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Kalonzo Musyoka has been in Kenyan politics since the one-party era, and he is still trying for the job he has chased for nearly two decades. This week he was back in the headlines after a Saturday press conference in which he condemned reported threats to arrest Trans Nzoia Governor George Natembeya, and demanded that…
On Saturday in Abuja, a retired Supreme Court justice stood up at a Nigerian Law School reunion and said something that lawyers and judges will be quoting for a while. Corruption, Amina Augie told the room, turns the one place where a citizen should find impartiality into “one more market stall.” Her remarks were carried…
Few Nigerian public figures have managed to be a pastor, a law professor, a state attorney general and a vice president at the same time in their careers, and fewer still have stayed in the headlines after leaving office. Yemi Osinbajo is one of them. His name moved up Nigeria’s search trends this week after…
South African politics has a handful of figures who are recognisable by their first names, their nicknames and their social media accounts all at once. Fikile Mbalula, the African National Congress’s secretary-general, is one of them. He has been an ANC Youth League president, a cabinet minister under two presidents, and a self-styled “Mr Fix”….
Dr. Zainab Marwa-Abubakar is a Nigerian women’s advocate, author and the founder of the Aspire Women Forum. She is also the daughter of retired Brigadier General Mohammed Buba Marwa, the chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), a connection that shapes much of how she is described in the press. This profile separates…
Sammy Gyamfi is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician. For several years he was best known as the National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), and since 2025 he has led the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod), the state body that regulates gold trading in the country. This profile draws on Ghanaian news reports,…
Emeka Ike is a Nigerian actor and filmmaker who was one of the leading men of Nollywood’s home-video era in the 1990s and early 2000s. Fans still search for him to learn where he is now, how his career went and what he has said publicly in recent years. This profile uses published reporting and…
Oluremi “Remi” Tinubu is the First Lady of Nigeria, the wife of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and a former senator for Lagos Central. Before moving to the presidential villa in 2023 she spent eight years as First Lady of Lagos State and twelve years in the Senate. She is also an ordained pastor of the…
Jamilu Isyaku Gwamna, who holds the traditional title Sardaunan Gombe, is a Nigerian economist, business executive and politician from Gombe State. He spent more than two decades in finance, heavy-equipment trading and the power sector before and during a long political career, and in 2026 he became the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for governor…
Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is a Nigerian engineer and politician who twice governed Kano State, served as the country’s Minister of Defence, represented Kano Central in the Senate and has run for president three times. In 2026 he became the vice-presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) on a ticket headed by Peter Obi. This…
Nicholas Ifeanyi Ukachukwu, widely styled Dr Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu, is a Nigerian businessman and politician from Osumenyi in Nnewi South, Anambra State. He founded the SNECOU Group, held local and federal office around the turn of the century, and made repeated attempts at higher office. In 2025 he was the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate…
Dino Daniel Melaye is a Nigerian lawyer and politician from Ayetoro Gbede in Kogi State. He rose from student leadership to the House of Representatives and then the Senate, where he represented Kogi West from 2015 to 2019, and he has been a loud critic of successive governments. In July 2025 he was called to…