Podcasts about Niger Delta

Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style (Fordham UP, 2025) analyzes vanguard legal actions and literary innovations to reveal contemporary reforms to property law that are undoing law's colonial legacies. Casey traces precise legal histories across distinct jurisdictions throughout the anglophone world, revealing the connection between land law and petroleum extraction in the Niger Delta, inheritance and divorce laws and gender inequality in India, intellectual property law and Indigenous dispossession in South Africa, and admiralty law and racialized non-personhood in the English Atlantic. In response to these manifold forms of dispossession, significant reforms are underway, including through common lawsuits, statutory reform, and proposed changes to legal doctrine. Casey develops the concept of aesthetic impropriety to identify shared structures of thought across legal and literary venues. She shows that writers of poetry and prose are also transforming harmful property laws: in Nigeria, Ben Okri and Chigozie Obioma have articulated symbiotic ecological relationships that are also evidenced in recent actions against petroleum companies; in India, Arundhati Roy's challenge to divorce laws has preempted similar attempts at reform in Parliament; in South Africa, Zoë Wicomb theorized protections for Indigenous modes of creative production nineteen years before they were signed into law; and in the Americas, M. NourbeSe Philip has proposed a novel method of achieving justice for the one hundred fifty enslaved people who were killed in the 1781 Zong massacre.Aesthetic Impropriety makes a convincing case for literature's generative capacities and registers the enduring significance of the postcolonial as a necessary framework for understanding globalized inequality in the twenty-first century. By analyzing shared legal and aesthetic transformations, Aesthetic Impropriety argues that law and literature play vital roles in creating anticolonial world orders. Arnab Dutta Roy is Assistant Professor of World Literature and Postcolonial Theory at Florida Gulf Coast University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style (Fordham UP, 2025) analyzes vanguard legal actions and literary innovations to reveal contemporary reforms to property law that are undoing law's colonial legacies. Casey traces precise legal histories across distinct jurisdictions throughout the anglophone world, revealing the connection between land law and petroleum extraction in the Niger Delta, inheritance and divorce laws and gender inequality in India, intellectual property law and Indigenous dispossession in South Africa, and admiralty law and racialized non-personhood in the English Atlantic. In response to these manifold forms of dispossession, significant reforms are underway, including through common lawsuits, statutory reform, and proposed changes to legal doctrine. Casey develops the concept of aesthetic impropriety to identify shared structures of thought across legal and literary venues. She shows that writers of poetry and prose are also transforming harmful property laws: in Nigeria, Ben Okri and Chigozie Obioma have articulated symbiotic ecological relationships that are also evidenced in recent actions against petroleum companies; in India, Arundhati Roy's challenge to divorce laws has preempted similar attempts at reform in Parliament; in South Africa, Zoë Wicomb theorized protections for Indigenous modes of creative production nineteen years before they were signed into law; and in the Americas, M. NourbeSe Philip has proposed a novel method of achieving justice for the one hundred fifty enslaved people who were killed in the 1781 Zong massacre.Aesthetic Impropriety makes a convincing case for literature's generative capacities and registers the enduring significance of the postcolonial as a necessary framework for understanding globalized inequality in the twenty-first century. By analyzing shared legal and aesthetic transformations, Aesthetic Impropriety argues that law and literature play vital roles in creating anticolonial world orders. Arnab Dutta Roy is Assistant Professor of World Literature and Postcolonial Theory at Florida Gulf Coast University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style (Fordham UP, 2025) analyzes vanguard legal actions and literary innovations to reveal contemporary reforms to property law that are undoing law's colonial legacies. Casey traces precise legal histories across distinct jurisdictions throughout the anglophone world, revealing the connection between land law and petroleum extraction in the Niger Delta, inheritance and divorce laws and gender inequality in India, intellectual property law and Indigenous dispossession in South Africa, and admiralty law and racialized non-personhood in the English Atlantic. In response to these manifold forms of dispossession, significant reforms are underway, including through common lawsuits, statutory reform, and proposed changes to legal doctrine. Casey develops the concept of aesthetic impropriety to identify shared structures of thought across legal and literary venues. She shows that writers of poetry and prose are also transforming harmful property laws: in Nigeria, Ben Okri and Chigozie Obioma have articulated symbiotic ecological relationships that are also evidenced in recent actions against petroleum companies; in India, Arundhati Roy's challenge to divorce laws has preempted similar attempts at reform in Parliament; in South Africa, Zoë Wicomb theorized protections for Indigenous modes of creative production nineteen years before they were signed into law; and in the Americas, M. NourbeSe Philip has proposed a novel method of achieving justice for the one hundred fifty enslaved people who were killed in the 1781 Zong massacre.Aesthetic Impropriety makes a convincing case for literature's generative capacities and registers the enduring significance of the postcolonial as a necessary framework for understanding globalized inequality in the twenty-first century. By analyzing shared legal and aesthetic transformations, Aesthetic Impropriety argues that law and literature play vital roles in creating anticolonial world orders. Arnab Dutta Roy is Assistant Professor of World Literature and Postcolonial Theory at Florida Gulf Coast University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-studies

IDF Confirms Massive Strikes In Yemen, Houthis Says Israel Soldiers Retreathttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/idf-confirms-massive-strikes-in-yemen-houthis-says-israel-soldiers-retreat/24/08/2025/#Breaking News #Israel #Sanaa #Yemen ©August 24th, 2025 ®August 24, 2025 8:12 pm Israel Defense Forces, IDF has confirmed that the Middle East country soldiers carried out massive air strikes on multiple locations in Yemen capital of Sanaa on Sunday, while Nasruddin Amer, the Chairman of Yemen's Saba News Agency and the Vice President of the Media authority of Ansar Allah Movement that has Houthis group as one of its organisations said the air defenses were able to thwart the majority of the Israeli attacks and confronted several of its combat formations, which he said forced Israeli soldiers to retreat, with the Houthis fighters using locally manufactured air defense systems. #OsazuwaAkonedoMan Conspires With Friend, Kidnap Self In Nigeriahttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/man-conspires-with-friend-kidnap-self-in-nigeria/24/08/2025/#Life #Aniocha #Asaba #Delta #Gwamnishu #IsseleUku #Nwoko #Ugboko ©August 24th, 2025 ®August 24, 2025 7:10 am A young man from Delta State in the oil rich Niger Delta region in Nigeria has been arrested after he conspired with his friend to fake a kidnapping to get money from his family in order to be able to travel abroad, the young man was seen in a video the alleged kidnapper sent to his family, threatened to be killed with a cutlass placed on his neck by the suspected fake kidnapper who is also a native and indigene of Delta State but faked his voice to sound like an Hausa Fulani man from Northern Nigeria, according to one of the popular human rights activists against insecurity in the West Africa country, Harrison Gwamnishu, the two suspects were arrested inside the bush after intelligence gathering indicated that the kidnapping was not genuine, adding that they were not mobilized by Senator Ned Munir Nwoko, the Senator, representing Delta North Senatorial zone who had said in a press statement that the “father of the supposed victim, together with two members of the Idumuje Ugboko community, reached out to me, I also spoke with the victim's brothers, as well as the police in Issele-Uku and Asaba, in addition, I contacted and mobilized the Idumuje Ugboko Vigilante group and held discussions with my police contacts in Asaba, giving clear instructions to track the kidnappers and ensure the safe rescue of the victim, throughout the operation, I received tracking updates and was kept informed of the rescue movements from Asaba to Issele-Uku until the eventual arrests were made”, in an earlier post, Harrison Gwamnishu had said that; “for clarity, I do not know who he claims he mobilized for a rescue mission, I also do not know what he meant by saying he mobilized the Police and Local Vigilantes, I personally fueled three vehicles, paid other logistics for the operation he's claiming he mobilized”. #OsazuwaAkonedoSoludo Sacks 8 Vigilantes Over Corps Member Assaulted To Complete Nakednesshttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/soludo-sacks-8-vigilantes-over-corps-member-assaulted-to-complete-nakedness/20/08/2025/#Breaking News #Agunechemba #Anambra #NYSC #oba #Soludo ©August 20th, 2025 ®August 20, 2025 5:21 pm Anambra state Governor, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has dismissed eight members of the state special vigilante group known as Agunechemba after the sacked security operatives were seen in a now viral video allegedly assaulting a female National Youth Service Corps, NYSC member, Jennifer Elobor to the level of complete nakedness after they torn her clothes and continued assaulting her even when they observed during the process nothing more was covering any part of her body, this, the dismissed vigilantes did after they allegedly chased some young men on motorcycles they claimed were members of a secret cult to the victim's compound at Oba community in Idemili South local government area of Anambra State on July 23, 2025. #OsazuwaAkonedoIbom Air Staff Injured My Private Part - Attacked Passenger Emmansonhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/ibom-air-staff-injured-my-private-part-attacked-passenger-emmanson/18/08/2025/#Issues #Emmanson #IbomAir #Lagos #Uyo ©August 18th, 2025 ®August 18, 2025 5:14 pm Comfort Emmanson Bob, the 26 years old female passenger that was recently seen on viral video allegedly attacked and provoked to action has said that she sustained injuries in her private part when  a yet to be identified Ibom Air Staff pulled off her shirt and exposed her nakedness at Lagos Airport, this, according to Comfort, the shirt torn while she was been carried out from the aircraft was her inner wear that was pinned together below her private part, saying, the Ibom Air hostess, had allegedly broke her phone, necklace and forcefully removed her wig hair from her head which caused her a severe sharp pain, and as a result of the pain, she hit the air hostess on the cheek, adding, she became more aggressive when she saw the airport staff video recording her nakedness while she was battling to cover her body as a result of her shirt that was torn with her chest sexual organs completely exposed. #OsazuwaAkonedoNigeria Captures US, UK, UN Wanted Terrorists' Leadershttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/nigeria-captures-us-uk-un-wanted-terrorists-leaders/17/08/2025/#Breaking News #AFN #BurkinaFaso #Mali #Niger #Nigeria #Ribadu #UK #UN #US ©August 17th, 2025 ®August 17, 2025 3:56 pm Leaders of the Nigeria affiliates of Al-Qaeda international terrorist group, known as Ansaru and Mahmuda have been captured by men of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, AFN, after two months of intelligence led special operations in Northern Nigeria, the West Africa nation National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu stated this at a press conference with the nation security chiefs, saying, the two arrested suspected terrorists leaders have cells across the country where they have been executing various crimes of armed robbery in addition to raise funds for their terrorist activities. #OsazuwaAkonedoWe Know, Coming Days, Russia May Increase Attacks - Zelenskyyhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/we-know-coming-days-russia-may-increase-attacks-zelenskyy/16/08/2025/#Breaking News #Putin #Russia #Trump #Ukraine #US #Zelenskyy ©August 16th, 2025 ®August 17, 2025 11:02 am Following the meeting of President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Donald Trump of the United States on Friday in Alaska, Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he knows the treachery of President Putin, that, in the coming days, Russia soldiers may try to increase pressure and strikes against Ukrainian positions in order to create more favorable political circumstances for talks with global actors, Zelenskyy made this statement some hours ago while stating that Ukrainian soldiers have achieved some successes in Donetsk region, especially in the areas of Dobropillia and Pokrovsk, then, ordered the Commander-in-Chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi to speak with combat commanders that Ukraine needs strong positions and truly tangible resistance to the enemy. #OsazuwaAkonedoNo Peace In Sight After Putin, Trump Nearly 3hrs Meeting In Alaskahttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/no-peace-in-sight-after-putin-trump-nearly-3hrs-meeting-in-alaska/16/08/2025/#Issues #Nawrocki #Poland #Putin #Russia #Trump #Ukraine #US #Zelenskyy ©August 16th, 2025 ®August 16, 2025 5:48 pm There is still no peace in sight after nearly three hours of meeting held in Anchorage city in Alaska, a state in the United States, US, between President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Donald Trump of the United States, over the war Russia launched since 2022 in Ukraine which has led to thousands of deaths mostly Ukrainians, which, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine who was not invited for the meeting on Friday in a statement said that it was time to end the war but Russia must take the necessary steps to a genuine peace deal, and while commenting on the statement made by the President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki on Friday via X social media platform to mark Poland Armed Forces Day which coincided with the day Putin and Trump met in Alaska, President Zelenskyy said that; “Ukraine's independence strengthens Poland's independence, And we must always remember that the Miracle on the Vistula was made possible through joint efforts, and it saved Europe”, and the Polish President, Karol Nawrocki had said that: “Today we celebrate the 105th anniversary of the great Polish victory at the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, The Polish Army, together with Ukrainian forces, successfully repelled the Red Army's westward march, safeguarding Europe from a communist revolution, For centuries, Russian imperialism has been a mortal threat to our freedom, Poland's political tradition teaches that Russian expansionism rests on a legacy of domestic despotism, in which the only free man is the ruler himself, But precisely because Russian despotism is the enemy of freedom, Russian imperialism can only be defeated through an alliance of free peoples, My nation halted Russian imperialism at Orsha (1514), Klushino (1610) and Warsaw (1920)”. #OsazuwaAkonedoPeter Obi Faults President Tinubu Trip To Brazil, Frequent Foreign Travelhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/peter-obi-faults-president-tinubu-trip-to-brazil-frequent-foreign-travel/15/08/2025/#Politics #Brazil #Lulu #Obi #Tinubu ©August 15th, 2025 ®August 15, 2025 1:47 pm Co-contestants in the last concluded general elections in Nigeria and former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi has faulted President Bola Ahmed Tinubu trip to Brazil and also condemned the President frequent travel abroad at any slightest invitation and abandoned  pressing issues of insecurity and other deplorable situations that make the Nation bleeds, specifically, Peter Obi said; “the situation we findBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/osazuwaakonedo--4980924/support.

