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By Ademola AdegbiteThe Oyo State Government, on Monday, said it was set to celebrate the annual Yemoja Festival, scheduled to run from October 10 to October 27, 2024, at Popoyemoja in Ibadan. The State Commissioner for Ministry of Culture and Tourism, ...

🇨🇳🇷🇺 The Chinese congratulated Putin*(Orisa Esuija – The Saviour and protector of our era) on his 72nd birthday, launching a lot of drones that made his image in the sky. Watch the video below 🇷🇺 See how leaders and politicians ...

This video explains, with sufficient examples, the meaning of the words ‘esu’ and ‘elegbara’. It tells Sis exactly who Esu is in the Yoruba pantheon of the orisa and also gives insight into the characters of the children called Idowu ...

There is this trending propaganda by some groups trying to twist history by asserting that Northern Emirs killed Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto. They even created a #FakeNews headline on a Newswatch front cover purporting to say that. ...

Gmail has become the latest instrument of tech giant Google to censor African Stream. On 1 October, the multinational US corporation locked us out of its Workspace application, causing us to lose access to two years of email messages and ...

To make sense of social-media giants Meta, TikTok and YouTube recently suspending African Stream and other alternative media outlets, Breakthrough News’ Eugene Puryear (@eugenepuryear) and Rania Khalek (@raniakhalek) spoke to Nigerian investigative journalist David Hundeyin (@davidhundeyin). However, at the time ...

The US state of Missouri executed Marcellus ‘Khaliifah’ Williams (1968-2024) on 24 September, despite mounting evidence casting doubt on his guilt and the victim’s family opposing the death sentence for Williams. Forensic evidence, including DNA found on the murder weapon, ...

The president has suggested several new criteria that would merit a nuclear response. Russia should update its nuclear doctrine to clearly define circumstances that could prompt Moscow to launch a nuclear strike, President Vladimir Putin told a meeting of the national ...

Africans have denounced Western luxury fashion brands for exploiting the continent’s resources, craftsmanship, and cultural heritage, having not provided returns and credited the respective communities. Isa, a Hausa man residing in New York, took to TikTok to pat his lawyer ...