A yearslong effort to convince Washington of religious persecution is shifting foreign policy toward the West African nation, with major consequences. By Dionne Searcey Zolan Kanno-Youngs Ruth Maclean ...

“A PRINCE OUGHT to inspire fear,” wrote Niccolo Machiavelli, but “he must endeavour only to avoid hatred”, lest it prove his undoing. By that measure Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, is ...

(The Conversation) — Nigeria “must do more to protect Christians,” a senior U.S. State Department official demanded on Jan. 22, 2026, during a high-level security meeting in the African nation’s ...

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing scale, spectacle, the war film and national history. One of the boldest ...

The last fortnight has been a-washed with stories marking the sixtieth commemoration of the January 1966 coup that terminated the First Republic. But as usual, a lot of it are myths that had been ...

Yesterday, January 15, 2026, marked exactly 60 years since Nigeria’s first military coup of 1966, a turning point that altered the nation’s political trajectory and reshaped its history. January 15, ...

When Jude Nnam wrote his first Mass in 1992, it was under the subconscious influence of a boyhood experience. In the mid-1970s, Nnam and two friends visited an Assemblies of God church in Enugu, the ...

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Tate Modern’s “Nigerian Modernism” aims to disrupt the way we think of art history—not only in Africa but globally. Featuring 59 artists working over a period of 50 years, the 300 artworks in the show ...

ABUJA – A court in Nigeria on Thursday convicted separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu of all seven terrorism-related charges brought against him and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Kanu founded the ...