This article was published in partnership with Artsy, the global platform for discovering and collecting art. Behind a chartreuse veil, stitched with pearls of the same color, a woman gazes at the camera. Her gele, a signifier of her Nigerian heritage, is artfully wrapped around her head and stacks of beaded necklaces encircle her neck. …
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APC leader, Adams Oshiomhole It took the inauguration of Edo State House of Assembly for the crisis of confidence and political unease between Governor Godwin Obaseki and the national chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole to blow open. Prior to the proclamation and its attendant brouhaha, both leaders put up a vain show …
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Adewale Adeyemo, a Nigerian-American economic expert, has been appointed president of the Obama Foundation.Adeyemo had served in the administration of former president Obama as deputy national security adviser (NSA) for international economics and he is reputed to have helped the US combat the global economic recession of 2008.According to the foundation, Adeyemo will lead ‘’the …
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Five months after he was elected for a second term, President Muhammadu Buhari submitted the much-awaited ministerial nominees list to the Senate for consideration and confirmation. The team is made up of 43 names, 14 of them former ministers in his first term. To get him to release the names was like pulling the chestnuts …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 