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I've been on 53 cruises. Here are the itineraries I would sail again in a heartbeat and the ones I would skip

Cruise ·

I started cruising with my family when I was just 3 years old on the Big Red Boat by Premier Cruise Lines. Each year, my family would embark on a cruise together, typically over school holidays like spring break or Christmas. Years of cruising...

Aero Contractors Clears AMCON Debt, Plans Expansion

Daily Independent · July 23, 2025

2 LAGOS – Aero Contractors has repaid the debt it owed the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) since 2017. Capt. Ado Sanusi, the Managing Director of Aero Contractors, confirmed this development in an interview with Daily Independent...

Buhari’s 1993 interview with TheNEWS: Why Babangida overthrew me

The News (Nigeria) · July 17, 2025

In 1993, President Muhammadu Buhari, (who died on Sunday 13 July 2025 and was buried in Daura, Katsina State on Tuesday 15 July 2025) spoke on major issues about his regime when he and General Tunde Idiagbon were in charge. That is, his overthrow...

Chaos, Controversy, and Cash Flow: Nine Takeaways from the New Live Aid Doc

Rolling Stone · July 22, 2025

“It was our Woodstock, but better,” Nile Rodgers asserts in Live Aid: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World, referring to the all-star charity concerts broadcast around the world 40 years ago. Boomers may quibble, even with the presence of Mick...

BEAUTY A Farewell to Ami Colé, the Beauty Brand That Felt Like Home Ami Colé changed the beauty game for Black women. So, why did it have to shutter? By Nerisha Penrose

ELLE · July 22, 2025

As I write this, scrolling through Ami Colé’s website feels like a dream for beauty obsessives like me—Black, chronically online, and armed with a wallet awaiting their next purchase. The beloved Lip Oil that earned permanent real estate in every...

African countries ranked among world’s 50 most food self-sufficient countries

Business Insider Africa · July 22, 2025

Feeding your own people everything they need, from fruits and vegetables to dairy and fish, is harder than it sounds. Out of 186 countries studied, just one, Guyana, hit the mark for full food self-sufficiency across all seven major food groups....

Hague Group Confronts Israel Over Gaza

Consortium News · July 18, 2025

The U.S. is now expected to pressure other countries not to sign on to the joint action plan announced by the 12 countries in Bogota, Mick Hall reports. Portion of the skyline of Bogota, Colombia. (CAPRA Initiative/Flickr/ CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 By Mick...

Abidjan dreams of becoming Africa’s next cinema hub

Taipei Times · July 19, 2025

In the shadow of Nigeria’s prolific Nollywood, Ivory Coast has only 15 cinemas and released just 20 films last year, but local directors and the government want to change that In the lush forests north of Abidjan, technicians were busy filming on...

'Love' and 'respect' as Man Utd-linked Jackson rejects two European giants

Sports Mole ·

Chelsea's Nicolas Jackson reportedly turns down the chance to join two Serie A clubs due to his desire to remain in England, but Manchester United are still unlikely to make a move. Chelsea striker Nicolas Jackson has rejected the opportunity to...

69% of fuel supply in West Africa imported – NMDPRA

Premium Times · July 22, 2025

The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) on Tuesday said 69 per cent of fuel supply in West Africa is imported. The NMDPRA Chief Executive, Farouk Ahmed, disclosed this while speaking at the West African...

Reporting on the economy of genocide

The Manila Times · July 18, 2025

SO explosive is the last report of Francesca Albanese, the United Nations rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, that she immediately became the only UN rapporteur to be sanctioned by a United States...

Digital Earth Africa to launch vital new tools for wetland conservation at Ramsar COP15

Business Ghana ·

For the first time in 20 years, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP15) returns to Africa, with its debut in Southern Africa, at Victoria Falls from 23-31 July. Amid growing threats to the continent’s wetlands—including urbanisation,...

Trump insegue vanamente l’Africa, il continente guarda a Cina e Russia e al multipolarismo

Strategic Culture · July 17, 2025

Si è concluso l’11 luglio 2025 l’incontro alla Casa Bianca tra il presidente statunitense Donald Trump e cinque capi di stato del continente africano, che tuttavia di nazioni ne conta ben cinquantaquattro, insomma avanti adagio, quasi indietro....

UN special rapporteur calls on Hague Group countries to sever relations with Israel

TASS · July 15, 2025

MEXICO CITY, July 15. /TASS/. The United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, has called on the countries of the Hague Group to immediately sever diplomatic, economic, and political relations with...

Ghana’s ECOWAS Parliament delegation approved with last-minute changes

Ghana News Agency · July 22, 2025

By Elsie Appiah-Osei Accra, July 22, GNA- Parliament has approved the composition of Ghana’s Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament delegation with some last-minute amendments to ensure compliance with the 30 per cent female...

Top Nigerian Newspaper Headlines For Today, Friday, 11th July, 2025

Naija News · July 11, 2025

Good morning Nigeria. Welcome to the Naija News roundup of top newspaper headlines in Nigeria for today, Friday, 11th July, 2025 The presidency has debunked the claim that the American government’s decision to restrict visas for Nigerians is due...

Florian Wirtz prediction made after Premier League rival's private message

The Mirror · July 19, 2025

Niclas Fullkrug is excited to see 'special' talent Florian Wirtz in the Premier League this season and has already messaged his Germany international team-mate to tell him as much. Wirtz completed a record £116m move to Liverpool earlier in the...

At Trump’s recent summit, the US talked trade. But West Africa wants security first.

Atlantic Council · July 21, 2025

While it is still early in the term of the second Donald Trump administration, July has already proven to be another eventful month for both the White House and Congress. For one, the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act coincided with...

The Selloff Of Jeffrey Epstein’s Tainted Homes—And Where The Money Went

Forbes ·

Jeffrey Epstein's former estate on Little St. James Island in the U. S. Virgin Islands. Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved Six years after his death in a Manhattan prison cell in August 2019, Jeffrey Epstein is once again...

Social Eyes: Week of July 24-30

East Bay Express - California · July 22, 2025

THURSDAY, JULY 24 RAP OUIJA MACC Last summer, the rapper Ouija Macc posited on X, “I MIGHT BE THE MOST HATED JUGGALO.” For those uninitiated, the word refers to the scores of creep-tastic oddballs who follow the duo Insane Clown Posse in the...