Benin gets a shot at a historic upset against a regional giant tonight. The Cheetahs face Senegal in Tangier, Morocco, for their final AFCON group stage match, needing a victory to advance to the knockout phase for the first time ever after their first finals win over Botswana. Senegal, the 2021 champions, topping Group D, only requires a draw to progress, setting up a tense West African clash at the Tangier Grand Stadium.
Benin's coach, Gernot Rohr, acknowledged the difficulty of the task but found hope in his team's morale and play following their landmark win. Senegal's Pape Thiaw shifted focus immediately to this fixture after a draw with DR Congo, stressing the need for clinical finishing. The historical record heavily favors the...
Nigeria's older athletes just brought home a monster haul from an African championship. The Nigerian Athletics Masters team, led by Secretary-General Dr. Safiya Yahaya-Kongoila, secured twenty-five medals at the Open Africa Masters Athletics Championship in Tunis, Tunisia, with a small nine-member squad grabbing eighteen golds, five silvers, and two bronzes. Top performers included Christian Aiyegbeni with four gold medals and Yahaya-Kongoila herself, who won two golds among her five total medals.
Yahaya-Kongoila credited the success to hard work and internal support from association president Dr. Richard Ogunleye, but highlighted major financial hurdles. She argued the team could have achieved even more with better backing, noting...
Lagos is getting lit up by a major African fight card tonight. The African KnockOut Championship AKO 12 is set for the Landmark Event Centre, featuring nine bouts with top fighters from across the continent like Nigeria's undefeated Yahaya Yahuza, Algeria's Fouad Madani, and Senegal's Gasmire Diatta, alongside athletes from Angola, Morocco, and Côte d'Ivoire.
The event's co-main event pits Yahuza against Madani in a middleweight clash, while Diatta faces Farouk Boudissa for an interim title. UFC legend and former champion Kamaru Usman is attending as a special guest, having promised an exciting night of fights during the faceoff events. The venue is prepped for an all-night showcase aiming to highlight the best martial arts talent...
FIFA's boss just basically said World Cup tickets are pricey because everyone wants one. President Gianni Infantino defended the high costs for the 2026 tournament in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, pointing to overwhelming demand of over a hundred fifty million ticket requests in two weeks, with the most interest coming from American, German, and British fans. He argued that the massive revenue is vital, funding football development in hundreds of countries globally.
The response follows recent criticism from fan groups about prices dwarfing those from the last World Cup, which prompted FIFA to create a cheaper sixty-dollar ticket tier for supporters of qualified nations. Infantino framed the event's financial power as...
The deposit insurance guys say they always pay their taxes on time. NDIC boss Oludare Sunday stated the corporation strictly follows fiscal rules, remitting either twenty percent of its gross earnings or eighty percent of its net surplus to the federal government while submitting audited reports early. During a meeting with Armstrong Takang of the Ministry of Finance Incorporated, which holds a forty percent stake in NDIC, Sunday framed this compliance as essential for maintaining public confidence and fulfilling their mandate to protect depositors.
He argued their financial discipline is non-negotiable for a stable banking system, but flagged a major policy conflict. The federal government's fifty percent cost-to-income ratio rule...
Everyone's fighting over how to control phone games while the market explodes. Nigeria's own debate centers on a new Central Gaming Bill awaiting final approval, which aims to replace fractured state laws with one national rulebook for online gaming, sparking opposition from figures like the Lagos State Attorney-General, who see it as a rehash of a defunct lottery act. Globally, places like the UK and the US are pushing for industry-led standards on stuff like loot boxes and age verification, while East Asian countries like China impose strict playtime limits, all against a backdrop of massive projected growth for mobile gaming revenue.
Supporters of Nigeria's bill argue it will attract investment, create formal licenses, and pull...
Otedola just cashed out of his power company for three-quarters of a billion dollars. Nigerian billionaire Femi Otedola sold his seventy seven percent controlling stake in Geregu Power Plc, valued at nearly three trillion naira, through a deal structured around the plant's majority shareholder. He offloaded his ninety-five percent share in Amperion Power Distribution Company to an Abuja-based firm called MA'AM Energy Limited, effectively transferring control without moving Geregu's public shares on the Nigerian Exchange.
The transaction, financed by a group of local banks led by Zenith Bank, makes MA'AM Energy the new controlling entity of the major power generation asset. Financial advisers from Blackbirch Capital helped orchestrate...
Nigeria's national grid did the classic "lights out" move again. The system collapsed entirely in the afternoon, dropping generation to absolutely nothing and causing a nationwide blackout affecting distributors like Eko DisCo and Abuja DisCo. The Nigeria Independent System Operator managed to partially restore things by evening, getting generation back to about 2,126 megawatts and pushing 1,895 megawatts to the DisCos, still way below the normal 4,000 megawatt average.
The collapse happened just after two o'clock, with data showing a steep dive from over 148 megawatts down to zero within an hour. This left the eleven distribution companies scrambling, only receiving a paltry 305 megawatts from the crippled grid during the crisis. The...
So a Nigerian fintech built by local grads just bagged another 90 million to go invade Britain. Moniepoint, co-founded by Tosin Eniolorunda and Felix Ike, closed a funding round at 200 million total, aiming to expand from Nigeria into the United Kingdom and Kenya while insisting their homegrown education at Obafemi Awolowo University and the University of Lagos was their secret weapon. Already named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies list, the firm processes millions of transactions as Africa's biggest financial services distributor, operating in every single local government area in Nigeria.
The founders argue that their deep local context fueled their innovation, not a degree from abroad. Eniolorunda, a mechanical engineering...
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