anywhere else when 2027 rolls around, and he made the promise at a church gathering where Governor Kimani Wamatangi showed up with the president. The lawmaker pointed to infrastructure work happening...

Kenya keeps linking up with Azerbaijan for help on housing projects and digital government stuff after Prime CS Musalia Mudavadi met with Ambassador Sultan Hajiyev. The partnership targets urban development ahead of the World Urban Forum that Baku hosts next year, and Kenya wants to copy the...

Ruto wants to offload 15 percent of government-owned Safaricom shares to Vodafone for around Sh240.5 billion to fund his National Sovereign Fund and infrastructure plans, but opposition leaders like Rigathi Gachagua and Kalonzo Musyoka are losing it over the move. Even some Kenya Kwanza...

Senate Speaker Amason Kingi rolled into Minsk with Ambassador Peter Mathuki and Narok Senator Ledam ole Kina to pitch a cooperation roadmap with Belarus that covers everything from tractors to mining gear. He sat down with President Alexander Lukashenko at Independence Palace and Council...

Kikifoodies just threw a curveball at the standard jollof rice playbook by loading it with onions to create a sweeter version that hits different from the smoky stuff everyone serves at parties. She starts by cooking meat and making pepper base, then fries onions until they turn golden before...

Nathaniel Bassey dropped Odara as a preview track before his Glory of His Presence album lands next January, and the whole thing feels like pure worship vibes. The music video gives you a chance to sit with it and soak up what he captured, which basically leans into that feeling of being right...

Tems showed up at Genius to walk through Big Daddy from her Love Is a Kingdom EP, and she got real about what drives the track. She talked about how the song comes from a place of being solid in who you are without needing to fake anything for outside validation, and she said she likes making...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu rolled out forest guards across Northern Nigeria to cut down on bandit hideouts and boost community safety, according to Nuhu Abdullahi from the Public Enlightenment Movement Project. The coordinator mentioned the plan during a Phase 3 event where they screened a...

Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf is setting up a task force to lock down motor parks and other busy spots where criminals might be hiding out. His spokesperson, Sunusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, said the move targets entry and exit points around the city, with motor parks getting extra attention...

Kano's Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II told Christian leaders he wants to keep building bridges between religious communities because he thinks unity is what moves the region forward. He hosted a delegation from the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria at his palace, and he talked about how attending...

Ebonyi State workers are getting a N150,000 Christmas bonus from Governor Francis Nwifuru, who said the payout shows his team cares about employee welfare even though state revenues have been falling. He announced a church service at Government House Chapel in Abakaliki and also told everyone he...

President Bola Tinubu hosted the 68th ECOWAS summit at the State House Conference Centre in Abuja with leaders from Sierra Leone, Benin, Cabo Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Senegal, and Togo showing up to hash out regional stability issues. Sierra Leone...

Political economist Pat Utomi told reporters that Nigeria will not collapse into a single-party system despite governors from Enugu, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, and Delta recently jumping ship to join the ruling APC. The professor said he would personally stand as opposition by himself if that becomes...

Nigeria's Foreign Affairs Ministry confirmed that 11 soldiers and one Air Force C-130 cargo plane remain stuck in detention somewhere overseas, and ministry spokesperson Kimiebi Ebienfa said diplomatic talks are still grinding away without results. The federal government took control of...

Nigerian security boss Nuhu Ribadu and a bunch of state governors told people at a Kaduna wedding that the country needs to stop beefing over tribal and religious stuff if anyone wants actual progress. The event happened when Northern CAN chairman Joseph John Hayab married off his daughter...

Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, said his team started building a 4.1-kilometer stretch of Ogheghe and old Sapele roads after a kid drowned when erosion washed them away during flooding. The governor hit the construction site after church to check progress, and he told contractors to speed...

Nollywood actress Onwuson Faith Ifeoma told The Honest Bunch Podcast that one minute of bedroom time covers her needs completely, and she can go months without it because physical intimacy ranks low on her priority list. The content creator who goes by Honeypot said affection shows up through...