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Lagos turns into absolute chaos when December hits because nobody wants to stay home while the city gets lit with parties and events everywhere. Beaches throw Christmas hangouts with sunset vibes, concert season brings Afrobeats shows plus smaller pop-up gigs, and resorts around Lekki let people...

TikTok guy Peller wrapped his new Mercedes-Benz around a barrier on the Lekki-Epe Expressway while streaming live and crying about breaking up with his girlfriend, Jarvis. The dude was driving alone during an Instagram session called RIP Peller, and he kept saying people would clown him if she...

Kathleen Erhimu from Kudimata, Nigeria, and Kudimata Capital says teaching people how money works is the best weapon for lifting up women and kids while fixing the country's economy long-term. She threw a big event where government ministers, regulators from the SEC and CAC, plus banking...

Lagos governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu tapped Sulaimon Ogunmuyiwa to run the Office of Education Quality Assurance after the guy spent 25 years grinding through the state education system from classroom teacher all the way up to director-level spots. Ogunmuyiwa holds a PhD in educational...

Nigeria's transparency watchdog is hyping up Maria van der Hoeven getting tapped to run the global mining and oil accountability group EITI after she spent years bossing the International Energy Agency and serving as an energy minister back in the Netherlands. NEITI head Musa Sarkin-Adar says...

Ogun State teamed up with Soilless Farm Lab to train kids on high-tech farming methods, and the program just graduated its 12th batch after teaching 12,000 young people across Nigeria how to grow food year-round using greenhouses. The state's agriculture advisor, Angel Adelaja, said earlier...

Abuja phone and internet users are getting wrecked by terrible service after a diesel supplier group called NOGASA cut off fuel to cell towers that keep MTN and Airtel running through a company named IHS Nigeria. The telecom regulator NCC admitted the capital city is basically having a meltdown...

Enugu dropped its 2026 plan to make doing business way easier after the state jumped from dead last at 36th to 6th place in the national rankings. Trade commissioner Sam Ogbu-Nwobodo ran a feedback session at the local chamber of commerce where business groups got to weigh in on the reforms...

Nigeria Customs and the petroleum regulator NMDPRA are teaming up harder to stop fuel meant for local use from getting smuggled out to neighboring countries. Customs boss Adewale Adeniyi met with NMDPRA's Ogbugo Ukoha in Abuja to talk about keeping energy supplies locked down at home. They're...

Dr. Muda Yusuf from the Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise says Nigeria's electricity overhaul won't happen overnight. The head of CPPE explained that politics, weak institutions, and messy infrastructure mean changes will take forever rather than drop instantly. He pointed out that...

Nigeria cranks out eight million metric tons of bananas yearly but barely scratches the global export game while countries like Cameroon bank millions selling fruit overseas. Dr. Olufemi Oladunni from the Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute said plant diseases like Panama TR4...

Seplat Energy grabbed three awards that highlight how the company keeps crushing it financially while also backing education and sustainability projects across Africa. The Nigerian outfit scored the Market Excellence Award for best net asset ratio on the stock exchange, won Upstream Deal of the...

Marconi just told Nigeria it can bang out major oil projects cheaper and faster after buying a massive yard from Saipem that stretches over a million square meters with a 330-meter dock. CEO Gian Fabio Del Cioppo said the Port Harcourt facility cranks out 25,000 tons of heavy structures yearly...

The World Bank just unlocked another 500 million dollars for Nigeria's poverty relief program after confirming all requirements got met, and National Coordinator Abdulkarim Obaje said states can start pulling funds for their units once independent verification happens. The cash drop aims to help...

South Sudan President Salva Kiir got an update from Minister Ateny Wek Ateny about how the information and telecom ministry keeps hitting roadblocks that mess with operations across broadcasting and postal services. The minister laid out problems slamming the South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation...

South Sudan signed off on dropping two cell towers in Jonglei State after the governor told Minister Ateny Wek Ateny that garbage connectivity keeps messing up security responses and coordination across the region. One tower goes up in North Ayod, where SPLM founder William Nyuon Beny came from...

The African Development Bank dropped a report saying artificial intelligence could pump a trillion dollars into the continent by 2035 if governments actually execute properly, and Nicholas Williams from the bank said they identified what needs doing and stand ready to deploy cash. Bazara Tech...

Afreximbank broke ground on its massive African Trade Centre in Egypt's new capital city, about 45 kilometers from Cairo, and the complex will double as the bank's global headquarters while Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly talked up how the project strengthens continental trade ties...

ROSA eSolutions landed a spot in the top 10 digital marketing agencies across Dubai after SEMrush gave them props for their AI-powered SEO work, and the Toronto company with UAE offices could crack the top five by early next year. Senior marketing consultant Robert Shakir said artificial...

The UAE grabbed the top crypto spot across the Middle East and North Africa after a report from Bybit and DL Research ranked it fifth worldwide for digital asset adoption behind Singapore, America, Lithuania, and Switzerland. The country built bridges between Asia, Europe, and Africa through...