IDF Confirms Massive Strikes In Yemen, Houthis Says Israel Soldiers Retreathttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/idf-confirms-massive-strikes-in-yemen-houthis-says-israel-soldiers-retreat/24/08/2025/#Breaking News #Israel #Sanaa #Yemen ©August 24th, 2025 ®August 24, 2025 8:12 pm Israel Defense Forces, IDF has confirmed that the Middle East country soldiers carried out massive air strikes on multiple locations in Yemen capital of Sanaa on Sunday, while Nasruddin Amer, the Chairman of Yemen's Saba News Agency and the Vice President of the Media authority of Ansar Allah Movement that has Houthis group as one of its organisations said the air defenses were able to thwart the majority of the Israeli attacks and confronted several of its combat formations, which he said forced Israeli soldiers to retreat, with the Houthis fighters using locally manufactured air defense systems. #OsazuwaAkonedoMan Conspires With Friend, Kidnap Self In Nigeriahttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/man-conspires-with-friend-kidnap-self-in-nigeria/24/08/2025/#Life #Aniocha #Asaba #Delta #Gwamnishu #IsseleUku #Nwoko #Ugboko ©August 24th, 2025 ®August 24, 2025 7:10 am A young man from Delta State in the oil rich Niger Delta region in Nigeria has been arrested after he conspired with his friend to fake a kidnapping to get money from his family in order to be able to travel abroad, the young man was seen in a video the alleged kidnapper sent to his family, threatened to be killed with a cutlass placed on his neck by the suspected fake kidnapper who is also a native and indigene of Delta State but faked his voice to sound like an Hausa Fulani man from Northern Nigeria, according to one of the popular human rights activists against insecurity in the West Africa country, Harrison Gwamnishu, the two suspects were arrested inside the bush after intelligence gathering indicated that the kidnapping was not genuine, adding that they were not mobilized by Senator Ned Munir Nwoko, the Senator, representing Delta North Senatorial zone who had said in a press statement that the “father of the supposed victim, together with two members of the Idumuje Ugboko community, reached out to me, I also spoke with the victim's brothers, as well as the police in Issele-Uku and Asaba, in addition, I contacted and mobilized the Idumuje Ugboko Vigilante group and held discussions with my police contacts in Asaba, giving clear instructions to track the kidnappers and ensure the safe rescue of the victim, throughout the operation, I received tracking updates and was kept informed of the rescue movements from Asaba to Issele-Uku until the eventual arrests were made”, in an earlier post, Harrison Gwamnishu had said that; “for clarity, I do not know who he claims he mobilized for a rescue mission, I also do not know what he meant by saying he mobilized the Police and Local Vigilantes, I personally fueled three vehicles, paid other logistics for the operation he's claiming he mobilized”. #OsazuwaAkonedoSoludo Sacks 8 Vigilantes Over Corps Member Assaulted To Complete Nakednesshttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/soludo-sacks-8-vigilantes-over-corps-member-assaulted-to-complete-nakedness/20/08/2025/#Breaking News #Agunechemba #Anambra #NYSC #oba #Soludo ©August 20th, 2025 ®August 20, 2025 5:21 pm Anambra state Governor, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has dismissed eight members of the state special vigilante group known as Agunechemba after the sacked security operatives were seen in a now viral video allegedly assaulting a female National Youth Service Corps, NYSC member, Jennifer Elobor to the level of complete nakedness after they torn her clothes and continued assaulting her even when they observed during the process nothing more was covering any part of her body, this, the dismissed vigilantes did after they allegedly chased some young men on motorcycles they claimed were members of a secret cult to the victim's compound at Oba community in Idemili South local government area of Anambra State on July 23, 2025. #OsazuwaAkonedoIbom Air Staff Injured My Private Part - Attacked Passenger Emmansonhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/ibom-air-staff-injured-my-private-part-attacked-passenger-emmanson/18/08/2025/#Issues #Emmanson #IbomAir #Lagos #Uyo ©August 18th, 2025 ®August 18, 2025 5:14 pm Comfort Emmanson Bob, the 26 years old female passenger that was recently seen on viral video allegedly attacked and provoked to action has said that she sustained injuries in her private part when  a yet to be identified Ibom Air Staff pulled off her shirt and exposed her nakedness at Lagos Airport, this, according to Comfort, the shirt torn while she was been carried out from the aircraft was her inner wear that was pinned together below her private part, saying, the Ibom Air hostess, had allegedly broke her phone, necklace and forcefully removed her wig hair from her head which caused her a severe sharp pain, and as a result of the pain, she hit the air hostess on the cheek, adding, she became more aggressive when she saw the airport staff video recording her nakedness while she was battling to cover her body as a result of her shirt that was torn with her chest sexual organs completely exposed. #OsazuwaAkonedoNigeria Captures US, UK, UN Wanted Terrorists' Leadershttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/nigeria-captures-us-uk-un-wanted-terrorists-leaders/17/08/2025/#Breaking News #AFN #BurkinaFaso #Mali #Niger #Nigeria #Ribadu #UK #UN #US ©August 17th, 2025 ®August 17, 2025 3:56 pm Leaders of the Nigeria affiliates of Al-Qaeda international terrorist group, known as Ansaru and Mahmuda have been captured by men of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, AFN, after two months of intelligence led special operations in Northern Nigeria, the West Africa nation National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu stated this at a press conference with the nation security chiefs, saying, the two arrested suspected terrorists leaders have cells across the country where they have been executing various crimes of armed robbery in addition to raise funds for their terrorist activities. #OsazuwaAkonedoWe Know, Coming Days, Russia May Increase Attacks - Zelenskyyhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/we-know-coming-days-russia-may-increase-attacks-zelenskyy/16/08/2025/#Breaking News #Putin #Russia #Trump #Ukraine #US #Zelenskyy ©August 16th, 2025 ®August 17, 2025 11:02 am Following the meeting of President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Donald Trump of the United States on Friday in Alaska, Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he knows the treachery of President Putin, that, in the coming days, Russia soldiers may try to increase pressure and strikes against Ukrainian positions in order to create more favorable political circumstances for talks with global actors, Zelenskyy made this statement some hours ago while stating that Ukrainian soldiers have achieved some successes in Donetsk region, especially in the areas of Dobropillia and Pokrovsk, then, ordered the Commander-in-Chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi to speak with combat commanders that Ukraine needs strong positions and truly tangible resistance to the enemy. #OsazuwaAkonedoNo Peace In Sight After Putin, Trump Nearly 3hrs Meeting In Alaskahttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/no-peace-in-sight-after-putin-trump-nearly-3hrs-meeting-in-alaska/16/08/2025/#Issues #Nawrocki #Poland #Putin #Russia #Trump #Ukraine #US #Zelenskyy ©August 16th, 2025 ®August 16, 2025 5:48 pm There is still no peace in sight after nearly three hours of meeting held in Anchorage city in Alaska, a state in the United States, US, between President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Donald Trump of the United States, over the war Russia launched since 2022 in Ukraine which has led to thousands of deaths mostly Ukrainians, which, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine who was not invited for the meeting on Friday in a statement said that it was time to end the war but Russia must take the necessary steps to a genuine peace deal, and while commenting on the statement made by the President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki on Friday via X social media platform to mark Poland Armed Forces Day which coincided with the day Putin and Trump met in Alaska, President Zelenskyy said that; “Ukraine's independence strengthens Poland's independence, And we must always remember that the Miracle on the Vistula was made possible through joint efforts, and it saved Europe”, and the Polish President, Karol Nawrocki had said that: “Today we celebrate the 105th anniversary of the great Polish victory at the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, The Polish Army, together with Ukrainian forces, successfully repelled the Red Army's westward march, safeguarding Europe from a communist revolution, For centuries, Russian imperialism has been a mortal threat to our freedom, Poland's political tradition teaches that Russian expansionism rests on a legacy of domestic despotism, in which the only free man is the ruler himself, But precisely because Russian despotism is the enemy of freedom, Russian imperialism can only be defeated through an alliance of free peoples, My nation halted Russian imperialism at Orsha (1514), Klushino (1610) and Warsaw (1920)”. #OsazuwaAkonedoPeter Obi Faults President Tinubu Trip To Brazil, Frequent Foreign Travelhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/peter-obi-faults-president-tinubu-trip-to-brazil-frequent-foreign-travel/15/08/2025/#Politics #Brazil #Lulu #Obi #Tinubu ©August 15th, 2025 ®August 15, 2025 1:47 pm Co-contestants in the last concluded general elections in Nigeria and former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi has faulted President Bola Ahmed Tinubu trip to Brazil and also condemned the President frequent travel abroad at any slightest invitation and abandoned  pressing issues of insecurity and other deplorable situations that make the Nation bleeds, specifically, Peter Obi said; “the situation we findBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/osazuwaakonedo--4980924/support.

IDF Confirms Massive Strikes In Yemen, Houthis Says Israel Soldiers Retreathttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/idf-confirms-massive-strikes-in-yemen-houthis-says-israel-soldiers-retreat/24/08/2025/#Breaking News #Israel #Sanaa #Yemen ©August 24th, 2025 ®August 24, 2025 8:12 pm Israel Defense Forces, IDF has confirmed that the Middle East country soldiers carried out massive air strikes on multiple locations in Yemen capital of Sanaa on Sunday, while Nasruddin Amer, the Chairman of Yemen's Saba News Agency and the Vice President of the Media authority of Ansar Allah Movement that has Houthis group as one of its organisations said the air defenses were able to thwart the majority of the Israeli attacks and confronted several of its combat formations, which he said forced Israeli soldiers to retreat, with the Houthis fighters using locally manufactured air defense systems. #OsazuwaAkonedoMan Conspires With Friend, Kidnap Self In Nigeriahttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/man-conspires-with-friend-kidnap-self-in-nigeria/24/08/2025/#Life #Aniocha #Asaba #Delta #Gwamnishu #IsseleUku #Nwoko #Ugboko ©August 24th, 2025 ®August 24, 2025 7:10 am A young man from Delta State in the oil rich Niger Delta region in Nigeria has been arrested after he conspired with his friend to fake a kidnapping to get money from his family in order to be able to travel abroad, the young man was seen in a video the alleged kidnapper sent to his family, threatened to be killed with a cutlass placed on his neck by the suspected fake kidnapper who is also a native and indigene of Delta State but faked his voice to sound like an Hausa Fulani man from Northern Nigeria, according to one of the popular human rights activists against insecurity in the West Africa country, Harrison Gwamnishu, the two suspects were arrested inside the bush after intelligence gathering indicated that the kidnapping was not genuine, adding that they were not mobilized by Senator Ned Munir Nwoko, the Senator, representing Delta North Senatorial zone who had said in a press statement that the “father of the supposed victim, together with two members of the Idumuje Ugboko community, reached out to me, I also spoke with the victim's brothers, as well as the police in Issele-Uku and Asaba, in addition, I contacted and mobilized the Idumuje Ugboko Vigilante group and held discussions with my police contacts in Asaba, giving clear instructions to track the kidnappers and ensure the safe rescue of the victim, throughout the operation, I received tracking updates and was kept informed of the rescue movements from Asaba to Issele-Uku until the eventual arrests were made”, in an earlier post, Harrison Gwamnishu had said that; “for clarity, I do not know who he claims he mobilized for a rescue mission, I also do not know what he meant by saying he mobilized the Police and Local Vigilantes, I personally fueled three vehicles, paid other logistics for the operation he's claiming he mobilized”. #OsazuwaAkonedoSoludo Sacks 8 Vigilantes Over Corps Member Assaulted To Complete Nakednesshttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/soludo-sacks-8-vigilantes-over-corps-member-assaulted-to-complete-nakedness/20/08/2025/#Breaking News #Agunechemba #Anambra #NYSC #oba #Soludo ©August 20th, 2025 ®August 20, 2025 5:21 pm Anambra state Governor, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has dismissed eight members of the state special vigilante group known as Agunechemba after the sacked security operatives were seen in a now viral video allegedly assaulting a female National Youth Service Corps, NYSC member, Jennifer Elobor to the level of complete nakedness after they torn her clothes and continued assaulting her even when they observed during the process nothing more was covering any part of her body, this, the dismissed vigilantes did after they allegedly chased some young men on motorcycles they claimed were members of a secret cult to the victim's compound at Oba community in Idemili South local government area of Anambra State on July 23, 2025. #OsazuwaAkonedoIbom Air Staff Injured My Private Part - Attacked Passenger Emmansonhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/ibom-air-staff-injured-my-private-part-attacked-passenger-emmanson/18/08/2025/#Issues #Emmanson #IbomAir #Lagos #Uyo ©August 18th, 2025 ®August 18, 2025 5:14 pm Comfort Emmanson Bob, the 26 years old female passenger that was recently seen on viral video allegedly attacked and provoked to action has said that she sustained injuries in her private part when  a yet to be identified Ibom Air Staff pulled off her shirt and exposed her nakedness at Lagos Airport, this, according to Comfort, the shirt torn while she was been carried out from the aircraft was her inner wear that was pinned together below her private part, saying, the Ibom Air hostess, had allegedly broke her phone, necklace and forcefully removed her wig hair from her head which caused her a severe sharp pain, and as a result of the pain, she hit the air hostess on the cheek, adding, she became more aggressive when she saw the airport staff video recording her nakedness while she was battling to cover her body as a result of her shirt that was torn with her chest sexual organs completely exposed. #OsazuwaAkonedoNigeria Captures US, UK, UN Wanted Terrorists' Leadershttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/nigeria-captures-us-uk-un-wanted-terrorists-leaders/17/08/2025/#Breaking News #AFN #BurkinaFaso #Mali #Niger #Nigeria #Ribadu #UK #UN #US ©August 17th, 2025 ®August 17, 2025 3:56 pm Leaders of the Nigeria affiliates of Al-Qaeda international terrorist group, known as Ansaru and Mahmuda have been captured by men of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, AFN, after two months of intelligence led special operations in Northern Nigeria, the West Africa nation National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu stated this at a press conference with the nation security chiefs, saying, the two arrested suspected terrorists leaders have cells across the country where they have been executing various crimes of armed robbery in addition to raise funds for their terrorist activities. #OsazuwaAkonedoWe Know, Coming Days, Russia May Increase Attacks - Zelenskyyhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/we-know-coming-days-russia-may-increase-attacks-zelenskyy/16/08/2025/#Breaking News #Putin #Russia #Trump #Ukraine #US #Zelenskyy ©August 16th, 2025 ®August 17, 2025 11:02 am Following the meeting of President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Donald Trump of the United States on Friday in Alaska, Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he knows the treachery of President Putin, that, in the coming days, Russia soldiers may try to increase pressure and strikes against Ukrainian positions in order to create more favorable political circumstances for talks with global actors, Zelenskyy made this statement some hours ago while stating that Ukrainian soldiers have achieved some successes in Donetsk region, especially in the areas of Dobropillia and Pokrovsk, then, ordered the Commander-in-Chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi to speak with combat commanders that Ukraine needs strong positions and truly tangible resistance to the enemy. #OsazuwaAkonedoNo Peace In Sight After Putin, Trump Nearly 3hrs Meeting In Alaskahttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/no-peace-in-sight-after-putin-trump-nearly-3hrs-meeting-in-alaska/16/08/2025/#Issues #Nawrocki #Poland #Putin #Russia #Trump #Ukraine #US #Zelenskyy ©August 16th, 2025 ®August 16, 2025 5:48 pm There is still no peace in sight after nearly three hours of meeting held in Anchorage city in Alaska, a state in the United States, US, between President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Donald Trump of the United States, over the war Russia launched since 2022 in Ukraine which has led to thousands of deaths mostly Ukrainians, which, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine who was not invited for the meeting on Friday in a statement said that it was time to end the war but Russia must take the necessary steps to a genuine peace deal, and while commenting on the statement made by the President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki on Friday via X social media platform to mark Poland Armed Forces Day which coincided with the day Putin and Trump met in Alaska, President Zelenskyy said that; “Ukraine's independence strengthens Poland's independence, And we must always remember that the Miracle on the Vistula was made possible through joint efforts, and it saved Europe”, and the Polish President, Karol Nawrocki had said that: “Today we celebrate the 105th anniversary of the great Polish victory at the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, The Polish Army, together with Ukrainian forces, successfully repelled the Red Army's westward march, safeguarding Europe from a communist revolution, For centuries, Russian imperialism has been a mortal threat to our freedom, Poland's political tradition teaches that Russian expansionism rests on a legacy of domestic despotism, in which the only free man is the ruler himself, But precisely because Russian despotism is the enemy of freedom, Russian imperialism can only be defeated through an alliance of free peoples, My nation halted Russian imperialism at Orsha (1514), Klushino (1610) and Warsaw (1920)”. #OsazuwaAkonedoPeter Obi Faults President Tinubu Trip To Brazil, Frequent Foreign Travelhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/peter-obi-faults-president-tinubu-trip-to-brazil-frequent-foreign-travel/15/08/2025/#Politics #Brazil #Lulu #Obi #Tinubu ©August 15th, 2025 ®August 15, 2025 1:47 pm Co-contestants in the last concluded general elections in Nigeria and former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi has faulted President Bola Ahmed Tinubu trip to Brazil and also condemned the President frequent travel abroad at any slightest invitation and abandoned  pressing issues of insecurity and other deplorable situations that make the Nation bleeds, specifically, Peter Obi said; “the situation we findBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/osazuwaakonedo--4980924/support.

