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Amstel Malta got replaced as the main sponsor for the Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards after holding that spot for years. Don Julio tequila from Diageo is taking over for the 12th edition happening in 2026, and MultiChoice says this partnership will make everything more premium and culturally...

Bet9ja just locked down a partnership with Mainland BlockParty to get deeper into Lagos nightlife and youth culture. Jennifer Olatunji from Bet9ja said they want to connect with young Nigerians where they actually hang out, and Mainland BlockParty pulls massive crowds across the city. The...

Nigerian comedian Sunday Onyenachiya, who goes by Sunny Messiah, just wrapped his first standup special at Alliance Française de Lagos in Okoyi. The show sold out completely, and they filmed the whole thing for posterity. Sunny talked about being a dad, marriage stuff, and general adult chaos in...

The seventh Ofada Rice Day Festival is happening in Lagos at Muri Okunola Park, and Tobi Fletcher is leading the whole thing. Fletcher comes from a family of rice farmers, and his great-grandfather was apparently the first person to farm Ofada rice. The festival theme centers on innovation and...

Filmmaker Fabia Adeoye Lojede created Afrotods after realizing his kids had zero content they could actually watch from his portfolio since he mostly plays violent characters. The project uses animation and books to teach African values and culture to diaspora children without being preachy, and...

Nollywood actress Teniola Aladese called out the industry's sketchy pay secrecy after realizing some productions dump way more cash on certain roles while others get lowballed. She mentioned chatting with Timini Egbuson on the Love in a Pandemic set when he griped about an offer that would lock...

Senator Ned Nwoko from Delta North just told his comms team to blast out a statement saying someone's running a coordinated smear campaign against him with fake videos and defamatory posts. The senator claims people are weaponizing public sympathy to cover for alleged wrongdoers, and he fired...

Chevron Nigeria boss Jim Swartz dropped by the petroleum regulator's office in Abuja and basically said his company wants in on the 2025 licensing round while praising Gbenga Komolafe for actually enforcing the Petroleum Industry Act properly. The firm went a whole year without getting hit by...

Carl DIB Merchandising just dropped Canadian wines into Nigeria through a launch event that pulled the Canadian Deputy High Commissioner Carlos Rojas-Abulu, and export manager Charles Onyedibe, said the whole thing targets Nigerians living in Canada who want their favorite bottles when they fly...

Agricultural experts just dropped a communiqué out of the National Agricultural Extension Review meeting in Zaria, and Habib Abubakar from the National Cereals Research Institute said the country needs way better links between researchers and actual farmers while climate-smart tech sits around...

NGX Group chairman Umaru Kwairanga told estate surveyors at their Lagos induction ceremony that valuations basically prop up the country's financial markets and help bankable projects get off the ground. Bisi Onasanya from The Address Homes pushed the new members to ditch sketchy briefs and...

The Industrial Training Fund rolled out plans to pump up technician skills through their SUPA program, and director Afiz Ogun dropped by the Lanre Shittu Motor plant in Lagos to lock down partnerships. The fund wants to move past just handing out starter packs because those apparently send...

AltBank just dropped a new branch in Effurun over in Delta State, and Chukwuemeka Agada from the south division said the move helps them lock down the Edo-Delta corridor for non-interest banking. The launch pulled traditional rulers like Emmanuel Ekemejewa Sideso Abe I and local government reps...

The Central Bank bumped Treasury Bill rates up by 146 basis points after the latest auction pulled tight subscription numbers, and the one-year spot rate just punched past the 16.05 percent inflation mark by 145 basis points. The bank floated 700 billion naira worth of bills across three...

UBA just teamed up with Lions Group to hand out perks through their Red Pass card during the Detty December season, and marketing head Alero Ladipo said customers get 25 percent off entry to Wave Beach, Kyma Beach, and Athena Beach. Anyone buying concert tickets for shows like Kizz Daniel Live...

The Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria just wrapped its 58th induction ceremony, and President Innocent Ohagwa told everyone the new tax reforms should bump up living standards while getting more people to actually pay their taxes. He mentioned the institute will keep handling...

CBN governor Olayemi Cardoso told senators that inflation dropped from 34.6 percent to 16.05 percent while foreign reserves climbed to 46.7 billion dollars, and the naira gap between official and parallel markets shrank to under 2 percent compared to over 60 percent a year back. Capital inflows...

The government just approved paying back 185 billion naira to gas companies that have been waiting forever to get their money, and Vice President Kashim Shettima signed off on the whole thing through the National Economic Council. Gas minister Ekperikpe Ekpo said the debt settlement uses a...

Lagos officials are claiming their tech scene hit 15.3 billion dollars in value, and Commissioner Olatunbosun Alake said the state grabbed around 6 billion in startup funding from 2019 through 2024. That cash represents over 70 percent of what Nigeria pulled overall, and Lagos apparently hosts...

The agriculture minister dropped some rough news about a third of Nigerian soil being completely trashed, and the government is scrambling to fix it before food production totally tanks. Aliyu Sabi said the degradation comes from climate issues and bad farming methods, and it could take a...