Airspace shutdowns across parts of the Middle East cut short a celebratory Dubai trip for National Bank of Malawi's top-performing employees.
Dubai reward trip gets derailed
Eight NBM plc award winners and their spouses flew out on February 28.
Regional conflict triggered airspace closures and mass flight cancellations.
Everyone made it back to Malawi safely after the bank intervened.
Reports claiming the group got stranded were shot down by NBM.
Bank plans a do-over
Akossa Mphepo-Hiwa confirmed alternative destination plans are coming.
Employee safety drove the quick decision to pull them out.
Platinum Employee Recognition Award is NBM's flagship staff program.
Further details hinge on the regional situation calming down first.
A messy three-way feud involving a presidential son, a social commentator, and a content creator has an activist demanding that regulatory bodies step in.
VDM versus Seyi Tinubu and King Mitchy
VeryDarkMan accused Seyi Tinubu and King Mitchy of threatening him.
Remarks about a N100 million donation sparked the whole blowup.
Tinubu dismissed those claims in a lengthy weekend statement.
King Mitchy reportedly attempted to take her own life afterward.
Blessing Akinlosotu weighs in publicly
Akinlosotu called VDM's decision to drag Tinubu into it needless.
Her statement condemned King Mitchy's reported self-harm attempt.
NCC and NBC should monitor creator content more closely, she argued.
Strong sanctions and public examples are what she...
One script used to produce a single memorable film, but Francis Odega says that the same script spawns seven terrible ones in today's Nollywood.
Odega drags modern Nollywood hard
Francis Odega claims older Nollywood was far superior overall.
Unforgettable movies came from single scripts back in his era.
Modern output keeps recycling material into multiple bad films.
Quality nosedived despite the industry growing way bigger since then.
Three decades in the game
Odega has spent 30 years working inside the movie industry.
He predates the Nollywood brand as a pioneer of the craft.
Nigerian Actors Guild was the original org before AGN took over.
Nigeria's creative output keeps taking hits because you literally cannot make music when the power grid ghosts you mid-inspiration.
Sarz blasts the electricity situation
Osabuohien Osaretin, known as Sarz, has never seen 24-hour power in Nigeria.
Inspiration striking during blackouts means wasted creative potential.
Fuel scarcity and strikes block even the generator backup plan.
Sarz is 36 and has dealt with this his entire life.
Bigger picture for entertainment
Mental readiness without electricity equals a dead end for creatives.
Nigeria's entertainment sector stays capped by infrastructure failures.
Peak creative moments need reliable power to actually materialize.
Seeing his murdered father's body on television turned a childhood trauma into a permanent scar that Nigerian content creator Caterefe still carries.
How Caterefe's father was killed
Caterefe's dad, a policeman, was gunned down in Ogun State.
Robbers wearing military camouflage opened fire on the officers.
His father had finished a shift and hitched a ride home.
Highway gridlock from an active robbery lured them out of the van.
Trauma caught on camera
Caterefe watched his father's lifeless body air on television.
That footage reportedly remains accessible on YouTube still.
Pain from the experience shaped his relentless work ethic.
He insists no hardship can derail his grind at this point.
Two failed marriages, one to a closeted spouse and another to an abusive partner, preceded Kikelomo Atanda-Owo's fresh start with Reuben Abati.
Atanda-Owo opens up on past marriages
Kikelomo Atanda-Owo went through two divorces before meeting Abati.
Her first husband turned out to be gay without her knowledge.
Marriage number two involved serial infidelity and abuse.
She and Abati tied the knot in 2020 after all of that.
Kids and self-discovery reframed everything
Atanda-Owo calls her children the greatest investment of her life.
Finding personal clarity came before finding the right partner.
Her upbringing shaped how she confused love with commitment.
A grandmother's passing left her craving emotional stability early on.
Advice...
A botched makeup purchase nearly wrecked Superboy Cheque's face and almost pushed him out of the music industry entirely.
Acne struggles hit different after fame
Superboy Cheque dealt with severe acne before blowing up.
Zoom's success and a label deal ramped up his appearance anxiety.
His perfectionist streak made camera-heavy obligations terrifying.
Confidence around women tanked because of the skin issues.
Store-bought fix made everything worse
Cheque grabbed a makeup product, hoping to clear things up.
That product practically destroyed his face overnight instead.
Waking up to visible facial damage left him humiliated.
Quitting music crossed his mind seriously after the incident.
A motorcycle crash near Lagos claimed the life of a well-known Nigerian photographer and biker who had just picked up riding weeks earlier.
Kola Onifoto dies at 35
Orowole Samuel Kolapo perished on Sunday, March 1, 2026.
His bike collided with something in the Kara area of Lagos.
Kolapo had been heading to Akure on a recently bought motorcycle.
Hospitals at Ojota and Idi-Araba both treated him before he passed.
Backstory makes it even rougher
A quit notice from his landlady forced a move to Otta.
Onifoto kept working in Lagos despite relocating to Ogun State.
E-hailing driving and brand influencing were his side gigs.
His final Facebook post hyped long-distance bikers that same day.
Family confirms and asks for space
Orowale's...
A billion-naira damage claim just landed on Davido's desk after his online comments about opposing counsel blew up into a full legal threat.
Custody drama spills into defamation territory
Ebelechukwu Enedah is demanding N1 billion from Davido.
Allegations of harassment and cyberbullying fuel her claim.
Davido had already pulled out of the custody fight in February.
Enedah's letter carries a February 24 date on it.
What set the whole thing off
Davido reportedly tagged her the worst lawyer ever online.
He accused Enedah of referencing his late son during proceedings.
Social media backlash hammered her professional standing afterward.
PUNUKA Attorneys and Solicitors is where she partners.
Demands are pretty clear-cut
A full public...