IDF Confirms Massive Strikes In Yemen, Houthis Says Israel Soldiers Retreathttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/idf-confirms-massive-strikes-in-yemen-houthis-says-israel-soldiers-retreat/24/08/2025/#Breaking News #Israel #Sanaa #Yemen ©August 24th, 2025 ®August 24, 2025 8:12 pm Israel Defense Forces, IDF has confirmed that the Middle East country soldiers carried out massive air strikes on multiple locations in Yemen capital of Sanaa on Sunday, while Nasruddin Amer, the Chairman of Yemen's Saba News Agency and the Vice President of the Media authority of Ansar Allah Movement that has Houthis group as one of its organisations said the air defenses were able to thwart the majority of the Israeli attacks and confronted several of its combat formations, which he said forced Israeli soldiers to retreat, with the Houthis fighters using locally manufactured air defense systems. #OsazuwaAkonedoMan Conspires With Friend, Kidnap Self In Nigeriahttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/man-conspires-with-friend-kidnap-self-in-nigeria/24/08/2025/#Life #Aniocha #Asaba #Delta #Gwamnishu #IsseleUku #Nwoko #Ugboko ©August 24th, 2025 ®August 24, 2025 7:10 am A young man from Delta State in the oil rich Niger Delta region in Nigeria has been arrested after he conspired with his friend to fake a kidnapping to get money from his family in order to be able to travel abroad, the young man was seen in a video the alleged kidnapper sent to his family, threatened to be killed with a cutlass placed on his neck by the suspected fake kidnapper who is also a native and indigene of Delta State but faked his voice to sound like an Hausa Fulani man from Northern Nigeria, according to one of the popular human rights activists against insecurity in the West Africa country, Harrison Gwamnishu, the two suspects were arrested inside the bush after intelligence gathering indicated that the kidnapping was not genuine, adding that they were not mobilized by Senator Ned Munir Nwoko, the Senator, representing Delta North Senatorial zone who had said in a press statement that the “father of the supposed victim, together with two members of the Idumuje Ugboko community, reached out to me, I also spoke with the victim's brothers, as well as the police in Issele-Uku and Asaba, in addition, I contacted and mobilized the Idumuje Ugboko Vigilante group and held discussions with my police contacts in Asaba, giving clear instructions to track the kidnappers and ensure the safe rescue of the victim, throughout the operation, I received tracking updates and was kept informed of the rescue movements from Asaba to Issele-Uku until the eventual arrests were made”, in an earlier post, Harrison Gwamnishu had said that; “for clarity, I do not know who he claims he mobilized for a rescue mission, I also do not know what he meant by saying he mobilized the Police and Local Vigilantes, I personally fueled three vehicles, paid other logistics for the operation he's claiming he mobilized”. #OsazuwaAkonedoSoludo Sacks 8 Vigilantes Over Corps Member Assaulted To Complete Nakednesshttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/soludo-sacks-8-vigilantes-over-corps-member-assaulted-to-complete-nakedness/20/08/2025/#Breaking News #Agunechemba #Anambra #NYSC #oba #Soludo ©August 20th, 2025 ®August 20, 2025 5:21 pm Anambra state Governor, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has dismissed eight members of the state special vigilante group known as Agunechemba after the sacked security operatives were seen in a now viral video allegedly assaulting a female National Youth Service Corps, NYSC member, Jennifer Elobor to the level of complete nakedness after they torn her clothes and continued assaulting her even when they observed during the process nothing more was covering any part of her body, this, the dismissed vigilantes did after they allegedly chased some young men on motorcycles they claimed were members of a secret cult to the victim's compound at Oba community in Idemili South local government area of Anambra State on July 23, 2025. #OsazuwaAkonedoIbom Air Staff Injured My Private Part - Attacked Passenger Emmansonhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/ibom-air-staff-injured-my-private-part-attacked-passenger-emmanson/18/08/2025/#Issues #Emmanson #IbomAir #Lagos #Uyo ©August 18th, 2025 ®August 18, 2025 5:14 pm Comfort Emmanson Bob, the 26 years old female passenger that was recently seen on viral video allegedly attacked and provoked to action has said that she sustained injuries in her private part when  a yet to be identified Ibom Air Staff pulled off her shirt and exposed her nakedness at Lagos Airport, this, according to Comfort, the shirt torn while she was been carried out from the aircraft was her inner wear that was pinned together below her private part, saying, the Ibom Air hostess, had allegedly broke her phone, necklace and forcefully removed her wig hair from her head which caused her a severe sharp pain, and as a result of the pain, she hit the air hostess on the cheek, adding, she became more aggressive when she saw the airport staff video recording her nakedness while she was battling to cover her body as a result of her shirt that was torn with her chest sexual organs completely exposed. #OsazuwaAkonedoNigeria Captures US, UK, UN Wanted Terrorists' Leadershttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/nigeria-captures-us-uk-un-wanted-terrorists-leaders/17/08/2025/#Breaking News #AFN #BurkinaFaso #Mali #Niger #Nigeria #Ribadu #UK #UN #US ©August 17th, 2025 ®August 17, 2025 3:56 pm Leaders of the Nigeria affiliates of Al-Qaeda international terrorist group, known as Ansaru and Mahmuda have been captured by men of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, AFN, after two months of intelligence led special operations in Northern Nigeria, the West Africa nation National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu stated this at a press conference with the nation security chiefs, saying, the two arrested suspected terrorists leaders have cells across the country where they have been executing various crimes of armed robbery in addition to raise funds for their terrorist activities. #OsazuwaAkonedoWe Know, Coming Days, Russia May Increase Attacks - Zelenskyyhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/we-know-coming-days-russia-may-increase-attacks-zelenskyy/16/08/2025/#Breaking News #Putin #Russia #Trump #Ukraine #US #Zelenskyy ©August 16th, 2025 ®August 17, 2025 11:02 am Following the meeting of President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Donald Trump of the United States on Friday in Alaska, Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he knows the treachery of President Putin, that, in the coming days, Russia soldiers may try to increase pressure and strikes against Ukrainian positions in order to create more favorable political circumstances for talks with global actors, Zelenskyy made this statement some hours ago while stating that Ukrainian soldiers have achieved some successes in Donetsk region, especially in the areas of Dobropillia and Pokrovsk, then, ordered the Commander-in-Chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi to speak with combat commanders that Ukraine needs strong positions and truly tangible resistance to the enemy. #OsazuwaAkonedoNo Peace In Sight After Putin, Trump Nearly 3hrs Meeting In Alaskahttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/no-peace-in-sight-after-putin-trump-nearly-3hrs-meeting-in-alaska/16/08/2025/#Issues #Nawrocki #Poland #Putin #Russia #Trump #Ukraine #US #Zelenskyy ©August 16th, 2025 ®August 16, 2025 5:48 pm There is still no peace in sight after nearly three hours of meeting held in Anchorage city in Alaska, a state in the United States, US, between President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Donald Trump of the United States, over the war Russia launched since 2022 in Ukraine which has led to thousands of deaths mostly Ukrainians, which, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine who was not invited for the meeting on Friday in a statement said that it was time to end the war but Russia must take the necessary steps to a genuine peace deal, and while commenting on the statement made by the President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki on Friday via X social media platform to mark Poland Armed Forces Day which coincided with the day Putin and Trump met in Alaska, President Zelenskyy said that; “Ukraine's independence strengthens Poland's independence, And we must always remember that the Miracle on the Vistula was made possible through joint efforts, and it saved Europe”, and the Polish President, Karol Nawrocki had said that: “Today we celebrate the 105th anniversary of the great Polish victory at the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, The Polish Army, together with Ukrainian forces, successfully repelled the Red Army's westward march, safeguarding Europe from a communist revolution, For centuries, Russian imperialism has been a mortal threat to our freedom, Poland's political tradition teaches that Russian expansionism rests on a legacy of domestic despotism, in which the only free man is the ruler himself, But precisely because Russian despotism is the enemy of freedom, Russian imperialism can only be defeated through an alliance of free peoples, My nation halted Russian imperialism at Orsha (1514), Klushino (1610) and Warsaw (1920)”. #OsazuwaAkonedoPeter Obi Faults President Tinubu Trip To Brazil, Frequent Foreign Travelhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/peter-obi-faults-president-tinubu-trip-to-brazil-frequent-foreign-travel/15/08/2025/#Politics #Brazil #Lulu #Obi #Tinubu ©August 15th, 2025 ®August 15, 2025 1:47 pm Co-contestants in the last concluded general elections in Nigeria and former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi has faulted President Bola Ahmed Tinubu trip to Brazil and also condemned the President frequent travel abroad at any slightest invitation and abandoned  pressing issues of insecurity and other deplorable situations that make the Nation bleeds, specifically, Peter Obi said; “the situation we findBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/osazuwaakonedo--4980924/support.

IDF Confirms Massive Strikes In Yemen, Houthis Says Israel Soldiers Retreathttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/idf-confirms-massive-strikes-in-yemen-houthis-says-israel-soldiers-retreat/24/08/2025/#Breaking News #Israel #Sanaa #Yemen ©August 24th, 2025 ®August 24, 2025 8:12 pm Israel Defense Forces, IDF has confirmed that the Middle East country soldiers carried out massive air strikes on multiple locations in Yemen capital of Sanaa on Sunday, while Nasruddin Amer, the Chairman of Yemen's Saba News Agency and the Vice President of the Media authority of Ansar Allah Movement that has Houthis group as one of its organisations said the air defenses were able to thwart the majority of the Israeli attacks and confronted several of its combat formations, which he said forced Israeli soldiers to retreat, with the Houthis fighters using locally manufactured air defense systems. #OsazuwaAkonedoMan Conspires With Friend, Kidnap Self In Nigeriahttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/man-conspires-with-friend-kidnap-self-in-nigeria/24/08/2025/#Life #Aniocha #Asaba #Delta #Gwamnishu #IsseleUku #Nwoko #Ugboko ©August 24th, 2025 ®August 24, 2025 7:10 am A young man from Delta State in the oil rich Niger Delta region in Nigeria has been arrested after he conspired with his friend to fake a kidnapping to get money from his family in order to be able to travel abroad, the young man was seen in a video the alleged kidnapper sent to his family, threatened to be killed with a cutlass placed on his neck by the suspected fake kidnapper who is also a native and indigene of Delta State but faked his voice to sound like an Hausa Fulani man from Northern Nigeria, according to one of the popular human rights activists against insecurity in the West Africa country, Harrison Gwamnishu, the two suspects were arrested inside the bush after intelligence gathering indicated that the kidnapping was not genuine, adding that they were not mobilized by Senator Ned Munir Nwoko, the Senator, representing Delta North Senatorial zone who had said in a press statement that the “father of the supposed victim, together with two members of the Idumuje Ugboko community, reached out to me, I also spoke with the victim's brothers, as well as the police in Issele-Uku and Asaba, in addition, I contacted and mobilized the Idumuje Ugboko Vigilante group and held discussions with my police contacts in Asaba, giving clear instructions to track the kidnappers and ensure the safe rescue of the victim, throughout the operation, I received tracking updates and was kept informed of the rescue movements from Asaba to Issele-Uku until the eventual arrests were made”, in an earlier post, Harrison Gwamnishu had said that; “for clarity, I do not know who he claims he mobilized for a rescue mission, I also do not know what he meant by saying he mobilized the Police and Local Vigilantes, I personally fueled three vehicles, paid other logistics for the operation he's claiming he mobilized”. #OsazuwaAkonedoSoludo Sacks 8 Vigilantes Over Corps Member Assaulted To Complete Nakednesshttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/soludo-sacks-8-vigilantes-over-corps-member-assaulted-to-complete-nakedness/20/08/2025/#Breaking News #Agunechemba #Anambra #NYSC #oba #Soludo ©August 20th, 2025 ®August 20, 2025 5:21 pm Anambra state Governor, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has dismissed eight members of the state special vigilante group known as Agunechemba after the sacked security operatives were seen in a now viral video allegedly assaulting a female National Youth Service Corps, NYSC member, Jennifer Elobor to the level of complete nakedness after they torn her clothes and continued assaulting her even when they observed during the process nothing more was covering any part of her body, this, the dismissed vigilantes did after they allegedly chased some young men on motorcycles they claimed were members of a secret cult to the victim's compound at Oba community in Idemili South local government area of Anambra State on July 23, 2025. #OsazuwaAkonedoIbom Air Staff Injured My Private Part - Attacked Passenger Emmansonhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/ibom-air-staff-injured-my-private-part-attacked-passenger-emmanson/18/08/2025/#Issues #Emmanson #IbomAir #Lagos #Uyo ©August 18th, 2025 ®August 18, 2025 5:14 pm Comfort Emmanson Bob, the 26 years old female passenger that was recently seen on viral video allegedly attacked and provoked to action has said that she sustained injuries in her private part when  a yet to be identified Ibom Air Staff pulled off her shirt and exposed her nakedness at Lagos Airport, this, according to Comfort, the shirt torn while she was been carried out from the aircraft was her inner wear that was pinned together below her private part, saying, the Ibom Air hostess, had allegedly broke her phone, necklace and forcefully removed her wig hair from her head which caused her a severe sharp pain, and as a result of the pain, she hit the air hostess on the cheek, adding, she became more aggressive when she saw the airport staff video recording her nakedness while she was battling to cover her body as a result of her shirt that was torn with her chest sexual organs completely exposed. #OsazuwaAkonedoNigeria Captures US, UK, UN Wanted Terrorists' Leadershttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/nigeria-captures-us-uk-un-wanted-terrorists-leaders/17/08/2025/#Breaking News #AFN #BurkinaFaso #Mali #Niger #Nigeria #Ribadu #UK #UN #US ©August 17th, 2025 ®August 17, 2025 3:56 pm Leaders of the Nigeria affiliates of Al-Qaeda international terrorist group, known as Ansaru and Mahmuda have been captured by men of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, AFN, after two months of intelligence led special operations in Northern Nigeria, the West Africa nation National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu stated this at a press conference with the nation security chiefs, saying, the two arrested suspected terrorists leaders have cells across the country where they have been executing various crimes of armed robbery in addition to raise funds for their terrorist activities. #OsazuwaAkonedoWe Know, Coming Days, Russia May Increase Attacks - Zelenskyyhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/we-know-coming-days-russia-may-increase-attacks-zelenskyy/16/08/2025/#Breaking News #Putin #Russia #Trump #Ukraine #US #Zelenskyy ©August 16th, 2025 ®August 17, 2025 11:02 am Following the meeting of President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Donald Trump of the United States on Friday in Alaska, Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he knows the treachery of President Putin, that, in the coming days, Russia soldiers may try to increase pressure and strikes against Ukrainian positions in order to create more favorable political circumstances for talks with global actors, Zelenskyy made this statement some hours ago while stating that Ukrainian soldiers have achieved some successes in Donetsk region, especially in the areas of Dobropillia and Pokrovsk, then, ordered the Commander-in-Chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi to speak with combat commanders that Ukraine needs strong positions and truly tangible resistance to the enemy. #OsazuwaAkonedoNo Peace In Sight After Putin, Trump Nearly 3hrs Meeting In Alaskahttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/no-peace-in-sight-after-putin-trump-nearly-3hrs-meeting-in-alaska/16/08/2025/#Issues #Nawrocki #Poland #Putin #Russia #Trump #Ukraine #US #Zelenskyy ©August 16th, 2025 ®August 16, 2025 5:48 pm There is still no peace in sight after nearly three hours of meeting held in Anchorage city in Alaska, a state in the United States, US, between President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Donald Trump of the United States, over the war Russia launched since 2022 in Ukraine which has led to thousands of deaths mostly Ukrainians, which, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine who was not invited for the meeting on Friday in a statement said that it was time to end the war but Russia must take the necessary steps to a genuine peace deal, and while commenting on the statement made by the President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki on Friday via X social media platform to mark Poland Armed Forces Day which coincided with the day Putin and Trump met in Alaska, President Zelenskyy said that; “Ukraine's independence strengthens Poland's independence, And we must always remember that the Miracle on the Vistula was made possible through joint efforts, and it saved Europe”, and the Polish President, Karol Nawrocki had said that: “Today we celebrate the 105th anniversary of the great Polish victory at the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, The Polish Army, together with Ukrainian forces, successfully repelled the Red Army's westward march, safeguarding Europe from a communist revolution, For centuries, Russian imperialism has been a mortal threat to our freedom, Poland's political tradition teaches that Russian expansionism rests on a legacy of domestic despotism, in which the only free man is the ruler himself, But precisely because Russian despotism is the enemy of freedom, Russian imperialism can only be defeated through an alliance of free peoples, My nation halted Russian imperialism at Orsha (1514), Klushino (1610) and Warsaw (1920)”. #OsazuwaAkonedoPeter Obi Faults President Tinubu Trip To Brazil, Frequent Foreign Travelhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/peter-obi-faults-president-tinubu-trip-to-brazil-frequent-foreign-travel/15/08/2025/#Politics #Brazil #Lulu #Obi #Tinubu ©August 15th, 2025 ®August 15, 2025 1:47 pm Co-contestants in the last concluded general elections in Nigeria and former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi has faulted President Bola Ahmed Tinubu trip to Brazil and also condemned the President frequent travel abroad at any slightest invitation and abandoned  pressing issues of insecurity and other deplorable situations that make the Nation bleeds, specifically, Peter Obi said; “the situation we findBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/osazuwaakonedo--4980924/support.

