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New footage from the massive U.S. base at Ben Gurion Airport

🇹🇷🇬🇭 A single Turkish ship anchored off Ghana's coast generates over a quarter of the country's electricity. The MV Karadeniz Powership Osman Khan is 299 meters long and pumps out up to 480 MW of power. It has been doing this since 2017. No power plant to build. No years of construction delays. Karpowership, the Turkish private company behind it, has quietly turned this model into a global business, deploying floating plants to countries with chronic energy deficits across Africa and beyond. Africa has an infrastructure gap that traditional investment has failed to close for decades. Turkey found a way to monetize that gap with engineering.

Ashe tuwo da dadi? I never knew there was a time in life when I’ll be looking for tuwo! Now I see why our parents loved eating tuwo.

Saudi Arabia has more fresh fruits than Nigeria even though Nigeria has the most arable land in Africa and 8th in the world.

If you are divorced or separated and you have a child from your earlier marriage, listen attentively to this. In Islam, the concept of custody is known as Hadanah. The primary goal of this legislation is the protection and welfare of the child. It is not a prize to be won by the parents but a responsibility to be fulfilled. Most scholars agree that the mother has the first right of custody for young children. This is based on the famous Hadith in Sunan Abi Dawud, where a woman complained to the Prophet Muhammad about her husband wanting to take her son away. The Prophet told her that she has more right to the child as long as she does not REMARRY. The wisdom here is that the mother is naturally more compassionate and suited for the care of a child in their early years. This position is upheld by Imam Shafi’i in his book: Al-Umm. However, this right depends on the ability of the parent to provide a safe and stable environment. According to Ibn Qudamah in his book Al-Mughni, if a parent is negligent or unfit to provide moral and physical safety, they lose the right to Hadanah. If the mother marries a man who is a stranger to the child, the custody often shifts to the maternal grandmother or the father. Even when the mother has physical custody, the FATHER IS STRICTLY RESPONSIBLE for the financial maintenance and the overall upbringing of the child. He cannot use the child as a tool for revenge or deny paternity if the child was born within a valid marriage. In Islamic law, the principle of Al-Walad lil-Firash means the child belongs to the marriage bed. A man cannot fight for custody in a Shariah court and then turn around to deny the child. That is a legal and moral contradiction. As the child grows and reaches the age of discernment, which is usually around seven or eight, the rules vary between the different schools of thought. Some allow the child to choose which parent to live with, while the Maliki school, which is very common in West Africa, often keeps the girl with her mother until she gets married. The ultimate decision always rests on what scholars call Maslaha, or the best interest of the child. Any parent who tries to manipulate the system or deny their own blood just to hurt the other parent is violating the spirit of the law and the trust placed in them by Allah. This is why the principle that says: حكم الحاكم يرفع الخلاف — is so important. It means the ruling of the judge resolves the dispute. In a situation like this one in Gudu, once the court delivers a verdict, all the contradictions and selective choices must stop. You cannot use the court to fight for custody and then turn around to say the child is not yours. The judge’s word is the final word, and it is there to protect the child from the ego and the games of the parents. Allah knows best.