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King Charles’ Birthday: UK reaffirms commitment to stronger Nigeria ties
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King Charles’ Birthday: UK reaffirms commitment to stronger Nigeria ties

By Favour Ulebor, Abuja The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Pete Vowles, has reaffirmed the United Kingdom’s commitment to strengthening bilateral relations with Nigeria, describing the partnership between both countries as dynamic, reciprocal and ambitious. Vowles stated this on Thursday in Abuja at an event organised to celebrate the 78th birthday of His Majesty, King Charles III, and the longstanding relationship between the United Kingdom and Nigeria.

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Nikita Gill: ‘I read Flowers in the Attic too young. Someone should have stopped me’
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Nikita Gill: ‘I read Flowers in the Attic too young. Someone should have stopped me’

The Indian-Irish poet on the Mahabharata retelling that inspired her to write, Arundhati Roy’s courage, and the poetry of Lucille Clifton My earliest reading memory My father was a sailor and my mother a teacher. I also loved the Winnie-the-Pooh books, Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree series, the Panchatantra tales, Malgudi Days by RK Narayan and the Asterix comics by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo.

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Losing my son made me value time with loved ones more – Sir Sam Jonah
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Losing my son made me value time with loved ones more – Sir Sam Jonah

Business leader Sir Sam Jonah has spoken about the loss of his son, Richard, saying the experience changed his perspective on life and made him more conscious of the importance of spending time with loved ones. Delivering the keynote address at the 2026 TrueLife Experience at the Kempinski Hotel in Accra, he reflected on the limits of authority and influence in the face of personal loss.

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‘Every day, someone loses a hand or a leg’: the brutal reality of India’s textile recycling industry
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‘Every day, someone loses a hand or a leg’: the brutal reality of India’s textile recycling industry

In Panipat, 1m tons of used clothing a year are turned into products for global brands, but dangerous machinery and few safeguards mean life-changing injuries are common For three months, Suraj Kumar’s job was to feed discarded clothes into shredding machines in Panipat, an industrial city in the north Indian state of Haryana. Suraj, 19, had travelled from West Bengal state to work in Panipat’s factories, following his cousins and friends who had already found jobs there.

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‘Instead of scuba diving on shrinking reefs, we helped regrow them’: readers’ best conservation tourism experiences
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‘Instead of scuba diving on shrinking reefs, we helped regrow them’: readers’ best conservation tourism experiences

From a sea turtle rescue centre in Italy to rewilding in the Scottish Highlands, here are some of your favourite trips that give a little back The Ropes of Hope works for coral reef restoration in the Mafia Island marine park, off Tanzania. It’s the brainchild of Jean de Villiers, a South African molecular biologist who talked my teenagers through the underwater coral gene bank research and community involvement.

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Rivals to 12 12 12: the seven best shows to stream this week
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Rivals to 12 12 12: the seven best shows to stream this week

Plus: Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan pull off a borderline impossible bank heist How will Rivals handle a funeral? But that’s only the beginning: bereavement hasn’t made Tony Baddingham any less vicious but, from Maud’s partial culpability for the fatality to a looming battle between Venturer and Corinium over the TV rights for Lizzie’s book, there are flashpoints everywhere you look.

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This extraordinary new Hamlet turns Shakespeare inside out with infinite jest – and cuddly toys
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This extraordinary new Hamlet turns Shakespeare inside out with infinite jest – and cuddly toys

Sadler’s Wells East, London Ben Duke’s clever, witty and wholly unpredictable new show, The Last Hamlet, takes big liberties with the story that pay off Hamlet is trying to get a hire car. If Duke has a shtick – which after similar reworkings of Paradise Lost, Romeo and Juliet and the Medea myth, you could argue he does – it is to turn old texts inside out and douse them in contemporary references, surreal swerves and witty one-liners.

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Mahama briefs diaspora Ghanaians on $1 billion housing mortgage scheme
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Mahama briefs diaspora Ghanaians on $1 billion housing mortgage scheme

President John Dramani Mahama has urged the Ghanaians in the Caribbean to take advantage of a $1 billion mortgage initiative designed to help citizens at home and abroad to become homeowners. He appealed for an engagement with diaspora Ghanaians in the Caribbean on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda.

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