IDF Confirms Massive Strikes In Yemen, Houthis Says Israel Soldiers Retreathttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/idf-confirms-massive-strikes-in-yemen-houthis-says-israel-soldiers-retreat/24/08/2025/#Breaking News #Israel #Sanaa #Yemen ©August 24th, 2025 ®August 24, 2025 8:12 pm Israel Defense Forces, IDF has confirmed that the Middle East country soldiers carried out massive air strikes on multiple locations in Yemen capital of Sanaa on Sunday, while Nasruddin Amer, the Chairman of Yemen's Saba News Agency and the Vice President of the Media authority of Ansar Allah Movement that has Houthis group as one of its organisations said the air defenses were able to thwart the majority of the Israeli attacks and confronted several of its combat formations, which he said forced Israeli soldiers to retreat, with the Houthis fighters using locally manufactured air defense systems. #OsazuwaAkonedoMan Conspires With Friend, Kidnap Self In Nigeriahttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/man-conspires-with-friend-kidnap-self-in-nigeria/24/08/2025/#Life #Aniocha #Asaba #Delta #Gwamnishu #IsseleUku #Nwoko #Ugboko ©August 24th, 2025 ®August 24, 2025 7:10 am A young man from Delta State in the oil rich Niger Delta region in Nigeria has been arrested after he conspired with his friend to fake a kidnapping to get money from his family in order to be able to travel abroad, the young man was seen in a video the alleged kidnapper sent to his family, threatened to be killed with a cutlass placed on his neck by the suspected fake kidnapper who is also a native and indigene of Delta State but faked his voice to sound like an Hausa Fulani man from Northern Nigeria, according to one of the popular human rights activists against insecurity in the West Africa country, Harrison Gwamnishu, the two suspects were arrested inside the bush after intelligence gathering indicated that the kidnapping was not genuine, adding that they were not mobilized by Senator Ned Munir Nwoko, the Senator, representing Delta North Senatorial zone who had said in a press statement that the “father of the supposed victim, together with two members of the Idumuje Ugboko community, reached out to me, I also spoke with the victim's brothers, as well as the police in Issele-Uku and Asaba, in addition, I contacted and mobilized the Idumuje Ugboko Vigilante group and held discussions with my police contacts in Asaba, giving clear instructions to track the kidnappers and ensure the safe rescue of the victim, throughout the operation, I received tracking updates and was kept informed of the rescue movements from Asaba to Issele-Uku until the eventual arrests were made”, in an earlier post, Harrison Gwamnishu had said that; “for clarity, I do not know who he claims he mobilized for a rescue mission, I also do not know what he meant by saying he mobilized the Police and Local Vigilantes, I personally fueled three vehicles, paid other logistics for the operation he's claiming he mobilized”. #OsazuwaAkonedoSoludo Sacks 8 Vigilantes Over Corps Member Assaulted To Complete Nakednesshttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/soludo-sacks-8-vigilantes-over-corps-member-assaulted-to-complete-nakedness/20/08/2025/#Breaking News #Agunechemba #Anambra #NYSC #oba #Soludo ©August 20th, 2025 ®August 20, 2025 5:21 pm Anambra state Governor, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has dismissed eight members of the state special vigilante group known as Agunechemba after the sacked security operatives were seen in a now viral video allegedly assaulting a female National Youth Service Corps, NYSC member, Jennifer Elobor to the level of complete nakedness after they torn her clothes and continued assaulting her even when they observed during the process nothing more was covering any part of her body, this, the dismissed vigilantes did after they allegedly chased some young men on motorcycles they claimed were members of a secret cult to the victim's compound at Oba community in Idemili South local government area of Anambra State on July 23, 2025. #OsazuwaAkonedoIbom Air Staff Injured My Private Part - Attacked Passenger Emmansonhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/ibom-air-staff-injured-my-private-part-attacked-passenger-emmanson/18/08/2025/#Issues #Emmanson #IbomAir #Lagos #Uyo ©August 18th, 2025 ®August 18, 2025 5:14 pm Comfort Emmanson Bob, the 26 years old female passenger that was recently seen on viral video allegedly attacked and provoked to action has said that she sustained injuries in her private part when  a yet to be identified Ibom Air Staff pulled off her shirt and exposed her nakedness at Lagos Airport, this, according to Comfort, the shirt torn while she was been carried out from the aircraft was her inner wear that was pinned together below her private part, saying, the Ibom Air hostess, had allegedly broke her phone, necklace and forcefully removed her wig hair from her head which caused her a severe sharp pain, and as a result of the pain, she hit the air hostess on the cheek, adding, she became more aggressive when she saw the airport staff video recording her nakedness while she was battling to cover her body as a result of her shirt that was torn with her chest sexual organs completely exposed. #OsazuwaAkonedoNigeria Captures US, UK, UN Wanted Terrorists' Leadershttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/nigeria-captures-us-uk-un-wanted-terrorists-leaders/17/08/2025/#Breaking News #AFN #BurkinaFaso #Mali #Niger #Nigeria #Ribadu #UK #UN #US ©August 17th, 2025 ®August 17, 2025 3:56 pm Leaders of the Nigeria affiliates of Al-Qaeda international terrorist group, known as Ansaru and Mahmuda have been captured by men of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, AFN, after two months of intelligence led special operations in Northern Nigeria, the West Africa nation National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu stated this at a press conference with the nation security chiefs, saying, the two arrested suspected terrorists leaders have cells across the country where they have been executing various crimes of armed robbery in addition to raise funds for their terrorist activities. #OsazuwaAkonedoWe Know, Coming Days, Russia May Increase Attacks - Zelenskyyhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/we-know-coming-days-russia-may-increase-attacks-zelenskyy/16/08/2025/#Breaking News #Putin #Russia #Trump #Ukraine #US #Zelenskyy ©August 16th, 2025 ®August 17, 2025 11:02 am Following the meeting of President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Donald Trump of the United States on Friday in Alaska, Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he knows the treachery of President Putin, that, in the coming days, Russia soldiers may try to increase pressure and strikes against Ukrainian positions in order to create more favorable political circumstances for talks with global actors, Zelenskyy made this statement some hours ago while stating that Ukrainian soldiers have achieved some successes in Donetsk region, especially in the areas of Dobropillia and Pokrovsk, then, ordered the Commander-in-Chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi to speak with combat commanders that Ukraine needs strong positions and truly tangible resistance to the enemy. #OsazuwaAkonedoBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/osazuwaakonedo--4980924/support.

