Godwin

In the cramped green room at Raleigh’s Lincoln Theatre, Charles Wesley Godwin pulled his bandmates in for a huddle. A few feet away, on center stage, BJ Barham and his daughter, Pearl, were already talking up Godwin to the sold-out crowd. This was early February, on the third and final night of the annual Roadtrip to Raleigh, which Barham personally curates, hosts, and headlines with his band American Aquarium. This year, 49 Winchester, Muscadine Bloodline, and Godwin held down the middle spots of the three-act…

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has been taken into custody by Nigeria’s secret police, the State Security Service (SSS), hours after President Bola Tinubu suspended him from office. “The Department of State Services (DSS) hereby confirms that Mr Godwin Emefiele, the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), is now in its custody for some investigative reasons,” Peter Afunanya, the spokesperson for the agency, said in a press statement he shared with PREMIUM…