When the world shut down during COVID-19, Blessing Alasan saw opportunity in the middle of chaos. In an inspiring sit-down interview, the owner and operator of Blessinglicious Nigerian Street Food shares how she went from working in TV, radio, and film to building a growing food business with just $300 and a vision rooted Read More…
Nigeria is not just facing a security crisis, it is facing a moral reckoning that can no longer be ignored or explained away with routine statements and delayed responses. At this very moment, 400 women and children have been kidnapped, and their captors have issued a brutal ultimatum demanding $2.7 million or threatening to murder Read More…
By: Donovan Martin Sr, Editor in Chief For much of the past half-century, United States foreign policy has followed a recurring pattern: moral justification paired with strategic consequence. Each intervention is framed as necessary, urgent, and exceptional. Each is presented as a break from past failures. Donald Trump entered office explicitly rejecting that tradition. He Read More…
“She will find her place assured, lavishly creamed, and adorned with golden confetti.” The 5-4 triumph of Chiamaka Nnadozie’s Paris FC over PSG in last Saturday’s final of the Coupe de France Feminie catapulted the Nigerian international goalkeeper into the club’s history cabinets, her sufficient place as a goalkeeping legend immaculately proven. It was an Read More…
“Lookman’s life is defined by faith and spirituality.” “It wouldn’t be possible without God,” Ademola Lookman remarked when he signed a professional contract with England’s Everton in 2017. “God is great,” he further said after he scored his first Premier League goal in January of the same year. Lookman recognizes that “life’s about challenges and Read More…
A Nigerian brother shares his personal experience of moving to Canada, highlighting the difficulties he has encountered and advising his fellow Africans to think carefully before making the move. https://youtu.be/2opzyUVHSS8?si=UpnKdDOrcTlWPk34 Stay connected and join the conversation! Follow me on: ?? Instagram https://www.instagram.com/emmaa_ansah/profilecard/?igsh=MWl3cXh6dms2dmkzZg== TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@blackbosslady716?_t=8qVZxCg1FQc&_r=1
A longread investigative feature that unmasks a nefarious job scheme mainly targeting Nigerians and other Africans through recruitment scams and pyramid schemes. But “Don’t Get Caught in a Pyramid Scheme”, Letitia James, New York State Attorney General cautions, noting that: “A pyramid scheme is a fraudulent system of making money based on recruiting an ever-increasing Read More…
“The average rate of warming in Africa was +0.3 o C/decade during the 1991-2022 period, compared to +0.2 o C/decade between 1961 and 1990. This is slightly above the global average.” Read More…
Monday morning’s fire outbreak at the High Commission of Canada to Nigeria has left two persons dead, according to local media in Nigeria. The fire outbreak was confirmed by the Head of Operations of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Fire Service, Amiola Adebayo, Punch Newspapers reports. Nkechi Isa, Head of Public Affairs of the FCT Emergency Management Read More…
“Providence smiled at him when some band members in Italy heard his voice for the first time and then told him how great his voice sounded and requested him to join their band. He accepted.” Making melody is his signature. Right from the cradle, like a beautifully scented flower budding, Inkau Sunday Diffin’s singing endowment Read More…
Profiles & Biographies announces Biographical Compendium on Outstanding Nigerians in the Diasporas “the nominee must consistently model the Nigerian spirit of resilience, integrity, innovation, and excellence. Nominees are also expected to be champions of community development.” ABUJA, Nigeria-One of Nigeria’s leading biographical publishing firms, Profiles & Biographies, has announced that it has added a biographical Read More…
The Significance of John Owan Enoh’s Visit to Sporting Facilities “By visiting the MKO stadium with key ministry officials, the Minister has shown that he “perceives the felt needs of the community.” The national facility is an essential face in the country’s sports, often perceived as a national shrine in Nigeria’s sports tradition.” Nigeria’s Sports Read More…
Knowing Kammz “To listen to “Undercover” from this Dallas-based singer is to enjoy good music from a musician adept at composition and delivery. Kammz puts a gentleman’s gloss to his singing on this track” “Undercover,” the introductory single by Kammz, a US-based Nigerian musician, is in more ways than one a vista into the creative Read More…
“What now stares the country’s new minister of sports is not a challenge. Instead, it is a public service meeting that he will ultimately find familiar, having intimately immersed himself with his constituents over the years. His distinguishing leadership charm and appealing values have been highlighted elsewhere as well.” Observably patriotic in his private and Read More…
Is This a Movement? “This may be a movement. It’s tough to beat a movement.”—Howard Wolfson, Hillary Clinton’s Communications Director. January 2008. The scandalous realization of Hillary Rodham Clinton of what she was running against in the run-up to the 2008 American presidential election may help us understand the potential presidency of Peter Obi in Read More…
Mr. Macaroni Says You’re Doing Well Mr. Macaroni showed good intentions that he would occupy an iconic place in Nigeria’s cinematic culture. He exhibited a fondness for comedic and dramatic acting from his teenage years. And this propensity for the screen landed him roles in the once popular Television hit, Papa Ajasco in 2014. A Read More…
Art Meets Food in Paula’s Murals Many agree that cooking is an art form and excellent food making requires paying attention to some of the most delicate details in culinary art in just about the same way that artists pay attention to lines, colors, and shapes. One Nigerian artist is painting the inseparable connection between Read More…
Award-winning Investigative Reporter Speaks on Pentecost Sunday Attack at St. Francis Catholic Church & “Nigeria’s Silent Slaughter-Genocide in Nigeria” David Hundeyin, award-winning investigative reporter, founder of https://westafricaweekly.substack.com/,and one of the compilers of Nigeria’s Silent Slaughter- Genocide in Nigeria and Implications for the International Community, has explained the June 5 Pentecost Sunday terrorist attack at St. Francis Catholic Read More…
The Political Courage of Omoyele Sowore “Free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.”—Barack Obama. Omoyele Sowore’s recent emergence as the African Action Congress presidential candidate bears testimony to his political fortitude over the years, despite personal and collective losses, threats to personal safety, and loss Read More…
Stones, Blood And Fire As Deborah Samuel Is Murdered In The Caliphate “Who kills in name of god leaves god without a name.” —Prof. Wole Soyinka, 1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature. Thursday’s stoning to death and eventual burning of Deborah Samuel at Read More…
Torture by Electrocution & Other Means: A Documentation of Disturbing Animal Cruelty on Social Media The prevalence of animal cruelty clips on social media has created concerns for animal rights advocates, conservationists and everyone concerned about other species who share the environment with us. These alarming clips are gathering traction and the disturbing trend has Read More…
