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Jan 9, 2025 | 
prnigeria.com | Theophilus Abbah |Abdulhameed Yushau
Blame-games can’t help TchianiNigerien President Abdourahamane Tchiani, in a video circulated in many parts of Nigeria and West Africa, breached the long-standing cordial relationship between Niger Republic and Nigeria since the two countries gained independence in 1960.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
theinsight.com.ng | Theophilus Abbah
The two coaster buses that conveyed our team from the charming and luxurious Conference Hotel in Abeokuta sailed and scaled across an overhead bridge, snaked through the noisy Itoku market in Kuto area, famous for merchandize in Yoruba traditional adire.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
dailytrust.com | Theophilus Abbah
Joseph Akeju, a former lecturer at Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, came under fire in 2018 for blowing the whistle about corruption in the tertiary institution. He had exposed some financial irregularities in contract awards in the college to the institution’s governing council. A huge sum of N1.68 billion was involved. Instead of probing the allegation, the governing council dismissed Akeju from the service of Yabatech.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
theinsight.com.ng | Theophilus Abbah
Here are the highlights from the interview on Arise TV with Senator Ali Ndume on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, which led to his removal as Senate Chief Whip on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Senator Ndume alleged that the presidency was like a “besieged fortress” and that President Tinubu was not aware of the true state of affairs in Nigeria. He claimed that the presidency was dominated by “kakistrocrats” (bad government officials) and that the president was being misled by his aides.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
zammagazine.com | Elizabeth Banyi Tabi |Emmanuel Mutaizibwa |Ngina Kirori |Theophilus Abbah
Read the French version here.
Sunday April 21, 2024. Agadez, in central Niger, is a large urban area with houses mostly built of ochre earth. There are very few trees here in this poor town, located more than 900km northeast of the capital. In the evening, the city is full of young idlers, drug addicts, and sex workers. Many of them are migrants.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
zammagazine.com | Elizabeth Banyi Tabi |Emmanuel Mutaizibwa |Ngina Kirori |Theophilus Abbah
Read the French version here.
Sominé Dolo Hospital in Mopti, central Mali, Friday May 17, 2024. It is 7PM. Everything is black here. The lights are out due to the now almost continuous power cuts. The loudspeakers of the large mosque in downtown Sevaré let out the shrill cry of the muezzin calling for Maghreb evening prayers, but heads are not bent in prayer and devotion in this hospital establishment, the main health facility in the northern centre of the country.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
theinsight.com.ng | Theophilus Abbah |Abiodun Alade
Key Points:
Local manufacturing, key to Africa’s growth
Africa now exports raw materials but import poverty
Dangote invested $25bn in Africa in 7 years
Plans to supply refined products to West, Central and South Africa
By Abiodun Alade
Africa is a resource-rich continent but relatively poor in terms of the manufacturing of goods.
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May 1, 2024 | 
zammagazine.com | Elizabeth Banyi Tabi |Emmanuel Mutaizibwa |Ngina Kirori |Theophilus Abbah
Read the French version here.
“We are not here for power. We have a twelve-month program in which we will resolve small logistical problems while respecting human values.” After Captain Ibrahim Traoré announced with these words his takeover of power in Ouagadougou on September 30, 2022, he was immediately congratulated by Yevgeny Prigozhin (then still alive), founder of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, since re-baptised the Africa Corps.
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Mar 31, 2024 | 
thenationonlineng.net | Theophilus Abbah
March 31, 2024By Theophilus Abbah Not desperate, never agitated, not rebellious, not a mischief-maker, Chief (Architect) Gabriel Aduku exited this world of desperation, agitations, rebellion, and mischief on March 10, 2024, few weeks after his 80th birthday He was an unexplored treasure to humanity, a rare human resource and a man with a candle that shone in Nigeria’s pitch darkness. His calmness, his speeches, salted with grace, and carefully chosen diction could calm any storm.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
thecable.ng | Theophilus Abbah
Gabriel Yakubu Aduku (1944-2024): An icon with passion for humanity departsBY THEOPHILUS ABBAHNot desperate, never agitated, not rebellious, not a mischief-maker, Chief (Architect) Gabriel Aduku exited this world of desperation, agitations, rebellion, and mischief on March 10, 2024, a few weeks after his 80th birthday. He was an unexplored treasure to humanity, a rare human resource and a man with a candle that shone in Nigeria’s pitch darkness.
