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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- National Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has called for the construction of a new airport, describing the current state of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) as an embarrassment to the country.

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Italy’s most famous carnival opened in Venice with a floating parade on the Grand Canal. Crowds watched as decorated boats and rowers in costume passed by. The carnival, themed “Olympus,” is tied to the 2026 Winter Olympics and runs until 17 February.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD) has issued a clarification on what constitutes a heatwave in major urban centres, seeking to address public confusion over rising daytime temperatures in recent weeks.

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[Premium Times] In October 2025, PREMIUM TIMES exclusively reported how the coup plotters marked key government officials for assassination and arrest.

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[Premium Times] These questionable and tragic episodes, as scary and avoidable as they are, feed the penchant for medical tourism to the US, UK, India and other countries by Nigerians who can afford it.

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[New Times] Rwanda's formal system of honouring national heroes, which was introduced after the liberation struggle and the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi draws from deep-rooted traditions of recognising courage and selfless service in Rwandan society.

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[This Day] The Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Abdulmalik Mohammed Sarkin-Daji, has commended the Nigerian Army, the Department of State Services (DSS), and other security agencies for their successful operations against bandits in parts of the state.

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[This Day] In a startling revelation yesterday, the Minister of Defence, Gen. Christopher Musa (retd.), confirmed that his life was targeted in the recently foiled alleged coup plot, explaining that he was supposed to be arrested and eventually eliminated if he resisted the plan by the coup plotters to apprehend him.

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Bad Bunny made history by winning album of the year at the 2026 Grammy Awards, the first Spanish language album to do so. Billie Eilish and Kendrick Lamar also won big.

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T The leaders of Egypt and Jordan on Sunday renewed their rejection of any attempts to displace Palestinians as Israel announced that it was partially reopening the Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.

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[RFI] Cyclone Fytia hit Madagascar at the weekend, flooding large parts of the northwest of the main island and leaving three people dead, while impacting nearly 30,000 others.

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The Islamic State extremist group released a video on Sunday said to show its attack on an air force base in Niger's capital.

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[Premium Times] With the latest win, Tyla becomes the first artiste to claim the title twice since the category was created.

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[This Day] The World Bank yesterday put its total ongoing, approved development projects and lending operations in the country at over $16 billion spread across several interventions including education, health, social protection, energy, and infrastructure among others.

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[This Day] Three subsidiaries of Dangote Industries Limited - Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Dangote Fertiliser Plant, and Dangote Cement Plc - have scaled up their Gas Sales and Purchase Agreements (GSPAs) with subsidiaries of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd), Nigerian Gas Marketing Limited and NNPC Gas Infrastructure Company Limited (NGIC).

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A commercial flight landed in the Sudanese capital on Sunday for the second time since a devastating war broke out in the north-eastern African country nearly three years ago.

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[Spotlight Initiative] GANTA, Liberia - Community radio stations are a key way of raising awareness about sexual and gender-based violence, and how to prevent and report it. Meet Ruth Jeffrey and Emmanuel S. Woleh, two radio station programmers who are making waves in Liberia.

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[Vanguard] President Bola Tinubu has celebrated Fela Anikulapo Kuti as an eternal icon after the legendary Nigerian musician received the Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award, marking him as the first African recipient.

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[Vanguard] Nigeria's oil exports will fall by 225,000 barrels per day in February following the shutdown of the Bonga FPSO for scheduled turnaround maintenance.