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Dusé Mohamed Ali (Bey Effendi) (November 21, 1866 – June 25, 1945) was an actor and political activist, who became known for his African nationalism. He was a playwright, historian, journalist, editor, and publisher. In 1912 he founded the African Times and Orient Review, revived as the African and Orient Review, which was published in total through 1920. He lived and worked mostly in England, with time in the US and Nigeria. In the latter location, he founded Comet Press Ltd and The Comet newspaper in Lagos.

He received his early training in Egypt, but at the age of 9 or 10, his father arranged for him to go to England to be educated, His father died in 1882 while serving at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir in Egypt. He was forced to return to Egypt. After settling affairs with his father’s estate, he returned to England. As the ward of Canon Berry, he pursued studies at King’s College London.

He had intended to study as a doctor and had started on related studies before his father’s death. Afterward, he wanted to write and act. On completing his studies at the University of London, he was in the company of Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Lillie Langtry’s production of Antony and Cleopatra at the Royal Princess Theatre, London.

As an actor, he toured the British Isles. He produced Othello and The Merchant of Venice in Hull, Yorkshire, playing the parts of Othello and the Prince of Morocco. He earned praise from the British press.

He wrote several plays, producing The Jew’s Revenge at the Royal Surrey Theatre in London, A Cleopatra Night at Dundee, and The Lily of Bermuda, a musical comedy at the Theatre Royal, Manchester. The productions were praised by the British and American press.

His production and performance in A Daughter of Judah which he first produced in the Glasgow Empire Theatre received particularly good reviews. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Greek Islands, Cyprus, Jordan & France - Full Itinerary

This summer I made one of my life goals come true and travelled for 3 weeks to 5 countries (the 4 I was meant to visit originally + an accidental stopover in Austria) including Greek mainland and island hopping as well as visiting one of the 7 Wonders of the World, Petra in Jordan.

ATHENS - GREECE

Official gov tourism website https://www.visitgreece.gr/mainland/attica/athens/ 

Day 1

Take a 40 min bus from the airport

Temple of Olympian Zeus - Acropolis & Slopes Pass

Hadrian’s Arch - FREE

Theatre of Dionysus - Pass

Ruins of Asklepieion and Stoa of Eumenes - Pass

Odeon of Herodes Atticus - Pass

Acropolis of Athens - Pass

Erechtheoin - Pass

Temple of Athene Nike - Pass

Parthenon - Pass

Acropolis Museum - €15

Coming down the hill Areios Lagos (ancient law court) - FREE

Ancient Agora of Athens  - Pass

Temple of Hephaestus (at the ancient agora) - Pass

Monastiraki Square - FREE

Hadrian’s Library - Pass

Day 2

Plaka - FREE

Zappeion Garden - FREE

Ethnikos Kipos (Athens national garden) - FREE

Kalamaki Beach - FREE

Day 3

The Prison of Socrates - FREE

Church of Saint Demetrios Loumbardiaris - FREE

Pnyx - FREE

Philopappou Hill - FREE

Flight from Athens to Santorini

SANTORINI - GREECE

Day 1

Thera (Fira) day out - 30 min bus (€2)

Three Bells of Fira - FREE

Black sand beach - FREE

Day 2

Day trip to Oia

Day 3

Ancient Fira - £5

Ferry to Heraklion

HERAKLION - GREECE

Day 1

Beach day - FREE

Day 2

Venetian port Heraklion - FREE

Old Town - FREE

Day 3

Knossos Palace - £15

Heraklion Archaeological Museum - Included in the ticket

Day 4

Take the bus to Chania, 2 hours 30 min https://www.allincrete.com/buses-timetables/ around £15

CHANIA - GREECE

Day 1

Old Venetian Port of Chania - FREE

Lighthouse of Chania - FREE

Boat Trip - many depart daily from the port for £25

Day 2

Chania International Airport flight to Paphos

PAPHOS - CYPRUS

Day 1

Take a 25 min taxi to the hotel

Explore Paphos Old Town - FREE

Day 2

- Venus Beach - FREE

Day 3

Archaeological Site of the Tombs of the Kings - £2

Day 4

Archaeological Site of Nea Paphos - £4

Paphos Castle - FREE

Forty Columns Fortress - PAID

Paphos Mosaics - PAID

House of Dionysus - PAID

Villa of Theseus - PAID

House of Orpheus - PAID

Agora - PAID

Lighthouse - FREE

Day 5

Flight to Amman Queen Alia International Airport

AMMAN - JORDAN

Day 1

Take a bus from the airport (departs every 30 min) 

Roman Theatre - JORDAN PASS

Folklore Museum - JORDAN PASS

Amman Citadel: Open Cistern, Palace - JORDAN PASS

King Abdullah I Mosque - FREE

Rainbow Street - FREE

JORDAN PASS (includes visa) https://jordanpass.jo/Contents/Prices.aspx 

Day 2

Take a bus from Amman to Petra 6:30 am takes 3 hours arrival 9:30 am https://www.jett.com.jo/en 

PETRA - JORDAN

Day 2

Petra Tourist Office - FREE

Petra Museum - included in the JORDAN PASS

Siq (the Treasury) trail, then Jabal Haroun trail, then the climb up 900 steps Ad-Dier Monastery Hike - JORDAN PASS

Take a 40 JOD taxi to Wadi Rum Visitor Centre

WADI RUM - JORDAN

Day 2 Continued

Pick up from Wadi Rum Visitor Centre for 5 JOD organised by the camp (let them know arrival time one day prior to the stay)

