Centre for Nigeria Progress

If I were to tell you that 2024 has already been a hugely significant year for West African food, then where would your mind immediately turn? Might it be Chishuru? The whirling firecracker of a West End restaurant where brilliant, Nigerian-born autodidact Adejoké Bakare (recently named Chef of the Year at the National Restaurant Awards) has already won a Michelin star for her expressive, …

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Proliferation of airport projects is at odds with concentration of air passenger traffic Last Thursday the governor of Zamfara, one of Nigeria’s poorest states, held a ceremony to mark the start of construction on an international airport in the state capital Gusau. “The economic benefits and multiplier effects … are quite enormous,” Dauda Lawal said. …

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The Last Week Tonight host looks into what would happen if Trump were re-elected, this time with a conservative playbook called Project 2025 On the latest Last Week Tonight, John Oliver looked into what will be in store should Donald Trump be elected to a second term as president in November – and particularly the …

Continue reading "John Oliver on a second Trump term: ‘Really does promise to be far, far worse’ by Adrian Horton"