IDF Confirms Massive Strikes In Yemen, Houthis Says Israel Soldiers Retreathttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/idf-confirms-massive-strikes-in-yemen-houthis-says-israel-soldiers-retreat/24/08/2025/#Breaking News #Israel #Sanaa #Yemen ©August 24th, 2025 ®August 24, 2025 8:12 pm Israel Defense Forces, IDF has confirmed that the Middle East country soldiers carried out massive air strikes on multiple locations in Yemen capital of Sanaa on Sunday, while Nasruddin Amer, the Chairman of Yemen's Saba News Agency and the Vice President of the Media authority of Ansar Allah Movement that has Houthis group as one of its organisations said the air defenses were able to thwart the majority of the Israeli attacks and confronted several of its combat formations, which he said forced Israeli soldiers to retreat, with the Houthis fighters using locally manufactured air defense systems. #OsazuwaAkonedoMan Conspires With Friend, Kidnap Self In Nigeriahttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/man-conspires-with-friend-kidnap-self-in-nigeria/24/08/2025/#Life #Aniocha #Asaba #Delta #Gwamnishu #IsseleUku #Nwoko #Ugboko ©August 24th, 2025 ®August 24, 2025 7:10 am A young man from Delta State in the oil rich Niger Delta region in Nigeria has been arrested after he conspired with his friend to fake a kidnapping to get money from his family in order to be able to travel abroad, the young man was seen in a video the alleged kidnapper sent to his family, threatened to be killed with a cutlass placed on his neck by the suspected fake kidnapper who is also a native and indigene of Delta State but faked his voice to sound like an Hausa Fulani man from Northern Nigeria, according to one of the popular human rights activists against insecurity in the West Africa country, Harrison Gwamnishu, the two suspects were arrested inside the bush after intelligence gathering indicated that the kidnapping was not genuine, adding that they were not mobilized by Senator Ned Munir Nwoko, the Senator, representing Delta North Senatorial zone who had said in a press statement that the “father of the supposed victim, together with two members of the Idumuje Ugboko community, reached out to me, I also spoke with the victim's brothers, as well as the police in Issele-Uku and Asaba, in addition, I contacted and mobilized the Idumuje Ugboko Vigilante group and held discussions with my police contacts in Asaba, giving clear instructions to track the kidnappers and ensure the safe rescue of the victim, throughout the operation, I received tracking updates and was kept informed of the rescue movements from Asaba to Issele-Uku until the eventual arrests were made”, in an earlier post, Harrison Gwamnishu had said that; “for clarity, I do not know who he claims he mobilized for a rescue mission, I also do not know what he meant by saying he mobilized the Police and Local Vigilantes, I personally fueled three vehicles, paid other logistics for the operation he's claiming he mobilized”. #OsazuwaAkonedoSoludo Sacks 8 Vigilantes Over Corps Member Assaulted To Complete Nakednesshttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/soludo-sacks-8-vigilantes-over-corps-member-assaulted-to-complete-nakedness/20/08/2025/#Breaking News #Agunechemba #Anambra #NYSC #oba #Soludo ©August 20th, 2025 ®August 20, 2025 5:21 pm Anambra state Governor, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has dismissed eight members of the state special vigilante group known as Agunechemba after the sacked security operatives were seen in a now viral video allegedly assaulting a female National Youth Service Corps, NYSC member, Jennifer Elobor to the level of complete nakedness after they torn her clothes and continued assaulting her even when they observed during the process nothing more was covering any part of her body, this, the dismissed vigilantes did after they allegedly chased some young men on motorcycles they claimed were members of a secret cult to the victim's compound at Oba community in Idemili South local government area of Anambra State on July 23, 2025. #OsazuwaAkonedoIbom Air Staff Injured My Private Part - Attacked Passenger Emmansonhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/ibom-air-staff-injured-my-private-part-attacked-passenger-emmanson/18/08/2025/#Issues #Emmanson #IbomAir #Lagos #Uyo ©August 18th, 2025 ®August 18, 2025 5:14 pm Comfort Emmanson Bob, the 26 years old female passenger that was recently seen on viral video allegedly attacked and provoked to action has said that she sustained injuries in her private part when  a yet to be identified Ibom Air Staff pulled off her shirt and exposed her nakedness at Lagos Airport, this, according to Comfort, the shirt torn while she was been carried out from the aircraft was her inner wear that was pinned together below her private part, saying, the Ibom Air hostess, had allegedly broke her phone, necklace and forcefully removed her wig hair from her head which caused her a severe sharp pain, and as a result of the pain, she hit the air hostess on the cheek, adding, she became more aggressive when she saw the airport staff video recording her nakedness while she was battling to cover her body as a result of her shirt that was torn with her chest sexual organs completely exposed. #OsazuwaAkonedoNigeria Captures US, UK, UN Wanted Terrorists' Leadershttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/nigeria-captures-us-uk-un-wanted-terrorists-leaders/17/08/2025/#Breaking News #AFN #BurkinaFaso #Mali #Niger #Nigeria #Ribadu #UK #UN #US ©August 17th, 2025 ®August 17, 2025 3:56 pm Leaders of the Nigeria affiliates of Al-Qaeda international terrorist group, known as Ansaru and Mahmuda have been captured by men of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, AFN, after two months of intelligence led special operations in Northern Nigeria, the West Africa nation National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu stated this at a press conference with the nation security chiefs, saying, the two arrested suspected terrorists leaders have cells across the country where they have been executing various crimes of armed robbery in addition to raise funds for their terrorist activities. #OsazuwaAkonedoWe Know, Coming Days, Russia May Increase Attacks - Zelenskyyhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/we-know-coming-days-russia-may-increase-attacks-zelenskyy/16/08/2025/#Breaking News #Putin #Russia #Trump #Ukraine #US #Zelenskyy ©August 16th, 2025 ®August 17, 2025 11:02 am Following the meeting of President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Donald Trump of the United States on Friday in Alaska, Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he knows the treachery of President Putin, that, in the coming days, Russia soldiers may try to increase pressure and strikes against Ukrainian positions in order to create more favorable political circumstances for talks with global actors, Zelenskyy made this statement some hours ago while stating that Ukrainian soldiers have achieved some successes in Donetsk region, especially in the areas of Dobropillia and Pokrovsk, then, ordered the Commander-in-Chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi to speak with combat commanders that Ukraine needs strong positions and truly tangible resistance to the enemy. #OsazuwaAkonedoNo Peace In Sight After Putin, Trump Nearly 3hrs Meeting In Alaskahttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/no-peace-in-sight-after-putin-trump-nearly-3hrs-meeting-in-alaska/16/08/2025/#Issues #Nawrocki #Poland #Putin #Russia #Trump #Ukraine #US #Zelenskyy ©August 16th, 2025 ®August 16, 2025 5:48 pm There is still no peace in sight after nearly three hours of meeting held in Anchorage city in Alaska, a state in the United States, US, between President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Donald Trump of the United States, over the war Russia launched since 2022 in Ukraine which has led to thousands of deaths mostly Ukrainians, which, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine who was not invited for the meeting on Friday in a statement said that it was time to end the war but Russia must take the necessary steps to a genuine peace deal, and while commenting on the statement made by the President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki on Friday via X social media platform to mark Poland Armed Forces Day which coincided with the day Putin and Trump met in Alaska, President Zelenskyy said that; “Ukraine's independence strengthens Poland's independence, And we must always remember that the Miracle on the Vistula was made possible through joint efforts, and it saved Europe”, and the Polish President, Karol Nawrocki had said that: “Today we celebrate the 105th anniversary of the great Polish victory at the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, The Polish Army, together with Ukrainian forces, successfully repelled the Red Army's westward march, safeguarding Europe from a communist revolution, For centuries, Russian imperialism has been a mortal threat to our freedom, Poland's political tradition teaches that Russian expansionism rests on a legacy of domestic despotism, in which the only free man is the ruler himself, But precisely because Russian despotism is the enemy of freedom, Russian imperialism can only be defeated through an alliance of free peoples, My nation halted Russian imperialism at Orsha (1514), Klushino (1610) and Warsaw (1920)”. #OsazuwaAkonedoPeter Obi Faults President Tinubu Trip To Brazil, Frequent Foreign Travelhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/peter-obi-faults-president-tinubu-trip-to-brazil-frequent-foreign-travel/15/08/2025/#Politics #Brazil #Lulu #Obi #Tinubu ©August 15th, 2025 ®August 15, 2025 1:47 pm Co-contestants in the last concluded general elections in Nigeria and former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi has faulted President Bola Ahmed Tinubu trip to Brazil and also condemned the President frequent travel abroad at any slightest invitation and abandoned  pressing issues of insecurity and other deplorable situations that make the Nation bleeds, specifically, Peter Obi said; “the situation we findBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/osazuwaakonedo--4980924/support.

IDF Confirms Massive Strikes In Yemen, Houthis Says Israel Soldiers Retreathttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/idf-confirms-massive-strikes-in-yemen-houthis-says-israel-soldiers-retreat/24/08/2025/#Breaking News #Israel #Sanaa #Yemen ©August 24th, 2025 ®August 24, 2025 8:12 pm Israel Defense Forces, IDF has confirmed that the Middle East country soldiers carried out massive air strikes on multiple locations in Yemen capital of Sanaa on Sunday, while Nasruddin Amer, the Chairman of Yemen's Saba News Agency and the Vice President of the Media authority of Ansar Allah Movement that has Houthis group as one of its organisations said the air defenses were able to thwart the majority of the Israeli attacks and confronted several of its combat formations, which he said forced Israeli soldiers to retreat, with the Houthis fighters using locally manufactured air defense systems. #OsazuwaAkonedoMan Conspires With Friend, Kidnap Self In Nigeriahttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/man-conspires-with-friend-kidnap-self-in-nigeria/24/08/2025/#Life #Aniocha #Asaba #Delta #Gwamnishu #IsseleUku #Nwoko #Ugboko ©August 24th, 2025 ®August 24, 2025 7:10 am A young man from Delta State in the oil rich Niger Delta region in Nigeria has been arrested after he conspired with his friend to fake a kidnapping to get money from his family in order to be able to travel abroad, the young man was seen in a video the alleged kidnapper sent to his family, threatened to be killed with a cutlass placed on his neck by the suspected fake kidnapper who is also a native and indigene of Delta State but faked his voice to sound like an Hausa Fulani man from Northern Nigeria, according to one of the popular human rights activists against insecurity in the West Africa country, Harrison Gwamnishu, the two suspects were arrested inside the bush after intelligence gathering indicated that the kidnapping was not genuine, adding that they were not mobilized by Senator Ned Munir Nwoko, the Senator, representing Delta North Senatorial zone who had said in a press statement that the “father of the supposed victim, together with two members of the Idumuje Ugboko community, reached out to me, I also spoke with the victim's brothers, as well as the police in Issele-Uku and Asaba, in addition, I contacted and mobilized the Idumuje Ugboko Vigilante group and held discussions with my police contacts in Asaba, giving clear instructions to track the kidnappers and ensure the safe rescue of the victim, throughout the operation, I received tracking updates and was kept informed of the rescue movements from Asaba to Issele-Uku until the eventual arrests were made”, in an earlier post, Harrison Gwamnishu had said that; “for clarity, I do not know who he claims he mobilized for a rescue mission, I also do not know what he meant by saying he mobilized the Police and Local Vigilantes, I personally fueled three vehicles, paid other logistics for the operation he's claiming he mobilized”. #OsazuwaAkonedoSoludo Sacks 8 Vigilantes Over Corps Member Assaulted To Complete Nakednesshttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/soludo-sacks-8-vigilantes-over-corps-member-assaulted-to-complete-nakedness/20/08/2025/#Breaking News #Agunechemba #Anambra #NYSC #oba #Soludo ©August 20th, 2025 ®August 20, 2025 5:21 pm Anambra state Governor, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has dismissed eight members of the state special vigilante group known as Agunechemba after the sacked security operatives were seen in a now viral video allegedly assaulting a female National Youth Service Corps, NYSC member, Jennifer Elobor to the level of complete nakedness after they torn her clothes and continued assaulting her even when they observed during the process nothing more was covering any part of her body, this, the dismissed vigilantes did after they allegedly chased some young men on motorcycles they claimed were members of a secret cult to the victim's compound at Oba community in Idemili South local government area of Anambra State on July 23, 2025. #OsazuwaAkonedoIbom Air Staff Injured My Private Part - Attacked Passenger Emmansonhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/ibom-air-staff-injured-my-private-part-attacked-passenger-emmanson/18/08/2025/#Issues #Emmanson #IbomAir #Lagos #Uyo ©August 18th, 2025 ®August 18, 2025 5:14 pm Comfort Emmanson Bob, the 26 years old female passenger that was recently seen on viral video allegedly attacked and provoked to action has said that she sustained injuries in her private part when  a yet to be identified Ibom Air Staff pulled off her shirt and exposed her nakedness at Lagos Airport, this, according to Comfort, the shirt torn while she was been carried out from the aircraft was her inner wear that was pinned together below her private part, saying, the Ibom Air hostess, had allegedly broke her phone, necklace and forcefully removed her wig hair from her head which caused her a severe sharp pain, and as a result of the pain, she hit the air hostess on the cheek, adding, she became more aggressive when she saw the airport staff video recording her nakedness while she was battling to cover her body as a result of her shirt that was torn with her chest sexual organs completely exposed. #OsazuwaAkonedoNigeria Captures US, UK, UN Wanted Terrorists' Leadershttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/nigeria-captures-us-uk-un-wanted-terrorists-leaders/17/08/2025/#Breaking News #AFN #BurkinaFaso #Mali #Niger #Nigeria #Ribadu #UK #UN #US ©August 17th, 2025 ®August 17, 2025 3:56 pm Leaders of the Nigeria affiliates of Al-Qaeda international terrorist group, known as Ansaru and Mahmuda have been captured by men of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, AFN, after two months of intelligence led special operations in Northern Nigeria, the West Africa nation National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu stated this at a press conference with the nation security chiefs, saying, the two arrested suspected terrorists leaders have cells across the country where they have been executing various crimes of armed robbery in addition to raise funds for their terrorist activities. #OsazuwaAkonedoWe Know, Coming Days, Russia May Increase Attacks - Zelenskyyhttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/we-know-coming-days-russia-may-increase-attacks-zelenskyy/16/08/2025/#Breaking News #Putin #Russia #Trump #Ukraine #US #Zelenskyy ©August 16th, 2025 ®August 17, 2025 11:02 am Following the meeting of President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Donald Trump of the United States on Friday in Alaska, Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he knows the treachery of President Putin, that, in the coming days, Russia soldiers may try to increase pressure and strikes against Ukrainian positions in order to create more favorable political circumstances for talks with global actors, Zelenskyy made this statement some hours ago while stating that Ukrainian soldiers have achieved some successes in Donetsk region, especially in the areas of Dobropillia and Pokrovsk, then, ordered the Commander-in-Chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi to speak with combat commanders that Ukraine needs strong positions and truly tangible resistance to the enemy. #OsazuwaAkonedoBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/osazuwaakonedo--4980924/support.

IDF Confirms Massive Strikes In Yemen, Houthis Says Israel Soldiers Retreathttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/idf-confirms-massive-strikes-in-yemen-houthis-says-israel-soldiers-retreat/24/08/2025/#Breaking News #Israel #Sanaa #Yemen ©August 24th, 2025 ®August 24, 2025 8:12 pm Israel Defense Forces, IDF has confirmed that the Middle East country soldiers carried out massive air strikes on multiple locations in Yemen capital of Sanaa on Sunday, while Nasruddin Amer, the Chairman of Yemen's Saba News Agency and the Vice President of the Media authority of Ansar Allah Movement that has Houthis group as one of its organisations said the air defenses were able to thwart the majority of the Israeli attacks and confronted several of its combat formations, which he said forced Israeli soldiers to retreat, with the Houthis fighters using locally manufactured air defense systems. #OsazuwaAkonedoMan Conspires With Friend, Kidnap Self In Nigeriahttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/man-conspires-with-friend-kidnap-self-in-nigeria/24/08/2025/#Life #Aniocha #Asaba #Delta #Gwamnishu #IsseleUku #Nwoko #Ugboko ©August 24th, 2025 ®August 24, 2025 7:10 am A young man from Delta State in the oil rich Niger Delta region in Nigeria has been arrested after he conspired with his friend to fake a kidnapping to get money from his family in order to be able to travel abroad, the young man was seen in a video the alleged kidnapper sent to his family, threatened to be killed with a cutlass placed on his neck by the suspected fake kidnapper who is also a native and indigene of Delta State but faked his voice to sound like an Hausa Fulani man from Northern Nigeria, according to one of the popular human rights activists against insecurity in the West Africa country, Harrison Gwamnishu, the two suspects were arrested inside the bush after intelligence gathering indicated that the kidnapping was not genuine, adding that they were not mobilized by Senator Ned Munir Nwoko, the Senator, representing Delta North Senatorial zone who had said in a press statement that the “father of the supposed victim, together with two members of the Idumuje Ugboko community, reached out to me, I also spoke with the victim's brothers, as well as the police in Issele-Uku and Asaba, in addition, I contacted and mobilized the Idumuje Ugboko Vigilante group and held discussions with my police contacts in Asaba, giving clear instructions to track the kidnappers and ensure the safe rescue of the victim, throughout the operation, I received tracking updates and was kept informed of the rescue movements from Asaba to Issele-Uku until the eventual arrests were made”, in an earlier post, Harrison Gwamnishu had said that; “for clarity, I do not know who he claims he mobilized for a rescue mission, I also do not know what he meant by saying he mobilized the Police and Local Vigilantes, I personally fueled three vehicles, paid other logistics for the operation he's claiming he mobilized”. #OsazuwaAkonedoSoludo Sacks 8 Vigilantes Over Corps Member Assaulted To Complete Nakednesshttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/soludo-sacks-8-vigilantes-over-corps-member-assaulted-to-complete-nakedness/20/08/2025/#Breaking News #Agunechemba #Anambra #NYSC #oba #Soludo ©August 20th, 2025 ®August 20, 2025 5:21 pm Anambra state Governor, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has dismissed eight members of the state special vigilante group known as Agunechemba after the sacked security operatives were seen in a now viral video allegedly assaulting a female National Youth Service Corps, NYSC member, Jennifer Elobor to the level of complete nakedness after they torn her clothes and continued assaulting her even when they observed during the process nothing more was covering any part of her body, this, the dismissed vigilantes did after they allegedly chased some young men on motorcycles they claimed were members of a secret cult to the victim's compound at Oba community in Idemili South local government area of Anambra State on July 23, 2025. #OsazuwaAkonedoBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/osazuwaakonedo--4980924/support.