Check-in at Desert Magic Camp & Resort Ad Disah Road 1, 77110 Wadi Rum, Jordan

Traditional dinner - 13 JOD

Day 3

Jeep tour of the desert (regular 4 hours) - 22 JOD

5 JOD jeep ride back to Wadi Rum Visitor Centre

Take a bus back to Amman

AMMAN - JORDAN

Day 3 Continued

Dinner at Hashem Restaurant

Day 4

Swim in the Dead Sea - Amman Beach - Dead Sea - FREE or ask your hotel for a private driver around 80 JOD for two people with access to a private beach at one of the resorts

The Baptism Site of Jesus Christ https://www.baptismsite.com/operating-hours-a-entrance-fees/ - 12 JOD

Flight to Paphos then flight to France Marseille Provence Airport 

MARSEILLE - FRANCE

Day 1

Chateau d’If via boat - €6 transport not included 

Day 2

Palais Longchamp - FREE

Cathedral La Major - FREE

Basilica of Notre-Dame of la Garde - FREE

Flight from Marseille Provence Airport back to the UK

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Sidney Blumenthal on the iconography of the Trump-era GOP. It's weird, but it really seems to work on the white Evangelicals who are the wellspring for MAGAdom. "All told, so far, Trump faces 91 criminal counts in four jurisdictions. Three other elaborate trials will follow his January 6 case, if it is scheduled any time in January or February. His trial date in New York is tentatively on the calendar for 25 March 2024. In that case, he is charged by the Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg “for falsifying New York business records in order to conceal damaging information and unlawful activity from American voters before and after the 2016 election. During the election, Trump and others employed a ‘catch and kill’ scheme to identify, purchase, and bury negative information about him and boost his electoral prospects. Trump then went to great lengths to hide this conduct, causing dozens of false entries in business records to conceal criminal activity, including attempts to violate state and federal election laws.” But Bragg has suggested he would postpone this trial to allow the January 6 federal case to be first.

Trump’s trial in the Mar-a-Lago presidential records case is on the calendar in Florida for 20 May 2024, where he is charged with the illegal and willful theft of national security documents and obstruction of justice. Even more than during the gripping performance of his various indictments, the theatre of his trials will subsume politics. There will not be another campaign, some semblance of a normal campaign of the past, a fantasy campaign, separate from Trump’s trials. The scenes from courtroom to courtroom will overlap with the primaries – the final ones taking place on 4 June 2024 – only intensifying the zeal of his base. And then Trump’s battle with the law will engulf the general election. The trials are a continuous spectacle, featuring an all-star cast in far-flung locations. Political reporters are barely heard from, while legal analysts fill the airwaves. Every twist and turn, every motion, every argument is the breathless lead story. Everyone, from prosecutors to co-conspirators, named and unnamed, indicted and unindicted, are characters in Trump’s new reality show – part violent action movie (the insurrection), part sleazy porn flick (Stormy Daniels), part conspiracy thriller (Mar-a-Lago), and part mafia drama (the fake elector racket).

But the Trump trials are more than his means; they are his ends. The trials are not the sideshow, but the heart and soul of Trump’s campaign. They have become his essential fundraising tool to finance his defense, his platform for whipping up his followers into a constant state of excitement, and his instrument for dominating the media to make himself the center of attention and blot out coverage of anyone else. The trials are the message. They are the drama around which Trump plays his role as the unjustly accused victim, whose rights are trampled and who is the martyr for his oppressed “deplorables”. He is taking the slings and arrows for them. The narcissist is the self-sacrificing saint. The criminal is the angel. The liar is the truth-teller. If any Republican lapses in faithfulness, they are more than a mere doubter or skeptic, but a betrayer and traitor. Trump’s trials are the rigorous trial of his followers’ faith. Rejection of temptation in an encounter with an impertinent fact that might raise a qualm shows purity of heart. Seduction by fact must be resisted. The siren song of critical thinking must be cast out as sin. Trump’s convictions are the supreme test of his followers’ strength of conviction."

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Dissolving Dependency Through Targeted Redevelopment

The Nigerian president postponed presentation of the Nigerian budget to rush to Cash-trapped France for a state visit.  The former Lagos boss, turned president, was eager to make the ill-timed state visit to sign a few cooperations and memoranda after US court documents allegedly revealled the state head to be an active CIA asset, the Express Tribune reports.  A fact most of the world's leaders and institutions of civil society and order have kept silent about.

Doubtless Abuja will be spinning some kind of bilatetal deal with Paris, even though France is broke itself.  Unfortunately, many Arican, Asian and Latin American states are not ready to discard the charade of finance that has kept many of its nations in perpetual poverty. Surely many of these richly endowed states could easily buy their Western European benefactors twice over.  But instead, they are making ill-planned trips to tiny, overcrowded, resource-less Western European nations seeking fake money for real value.  Even the US knows it outstrips Western Europe on resources and value in rich indigenous lands.

Recently, Chad swapped out France for Hungary as a security partner against Sahel jihadisy militants,  France 24 reports.  The move was touted by some as sovereignity and a humiliation by the melodramatic in what has been an obvious trend of territorial downsizing by France. In fact, the Hungary Times reported it is getring French manufatured military aircraft shipments and arrillery for its Chad mission.  It is  unlikely that this changing of the guard caught France by surprise.  However, such is the extravagant political theatre of France and its vassals. Financially, Paris is overstretched, and it has had to abdicate prized territories to other Western powers.  The world is witnessing the deployment of a modern-day Berlin Agreement. 

