Bolt backs Mombasa County push to formalise 400 delivery riders with training and licences
Bolt has partnered with the Mombasa County government to launch a programme to help 400 delivery riders in the county obtain formal licences.
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Villa close to £65m move for Chelsea's Jackson
Senegal striker Nicolas Jackson is nearing a move to Villa Park after three years at Chelsea.
Nigerian American Chef Kwame Onwuachi Serves Up His Third Book, All Hours: Crazy Good Food for Whatever, Whenever, Coming This September
Chef Kwame Onwuachi, the Nigerian American culinary force and James Beard Award-winning chef behind Tatiana, which has landed on the New York Times‘ list of top 100 restaurants every year since opening in 2022, is set to release his third book, All Hours: Crazy Good Food for Whatever, Whenever, on S
The Ugly Review Opens Submissions for Issue II, Themed “Metamorphosis” | Submit by September 15, 2026
The Ugly Collective has opened its call for submissions for the second issue of The Ugly Review, themed “Metamorphosis.” The editors are seeking fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and photography/art that explores transformation in all its diverse, weird, beautiful, violent, and quiet forms. The theme spa
Eze, Ifowodo, and Oburumu Make Final Three for the $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature 2026
The Nigeria Prize for Literature has narrowed its 2026 poetry field down to a shortlist of three: James Ngwu Eze’s Unbind Me Now, Ogaga Ifowodo’s Why Does God Need a Gun?, and Tares Oburumu’s Flora’s Love Colony. The three collections were selected from an initial pool of 223 entries, first cut down
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Guinea: Guinea President Sacks 173 Soldiers for Desertion
[allAfrica] President Mamadi Doumbouya has dismissed 173 military personnel for alleged desertion. This includes Colonel Michel Lamah, a member of the elite Special Forces unit who helped him seize power in the 2021 coup.
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