In recent years, the recovery of Abacha-related funds has been a recurrent fixture in successive administrations. With Nigeria’s present economic challenges, many Nigerians believe the recovered funds may help improve affairs.

Critics have called a design contest launched by NDLEA ‘exploitative’. The contest, where young artists compete by submitting free NDLEA logo suggestions, has received over 100 submissions, but a spokesperson for the organization has announced that it will not be revising its approach.

On July 23, the WHO declared the escalating Monkeypox outbreak as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

The miners’ survival status remains unknown, and recent news that the first underground chamber was empty has led to increasing call to save the miners by speed up operations.

The distinction in press freedoms during the military-era versus in our current democratic leadership is hazy—particularly since around the world, the press is facing new challenges such as navigating digital surveillance, hacking, online harassment and internet shutdowns.

Globally, the impacts of COVID-19 on children have been understated. Researchers are now ramping up their focus on the much younger population. But what are the lessons across Africa, where children make up 40% of the population?

In 2021, there were violent clashes in Jerusalem and fatal exchanges of rocket fire and bombs between Gaza and Israel.

This year, much of ‘Detty December’ may be fuelled by an unlikely source—growing apathy towards COVID-19.

‘[The black soot] is a reflection of the state of affairs and government have failed to protect the citizens.’ — Eugene Abels, initiator of the ‘StopTheSoot’ campaign.

Criticism of ‘Ameno Amapiano’ has coincided with a documentary on cultism in Nigeria that The BBC’s Africa Eye aired on 13 December 2021.