Aanu Adeoye

A wave of rural violence in Nigeria’s Middle Belt states that has killed hundreds is piling pressure on President Bola Tinubu and attracting the attention of US conservatives calling for Trump to censure the country. https://t.co/ojP51kXceU

In an interview with the @FT, Tidjane Thiam vowed to use “every legal means” to fight his electoral ban, accusing the ruling party of President Alassane Ouattara of orchestrating his ordeal. https://t.co/8tJIMQVO17

Obituary: Pope Francis, 1936-2025. https://t.co/tLriabTPBZ

The Trump administration is floating a reorganisation of the US state department, including cutting the US Bureau of African Affairs and closing many embassies on the continent, per a draft executive order seen by the FT. https://t.co/oVS5WZ0rWi

Beat the champions home and away and made it look easy. Arsenal, you will always be famous.

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni has the "Mattei plan", which she says would tackle the root causes of migration from Africa as she aims to reset relations with the continent. By @AmyKazmin, @AndresSchipani and me. https://t.co/C6EuUafyGm

Get the sculptors in, @Arsenal. Start work on the Declan Rice statue ASAP!

Declan Rice you will always be famous.

Roger Brown, chief executive of Seplat, tells @FT his company got an unwarranted discount on its share price due to “Nigeria factor” and he wants to “demystify” the country to investors. By @thomas_m_wilson and me: https://t.co/ALZUjT1ysY

RT @FT: America’s astonishing act of self-harm https://t.co/CRYABluG3K | opinion

"They hate South Africa. Just don’t try to pretend you have some economic logic behind this." https://t.co/5BmHG6fJrX

RT @TheEconomist: Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything…

There's losing your job, and then there's being fired via a statement at 3:47 am. Nigeria's President rings the changes at state-owned oil company NNPC at a curiously ungodly hour. Mele Kyari has been replaced by Bashir Ojulari. https://t.co/W5YwSfZdxA

Unexplained blazes at pipelines in Nigeria’s Rivers state threaten the country’s oil production. Celestine Akpobari, a civil society activist in Rivers: “You don’t use a sledgehammer to kill a mosquito that perches on your scrotum." https://t.co/ee0iHAVWm5

RT @mtindera07: How are record-high gold prices impacting cocoa production? Take a look at this photo ⬇️ and listen to this week’s episod…

Eritrean strongman Isaias Afewerki kicked out USAID in 2005. With US President Donald Trump’s decision to gut aid, other African countries will have to figure out a way to survive without it. https://t.co/3o7x0d6FOE

Foreign investors have flocked to Nigeria’s markets in recent months, as the threat of a US trade war with larger developing economies has sent portfolio managers looking for cover in former crisis-hit frontier markets now on the rebound, w @jsphctrl: https://t.co/RLJH35hVmY