IDF Confirms Massive Strikes In Yemen, Houthis Says Israel Soldiers Retreathttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/idf-confirms-massive-strikes-in-yemen-houthis-says-israel-soldiers-retreat/24/08/2025/#Breaking News #Israel #Sanaa #Yemen ©August 24th, 2025 ®August 24, 2025 8:12 pm Israel Defense Forces, IDF has confirmed that the Middle East country soldiers carried out massive air strikes on multiple locations in Yemen capital of Sanaa on Sunday, while Nasruddin Amer, the Chairman of Yemen's Saba News Agency and the Vice President of the Media authority of Ansar Allah Movement that has Houthis group as one of its organisations said the air defenses were able to thwart the majority of the Israeli attacks and confronted several of its combat formations, which he said forced Israeli soldiers to retreat, with the Houthis fighters using locally manufactured air defense systems. #OsazuwaAkonedoMan Conspires With Friend, Kidnap Self In Nigeriahttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/man-conspires-with-friend-kidnap-self-in-nigeria/24/08/2025/#Life #Aniocha #Asaba #Delta #Gwamnishu #IsseleUku #Nwoko #Ugboko ©August 24th, 2025 ®August 24, 2025 7:10 am A young man from Delta State in the oil rich Niger Delta region in Nigeria has been arrested after he conspired with his friend to fake a kidnapping to get money from his family in order to be able to travel abroad, the young man was seen in a video the alleged kidnapper sent to his family, threatened to be killed with a cutlass placed on his neck by the suspected fake kidnapper who is also a native and indigene of Delta State but faked his voice to sound like an Hausa Fulani man from Northern Nigeria, according to one of the popular human rights activists against insecurity in the West Africa country, Harrison Gwamnishu, the two suspects were arrested inside the bush after intelligence gathering indicated that the kidnapping was not genuine, adding that they were not mobilized by Senator Ned Munir Nwoko, the Senator, representing Delta North Senatorial zone who had said in a press statement that the “father of the supposed victim, together with two members of the Idumuje Ugboko community, reached out to me, I also spoke with the victim's brothers, as well as the police in Issele-Uku and Asaba, in addition, I contacted and mobilized the Idumuje Ugboko Vigilante group and held discussions with my police contacts in Asaba, giving clear instructions to track the kidnappers and ensure the safe rescue of the victim, throughout the operation, I received tracking updates and was kept informed of the rescue movements from Asaba to Issele-Uku until the eventual arrests were made”, in an earlier post, Harrison Gwamnishu had said that; “for clarity, I do not know who he claims he mobilized for a rescue mission, I also do not know what he meant by saying he mobilized the Police and Local Vigilantes, I personally fueled three vehicles, paid other logistics for the operation he's claiming he mobilized”. #OsazuwaAkonedoSoludo Sacks 8 Vigilantes Over Corps Member Assaulted To Complete Nakednesshttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/soludo-sacks-8-vigilantes-over-corps-member-assaulted-to-complete-nakedness/20/08/2025/#Breaking News #Agunechemba #Anambra #NYSC #oba #Soludo ©August 20th, 2025 ®August 20, 2025 5:21 pm Anambra state Governor, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has dismissed eight members of the state special vigilante group known as Agunechemba after the sacked security operatives were seen in a now viral video allegedly assaulting a female National Youth Service Corps, NYSC member, Jennifer Elobor to the level of complete nakedness after they torn her clothes and continued assaulting her even when they observed during the process nothing more was covering any part of her body, this, the dismissed vigilantes did after they allegedly chased some young men on motorcycles they claimed were members of a secret cult to the victim's compound at Oba community in Idemili South local government area of Anambra State on July 23, 2025. #OsazuwaAkonedoBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/osazuwaakonedo--4980924/support.

Man Conspires With Friend, Kidnap Self In Nigeriahttps://osazuwaakonedo.news/man-conspires-with-friend-kidnap-self-in-nigeria/24/08/2025/#Life #Aniocha #Asaba #Delta #Gwamnishu #IsseleUku #Nwoko #Ugboko ©August 24th, 2025 ®August 24, 2025 7:10 am A young man from Delta State in the oil rich Niger Delta region in Nigeria has been arrested after he conspired with his friend to fake a kidnapping to get money from his family in order to be able to travel abroad, the young man was seen in a video the alleged kidnapper sent to his family, threatened to be killed with a cutlass placed on his neck by the suspected fake kidnapper who is also a native and indigene of Delta State but faked his voice to sound like an Hausa Fulani man from Northern Nigeria, according to one of the popular human rights activists against insecurity in the West Africa country, Harrison Gwamnishu, the two suspects were arrested inside the bush after intelligence gathering indicated that the kidnapping was not genuine, adding that they were not mobilized by Senator Ned Munir Nwoko, the Senator, representing Delta North Senatorial zone who had said in a press statement that the “father of the supposed victim, together with two members of the Idumuje Ugboko community, reached out to me, I also spoke with the victim's brothers, as well as the police in Issele-Uku and Asaba, in addition, I contacted and mobilized the Idumuje Ugboko Vigilante group and held discussions with my police contacts in Asaba, giving clear instructions to track the kidnappers and ensure the safe rescue of the victim, throughout the operation, I received tracking updates and was kept informed of the rescue movements from Asaba to Issele-Uku until the eventual arrests were made”, in an earlier post, Harrison Gwamnishu had said that; “for clarity, I do not know who he claims he mobilized for a rescue mission, I also do not know what he meant by saying he mobilized the Police and Local Vigilantes, I personally fueled three vehicles, paid other logistics for the operation he's claiming he mobilized”. #OsazuwaAkonedoBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/osazuwaakonedo--4980924/support.

Synopsis:In this episode, a young and inspiring environmental activist and eco-feminist, Perfect Johndick, from Port Harcourt, Nigeria. shares with Seyifunmi Adebote the state of environmental degradation in Nigeria's Niger Delta region and her struggles as a frontline environmentalist.From the black soot that permeates the air in Port Harcourt to open gas flaring, and how these have been normalised in the region; Perfect speaks about how these served as the foundation for her entry into environmental advocacy. She speaks about her horrid experience (12:35) with fellow indigene kicking against her and her pro-environmental actions. Acknowledging the risk that comes with this work, Perfect hopes to continue questioning big oil and gas companies, as she campaigns for remediation and justice.This was such a great conversation. On this episode, you will learn about:1. A call-to-action in the Niger Delta to fix the environmental defects in its environment.2. The region's unwilling disposition to environmental progress and the influence of corruption.3. The role of individuals, especially young people in deploying innovative approaches towards challenging unfriendly actions and powerful names.Listen, enjoy and share via: SpotifyApple Podcast Google PodcastStitcherConnect with Us:Subscribe: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.climatetalkpodcast.com/subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Reach Out: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠info@climatetalkpodcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ &  ⁠⁠seyi@climatetalkpodcast.com⁠⁠Mentions:Guest's Campaign Platform: Rooted RisingGuest's Social Media: @phchurchgirl Episode Credits:Episode Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Seyifunmi Adebote⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Episode Producers: Nkem CreativesWelcome to share the podcast with your network and engage online using #ClimateTalk.

­A Glimpse of Ogoni Women's Activism: The Transnational Struggle for Justice (University of Illinois Press, 2025) with Mariam Olugbodi “Ogoni Women's Activism” is a democratic feminist movement, and a nonviolent struggle against oil spills and environmental destruction in the Niger-Delta Nigeria in the 90s. The Federation of Ogoni Women Activists (FOWA) emerges to charge forward the course of sovereignty for both humans and the Niger-Delta ecosystem. The nonviolent resistance of the Ogoni Women through prayer meetings, fasting, and singing for community mobilisation epitomises a "love in action" (Dube, 2025) strategy to identity negotiation in the face of dehumanisation. The book, Ogoni Women's Activism: The Transnational Struggle for Justice, is a voyage into the history of the Ogoni tribes of the Niger-Delta, their lives, their ordeals of racism in their home nation with highlights of experiences of African immigrant women, the racialised refugees abroad, who fled from their home nation to seek sovereignty. The book builds on contemporary frameworks and adopts interdisciplinary approaches to unveil the outstanding revolutionary efforts of the Ogoni women in the Niger-Delta. Mariam Olugbodi is a university teacher and a writer, she is the author of the monograph titled: “Stylistic Features in the 2011 and 2012 Final Matches Commentaries in the UEFA Champions League”, published by Grin Verlag. Mariam's greatest dream is seeing a world where knowledge is assessesible to all. She does this through her volunteering roles on open knowledge platforms as a host and an editor. As part of her effort to maintain inclusion and diversity in knowledge transmission, she volunteers as a teacher in crises contexts. Learn more and connect with Mariam through her social links @ (22) Olugbodi Mariam | LinkedIn, Mariam Olugbodi (0000-0001-5027-6644) - ORCID and User:Margob28 - Meta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

­A Glimpse of Ogoni Women's Activism: The Transnational Struggle for Justice (University of Illinois Press, 2025) with Mariam Olugbodi “Ogoni Women's Activism” is a democratic feminist movement, and a nonviolent struggle against oil spills and environmental destruction in the Niger-Delta Nigeria in the 90s. The Federation of Ogoni Women Activists (FOWA) emerges to charge forward the course of sovereignty for both humans and the Niger-Delta ecosystem. The nonviolent resistance of the Ogoni Women through prayer meetings, fasting, and singing for community mobilisation epitomises a "love in action" (Dube, 2025) strategy to identity negotiation in the face of dehumanisation. The book, Ogoni Women's Activism: The Transnational Struggle for Justice, is a voyage into the history of the Ogoni tribes of the Niger-Delta, their lives, their ordeals of racism in their home nation with highlights of experiences of African immigrant women, the racialised refugees abroad, who fled from their home nation to seek sovereignty. The book builds on contemporary frameworks and adopts interdisciplinary approaches to unveil the outstanding revolutionary efforts of the Ogoni women in the Niger-Delta. Mariam Olugbodi is a university teacher and a writer, she is the author of the monograph titled: “Stylistic Features in the 2011 and 2012 Final Matches Commentaries in the UEFA Champions League”, published by Grin Verlag. Mariam's greatest dream is seeing a world where knowledge is assessesible to all. She does this through her volunteering roles on open knowledge platforms as a host and an editor. As part of her effort to maintain inclusion and diversity in knowledge transmission, she volunteers as a teacher in crises contexts. Learn more and connect with Mariam through her social links @ (22) Olugbodi Mariam | LinkedIn, Mariam Olugbodi (0000-0001-5027-6644) - ORCID and User:Margob28 - Meta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

­A Glimpse of Ogoni Women's Activism: The Transnational Struggle for Justice (University of Illinois Press, 2025) with Mariam Olugbodi “Ogoni Women's Activism” is a democratic feminist movement, and a nonviolent struggle against oil spills and environmental destruction in the Niger-Delta Nigeria in the 90s. The Federation of Ogoni Women Activists (FOWA) emerges to charge forward the course of sovereignty for both humans and the Niger-Delta ecosystem. The nonviolent resistance of the Ogoni Women through prayer meetings, fasting, and singing for community mobilisation epitomises a "love in action" (Dube, 2025) strategy to identity negotiation in the face of dehumanisation. The book, Ogoni Women's Activism: The Transnational Struggle for Justice, is a voyage into the history of the Ogoni tribes of the Niger-Delta, their lives, their ordeals of racism in their home nation with highlights of experiences of African immigrant women, the racialised refugees abroad, who fled from their home nation to seek sovereignty. The book builds on contemporary frameworks and adopts interdisciplinary approaches to unveil the outstanding revolutionary efforts of the Ogoni women in the Niger-Delta. Mariam Olugbodi is a university teacher and a writer, she is the author of the monograph titled: “Stylistic Features in the 2011 and 2012 Final Matches Commentaries in the UEFA Champions League”, published by Grin Verlag. Mariam's greatest dream is seeing a world where knowledge is assessesible to all. She does this through her volunteering roles on open knowledge platforms as a host and an editor. As part of her effort to maintain inclusion and diversity in knowledge transmission, she volunteers as a teacher in crises contexts. Learn more and connect with Mariam through her social links @ (22) Olugbodi Mariam | LinkedIn, Mariam Olugbodi (0000-0001-5027-6644) - ORCID and User:Margob28 - Meta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

­A Glimpse of Ogoni Women's Activism: The Transnational Struggle for Justice (University of Illinois Press, 2025) with Mariam Olugbodi “Ogoni Women's Activism” is a democratic feminist movement, and a nonviolent struggle against oil spills and environmental destruction in the Niger-Delta Nigeria in the 90s. The Federation of Ogoni Women Activists (FOWA) emerges to charge forward the course of sovereignty for both humans and the Niger-Delta ecosystem. The nonviolent resistance of the Ogoni Women through prayer meetings, fasting, and singing for community mobilisation epitomises a "love in action" (Dube, 2025) strategy to identity negotiation in the face of dehumanisation. The book, Ogoni Women's Activism: The Transnational Struggle for Justice, is a voyage into the history of the Ogoni tribes of the Niger-Delta, their lives, their ordeals of racism in their home nation with highlights of experiences of African immigrant women, the racialised refugees abroad, who fled from their home nation to seek sovereignty. The book builds on contemporary frameworks and adopts interdisciplinary approaches to unveil the outstanding revolutionary efforts of the Ogoni women in the Niger-Delta. Mariam Olugbodi is a university teacher and a writer, she is the author of the monograph titled: “Stylistic Features in the 2011 and 2012 Final Matches Commentaries in the UEFA Champions League”, published by Grin Verlag. Mariam's greatest dream is seeing a world where knowledge is assessesible to all. She does this through her volunteering roles on open knowledge platforms as a host and an editor. As part of her effort to maintain inclusion and diversity in knowledge transmission, she volunteers as a teacher in crises contexts. Learn more and connect with Mariam through her social links @ (22) Olugbodi Mariam | LinkedIn, Mariam Olugbodi (0000-0001-5027-6644) - ORCID and User:Margob28 - Meta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-studies

­A Glimpse of Ogoni Women's Activism: The Transnational Struggle for Justice (University of Illinois Press, 2025) with Mariam Olugbodi “Ogoni Women's Activism” is a democratic feminist movement, and a nonviolent struggle against oil spills and environmental destruction in the Niger-Delta Nigeria in the 90s. The Federation of Ogoni Women Activists (FOWA) emerges to charge forward the course of sovereignty for both humans and the Niger-Delta ecosystem. The nonviolent resistance of the Ogoni Women through prayer meetings, fasting, and singing for community mobilisation epitomises a "love in action" (Dube, 2025) strategy to identity negotiation in the face of dehumanisation. The book, Ogoni Women's Activism: The Transnational Struggle for Justice, is a voyage into the history of the Ogoni tribes of the Niger-Delta, their lives, their ordeals of racism in their home nation with highlights of experiences of African immigrant women, the racialised refugees abroad, who fled from their home nation to seek sovereignty. The book builds on contemporary frameworks and adopts interdisciplinary approaches to unveil the outstanding revolutionary efforts of the Ogoni women in the Niger-Delta. Mariam Olugbodi is a university teacher and a writer, she is the author of the monograph titled: “Stylistic Features in the 2011 and 2012 Final Matches Commentaries in the UEFA Champions League”, published by Grin Verlag. Mariam's greatest dream is seeing a world where knowledge is assessesible to all. She does this through her volunteering roles on open knowledge platforms as a host and an editor. As part of her effort to maintain inclusion and diversity in knowledge transmission, she volunteers as a teacher in crises contexts. Learn more and connect with Mariam through her social links @ (22) Olugbodi Mariam | LinkedIn, Mariam Olugbodi (0000-0001-5027-6644) - ORCID and User:Margob28 - Meta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/environmental-studies

