Sixteen-year-old Thai rock musician Nene Royal has emerged winner of the latest season of America’s Got Talent, becoming the first contestant from Thailand to claim the reality talent show’s top prize. Royal, whose real name is Rattikarn Amloy, secured the $1m grand prize after delivering a performance of The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” during the grand finale in California.…
PART I: The Colonial Trap Decades after gaining nominal independence in 1960, Nigeria remains ensnared in a structural and developmental bottleneck. The contemporary Nigerian state exhibits all the symptoms of an arrested developmental trajectory: a chronic deficit in technological innovation,…
Africa is far bigger than it looks on many world maps. Here is why the continent appears smaller, how map projections distort its size, and what the true size of Africa means for how the world sees the continent. Have…
The Men Who Saw Tomorrow: Another Part of the Aoiri Obaigbo Series Professor Eyo Ita occupies an important but often overlooked place in the history of Nigerian nationalism, education and political development. His work in practical education, vocational training and minority politics offers an important Eastern link to the broader debate over how Nigeria could have built a more productive…
Blockchain technology is gaining global recognition for its potential to revolutionize various industries, and Nigeria’s financial sector is no exception. As the country seeks to improve financial inclusion, enhance transparency, and reduce fraud, blockchain offers promising solutions. By enabling secure,…
Nigeria and other governments battling terrorism such Boko Haram, ISWAP and other security threats across the Sahel region, is possibly been hampered by limited access to modern arms, ammunitions and technologies, a new global arms transfer data has shown. A…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has warned members of the public, businesses and financial institutions against rejecting the standard N100 banknote, stressing that it remains a valid legal tender across the country. The apex bank issued the clarification on…
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, has directed petroleum marketers to immediately adjust the pump prices of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, and other petroleum products to reflect the recent decline in global…
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Politics
The Presidency has challenged former Anambra State Governor and Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to honour his pledge to stop campaigning for the 2027 presidency if claims that his administration left financial liabilities in the state are established. The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, made the challenge on Wednesday in a post on X, following an escalating dispute between Obi…
Education
The Embassy of Ireland in Nigeria has announced that applications for the 2026 Ireland Fellows Programme will open on June 29, offering qualified Nigerians the opportunity to pursue fully funded Master’s degrees at leading universities in Ireland. The announcement was made on Friday through the embassy’s official X account, stating that the programme is designed for early and mid-career professionals from Nigeria and Ghana seeking to undertake a one-year postgraduate programme. According to the embassy, the scholarship covers tuition fees,…
