By Joy Essien, Contributing Editor, Lagos Metropolitan. On Saturday, 29th November, 2025, Gratitude Outreach, set out to reach a specific community in Abuja. Gratitude outreach is an initiative under the Cause A Smile Initiative, a registered NGO in Nigeria. The Gratitude Outreach is designed to meet some of the dire needs of communities providing Food, Read More…
By Joy Essien, Contributing Editor, Lagos Metropolitan. One of the things we kept hearing during election campaign season about President Tinubu was that he had a generous reward system and was known to reward political loyalists. So it really comes with no shock at all at the names that emerged on the ambassadorial list. Lacking Read More…
By Joy Essien, Contributing Editor, Lagos Metropolitan. African leaders and their obsession with power. They never fail to disappoint. They get into office and do everything to remain there even when their time is up and they should vacate the seat for another. This script has overplayed itself one too many, it’s beginning to look Read More…
The world mourns the loss of reggae icon Jimmy Cliff, who passed away at the age of 81 following complications from a seizure and pneumonia. Known globally for his transformative impact on reggae music, Cliff was not only a celebrated singer and songwriter but a cultural ambassador whose legacy extended far beyond the shores of Read More…
It is not yet doomsday in Nigeria. There is still some chance to rescue us from ourselves, even if the buffeting winds of killings and maimings and outright erasure of human settlements from the surface of the earth have served adequate notice that we are pushing our luck.I have no partisan agenda other than the Read More…
A special Lagos Metropolitan feature By Nkanu Egbe Nigeria is standing at a dangerous inflection point — a moment when the weight of long-ignored problems has finally collided with the limits of the country’s capacity to cope. What we are witnessing is not a single crisis but a convergence of crises: economic stagnation, territorial insecurity, Read More…
By Joy Essien, Contributing Editor, Lagos Metropolitan. The attack in Gidan Waya in ‘Yarkasuwa, Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna State took place on the night of 11th November, 2025. In a statement released by the Amnesty International, it disclosed that the attack occurred on the night of 11 November 2025, and highlights the continued Read More…
By Joy Essien, Contributing Editor, Lagos Metropolitan. This is a developing story as the police, the military and the Kebbi State Government have not issued any statement about the incident. Terrorists by midnight on Monday abducted at least 25 schoolgirls from Maga Comprehensive Girls’ Secondary School in Danko Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State. Read More…
By Joy Mfon, Contributing Editor, Lagos Metropolitan. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) in 2024, filed a criminal charge against Professor Cyril Ndifon, the suspended Dean of Faculty of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL), following the Commission’s conclusion of investigation into the Professor’s alleged gross misconducts against some of his students. Read More…
This article explores the difficult, entangled, high risk and yet, hopeful journey of publishing on the continent, a journey exemplified by Somali scholar, Jama Musse Jama’s vision of literature and the arts as a site of reconstruction and liberation. Dr. Jama Musse Jama – An Ethno-Mathematical Blueprint Author and ethno-mathematician, Jama Musse Jama is also Read More…