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Funke Akindele dropped the trailer for her new film called Behind The Scenes, and it hits theaters in mid-December after a special screening happens in London at Odeon Greenwich. She says the movie digs into the pain people hide while smiling through everything and dealing with pressure nobody...

Femi Adebayo jumped in to defend Odunlade Adekola after someone trashed his new film Warlord on social media by saying the movie flopped because Adekola tried doing everything himself as producer, lead actor, singer, and director. Adebayo fired back at the critic, and he pointed out that making...

Nollywood actor Ebisan Arayi talked about how the Nigerian film industry keeps blowing up internationally after landing roles in Hey You, Baby Farm, and Perfect Neighbour. He caught the acting bug at 10 years old when he appeared on Charly Boy's Kiddies Show for multiple seasons, and his mom...

Davido dropped a cryptic post saying jeje after his uncle Ademola Adeleke bailed on the Peoples Democratic Party over leadership drama. Adeleke currently runs Osun State as governor and previously held a Senate seat representing Osun West before ditching the party. His resignation letter blamed...

Nigerian actress Temitope Osoba just hit 40 after beating cancer, and she posted some fire portraits on Instagram talking about how the whole experience completely rewired her brain. She went through years of being terrified and not sleeping, but she says surviving made her tougher while also...

Nigerian singer 2Baba and his wife, Natasha Osawaru, got caught fighting on an Instagram live stream hosted by Daddy Freeze, and the whole thing turned into a mess. His old managers, Kaka Igbokwe and Lori Tosan, went on the broadcast claiming Natasha wanted total power over everything in his...

Jorja Smith's label FAMM is going after royalties from a track called I Run that blew up on TikTok before getting yanked off streaming platforms. Producer Harrison Walker apparently fed his voice through an AI tool called Suno to make it sound like the British singer, and the whole thing...

Warner Music just hit PacSun with a massive lawsuit over the clothing chain ripping off nearly 300 songs from artists like Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, and Cardi B in their TikTok and Instagram promo videos. The fashion retailer apparently ignored a cease-and-desist letter sent back in February and...

A new Grade-A logistics facility called TY Logistics Park just opened inside the Lekki Free Trade Zone, and CEO Arno van der Merwe thinks it might actually fix Nigeria's absolutely busted supply chain system that bleeds around $1.7 billion every year. The park sits close to both the airport and...

FCMB teamed up with FMO and HeaveVentures to wrap up their 2025 AgriTech Hackathon in Nigeria, and seven startups pitched tech solutions for farming problems. Qiqi Farms took first place, while Farm Monitor and Tuplant grabbed second and third. The other four companies each walked away with 1...

SMECore just rolled out as the first all-in-one ERP platform built specifically for small and medium businesses across Africa. The company showed off its tech at a major business conference in Nigeria, where Tony Elumelu and government officials talked about how most Nigerian companies struggle...

A Lagos summit threw industry players and government types together to figure out why small businesses keep getting wrecked instead of actually growing into real competitors. The SMEDAN manager for Lagos said shoppers voting with their wallets for foreign stuff basically murders any chance the...

The leasing watchdog gave Azman Air props after the airline said it would register all its rented gear under a 2015 law that most operators ignore. Donald Wokoma runs the registration authority and used the airline's finance chief dropping by his office as a chance to remind everyone that...

A UK energy watchdog threw some praise at Nigeria's oil regulator after they dropped a new licensing portal that lets companies bid on 50 different blocks spread across offshore zones and frontier areas. The group said Gbenga Komolafe, running the upstream commission, basically cracked open the...

The weather agency boss grabbed a pile of awards after flipping operations upside down since landing the job two years back. Charles Anosike runs the meteorological outfit and swapped out old paper systems for digital flight briefing apps, rolled electric vehicles into airport operations, and...

The oil regulator guy running things says they could pull in around 10 billion bucks from companies bidding on exploration blocks over the next half year. Gbenga Komolafe runs the upstream petroleum commission and announced the portal went live for 50 different sites spread across onshore spots...

Nigeria threw a thank-you lunch in London after landing a spot on the maritime organization's council, and the marine minister told everyone his country plans to actually show up and do the work. Adegboyega Oyetola said the election proves other nations still trust Nigeria to help shape global...

The central bank governor told people in Lagos that his crew is revamping the whole credit risk setup to make sure the roughly N4.14 trillion being raised through bank recapitalisation doesn't get blown on sketchy loans. Olayemi Cardoso said 27 lenders already tapped public offers and rights...

The stats bureau dropped numbers showing the economy expanded close to 4 percent compared to the same stretch last year. Agriculture bumped up its performance from the previous year, and the industry segment also posted better growth than before. Services kept pulling most of the weight at just...

An investment firm out of Africa just dropped its take on what rich people need to worry about going forward, and it basically boils down to having backup plans across multiple countries. Franklin Nechi runs Optiva Capital Partners and told some business reporters that being stuck in one spot is...