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Nigeria threw some jets into the Benin Republic airspace after a military coup knocked out President Patrice Talon over the weekend. Security people told analyst Zagazola Makama the planes left Lagos and started circling around to keep tabs on what was going down across the border. Lt. Pascal...

Nigeria's security chief, Nuhu Ribadu, met with a US congressional crew that flew in for some fact-finding work. The delegation had Mario Díaz-Balart running point alongside Norma Torres, Scott Franklin, Juan Ciscomani, and Riley Moore, with Ambassador Richard Mills sitting in on the whole...

A Zimbabwe chrome trader named Precious Mabuza got hit for half a million dollars after scammers pretended to be Kuvimba Mining House executives pitching a fake Great Dyke mineral project. The fraudsters claimed they needed her help on some ministry report and kept up a professional act until...

Omah Lay is headlining the first-ever Motherland Festival in Lagos beside the Oriental Hotel, and it's his only city performance through the rest of the month. The guy just scored a Grammy nomination for his track with Davido called With You, which Spotify says became the most-streamed Nigerian...

Jennifer Adighije took over the Niger Delta Power Holding Company in August 2024 and managed to bring 625 megawatts back online by fixing dormant turbines at plants like Ihovbor, Alaoji, and Omotosho. The company handles generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure for Nigeria's...

Lafarge Africa fixed up the Independence Memorial Obelisk at Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos using their Ecoplanet Elephant cement, which cuts carbon emissions by at least 30 percent compared to regular stuff. The company's CEO, Lolu Alade-Akinyemi, said the project ties into their sustainability...

Mohammed Dingyadi from the Labour and Employment ministry dropped the 1Government Enterprise Content Management System in Abuja, claiming it will push the whole department toward full automation and kill off manual approval delays. The platform handles document storage and retrieval while...

Dr Omotola Dayo-Adedapo from HRTalenthub.ng told a Lagos conference that Nigerian workplaces need to fix toxic leadership and burnout problems while helping staff feel connected to company missions. Professor Tayo Arulogun from Miva Open University said the country pumps out over 500,000 grads...

The Isale-Eko Descendants Union kicked off a free health screening program at their community house on Iga Idungaran Street with help from Iyewo Health. Chairman Adeniji Kazeem pushed preventive care and handed out clean water while telling residents to actually show up for the checkups. Water...

Vincent Ozoude runs Transafam Power Limited under Transcorp Group and says Nigeria's power companies are getting wrecked by funding problems and bad infrastructure. The generation firms only collect about 27 to 30 percent of what they bill the market, though President Bola Tinubu is working on...

Nvidia pulled the plug on driver updates for GTX 900 and GTX 1000 cards, which means anyone still running Maxwell or Pascal architecture is getting kicked off the update train. The cutoff happened with driver version 591.44, and the GTX 16 series became the oldest generation still getting proper...

Zimbabwe's small-scale miners are pushing back against Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube after he proposed bumping gold royalties from 5% to 10% for anything over $2,501 per ounce. The Zimbabwe Miners Federation sent him a letter saying the hike would tank new exploration projects and drive...

Tendai Biti went off on ZANU PF over on X, calling them murderers and fascists while dragging up some really old dirt. The former finance minister from Zimbabwe brought up Herbert Chitepo, a ZANU chairman who got killed back in 1975, and said the party did it instead of the Rhodesians. He also...

Two former Gamechanger Audio guys named Toms Lazdovskis and Matiss Tazans just dropped their first pedal under a new brand called Metha Works. The Monk Echo is a delay and reverb unit that uses formant filters to make your guitar sound like a human choir, and the team behind it has worked at...

Shruti Pathak sang Hum Dono for the upcoming Kartik Aaryan and Ananya Pandey movie Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri, and she mentioned Aaryan was pretty hands-on during the recording session. The actor apparently told her he wanted an acoustic take on the track after hearing it. Pathak...

Shabana Azmi dropped a birthday message for director Shekhar Kapur on social media, calling him restless and creative but somehow never rushed. The veteran actress said his contradictory nature makes him fascinating and told him to keep searching for answers instead of thinking he has everything...

Kartik Aaryan got super emotional watching his sister Kritika tie the knot and dumped his feelings all over Instagram with wedding photos and a long caption about watching her transform from a kid following him around to a bride starting her next chapter. The Bhool Bhulaiyaa actor called her...

Aalisha Panwar landed a role in Vinny Ki Kitaab, where she basically got to live out her Bollywood fantasy by wearing a bunch of colorful chiffon sarees while shooting scenes in the Kasol valleys of Himachal Pradesh. The web series drops on Hungama OTT and follows a small-town woman who writes...

Rita Ora told people at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah that she refuses to get boxed into just making music and wants to keep branching out into acting gigs and other projects. The 35-year-old British singer pointed to Madonna, Cher, and Blondie as examples of artists who...

Drashti Dhami posted workout clips on Instagram showing her lifting weights and doing strength training after becoming a new mom back in October when she had her daughter, Leela. The Dill Mill Gayye star has been grinding through intense exercise sessions and captioned her post about being back...