­A Glimpse of Ogoni Women's Activism: The Transnational Struggle for Justice (University of Illinois Press, 2025) with Mariam Olugbodi “Ogoni Women's Activism” is a democratic feminist movement, and a nonviolent struggle against oil spills and environmental destruction in the Niger-Delta Nigeria in the 90s. The Federation of Ogoni Women Activists (FOWA) emerges to charge forward the course of sovereignty for both humans and the Niger-Delta ecosystem. The nonviolent resistance of the Ogoni Women through prayer meetings, fasting, and singing for community mobilisation epitomises a "love in action" (Dube, 2025) strategy to identity negotiation in the face of dehumanisation. The book, Ogoni Women's Activism: The Transnational Struggle for Justice, is a voyage into the history of the Ogoni tribes of the Niger-Delta, their lives, their ordeals of racism in their home nation with highlights of experiences of African immigrant women, the racialised refugees abroad, who fled from their home nation to seek sovereignty. The book builds on contemporary frameworks and adopts interdisciplinary approaches to unveil the outstanding revolutionary efforts of the Ogoni women in the Niger-Delta. Mariam Olugbodi is a university teacher and a writer, she is the author of the monograph titled: “Stylistic Features in the 2011 and 2012 Final Matches Commentaries in the UEFA Champions League”, published by Grin Verlag. Mariam's greatest dream is seeing a world where knowledge is assessesible to all. She does this through her volunteering roles on open knowledge platforms as a host and an editor. As part of her effort to maintain inclusion and diversity in knowledge transmission, she volunteers as a teacher in crises contexts. Learn more and connect with Mariam through her social links @ (22) Olugbodi Mariam | LinkedIn, Mariam Olugbodi (0000-0001-5027-6644) - ORCID and User:Margob28 - Meta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Maytham gets The Africa Report with Kiri Rupiah of The Continent. They discuss Nairobi protests a year after the Finance Bill and recent incidents of police brutality; a ⁠Nigerian monarch seeks to block Shell from leaving Niger Delta until it cleans up its messes and the Netherlands to return Benin Bronzes. Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit is a podcast of the CapeTalk breakfast show. This programme is your authentic Cape Town wake-up call. Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit is informative, enlightening and accessible. The team’s ability to spot & share relevant and unusual stories make the programme inclusive and thought-provoking. Don’t miss the popular World View feature at 7:45am daily. Listen out for #LesterInYourLounge which is an outside broadcast – from the home of a listener in a different part of Cape Town - on the first Wednesday of every month. This show introduces you to interesting Capetonians as well as their favourite communities, habits, local personalities and neighbourhood news. Thank you for listening to a podcast from Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit. Listen live on Primedia+ weekdays between 06:00 and 09:00 (SA Time) to Good Morning CapeTalk with Lester Kiewit broadcast on CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from the show go to https://buff.ly/xGkqLbT or find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/f9Eeb7i Subscribe to the CapeTalk Daily and Weekly Newsletters https://buff.ly/sbvVZD5 Follow us on social media CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Conspiracy of Ravens by Othuke Ominiabohs is a tale of love and hate, patriots and traitors, and of heros and villains set in Nigeria's Niger Delta. We discuss this book on this episode of Shades of Us: The Review.   Facebook: Shades of Us Twitter: Shades of Us LinkedIn: Shades of Us Instagram: Shades of Us Website: Shades of Us YouTube: Shades of Us Africa Credit: A Conspiracy of Ravens Image: The Black Boy Review

Charles and Jon talk with Rachel Ashegbofe Ikemeh, founder of the SW/Niger Delta Conservation Project. Rachel, a Nigerian conservationist and visionary, has built a team of almost 100 people working at the grassroots community level to save the wildlife of the Niger Delta. The delta, densely populated and home to oil and gas reserves, is one of the most degraded environments on the planet. It contains over half of the swamp forest in West and Central Africa and is the world's largest mangrove forest. But 95% of that forest has been lost in the past 15 years.Rachel describes her career and how she stumbled into conservation work despite the many obstacles she faced from a society where young women are expected to get married and have children and definitely not become biologists!She talks about some of the delta's many special mammals including critically endangered primates like the the Niger Delta Red Colobus that Rachel's team is bringing back from the brink of extinction with the help of local communities.And Rachel talks about some of the very many dangers she has faced working in this difficult area. She has run the gauntlet of everything from death threats to drowning and also had a very close encounter with an angry Elephant.For more information visit www.mammalwatching.com/podcastNotes: You can follow Rachel's team on Instagram here. And here is a short video, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, celebrating Rachel as a winner of the 2020 Whitley Awards for her work with Chimpanzees. This is the opinion piece Rachel wrote on the Western media's role in the decline of West Africa's Wildlife.Jon's Texas report is here.Cover art: Rachel at work. Dr Charles Foley is a mammalwatcher and biologist who, together with his wife Lara, spent 30 years studying elephants in Tanzania. They now run the Tanzania Conservation Research Program at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.Jon Hall set up mammalwatching.com in 2005. Genetically Welsh, spiritually Australian, currently in New York City. He has looked for mammals in over 110 countries.

Warning: this episode contains mentions of baby loss. Three years ago, we brought you the story of a Nigerian fishing community suing Shell in UK courts over oil spills. This year marks 10 years since their battle began, and the year it finally goes to trial. The Niger Delta is one of the ten most important wetland ecosystems in the world, home to some 31 million people. But the river that sustains so many lives of so many species has become poisoned over decades by oil. Environmental justice is a long and winding road, but communities are standing firm in their bids to hold the world's most powerful corporations to account. They rely on media coverage to keep their fights in the limelight, yet they often struggle to be seen. Why is that? In this episode, we are joined by Lazarus Tamana, UK president of the Movement For The Survival of The Ogoni People , and Dr Emem Okon, Executive Director of community-led NGO Kebetkache Women Development & Resource Centre. They help us unpick the media's coverage of the climate crisis - examining undisclosed relationships between news outlets and corporations, a failure to understand national vs. ‘World' news, and telling choices of media language. Follow Amnesty UK's ‘No Clean Up, No Justice', read Dr Emem Okon's research, with the Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre and Both Ends. The episode is hosted and produced by Mathilda Mallinson (⁠@mathildamall⁠) and Helena Wadia (⁠@helenawadia⁠) , with Lily Erwood as Assistant Producer. The music is by ⁠@soundofsamfire⁠ Support us on ⁠Patreon⁠! Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠Bluesky⁠, and ⁠TikTok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the new month and the latest episode of African Geopardy! This time, we focus on a pressing issue at the intersection of resource governance, organised crime, and security: Gold and Terrorism Financing in the Sahel.Our guest, Dr Oluwole Ojewale, Regional Organised Crime Observatory Coordinator – Central Africa, unpacks how illegal gold mining has become a crucial financial lifeline for terrorist networks in the Sahel. As gold increasingly replaces cash in illicit transactions, its unregulated trade fuels instability, undermining state authority and prolonging violent conflicts. We also examine why the Kimberley Process and similar schemes designed to curb conflict minerals have failed to prevent illicit gold from funding armed groups.Beyond the security dimension, we discuss the broader implications of criminalising artisanal mining, drawing comparisons with petroleum refining in the Niger Delta and gold mining in Ghana. Blanket crackdowns have often pushed vulnerable communities further into informality, exacerbating both economic hardships and security threats. Dr Ojewale challenges this approach, advocating for a more integrated response that considers formalising artisanal mining where local livelihoods depend on it while strengthening governance to cut off illicit financial flows.I am grateful to Dr. Ojewale for sharing his expertise, and I invite you to listen and join the conversation!

One of the most polluted places in the world is located at the heart of the Niger Delta where decades of oil exploitation have ravaged the native flora. Fringing the delta of the Niger River, local mangrove forests are essential to biodiversity and the survival of local communities. In Nigeria, scientists, activists and lawyers are joining forces to protect and restore this ecosystem. Judith Rueff and Moïse Gomis immersed themselves in the daily lives of these men and women who refuse to give in to the catastrophe. A production by Factstory, Arte G.E.I.E. and FRANCE 24. 

Elections for African Union chair; former Ghana finance minister declared a fugitive, people of the Niger Delta vs oil giant Shell. Kiri Rupiah, Communities Editor at The Continent, shares details of these stories with Lester Kiewit.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In 2006, Nigerian-British sculptor, Sokari Douglas-Camp, was commissioned by human and environment rights organization, Platform, to create a work of art in honour of the memory of Ken Saro-Wiwa. Douglas-Camp created a life-sized replica of a Nigerian steel bus, called ‘Battle Bus: Living Memorial for Ken Saro-Wiwa'. It was an artistic symbol of movement and change. In 2015, 20 years after the execution of the Ogoni Nine, Platform planned to commemorate the Ogoni Nine execution and wanted Douglas-Camp's Battle Bus to feature at the event held in Bori, Saro-Wiwa's hometown. But when the battle bus arrived at the Lagos Seaport that year, it was impounded by the port authorities.It is now 2025*, nearly 30 years since the executions happened. Presidents have come and gone; Niger-Delta resistance has, arguably, become more violent and more commercially motivated; public memory of the Ogoni Nine has atrophied, and the battle bus, an artistic work crafted to honour the memory of the Ogoni Nine, is still under arrest by the Nigerian authorities. What is it about Saro-Wiwa that continues to aggravate and possibly even terrify the Nigerian ruling establishment? How have the Ogoni people been able to come to terms with the execution of the Ogoni Nine, and deal with the unresolved environmental crisis caused by oil exploration till this day? What does the crisis in Ogoni and the Niger Delta more broadly tell us about what it means to be Nigerian?In this episode, our final of the season, Wale Lawal finds some answers. Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠republic.com.ng/podcasts/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.*Note: this podcast was produced in 2024; as such, when Wale says ‘next year', he is referring to 2025.

On Daybreak Africa: The U.N. children's fund is accusing armed men, likely on both sides of the conflict in eastern DRC, of raping scores of children over the past weeks as rebels expand their footprint and push government forces out. Plus, a new report says the emergence of cheap artificial intelligence tools is leading to a wave of biometric fraud in Africa. Protests take place as a landmark case against Nigerian oil giant Shell for oil spills in the Niger Delta gets underway in London. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urges the U.S. to consider resuming funding for lifesaving aid. US Democratic lawmakers say the Trump administration's freeze on U.S. foreign assistance might permanently damage America's security and standing abroad. A global Artificial Intelligence race heats up after a conference in Paris. For these and more, tune in to Daybreak Africa!

A Nigerian analyst says the landmark court case in London against oil giant Shell and its Nigerian subsidiary for decades of alleged oil spills in the Niger Delta is an attempt by the affected communities to seek justice. Shell, however, says most spills were caused by illegal third-party interference, such as pipeline sabotage and theft, which is rife in the region. Patrick Nwinyokpugi, a lecturer at the Rivers State University, told me that Shell needs to do a better job of responding to oil spills affecting the Niger Delts

This year it will be 30 years since Nigerian author and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed by the Nigerian military government for leading protests against environmental pollution caused by oil exploration. He remains an icon of resistance against environmental degradation beyond Nigeria. The campaigns he led saw the exploration of crude oil stopped in Ogoniland, in the country's Niger Delta region, after it became clear oil spills had extensively polluted rivers and farmland, destroying the livelihoods of farmers and fishers. A report published by the United Nations Environmental Programme in 2011 said cleaning pollution in Ogoniland could take up to 30 years. Yet president Bola Tinubu recently announced that his government would begin negotiations to resume oil production in Ogoniland. This sparked protests from environmental rights groups who warned that the region was yet to heal from the damage wrought by decades of oil exploration. In today's Africa Daily, Alan Kasujja has been speaking to lawyer and leading environmental activist Celestine Akpobari and Niger-Delta-based journalist Ndume Green. Producer: Peter Musembi

Send us a textGet ready to be inspired! In this episode of the Self-Reflection Podcast, host Lira Ndifon sits down with the talented Afro-Trap artist Big  Klef  for a candid and insightful conversation that goes beyond the music.We delve deep into Big  Klef's inspiring journey, tracing his roots from the vibrant Niger Delta region of Nigeria to his current home in the Bay Area. Klef shares his personal journey, navigating cultural shifts, overcoming self-doubt, and embracing his unique voice as an artist. He candidly discusses the profound impact of experiencing the American education system, highlighting the stark contrast to his upbringing in Nigeria and how this ignited a passion for social change within him.The conversation delves deep into the essence of Klef's music, exploring how his Nigerian heritage and personal experiences have profoundly shaped his distinctive Afro-Trap sound. He emphasizes the importance of authenticity in his artistry, expressing that his music reflects his true self, encompassing his joys, sorrows, and reflections on the world around him.Klef offers valuable insights for aspiring artists, emphasizing the importance of self-belief and overcoming self-doubt. He candidly discusses the challenges of navigating the music industry, including the pressure to conform and the constant pursuit of creative excellence. He highlights the crucial role of a strong support system, emphasizing the importance of nurturing genuine human connections and surrounding yourself with people who believe in you.This episode is more than just an interview; it's a conversation that will inspire you to embrace your own unique voice, pursue your passions with authenticity, and use your platform to make a positive impact on the world.Don't forget to like, follow, and subscribe to the Self-Reflection Podcast on all your favorite platforms – Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and more!Support the show

On 19 January 1994, General Abacha, who had been Nigeria's head of state for just two months, sent a federal ministerial committee to Ogoniland to meet with Ken Saro-Wiwa in Saro-Wiwa's hometown of Bori. The primary mission of the committee was to investigate the oil crisis in the Niger Delta region and make a report on how to solve the crisis. The committee consisted of Alex Ibru, the federal minister of internal affairs; Chief Donald Etiebet, the minister of petroleum resources; Melford Okilo, the minister of tourism and commerce; and Lieutenant Colonel Dauda Musa Komo, the military governor of Rivers State.  Ibru, the publisher of The Guardian, one of Nigeria's most influential newspapers at that time, was a close friend of Saro-Wiwa. Due to his friendship with Saro-Wiwa, The Guardian had given MOSOP a lot of positive coverage and publicity in the news. Saro-Wiwa imagined that with Ibru on the tour, the Ogoni cause would get the seriousness of their struggle conveyed to the country, and to Abacha. However, Lieutenant Colonel Komo who acted as the official escort and guide of the Committee, saw the tour as an opportunity to impress Abacha and show his superiors in Abuja that he had Saro-Wiwa and the Ogonis under his control. With such differing goals between Saro-Wiwa and Lieutenant Komo, what kind of collision was about to happen? In this episode, Wale Lawal finds some answers. Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠republic.com.ng/podcasts/⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Nigeria approves Shell's watershed exit from oil-rich Niger Delta-but activists are not pleased.Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan receives an early nomination for being the ruling party's presidential candidate.And why are some African countries moving towards banning wigs in court?Presenter: Audrey Brown Producers: Bella Hassan and Sunita Nahar in London, Charles Gitonga in Nairobi and Blessing Aderogba in Lagos Senior Producer: Paul Bakibinga Technical Producer: Francesca Dunne Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

The Ogonis are a prominent ethnic group in the Niger Delta. And in the 1950s, the oil wealth found in Ogoniland promised a future of prosperity. It meant that the small agriculture and fishery community could be potentially transformed into an industrial hub. But this dream soon became a nightmare as the government and the oil companies had other plans. The Ogonis never saw the promised prosperity.  Instead, the Ogonis began to live in a dystopian reality with oil spillages and acute damages to properties, land, rivers and swamps that had once been used for farming and fishing. Many Ogonis lost their livelihoods and became dissatisfied with the continued degradation of their environment and their lives.  In January 1993, things came to a head when a peaceful protest by the Ogonis led by Saro-Wiwa's Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) against Shell was met with violence from the Nigerian government. But what exactly happened? How did the Ogonis' peaceful protest turn into a nightmare that many in Ogoniland today are still shuddering from? How did the Ogonis' hopes become weaponized against them? In this episode, Wale Lawal finds some answers. Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠republic.com.ng/podcasts/⁠⁠⁠. The Republic is currently on an editorial break and show notes will be available on our website by 31 January 2025.

