Culture
WEEKLY PRESS REVIEW 03-09 October, 2025
About 139 million Nigerians are currently living in poverty, according to The World Bank. This is just as the bank said the country’s economy has started to show signs of stability from ongoing reforms.
WEEKLY PRESS REVIEW 19-25 SEPTEMBER, 2025
ali, Burkina Faso and Niger on Monday announced their withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Weekly Press Review 12-18 September, 2025
Regional News What next for Mali as Wagner fails to defeat insurgents? | ISS Africa A new report suggests that Niger, Burkina Faso – and Europe can learn a lot […]
Widowed by Insecurity, Women Struggle to Remarry in Borno State, North-East Nigeria.
Barriers hinder women from remarrying. Data on Nigeria report more than 10,000 women widowed since Boko Haram conflict in 2009. During the insurgency, hundreds of young men from Borno state were arrested, abducted, or forced to join the insurgents.
Sanitary Pads Tax-Free: More Affordable for Conflict-Affected Women
Nigeria’s government announced tax-free policy on sanitary pads making them more available and affordable. Lower income women use pieces of cloth to manage their monthly flow, which is unhygienic and harmful. Tax removal will improve health condition
Peace and the power of music
Music has a power that can be immensely therapeutic and cathartic because it can bring out our basic emotions – happiness, sadness, fear and anger.
Kanuri people gather to promote their culture, unity, peace, history, traditions and language
High-profile personalities, traditional leaders and citizens gathered in Maiduguri on Saturday, December 31, to attend the annual Kanuriya Dineya, an event to promote the culture, unity, peace, history, traditions and language of the Kanuri people.
Poetry for peace
In every language and in every country, poetry has played an important role in portraying the state of affairs throughout the world and through the ages. It has described love […]
Incense no longer the sweet smell of success
For more than a thousand years incense, popularly called “Ka’aji” in Kanuri and also known as “Turaren Wuta”, has been used by the Kanuri and Shuwa Arab people – and […]