Africa's leaders wait in the balance for Western leaders to divide land, property and denominate currency.  It is an unholy dependency that has left millions of Africans across the continent unable to scale business, actualize innovations and develop new technologies.  These economies are essentially hamstrung by their Western European partners that dole out jobs sparingly and refuse to finance local  enterprise and industry. AllAfrica News has just reported that Standard Charter Bank will exit Uganda, Botswana and Zambia, on performance and profitability, Daily Express Uganda reports. Again, African states get nothing.

Plainly put, African states are dependent on external conglomerates and multintionals of every ilk to function.  It is a dependency that ultimately betrays the future of African civilians,  students, families and busineses across the continent. Milions of Africans (young and old) sit home unable to function in their own Fatherland, because their economies do not work.  Many are relegated to hard labor for a pitance in economies that disdain their ardent struggles without adequate reward.  The reliance on external brands, technology and production makes Africa a quintessential target.  Even resources such as food production are sourced abroad in what becomes a system of maximum food insecurity.  Brookings reports that Africa imports only about 20 percent of its food needs through intercontinental trade, while the vast majority is beyond the Africa region.

Often such observations concerning the continent are met with the same sort of indifference or pity as that surrounding Nigeria's American CIA problem.  However, states might begin to take stock of how they can take back and fortify their own nations.  This happens in a number of ways.  But it starts with citizens and those in functional levels of government coming together to push for four major adoptions: Alignment,  Long-Term Benefit, Military Capacity-Building, and Financial System and Market Development.

I. Fortification Through Alignment

African states begin fortification through Alignments with that states that help it accomplish financial and military goals. Just recently, the Middle East Eye reported that satellite imagery revealed Turkiye was still shipping fuel to Israel. In October, an Al Jazeera report discovered that the US, UK, Italy, Germany, Cypress and Greece were supporting the Israeli Military siege in Gaza.  The UN has since issued arrest warrents for genocide to the regime's leadership. It provides a compelling point that Western states will even align with those who commit crimes against humanity,  if it serves their interests.  African states must pivot to pursue their best interest in a similar manner. At this point and time the West has lost all of its credibility as a rational actor for justice, democracy and freedom in the world. It is a sentiment that has been retired by its currnt functionaries. It will be up the incoming opposition party leaders in Western enclaves to repair the damage, ignore or exacerbate the eroding reputation.

Principally,  this means African states must do what is best for its own interests moving forward. It must divorce itself from the notion that its former colonial adversaries and their allies will help it reach its developmental and economic goals.  That hasn't happened in decades, and now it is time to move on from the delusion. There is no moral high ground to keep in the naked barbarity of the Israeli Genocide against Palestinians. It is time to pursue aignments that make sense for African states.

II.  Effective Long-term Negotiation

Several African states have been accepted as BRICS+ members and/or partners in the past few years.  The Brics alliance has various benefits for the world and the global south.  It also poses a great opportunity for African states to reach markets under difgerent trade arrangements. Often the Achilles heel of many African states has been the inability, unwilliness or skill to negotiate deals that fortify for long-term benefit. 

Currently, many projects that do present long-term benefit were forged by China.  Beijing is internationally known for its capacity to plan in the long term, therefore it often offers deals that yield greater benefit.  However Africa cannot always rely on its trading partners to seek win-win deals.  It must begin focusing on partnerships, negotiations and contracts that yield more benefits. 

Kenya's projected Airport Lease arrangement offers a typical case study into the poorly planned deals that haunt Africans and their future generations. Although that deal was cancelled after the US indicted the Adni Group, it reveals a leadership trend desperate to negotiate deals th at pawn th e future of the average Kenyan. The IMF dictated economy-killing budgets that leave African sttes in prolonged  financial paralysis are yet another example of poorly negoriated deals.

And while economic hitmen are real, states wishing to circumvent intrigues do well to make such budget mstters public.  When people understand what is at stake, they are much more likely to demand the better option.  More citizens must be involved in the process of state deal-making.  States may even find it helpful to employ local companies to broker deals with details, cost and timelines published and diacussed in town halls meetings and village discussions. Such final measures may even be voted on or dismissed.  Regardless, Africa states must begin to negotiate deals that have long term benefit with commensurate renumeration.

III.  Military Theory and Capacity Building

African states face an imperative to fortify their armed forces, military theory and proprietary defense and security aparatus. Many African states are so under resourced in military capacity, small bands of ex te rnally finances militant groups can sieze control of territory and cause  massive displacement.  Africa's internally displaced people trippled to 35 million souls to date,  France 24 reported. 

Local citizens, civil society, and institutions must demand a better presense.  African states have been left naked to envasions, resource theft, sexual violence and exploitation for decades.  Without adequate personnel and enforcement, Africa's most vulnerable pay the price. 

Military strength is not the capacity to control ones citizenry with force , but also to protect them. For many Africans, they have only seen law enforcement amd military used to control local issues or invade less fortified other African states. Rather, Africa needs real capacity to truly defend its people, property and prospects.

Instead, African states are rocked by internal violence often fomented by an external foe. The necessity for good intel, security aparatus and screening would ensure that subversives and shadow finance that make their way into the country for destabilization were blocked and early detected.  In today's world, these modalities cannot be neglected and citizens and civil society must make these top objectives for incoming leadership at all levels.

African states must also stop deluding itself about the nature and history of its relationship with former regional imperialists. Many issues of antiquity have yet to be settled or adequately redressed.  Just recently, France's former president admitted admitted to the Senegal Thiaroye Massacre, France 24 reported.  In 1944, Nearly 100 West African veterans who faught for France in World War II were cut down in cold blood for demanding payment of unpaid wages from Paris at the close of the war.  Even then, the rules based order was imposing a barbaric standard onto the Global South.

African states must forge powerful, skilled and well-armed militaries that have the caoacity to face a chaotic and violent world in flux.  It is not enough to produce precious metals and minerals for the world--Africa must now produce security and safety for itself.  Its citizens and civil society mist demand it to ensure that the disenfranchised and vulnerable are not abused or commandeered to destroy society through  externally operated militias and mercenary groups.

African states must build their own military theory and best practises. It must move forward in the arena of heavy artillery and advanced arms to prepare for rapidly advancing military capacities aroujd the world.  African states must act quickly to patch up it pregnable areas and taboo explorations of nuclear deterrence. 

IV. Financial Systems and Market Development

Finally, African states must shed its dependency on exyernal fianacial syatems and capital.  If the United states can produce currency, why cant Zimbabwe or Lesotho?  Its massibe coveted resources can force the world to trade on its terms and with its capital.

Just recently, Zimbabwe decided to make the gold-back Zig currency its primary mode of trade, AllAfrica reports. This change reflects the fact that Zimbabwe likebither African states can make changes to its own financial system.  Africa must move beyond theory to experimentation.  Its future depends on development of market and financial tools.

It has been reporter by Menafin that fintech has begyn migration to the Middle East. Hiwever, Africa must create its own home grown fintech and financial systems that support its specific kind of growth.  African states must pivot from the over utilization of externally developed and ooerated systems to reckon their finance and industry

Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft and various other technology companies have a presence un Africa.  It would not be difgicult for Africa to develoo its own systems of technology and payment.  Systems that do not rely on old order actors who often repackage the same financial deals in dufferent boxes.

France has been keen to push for development of the new West African Eco currency, principally because it would be an expansion of the CFA Franc.  Currently, the CFA franc controks about 14 African economies, whereas a general West African currency would give France greater market share and control in West Africa.  This matters as France retreats militarily, hoping to set itself as West Africa's financial center.  And whike this doesn't make sense for West Africa, it is a windfall gain for Paris which is rapidly going broke.  The infusiin and management of a larger basket ogmf national finance through the West African Eco currency would allow France to live another day and infuse the massive profits from Africa's burgeoning mining and resource industries into the dying French econony.

And this matters a great deal, as French farners demonstrate and blockade government buildings in protest of the Mercosur deal between South Ameruca and the EU.  This free trade deal would decimate local farners in an econony that is already shrinking.  France is desperately looking for alternatives and options as its budget crisis has even threatened to collapse its government, LeMonde News reports.  African states will once again be the sacrificial lamb for the saving of poorly ran Western economies like France.

African children,  young African entrepreneurs and youth will lose yet another generation to financial and industrial hemorrhage.  Slick deals behind closed doors and bank transfers to a few accounts ensure that generations of hapoy chikdren running home from school never see the light of opportunity or economic freedom.  African states owe it to their future generations to solve its financial and production shortfalls.

Without a plan of action African syates stand to lose more in thw coming years as old hegemons scrambke for survival.  They will have to foresake their region and their constituency to uphold IMF policies that ensure poverty for another 30 years.  It is not enough to want change.  African states, its populace and its civil institutions must come together to solve its most pressing issues. The time for inaction is passed.

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Nigeria's stars gather in Lagos as National Theatre Festival of Unity begins

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Nigeria's stars gather in Lagos as National Theatre Festival of Unity begins

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Gov. Sanwo-Olu To Deliver Lecture As Yoruba National Day Celebration Holds September 23 in Honour of Eda Onile-Ola at 85

The 2024 Yoruba National Day celebration will take place on September 23 at the newly renovated Wole Soyinka Theatre, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State. The event, organized by the Grand Council of Yoruba Youths, will honour the 85th birthday of veteran actor and elder statesman, Chief Lere Paimo, a.k.a Eda Onile-Ola. Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, will deliver a lecture…

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Joe Nichols Releases First Song From Upcoming 11th Studio Album

Three-time GRAMMY nominated Quartz Hill Records artist Joe Nichols’ releases new song, “Bottle It Up,” today across all streaming and digital retail partners. With his “signature neo-traditional sound” (Billboard) and rich baritone, Nichols latest track is a rollicking slice-of-life ode to capturing the good times and savoring the special moments with family and friends. LISTEN to “Bottle It Up” HERE. WATCH the official lyric video HERE. “‘Bottle It Up’ is about the good things in life and saving them up. And also enjoying them when maybe life is a little less than stellar,” says Nichols. “I think we would all like to take great moments in our life, capture them, put them in a bottle and constantly drink from it. It’s about storing up the good stuff.” Written by Josh Kear, Dan Isbell and Paul Sykes, “Bottle It Up,” marks the first song release from Nichols’ upcoming 11th career studio album as well as his second project for Quartz Hill Records. The song was produced by Mickey Jack Cones (Jason Aldean, Thomas Rhett) and Derek George (Randy Houser). Earlier this week Nichols joined chart-topping rapper, singer, songwriter and producer Post Malone onstage at his “A Night in Nashville” show at Marathon Music Works for a collaborative performance of Nichols’ Platinum No. 1 hit “Brokenheartsville,” which Malone called “one of the best-written songs I’ve heard in my entire life.” Nichols recently released a mashup of Alice in Chains’ “Rooster,” and the Hank Williams, Jr smash “A Country Boy Can Survive” which has become a fan favorite at his live shows as Nichols continues touring across the U.S. and beyond. Joe Nichols Summer 2024 Tour Dates  - 08/02/24 – Astoria, OR – Clatsop County Fair & Expo Center - 08/09/24 – Swansboro, NC – Swansboro Baseball Field - 08/10/24 – Hagerstown, MD – Meritus Park - 08/16/24 – Shipshewana, IN – Blue Gate Performing Arts Center - 08/17/24 – Mineral City, OH – Atwood Lake Park - 08/22/24 – Mason, WI – Concert in the Corn 2024 - 08/23/24 – Saint Joseph, MO – Missouri Theatre - 08/24/24 – Eau Claire, WI – Seymour Ball Club - 08/31/24 – El Dorado, AR – MAD Amphitheatre - 09/01/24 – Camdenton, MO – Ozarks Amphitheatre - 09/07/24 – Las Vegas, NV – Downtown Rocks Concert Series - 09/14/24 – Corona, CA – Dos Lagos Amphitheatre - 09/28/24 – Fort Dodge, IA – Downtown Country Jam - 10/11/24 – Roanoke, VA – Dr. Pepper Park at the Bridge - 10/12/24 – Hiawassee, GA – Anderson Music Hall - 10/13/24 – Orange Park, FL – Thrasher-Horne Center - 10/24/24 – New Braunfels, TX – Brauntex Performing Arts Center - 10/25/24 – Dallas, TX – Gilley’s Dallas To view a full list of dates and to purchase tickets, visit: joenichols.com/tour About Joe Nichols: Multi-platinum Quartz Hill Records’ Joe Nichols is one of country music’s most-lauded recording artists. A 21st century traditionalist, Nichols is an artist who is both timely and timeless – one who has racked up more than TWO BILLION cumulative audio streams/ views including a half-dozen No. 1 singles and ten Top 10 hits with a sound that blurs the boundaries between country music’s past and present. It’s an approach that has earned Nichols three GRAMMY nominations, a CMA award, an ACM trophy, a CMT “Breakthrough Video of the Year” Award as well as multiple gold and platinum-certified records. Nichols’ additional honors include awards from Billboard, Radio & Records and Music Row Magazine as well as a New York Times “Best-Albums-of-the-Year” nod. The celebrated star has appeared on national media programs ranging from the ACM Presents: Superstar Duets in CBS primetime to The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The View, Entertainment Tonight and Austin City Limits. He also made his big screen debut in the feature film, Murder at Yellowstone City. Nichols’ follow-up to his critically-lauded album, Good Day For Living – which included the Top 15 hit* of the same name – will be released later this year. The first song from his 11th studio album, “Bottle It Up,” is out now. For the latest news on Nichols visit: www.JoeNichols.com and follow him (@JoeNichols) on Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok. Read the full article

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In response to the National Theatre being renamed after Soyinka, Charly Boy says, " Mighty have fallen for beans."

Veteran singer and social activist Charles Oputa, often known as Charly Boy, has said that he will no longer show respect for Prof. Wole Soyinka, the recipient of the Nobel Prize. Strong opponent of President Bola Tinubu Charly Boy made the claim in a post on his official X Twitter on Friday in response to the National Arts Theatre in Iganmu, Lagos being renamed in Soyinka's honour. The renaming of the facility in Soyinka's honour was announced by President Tinubu in a message he penned to honour Soyinka on his 90th birthday, according to news reports. Charly Boy reacted by criticising the action in his post, stating that the "Mighty have fallen, for beans." He wrote, “Uncle WOLE I henceforth withdraw all the respect I once had for you. “When late Jimmyjohnson talked about you in the 90s, I thought he was only yabbing you. “Wow! How some of our MIGHTYs have fallen, for beans, ewa, dodo, is it for rice’? Read the full article

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BREAKING: 90th Birthday: Tinubu names National Theatre after Wole Soyinka

President Bola Tinubu has named the National Arts Theatre in Iganmu, Lagos, after Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka. Tinubu announced this in a letter he wrote to celebrate the iconic figure in commemoration of his 90th birthday. In the tribute personally signed by the President and made available to the media on Friday, he noted that the literary giant, the first African to win the Nobel…