 In this episode, we sit down with Ed Kashi, acclaimed photojournalist and filmmaker, to explore his remarkable career and the power of visual storytelling. From his beginnings as a first-generation American with Iraqi heritage to capturing global conflicts and social issues, Ed shares personal anecdotes about what drives his passion for documenting human experiences. He opens up about the emotional and ethical challenges of photojournalism, the role of empathy in his work, and his mission to showcase untold, positive stories from around the world. Tune in for an inspiring conversation about the intersection of art, activism, and humanity in photography. TOPICS WE COVEREDEd Kashi's Background and Inspiration (00:03 - 02:41):Kashi shared his personal journey, being a first-generation American with roots in Baghdad, Iraq, and how he discovered photography after initially aspiring to be a writer during college at Syracuse University.Narrative-Driven Photography (07:42 - 09:25):Kashi explained his passion for storytelling through photography, particularly how capturing real-life moments physically immerses him in people's lives, helping him build a deeper connection with their narratives.Challenges in Photojournalism (16:43 - 30:46):He highlighted the emotional, geopolitical, and personal challenges faced while working on long-term projects, such as in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta, and discussed the impact of oil wealth on local communities.Empathy and Humanity in Photography (34:59 - 37:42):Kashi emphasized how staying empathetic and humane is crucial in his work, attributing this to his upbringing, family support, and therapy, which help him navigate the hardships he witnesses.Promoting Positive Narratives (52:09 - 1:21:20):Kashi expressed a desire to highlight the dignity, beauty, and positive aspects of cultures, particularly in Muslim countries, while also critiquing media's tendency to focus on negative stories, advocating for more balanced representation.FOLLOW ED:InstagramwebsitenewsletterFOLLOW ME

African history is not yet mainstream and we're on a mission to change this. The Republic is a miniseries covering key events and figures in African history. Our second season focuses on the life and legacy of Ken Saro-Wiwa, a writer and one of nine non-violent Ogoni activists the General Sani Abacha military government brutally executed in 1995. The Ogoni are an ethnic group situated in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. For years, they have suffered pollution and environmental degradation stemming from crude oil extraction on their land. Saro-Wiwa's protests against oil companies such as Shell, including his leadership of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), frustrated the Abacha government, which relied heavily on oil exports. On 10 November 1995, after controversial court trials, the Abacha regime sentenced Saro-Wiwa along with eight other Ogoni activists to death by hanging. The eight were: Saturday Dobee, Nordu Eawo, Daniel Gbooko, Paul Levera, Felix Nuate, Baribor Bera, Barinem Kiobel, and John Kpuine. Their brutal arrest and murder marked a pivotal moment not only in Nigeria's history but also in the history of global environmentalism. Nearly 30 years since the Ogoni 9 execution, host Wale Lawal traces the life and legacy of Saro-Wiwa, and the implications of the Ogoni 9 execution. You'll travel to the Niger Delta and hear about life in Nigeria under Abacha's regime, the political rise of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the troubled history of oil in the Niger Delta, the arrest and trial of the Ogoni 9, and how Abacha's execution of the Ogoni 9 continues to shape the politics of Nigeria's oil wealth and what it means to be Nigerian today. Learn more about The Republic at ⁠republic.com.ng/podcasts

Hello and welcome to episode 104 of Webflail.I'm your host, Jack, your failure connoisseur, and today my guest is Manuel Ogomigo.He's an impressive dude5 months ago, he quit his stable UX job to dive into the wild world of freelancing and building products in public.After 4 years, he quit.And he launched Flowdrive.In his own words, crickets.But now, things are moving.Did you know he has built 8 other products before this?!He's a Webflow and memberstack expert and he's got a smile as big as the Niger Delta.Has it always been easy for Manuel? Or has it been a real struggle with some massive failures along the way? You be the judge.The failures that we'll discuss are:While working in design, not doing enough research results in failed product and layoff :)Not doing marketing enoughAlmost destroying flowdrive, clearing all assets with a silly mistakeBRAND BOOK (FREE CLONEABLE)Incredible resource from 473 Agency:https://webflow.com/made-in-webflow/website/brandiv-473  WEBFLAIL FREEBIES10 Step Process To Land Your First Webflow Clients: The Ultimate Guide:https://www.webflail.com/resources/10-step-process-to-land-your-first-webflow-clients-the-ultimate-guideLINKS FOR MANUEL‍

Dr. David Donovan brings an update on the precious work of New Foundations, a medical mission to the Niger Delta. Following the update, David brings a word from Scripture to the hearts of God's people.

By Adam Turteltaub At Transparency International's International Anti-Corruption Conference I had the good fortune of meeting Olusoji Apampa, CEO of Integrity Nigeria. I appreciated hearing his insights on corruption risk in Nigeria, and, to share them with a wider audience, we sat down for this podcast. The risk, of course, is real and high. Worse, many have bought into the idea that there is nothing that can be done, which leads to more corruption. But, happily, he reports that you absolutely do not have to engage corruption to do business there. How? First, he advises understand the risk level; it varies considerably. The picture is very different in Abuja than it is in Lagos, and Lagos is not the Niger Delta. Economic sector matters as well. Doing business in the education sector is very different than doing so in oil and gas or banking. The size of the corporation also has an impact on the corruption risk profile. Generally speaking, larger corporations ore better able to resist the pressure to pay bribes than small or medium-sized ones. So what should companies do? First, take a hard look at the specific risks of where they do business and what industry they are in. Second, don't embrace corruption as a strategy. Aside from being illegal, paying one bribe can lead to demands for ever more. Third, stick to and be clear about what your principles are, and have a compliance program backing them up He also urges companies to think outside the box and never go it alone. Instead, they should embrace collective action, working with others who share a commitment to doing business the right way. Listen in to learn more about the risks and how to mitigate them when doing business in Nigeria. Listen now

1 Corinthians 13 Dr. David Donovan brings an update on the precious work of New Foundations, a medical mission to the Niger Delta. Following the update, David brings a word from Scripture to the hearts of God's people.

On Daybreak Africa: Calls grow for justice and accountability as Sudan marks one year of conflict. Plus, striking Kenyan doctors reject another government ultimatum to end a month-long strike for better pay. A US-based Professor of Applied Economics calls for the disbandment of Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank. Malawi halts Soybean exports amid a drop in yields. A judge in Liberia jails a local chief for allegedly forcing three young women undergo female genital mutilation. Environmentalists call on Shell Oil to clean up vast polluted areas in Nigeria's Niger Delta. For this and more tune to Daybreak Africa

In this ClimateGenn episode I am speaking with Nigerian Climate Activist Dickson Goodness about the ongoing struggle to pressure the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, to clean up it's colossal toxic mess left behind after nearly seven decades of oil extraction in the Niger Delta. Beyond carbon emission, the damage done has destroyed ecosystems, decimated biodiversity, ruined livelihoods and caused misery and suffering for communities living in the region. PREORDER COPOUT - https://amzn.to/3SflYzg A reminder that you can preorder my book COPOUT about the UN process that has now been taken over by the extractive fossil fuel industry. A broad coalition of the most polluting nations on Earth say they want to reduce emissions while massively expanding fossil fuel production. This contradiction or outright hypocrisy underpins the very core of the human struggle for survival this century and will be discussed across future episodes in the coming weeks. Please do stay tuned. Thank you to all subscribers and supporters. Please do join via Patron or Youtube to support the channel, getting episodes early, plus extra content. Do also comment, share and engage in whatever way possible. Thanks.

In this rather cultic episode, we handle the Powerwalking Club's discovery of an obscure group of proto-Scandifuturists from the Niger Delta, which led to the establishment of a bona fide research institute to investigate it further. From its humble beginnings as a harmless student fraternity, to a dreaded international crime syndicate dabbling in blood oaths, juju, prostitution and drug trafficking, we do our best to figure out what the hell the Supreme Vikings Confraternity is as we wade through their intricate lingo and mythos. Who is this "prince Odin" and why does he have eight legs? What's an Iceland? What's their relationship to the (Nigerian) Klansmen? What does it mean to be rugged? Is there a continuity betwen this viking cult and the indigenous traditions of the Igbo people? What position do these people hold in the Scandifuture? Perhaps they should be invited to serve as the Brute Norse equivalent to the Varangian guard? Find out for yourself in this episode, and don't forget to support Brute Norse at https://linktr.ee/brutenorse

Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in September 2021.If you're living in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, your best bet at a high-paying career is probably ‘artisanal refining' — or, in plain language, stealing oil from pipelines.The resulting oil spills damage the environment and cause severe health problems, but the Nigerian government has continually failed in their attempts to stop this theft.They send in the army, and the army gets corrupted. They send in enforcement agencies, and the enforcement agencies get corrupted. What's happening here?According to Mushtaq Khan, economics professor at SOAS University of London, this is a classic example of ‘networked corruption'. Everyone in the community is benefiting from the criminal enterprise — so much so that the locals would prefer civil war to following the law. It pays vastly better than other local jobs, hotels and restaurants have formed around it, and houses are even powered by the electricity generated from the oil.Links to learn more, summary, and full transcript.In today's episode, Mushtaq elaborates on the models he uses to understand these problems and make predictions he can test in the real world.Some of the most important factors shaping the fate of nations are their structures of power: who is powerful, how they are organized, which interest groups can pull in favours with the government, and the constant push and pull between the country's rulers and its ruled. While traditional economic theory has relatively little to say about these topics, institutional economists like Mushtaq have a lot to say, and participate in lively debates about which of their competing ideas best explain the world around us.The issues at stake are nothing less than why some countries are rich and others are poor, why some countries are mostly law abiding while others are not, and why some government programmes improve public welfare while others just enrich the well connected.Mushtaq's specialties are anti-corruption and industrial policy, where he believes mainstream theory and practice are largely misguided. To root out fraud, aid agencies try to impose institutions and laws that work in countries like the U.K. today. Everyone nods their heads and appears to go along, but years later they find nothing has changed, or worse — the new anti-corruption laws are mostly just used to persecute anyone who challenges the country's rulers.As Mushtaq explains, to people who specialise in understanding why corruption is ubiquitous in some countries but not others, this is entirely predictable. Western agencies imagine a situation where most people are law abiding, but a handful of selfish fat cats are engaging in large-scale graft. In fact in the countries they're trying to change everyone is breaking some rule or other, or participating in so-called ‘corruption', because it's the only way to get things done and always has been.Mushtaq's rule of thumb is that when the locals most concerned with a specific issue are invested in preserving a status quo they're participating in, they almost always win out.To actually reduce corruption, countries like his native Bangladesh have to follow the same gradual path the U.K. once did: find organizations that benefit from rule-abiding behaviour and are selfishly motivated to promote it, and help them police their peers.Trying to impose a new way of doing things from the top down wasn't how Europe modernised, and it won't work elsewhere either.In cases like oil theft in Nigeria, where no one wants to follow the rules, Mushtaq says corruption may be impossible to solve directly. Instead you have to play a long game, bringing in other employment opportunities, improving health services, and deploying alternative forms of energy — in the hope that one day this will give people a viable alternative to corruption.In this extensive interview Rob and Mushtaq cover this and much more, including:How does one test theories like this?Why are companies in some poor countries so much less productive than their peers in rich countries?Have rich countries just legalized the corruption in their societies?What are the big live debates in institutional economics?Should poor countries protect their industries from foreign competition?Where has industrial policy worked, and why?How can listeners use these theories to predict which policies will work in their own countries?Producer: Keiran HarrisAudio mastering: Ben CordellTranscriptions: Sofia Davis-Fogel

Today we speak to writer and researcher James Barnett about the ongoing conflicts in the Niger Delta. We speak about the underground oil industry, milita turf wars, and cult domination in the region. - Extra: www.patreon.com/popularfront - Info: www.popularfront.co - Merch: www.popularfront.shop - News: www.instagram.com/popular.front - Jake www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan

In 1956 commercial quantities of oil were discovered in the Nigerian village Oloibiri. It marked the start of a huge oil industry for Nigeria but came at a cost for villages in the Niger Delta. Chief Sunday Inengite was 19-years-old when prospectors first came to his village in search of crude oil. In 2018 he spoke to Alex Last about the impact of the discovery. (Photo: An oil worker at an oil well in Nigeria. Credit: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

From our pals over at Inherited, in today's episode, Mo Isu looks at one of the reasons climate activists all over the world are protesting: they're already facing the impacts of climate change. Here, Isu traces the cycle of loss and rebuilding in the rural Niger Delta region of Nigeria as the country weathers extreme seasonal flooding. After meeting a flood survivor in his hometown of Lagos, Mo travels twelve hours to Lokoja – the town where Nigeria's largest rivers converge – to explore how directly impacted flood survivors endure the region's relentless cycle of damage and repair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices