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May

21

2025

Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Tourism and Creative Economy Partners With AFRIFF to Launch Groundbreaking Film Market

Business, Column, Economy, Metro, News, Sponsoredculture, Economy, Nigeria

Cannes, France, May 18, 2025 – In a bold move to reinforce Nigeria’s leadership in the global creative economy, the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy has signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF), establishing the AFRIFF Film and Content Market (AFCM), a pioneering marketplace poised to reposition Africa as a major player in the global film, television and digital content industries. The official signing took place at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, where the Honourable Minister of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy, Hannatu Musa Musawa, Esq.,…

May

19

2025

By Amos Oge Kalu

The Scary Rise in South-East Organised Systematic Exclusion From Nigeria.

Column, Metro, News, Opinion, Politics, SponsoredBola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria, Opinion, Politics, South East

It’s time to strip away the propaganda and confront the truth: the South-East region of Nigeria continues to suffer calculated exclusion from national development policies and federal investments, an injustice both glaring and dangerous to Nigeria’s unity. Let’s break it down, fact by fact: President Bola Ahmed Tinubu STUDENT LOAN SCHEME, South-East Excluded. The 2024 rollout of the Nigerian Student Loan Scheme by the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has so far failed to include a single public tertiary institution from the South-East among the first batch of beneficiaries. While students in other zones are applying, over 100,000 South-East students…

May

17

2025

By Amos Oge Kalu

Housing: The urgency of an emergency – By abiodun KOMOLAFE

Column, Metro, News, Opinion, PoliticsAbiodun KOMOLAFE

I was out of town last Saturday when a sudden phone call shattered my plans for the weekend. My co-tenant informed me of a shocking rent hike by a staggering 75% increase! In one fell swoop? In a letter to that effect, the Estate Agent, or ‘Caretaker’, as they are called in this part of the world, added a caveat, which more or less sounded like a formal threat: “In view of this, we hereby review the rent to N350,000.00 (Three hundred and fifty thousand naira) only for your subsequent tenancy period commencing from 10th November, 2025; if you so…

May

17

2025

By Amos Oge Kalu

Nigeria’s governors: Halfway to where? (1) By abiodun KOMOLAFE

Column, News, Opinion, PoliticsAbiodun KOMOLAFE, Nigeria, Politics

To begin with, any assessment of the subnational level must acknowledge that Nigeria’s federal system is defective and quasi-federalist in nature. Put bluntly, it operates with the ethos of a tightly centralized “Bonapartist state”. This is the truth of the matter: no matter how well a subnational governor performs, the operating framework handicaps him. It’s like a boxer fighting with one hand behind his back. In other words, there’s a debilitating limit to what a governor can achieve. For instance, governors of states like Benue, Plateau and Zamfara have discovered that the title of Chief Security Officer is more in…

May

02

2025

By Amos Oge Kalu

Of Stupidity, Show Of Shame And Shenanigans 2.

Column, News, Opinion, PoliticsChris Nwaokobia, Nwaokobia Jnr, Opinion, Politics

It has been a full week of listening to Politricktians struggling to defend the indefensible. I have watched some struggle to present purely self-seeking and egocentric predilections and decisions as altruistic and popular. The usual lie told when politicians decamp from one Party to another was rife in the news-wave. It was repeated every so often they were confronted with 'why did you decamp to a Party you had mocked and described as soulless and directionless?". And the lies would come streaming with shameless Olympic stupidity and shenanigans unbridled. If your reason for moving from the PDP to the APC…