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AMAA 2024: Nigeria's The Weekend & Jagun Jagun, S/Africa's The Queenstown Kings Emerge Top Winners

The 2024 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) was held on Saturday, November 2, and 26 awards were won by filmmakers across Africa. Nigeria and South Africa won big.

2024-11-03 07:33

Africans at the cutting edge of interior design

Two UK-based Africans tell the BBC how they are digging deep into their culture to change home decor.

2024-11-03 02:45

Una mujer negra, al frente del Partido Conservador británico: Kemi Badenoch, de origen nigeriano, sustituye a Sunak

"Nuestro partido es fundamental para el éxito de nuestro país, pero para que nos escuchen tenemos que ser honestos: honestos sobre el hecho de que cometimos errores", dijo. Más información: La exministra de Empresa Kemi Badenoch sustituye a Rishi Sunak como l…

2024-11-03 01:38

Treason: Attorney General considers dropping charges against ‘hungry’ minors

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), has commenced moves to drop the charges brought against the 32 minors arraigned before Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court in Abuja. Hours after the arraignment…

2024-11-03 01:25

Menstruating women lament water, sanitary pad scarcity in Ogun

Observing menstrual period has become a nightmare for women and girls in rural communities in Ogun State due to lack of access to clean water and sanitary products, exposing them to infections associated with poor hygiene, SODIQ OJUROUNGBE reports Esther Ibuk…

2024-11-03 01:17

Lagos gov, others mourn Lekki, Olakunle

The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has expressed sadness losing two political associates in quick succession. The Executive Secretary of the Lagos State Scholarship Board, Abdulrahman Lekki,  died on Wednesday, October 30, 2024, after a brief il…

2024-11-03 00:39

My varsity education to satisfy my parents – Graduate ponmo trader

Tolulope Ademola-Alli, an English Education graduate from the Osun State University and founder of Hardukeh Enterprises—a business specialising in the sale of cow skin, popularly known as ponmo—speaks with Temitope Adetunji about her motivation and decision t…

2024-11-03 00:30

Waiting for Dave Umahi’s Achievements

The history of modern Nigeria drips with the blood of hundreds of thousands of citizens who died needlessly in road accidents. One of them, a final year university student who was killed on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, had been my closest friend.  I share the…

2024-11-03 00:25

IHF Trophy Africa: Nigeria vs. Zambia match holds today

The match between Nigeria and Zambia, which was supposed to be played on Saturday at the IHF World Handball Trophy Africa Men Continental Phase in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has been shifted to Sunday (today). The National U-18 men’s handball team led by Coach Em…

2024-11-03 00:17

Effect of community health education on mothers’ knowledge of obstetric danger signs and birth preparedness and complication readiness practices in southern Ethiopia: A cluster randomized controlled trial

Introduction Increasing knowledge of obstetric danger signs (ODS) and encouraging birth preparedness and complication readiness (BPCR) practices are strategies to increase skilled maternal health service utilization in low-income countries. One of the methods…

2024-11-27 14:00