West Africa’s healthcare investment momentum builds as WHX returns to Nigeria
Nigeria’s healthcare sector is undergoing rapid transformation, with forecasts predicting a 7.1% expansion and an anticipated market value of US$161.7 million by 2027. This growth is fuelled by a US$1.2 billion Federal Ministry investment in infrastructure and workforce, major oncology and diagnostic expansions by the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, and increased imports under the African Continental Free Trade Area […]
Untold story of Delta’s missing children
•Gov Oborevwori orders recovery of every missing child; effective security in Agbarho community•The tales are exaggerated – Olorogun Egbo, Ughelli North LGA chairman•How they abducted our 4-year-old son – Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert; They set my innocent wife ablaze – Mr. Afonughe•HRM Ogugu I, clerics, villagers hold prayer session, lay curses on child snatchers By […]
After 35 years, this car still works fine
“And if it does break, the nice thing is that you can repair everything yourself” due to the “simple technology”
Expectations of subjects as Oba Ladoja ascends throne as 44th Olubadan
By Laolu Elijah, Ibadan On Saturday 26th, 2025, the ancient city of Ibadan will be agog with much anticipation as Senator Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja ascends the incomparable stool of the Olubadan in Yorubaland. His enthronement as the 44th Olubadan of Ibadanland represents not just a change in traditional leadership but a turning point that many […]
They took from us Aso Rock site where we made spiritual consultations – Abuja indigenous people
Almost half a century after the Nigerian capital was moved from Lagos to Abuja, indigenous people in The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) continue to fight for recognition amidst poverty, misery, historic injustice and a thin hope of salvation, Adewale Adeoye reports
Drug promotions flooding social media: How patients go blind, suffer stroke, experience kidney failure
“… these medicines sold online are contributing to a surge in preventable complications such as kidney and liver failure, sudden blindness, strokes, and even deaths.”
Newspaper dristributors rejoice as Vanguard donates eye glasses
…LG boss says CSR worthy of emulation By Chioma Obinna & Olasunkami Akoni Chairman of Ikeja Local Government Area, Akeem Dauda, has urged organisations and other media establishments to emulate the Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, initiative of Vanguard Media Limited, describing it as “laudable and worthy of emulation.” Dauda made the call, yesterday, while speaking […]
Canonisation of Carlo Acutis: A Digital Saint for the Internet Age
By Henry Ojelu with agency report The canonisation of Blessed Carlo Acutis, the Italian teenager fondly called the “Cyber Apostle of the Eucharist,” has been greeted with joy, reflection and renewed calls for young people across the world—especially in Africa—to draw inspiration from his life of holiness, simplicity and technological creativity. Carlo, who died in […]
10 countries that no longer exist – and why
Borders on a map may look fixed, but history shows us they are anything but permanent. Countries rise, fall, merge, and sometimes vanish altogether.
How natives, institutions are battling to save Plateau’s vanishing languages
Each change severs a thread to history, identity, and sovereignty. When militias invade, they burn villages first, then rename the land
Vision restored: How Vanguard is changing lives, one pair of glasses at a time
Each morning at Marina in Lagos, Godwin Akpan, a newspaper vendor, begins his day before the city fully wakes. But lately, his routine has taken on new meaning.