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By • Olalekan Fagbade BREAKING; Veteran Nollywood Actor, Samanja, dies at 81 years of age Veteran Nollywood Actor, Usman Pategi, popularly known as “Samanja, has died aged 81. This was revealed by a theatre consultant, Husseini Shaibu, on Sunday via his Facebook page. The cause of his death is yet unknown. Shaibu said, “I have been reliably informed that light has dimmed on the veteran actor, Usman Baba Pategi, popularly known as Samanja Mazan Fama. “The actor who rode to national prominence in the 80’s playing Samanja in the defunct NTA drama series (about life of Soldiers in the barracks), titled ‘Samanja’, reportedly passed on around 12 midnight on Sunday. “The last time I saw Samanja was in Lagos in 2019, when he was awarded the Fellowship of Theatre Arts (fta) by the Israel Eboh led National Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners. “Journey Well Sir…. Good Night Samanja!,” he said. Some actors also took to the comment section of the post to pay their tribute to the deceased. Okey Ogunjiofor said, “The Legends who made our early days sweet are departing gradually. May his soul rest in peace”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Pategi was born on May 20, 1942, into the royal house of Pategi Emirate in Pategi, Northern Nigeria. He is the son of Etsu Usman Patako, late King of Pategi. The popular actor, writer and director starred in the populous Hausa film known as: Samanja, Yusuf’s Ladan’s Zaman, Duniya Iyawa Ne and all. Pategi gained popularity on the movie Samanja in the likes of mixing Hausa/English and pidgin English. (NAN)

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Sponsored: Comedy Hall of Fame With Amb. P London 4.0 (CHOF)

Hello Lagos, RainOver here. What are your plans for this weekend? I have got a gist you wouldn't want to miss for anything in this world. You don't want to be told the history of how the biggest comedy show of all time happened in Lagos and you were not part of it. P London Empire presents the "Comedy Hall of Fame with Amb. P London 4.0." This year's edition is tagged "My Palace Story" and features a host of best comedians in the industry and a special guest artist, the legendary Sunny Nneji. This event is a music and induction concert aimed at bringing you so much fun and rib-cracking moments with an indelible effect on your mind. You will also get the chance to meet and interact with different celebrities at the event scheduled to be held this Sunday 22nd of October 2023 at National Art Theatre, Orile Iganmu, Lagos. The red carpet commences at 4:00 PM and the main event will hit the bull's eyes at 5:00 PM

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VIP - 10,000 Naira Special Table for 5 - 100,000 Naira Tickets will be sold at the venue However, early birds can call 08084165466 or 08062853305 to get your tickets before they are sold out. So here is your chance and i will advise you to grab it, snatch it and run away with your own ticket now before it is too late. Read the full article

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Fayose resigns from PDP,reveals how Atiku rejected one term offer

Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, on Wednesday, announced his resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party and also quit partisan politics. This is coming hours after his party, the PDP lost the presidential election to the All Progressives Congress. Fayose, who announced his resignation while appearing as a guest on ARISE TV revealed that the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar rejected the offer of one term in office to get the G5 governors’ support. Atiku lost the G5 governors’ states to APC’s Tinubu who won three and Labour Party candidate, Obi won two states. Announcing his resignation, Fayose said, “From today, I stay off PDP.” When asked if that was a resignation, he said, “Let me put it this way, in party politics. Because there are certain facts. I am 62. “I say it here from today, I step aside because I must be talking like a leader in this country.” “I had issued on my Twitter handle even in the month of January or December, I warned the PDP about this problem. if not resolved will consume this party, I told them there is Danger ahead. Watch it. “I was invited by His Excellency Atiku Abubakar to a hotel in Lagos. I told him four things, that there were four demands they made of you. One, you are seventy-six as of last year. The G-5 said, you are already a candidate, you can’t abort a child that has been given birth to. “But let us go back and tell the Southerners that you will spend four years so that it would not look like it will be eight to eight years back to back for the North because Buhari is leaving and he is representing the North irrespective of the party. “They told his excellency to make his official announcement, not that he should hand it over to any member of the G-5. That you are going to spend four years and at that time you will be 80 years, all the people surrounding him disagree, that they can’t say such, when he becomes President he will say it, who does that? Speaking further, Fayose accused the National Chairman of the party, Iyiorcha Ayu, of the failure of the party at the poll. He urged the party to accept defeat, alleging that they are sponsoring protests against the outcome of the election. “This Ayu was the one who led Atiku to the gutters. They took him to the gutters. You see when a man cannot come out. At 80 what does he want to do after? Reacting to a video showing members of a civil society organisation who protested against the outcome of the election in Abuja, Fayose said, “Let me first fault the people I saw here today, that are calling themselves civil society. No, they are PDP members. “The person that first spoke on behalf of protesters here is Yusuf from Oyo State. He is a PDP member that contested in 2019. He is a good brother of mine. The young lady too is from Oyo State. They are all PDP members. “These are PDP agents. These are people doing this to just show Nigerians that we are not happy. PDP has been sponsoring a lot of people to protest and giving them money. They go and carry people from somewhere. Give them N1000 each and sometimes they will beat themselves. You can count the number of protesters here in an election that attracted almost 22 million people. You count these people protesting,” he said. Speaking on the governorship election in Lagos State, he said, “The PDP candidate in Lagos to me, they are people doing theatre. Lagos business is a serious business. There are lots of challenges in Lagos. So I enjoin everybody in Lagos to return Sanwo-Olu.” Read the full article

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A man dr@wns while riding a jet-ski On the Lagos-Ikoyi link bridge.

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A man who has yet to be identified has been confirmed d€ad after dr@wning while riding on a jet ski in Lagos State’s Lekki-Ikoyi inland waterways. According to a statement issued by the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency’s Permanent Secretary, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, the victim drowned as a result of speeding. He mentioned that his body is being recovered from the lagoon. “It was…

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Dissolving Dependency Through Targeted Redevelopment

The Nigerian president postponed presentation of the Nigerian budget to rush to Cash-trapped France for a state visit.  The former Lagos boss, turned president, was eager to make the ill-timed state visit to sign a few cooperations and memoranda after US court documents allegedly revealled the state head to be an active CIA asset, the Express Tribune reports.  A fact most of the world's leaders and institutions of civil society and order have kept silent about.

