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Mariyam Tadein was 21 years old when she was sentenced to death.Police found over half a million tablets of “yaba”, an illegal cocktail of methamphetamine and caffeine popular in many parts of Southeast Asia, in the house she was renting in southern Thailand.“I spent 20 years, five months, and 15 days in prison. I was sentenced to death, along with a person who was executed by lethal injection.I knew I was next, that I was going to die.There were enough yaba tablets in that house to fill an entire truck. They weren’t mine; but it did not matter.I got to…

Something felt painful about watching two African presidents exchange comments that reduced millions of their citizens to petty supremacy arguments. It started when President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria tried to defend the hardship Nigerians were facing because of rising fuel prices and economic reforms. While speaking in Bayelsa State, he told Nigerians to be thankful because they were “better off” than people in Kenya and some other African countries. His comment immediately drew reactions. Beyond the hardship at home, many Nigerians were angry that their president had chosen another African country as the yardstick for measuring suffering. Many Kenyans saw…

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An aspirant for the Share/Oke-Ode State Constituency seat in the Kwara State House of Assembly under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, Abdulrasheed Akogun, has said the growing number of aspirants seeking the party’s ticket ahead of the 2027 general elections reflects Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq’s leadership and popularity in the state. Akogun stated this on Monday after participating in the APC screening exercise for House of Assembly aspirants in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. He commended members of the screening committee for conducting what he described as a seamless, transparent, and credible exercise. “The screening exercise went seamlessly and…

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Transnational Corporation Plc, Transcorp Group, has declared a total dividend of N20.3 billion, representing N2 per share to its shareholders, at its 20th Annual General Meeting (AGM), held at the Transcorp Centre Abuja.  The total dividend comprises an interim dividend payment of N4.06 billion, representing 40 kobo per share, paid in August 2025, together with a final dividend of N16.259 billion equivalent to N1.60 per share. At the AGM, where the shareholders approved the audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2025, the Group Chairman of Transcorp Plc, Mr Tony O. Elumelu, restated the company’s commitment to delivering sustainable…

A US transparency advocacy group has opened a temporary exhibition in New York with only one text on display: a print-out of all the files released by the US Department of Justice — roughly 3.5 million pages — relating to financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. The library, dubbed “The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room,” has bound all the documents released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act in 3,437 volumes, all numbered and organized on shelves. “The truth is hard to deny when it’s printed and bound for you to see,” reads the website for…

World record holder and five-time national champion Tobi Amusan will target a third African 100 metres hurdles title as she begins her campaign at the 2026 African Senior Athletics Championships in Accra, Ghana, which gets underway at the University of Ghana today, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. Amusan arrives with an impressive record at the continental championships, having won five gold medals across individual and relay events. She won the 100m and 4x100m relay titles at Asaba 2018, repeated the sprint hurdles and relay double at Mauritius 2022, and added another relay gold at Douala 2024. She was, however, expected to…

Long before the winners were announced at the 12th edition of the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards on Saturday night in Lagos, films like “The Herd,” “Gingerrr,” “To Kill A Monkey,” and several commercially successful Nollywood titles had dominated conversations online. Many of the films arrived at the ceremony with strong fan bases, impressive streaming numbers, viral moments, and massive box office performances. But by the end of the night, one film quietly overshadowed the rest. “My Father’s Shadow,” a deeply personal and emotionally layered drama directed by Akinola Davies Jr., emerged as the biggest winner of the 2026 AMVCA,…

Edem Wosurnu of the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, briefed journalists on her recent mission to the Caribbean island nation where violent armed gangs remain in control of large areas of the territory. The worsening crisis is marked by rising insecurity, deepening protection needs, mass displacement, shocking levels of gender-based violence (GBV) and a challenging operating environment for the UN and partners. Families, not figures OCHA is sounding the alarm as over half the Haitian population, 6.4 million people, now need humanitarian assistance.   Some 5.7 million are going hungry, with families skipping meals and children even leaving school to help support their households, while 1.5 million people – 12 per cent of the population – are displaced. “These are not abstract figures,” she said. “These represent families uprooted, families displaced; separated children – many who’ve lost the homes that they knew.”  Violence and…