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Kenya's tourism ministry is pushing a whole new angle by mixing cultural stuff into the conference and events industry, and Tourism CS Rebecca Miano said the plan puts local communities front and center. She dropped this announcement in Laikipia at a cultural festival that featured a new album...

Rigathi Gachagua went off at a Nairobi church service about how the opposition coalition is staying locked in for 2027, and he made it clear they'll put up one candidate against Ruto when the time comes. The ex-deputy president called out what he sees as government schemes to split up opposition...

Kalonzo Musyoka told lawyers in Machakos that Kenya is heading toward revolutionary conditions, and he thinks the upcoming election won't be a standard democratic process if things keep going the way they are. The Wiper party leader spoke at a late-night legal forum attended by judges...

A tiny crew of soldiers grabbed the state TV station in Benin and tried claiming they kicked out President Patrice Talon, but Lieutenant Colonel Pascal Tigri and his Military Committee for Refoundation got shut down fast when the regular army moved in. The broadcast cut off pretty quickly, and...

Colonel Pascal Tigri tried pulling off a coup in the Benin Republic, but the whole thing flopped, and authorities say he bailed while some of his crew got picked up. Interior Minister Alassane Seidou went on TV, confirming that a small group tried to destabilize the government, but the military...

Ibrahim Dosara came out swinging for Bello Matawalle after commentator Farooq Kperogi dragged up old banditry accusations against the defense minister. The former Zamfara information commissioner said nobody has ever filed formal charges through police or anti-corruption agencies despite years...

Ogun State deputy governor Noimot Salako-Oyedele and Senator Shuaibu Afolabi Salisu told the Abeokuta Sports Club that social organizations need to step up on leadership recruitment if they want to help the country move forward. Both officials showed up for the investiture of Alhaji Taoheed...

The Benin Republic situation got walked back after their government said the whole coup thing fell apart, and the guy running it bailed. Presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga passed along word that Colonel Pascal Tigri ditched after trying to grab control through the national TV station, and some...

Nigeria threw some jets into the Benin Republic airspace after a military coup knocked out President Patrice Talon over the weekend. Security people told analyst Zagazola Makama the planes left Lagos and started circling around to keep tabs on what was going down across the border. Lt. Pascal...

Nigeria's security chief, Nuhu Ribadu, met with a US congressional crew that flew in for some fact-finding work. The delegation had Mario Díaz-Balart running point alongside Norma Torres, Scott Franklin, Juan Ciscomani, and Riley Moore, with Ambassador Richard Mills sitting in on the whole...

A Zimbabwe chrome trader named Precious Mabuza got hit for half a million dollars after scammers pretended to be Kuvimba Mining House executives pitching a fake Great Dyke mineral project. The fraudsters claimed they needed her help on some ministry report and kept up a professional act until...

Omah Lay is headlining the first-ever Motherland Festival in Lagos beside the Oriental Hotel, and it's his only city performance through the rest of the month. The guy just scored a Grammy nomination for his track with Davido called With You, which Spotify says became the most-streamed Nigerian...

Jennifer Adighije took over the Niger Delta Power Holding Company in August 2024 and managed to bring 625 megawatts back online by fixing dormant turbines at plants like Ihovbor, Alaoji, and Omotosho. The company handles generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure for Nigeria's...

Lafarge Africa fixed up the Independence Memorial Obelisk at Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos using their Ecoplanet Elephant cement, which cuts carbon emissions by at least 30 percent compared to regular stuff. The company's CEO, Lolu Alade-Akinyemi, said the project ties into their sustainability...

Mohammed Dingyadi from the Labour and Employment ministry dropped the 1Government Enterprise Content Management System in Abuja, claiming it will push the whole department toward full automation and kill off manual approval delays. The platform handles document storage and retrieval while...

Dr Omotola Dayo-Adedapo from HRTalenthub.ng told a Lagos conference that Nigerian workplaces need to fix toxic leadership and burnout problems while helping staff feel connected to company missions. Professor Tayo Arulogun from Miva Open University said the country pumps out over 500,000 grads...

The Isale-Eko Descendants Union kicked off a free health screening program at their community house on Iga Idungaran Street with help from Iyewo Health. Chairman Adeniji Kazeem pushed preventive care and handed out clean water while telling residents to actually show up for the checkups. Water...

Vincent Ozoude runs Transafam Power Limited under Transcorp Group and says Nigeria's power companies are getting wrecked by funding problems and bad infrastructure. The generation firms only collect about 27 to 30 percent of what they bill the market, though President Bola Tinubu is working on...

Nvidia pulled the plug on driver updates for GTX 900 and GTX 1000 cards, which means anyone still running Maxwell or Pascal architecture is getting kicked off the update train. The cutoff happened with driver version 591.44, and the GTX 16 series became the oldest generation still getting proper...

Zimbabwe's small-scale miners are pushing back against Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube after he proposed bumping gold royalties from 5% to 10% for anything over $2,501 per ounce. The Zimbabwe Miners Federation sent him a letter saying the hike would tank new exploration projects and drive...