All these ching chong people, fear them! I’m not trying to be racist, I’m just saying it as I see it! Ok, see what happened. I work for a lady that handles events; we do ushering services, décor, you know…we…
2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is now open for entries
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is now accepting entries for the 2022 edition until November 1. Awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction from 2,000 to 5,000 words, regional winners each receive £2,500 and the overall winner receives…
*Assassins kill Lagos socialite month after chieftaincy case victory (Punch)*JUSUN threatens to seal Lagos courts as chapter resumes partially (Nation)
Assassins kill Lagos socialite month after chieftaincy case victory (Punch) A Lagos-based socialite and contender for the Badore chieftaincy stool, Chief Rasak Jikoji, has been assassinated. PUNCH Metro gathered that Rasaki had a month ago celebrated a court ruling in…
*Coronavirus: Briton, Chinese, Polish, 13 others discharged in Lagos (Punch) *Lagos unrest: The mystery of Nigeria’s fake gangster attacks (BBC)
Coronavirus: Briton, Chinese, Polish, 13 others discharged in Lagos (Punch) Three foreigners and 13 Nigerians have been discharged in Lagos State on Wednesday. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu while making the announcement said they were discharged after testing negative twice. The governor…
China urges US to ‘immediately cancel’ arms sale to Taiwan (Guardian)
China urged Washington Tuesday to “immediately cancel” the potential sale of $2.2 billion in weapons to Taiwan, including battle tanks and anti-aircraft missiles. The US State Department’s decision to greenlight the first big-ticket US military sale to the self-ruled democratic…
Chimamanda Adichie is leading the rise of an African literature wave in China (Quartz)
Dear Ijeawele is a forthright and frank book, a 15-step letter about how to raise a feminist child. But when it’s published in China around April this year, it will garner its author, the celebrated Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,…
Keeping Up With China: Kim Kardashian Woos Chinese Market (Guardian)
07 DECEMBER 2018 Reality television star and lifestyle mogul Kim Kardashian has her sights set on the Chinese market with plans to open a pop-up store, state media reported Friday. Kardashian, whose rapper husband Kanye West briefly lived in China…
China-made brain pacemaker brings hope to Parkinson’s patients (ChinaDaily)
Nearly 10,000 Chinese patients have received deep brain stimulation surgery since the first China-made brain pacemaker was implanted in a patient’s brain in November 2009. “Deep brain stimulation surgery has become an important method to treat the patients suffering from…