Doubtless Abuja will be spinning some kind of bilatetal deal with Paris, even though France is broke itself.  Unfortunately, many Arican, Asian and Latin American states are not ready to discard the charade of finance that has kept many of its nations in perpetual poverty. Surely many of these richly endowed states could easily buy their Western European benefactors twice over.  But instead, they are making ill-planned trips to tiny, overcrowded, resource-less Western European nations seeking fake money for real value.  Even the US knows it outstrips Western Europe on resources and value in rich indigenous lands.

Recently, Chad swapped out France for Hungary as a security partner against Sahel jihadisy militants,  France 24 reports.  The move was touted by some as sovereignity and a humiliation by the melodramatic in what has been an obvious trend of territorial downsizing by France. In fact, the Hungary Times reported it is getring French manufatured military aircraft shipments and arrillery for its Chad mission.  It is  unlikely that this changing of the guard caught France by surprise.  However, such is the extravagant political theatre of France and its vassals. Financially, Paris is overstretched, and it has had to abdicate prized territories to other Western powers.  The world is witnessing the deployment of a modern-day Berlin Agreement. 

Africa's leaders wait in the balance for Western leaders to divide land, property and denominate currency.  It is an unholy dependency that has left millions of Africans across the continent unable to scale business, actualize innovations and develop new technologies.  These economies are essentially hamstrung by their Western European partners that dole out jobs sparingly and refuse to finance local  enterprise and industry. AllAfrica News has just reported that Standard Charter Bank will exit Uganda, Botswana and Zambia, on performance and profitability, Daily Express Uganda reports. Again, African states get nothing.

Plainly put, African states are dependent on external conglomerates and multintionals of every ilk to function.  It is a dependency that ultimately betrays the future of African civilians,  students, families and busineses across the continent. Milions of Africans (young and old) sit home unable to function in their own Fatherland, because their economies do not work.  Many are relegated to hard labor for a pitance in economies that disdain their ardent struggles without adequate reward.  The reliance on external brands, technology and production makes Africa a quintessential target.  Even resources such as food production are sourced abroad in what becomes a system of maximum food insecurity.  Brookings reports that Africa imports only about 20 percent of its food needs through intercontinental trade, while the vast majority is beyond the Africa region.

Often such observations concerning the continent are met with the same sort of indifference or pity as that surrounding Nigeria's American CIA problem.  However, states might begin to take stock of how they can take back and fortify their own nations.  This happens in a number of ways.  But it starts with citizens and those in functional levels of government coming together to push for four major adoptions: Alignment,  Long-Term Benefit, Military Capacity-Building, and Financial System and Market Development.

I. Fortification Through Alignment

African states begin fortification through Alignments with that states that help it accomplish financial and military goals. Just recently, the Middle East Eye reported that satellite imagery revealed Turkiye was still shipping fuel to Israel. In October, an Al Jazeera report discovered that the US, UK, Italy, Germany, Cypress and Greece were supporting the Israeli Military siege in Gaza.  The UN has since issued arrest warrents for genocide to the regime's leadership. It provides a compelling point that Western states will even align with those who commit crimes against humanity,  if it serves their interests.  African states must pivot to pursue their best interest in a similar manner. At this point and time the West has lost all of its credibility as a rational actor for justice, democracy and freedom in the world. It is a sentiment that has been retired by its currnt functionaries. It will be up the incoming opposition party leaders in Western enclaves to repair the damage, ignore or exacerbate the eroding reputation.

Principally,  this means African states must do what is best for its own interests moving forward. It must divorce itself from the notion that its former colonial adversaries and their allies will help it reach its developmental and economic goals.  That hasn't happened in decades, and now it is time to move on from the delusion. There is no moral high ground to keep in the naked barbarity of the Israeli Genocide against Palestinians. It is time to pursue aignments that make sense for African states.

II.  Effective Long-term Negotiation

Several African states have been accepted as BRICS+ members and/or partners in the past few years.  The Brics alliance has various benefits for the world and the global south.  It also poses a great opportunity for African states to reach markets under difgerent trade arrangements. Often the Achilles heel of many African states has been the inability, unwilliness or skill to negotiate deals that fortify for long-term benefit. 

Currently, many projects that do present long-term benefit were forged by China.  Beijing is internationally known for its capacity to plan in the long term, therefore it often offers deals that yield greater benefit.  However Africa cannot always rely on its trading partners to seek win-win deals.  It must begin focusing on partnerships, negotiations and contracts that yield more benefits. 

Kenya's projected Airport Lease arrangement offers a typical case study into the poorly planned deals that haunt Africans and their future generations. Although that deal was cancelled after the US indicted the Adni Group, it reveals a leadership trend desperate to negotiate deals th at pawn th e future of the average Kenyan. The IMF dictated economy-killing budgets that leave African sttes in prolonged  financial paralysis are yet another example of poorly negoriated deals.

And while economic hitmen are real, states wishing to circumvent intrigues do well to make such budget mstters public.  When people understand what is at stake, they are much more likely to demand the better option.  More citizens must be involved in the process of state deal-making.  States may even find it helpful to employ local companies to broker deals with details, cost and timelines published and diacussed in town halls meetings and village discussions. Such final measures may even be voted on or dismissed.  Regardless, Africa states must begin to negotiate deals that have long term benefit with commensurate renumeration.

III.  Military Theory and Capacity Building

African states face an imperative to fortify their armed forces, military theory and proprietary defense and security aparatus. Many African states are so under resourced in military capacity, small bands of ex te rnally finances militant groups can sieze control of territory and cause  massive displacement.  Africa's internally displaced people trippled to 35 million souls to date,  France 24 reported. 

Local citizens, civil society, and institutions must demand a better presense.  African states have been left naked to envasions, resource theft, sexual violence and exploitation for decades.  Without adequate personnel and enforcement, Africa's most vulnerable pay the price. 

Military strength is not the capacity to control ones citizenry with force , but also to protect them. For many Africans, they have only seen law enforcement amd military used to control local issues or invade less fortified other African states. Rather, Africa needs real capacity to truly defend its people, property and prospects.

Instead, African states are rocked by internal violence often fomented by an external foe. The necessity for good intel, security aparatus and screening would ensure that subversives and shadow finance that make their way into the country for destabilization were blocked and early detected.  In today's world, these modalities cannot be neglected and citizens and civil society must make these top objectives for incoming leadership at all levels.

African states must also stop deluding itself about the nature and history of its relationship with former regional imperialists. Many issues of antiquity have yet to be settled or adequately redressed.  Just recently, France's former president admitted admitted to the Senegal Thiaroye Massacre, France 24 reported.  In 1944, Nearly 100 West African veterans who faught for France in World War II were cut down in cold blood for demanding payment of unpaid wages from Paris at the close of the war.  Even then, the rules based order was imposing a barbaric standard onto the Global South.

African states must forge powerful, skilled and well-armed militaries that have the caoacity to face a chaotic and violent world in flux.  It is not enough to produce precious metals and minerals for the world--Africa must now produce security and safety for itself.  Its citizens and civil society mist demand it to ensure that the disenfranchised and vulnerable are not abused or commandeered to destroy society through  externally operated militias and mercenary groups.

African states must build their own military theory and best practises. It must move forward in the arena of heavy artillery and advanced arms to prepare for rapidly advancing military capacities aroujd the world.  African states must act quickly to patch up it pregnable areas and taboo explorations of nuclear deterrence. 

IV. Financial Systems and Market Development

Finally, African states must shed its dependency on exyernal fianacial syatems and capital.  If the United states can produce currency, why cant Zimbabwe or Lesotho?  Its massibe coveted resources can force the world to trade on its terms and with its capital.

Just recently, Zimbabwe decided to make the gold-back Zig currency its primary mode of trade, AllAfrica reports. This change reflects the fact that Zimbabwe likebither African states can make changes to its own financial system.  Africa must move beyond theory to experimentation.  Its future depends on development of market and financial tools.

It has been reporter by Menafin that fintech has begyn migration to the Middle East. Hiwever, Africa must create its own home grown fintech and financial systems that support its specific kind of growth.  African states must pivot from the over utilization of externally developed and ooerated systems to reckon their finance and industry

Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft and various other technology companies have a presence un Africa.  It would not be difgicult for Africa to develoo its own systems of technology and payment.  Systems that do not rely on old order actors who often repackage the same financial deals in dufferent boxes.

France has been keen to push for development of the new West African Eco currency, principally because it would be an expansion of the CFA Franc.  Currently, the CFA franc controks about 14 African economies, whereas a general West African currency would give France greater market share and control in West Africa.  This matters as France retreats militarily, hoping to set itself as West Africa's financial center.  And whike this doesn't make sense for West Africa, it is a windfall gain for Paris which is rapidly going broke.  The infusiin and management of a larger basket ogmf national finance through the West African Eco currency would allow France to live another day and infuse the massive profits from Africa's burgeoning mining and resource industries into the dying French econony.

And this matters a great deal, as French farners demonstrate and blockade government buildings in protest of the Mercosur deal between South Ameruca and the EU.  This free trade deal would decimate local farners in an econony that is already shrinking.  France is desperately looking for alternatives and options as its budget crisis has even threatened to collapse its government, LeMonde News reports.  African states will once again be the sacrificial lamb for the saving of poorly ran Western economies like France.

African children,  young African entrepreneurs and youth will lose yet another generation to financial and industrial hemorrhage.  Slick deals behind closed doors and bank transfers to a few accounts ensure that generations of hapoy chikdren running home from school never see the light of opportunity or economic freedom.  African states owe it to their future generations to solve its financial and production shortfalls.

Without a plan of action African syates stand to lose more in thw coming years as old hegemons scrambke for survival.  They will have to foresake their region and their constituency to uphold IMF policies that ensure poverty for another 30 years.  It is not enough to want change.  African states, its populace and its civil institutions must come together to solve its most pressing issues. The time for inaction is passed.

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Sanwo-Eko: Sanwo-Olu Announces Delivery Of Another Train Set For The Blue Line Rail

UPDATE: Governor @jidesanwoolu has announced the delivery of another train set for the BLUE LINE Rail, the train has been cleared at the ports and has been moved to the National Theatre station where they have been lifted onto the elevated rail tracks. The Sanwo-Eko governor posted the photos bellow on his social media page and wrote: Dear Lagos, We have taken delivery of two new train sets for the blue line rail. These passenger trains have been cleared at the port of entry, and have been moved to the National Theatre station where they have been lifted onto the elevated rail tracks. @jidesanwoolu

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