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Nigeria just saw food prices tank harder than they have in over a year with beans, garri, maize and tomatoes all dropping by double digits. Brown beans got slammed the worst with a 33 percent drop year over year while white garri fell about 25 percent and maize dropped around 16 percent...

Maritime experts are saying Nigeria could generate over 22 trillion naira by actually fixing its blue economy through public-private partnerships instead of just talking about problems. Research head Eugene Nweke from the Sea Empowerment and Research Centre told a conference in Lagos that the...

Radio Lagos threw together a career development thing for young people trying to figure out their professional lives in Nigeria's rough job market. The session called From Interns to Industry Leaders brought current interns and youth corps members together to work on skills and network with...

Lagos just wrapped up the eighth Beauty West Africa expo and it pulled over 350 exhibitors from 55 countries trying to crack into Nigeria's massive cosmetics market. The African continent's biggest beauty trade show brought 6,000 professionals and 4,000 visitors from 47 countries to check out...

Some agriculture student at Bayero University in Kano just walked away with a car that apparently cost MTN Nigeria around 35 million naira. Ramatu Yakubu became the sixth person to win one of these things during the telecom company's campus tour that has been rolling through universities...

Bitget Wallet just rolled out a feature that lets people in Nigeria and Mexico turn their USDT and USDC straight into local cash and shoot it to their bank accounts. The wallet app basically works like a regular banking thing where you pick your crypto, punch in the amount and account details...

Some guy named Andrew Enofe, who runs Golden Gate Investment, is basically telling Nigerian investors to park their cash in Canadian real estate instead of watching it melt from Nigeria's wild inflation situation. He says Canada's sitting at like 2 percent inflation while Nigeria is getting...

Sovereign Trust Insurance threw a thing for their guys on International Men's Day and the boss went hard with the praise. CEO Olaotan Soyinka said the dudes at the company have basically kept the whole operation afloat for like 30 years, even when everything looked sketchy. Finance guy Kayode...

Flavour just dropped his tracklist for a new album called Afroculture that hits streaming services this week. The project has 13 tracks with features from Pheelz, Kizz Daniel, Waga G, and Qing Madi, among others. He already put out the title track with Senegalese legend Baaba Maal as a preview...

Nigerian luxury fashion house Ejiro Amos Tafiri threw a bunch of events around Lagos to celebrate hitting 15 years in the game. The week kicked off with a fashion conference where industry heads talked about how the brand pushed African aesthetics into global markets. Over 200 people entered the...

Kwara State dropped plans for a free AI summit happening at the Ilorin Innovation Hub with backing from the government plus tech partners like Lovable, Pastel, Zoho and UNDP. The event runs tracks on core AI, e-government, agritech and creative economy with workshops, panels and a hackathon...

Bella Disu got a standing ovation at TEDx Ikoyi after telling everyone that waiting until you feel ready is basically a scam. Her whole talk centered on how people and companies freeze up exactly when they need to move, pointing to Kodak and Blockbuster as cautionary tales while Apple pushed...

BOZ Diamond threw a low-key private event for their top clients where founder Sherifat Mohammed gathered people like actress Omoni Oboli, Priscilla Ojo and entrepreneur Akin Faminu to celebrate the brand's journey. The whole vibe ditched typical flashy jewelry showcases for something more...

Amma Abena is throwing a private listening party for her second EP called Paddle to Your Resting Place, where guests get headphones and sit through the whole project before watching a short film she produced with director Riley. The film takes one track from the EP and turns it into a visual...

William Kabogo Gitau flipped the switch on free public wifi at Kabartonjo Market over in Baringo North to get traders connected to online platforms and give students actual internet access for schoolwork. The high-speed service lets people hit up digital government stuff and commercial platforms...

Zimbabwe's ICT ministry teamed up with Huawei to roll out DigiTruck, which basically brings digital learning straight to people's doorsteps across the country. The mobile setup teaches students and regular citizens the tech skills they need to stay relevant in the job market and participate in...

Senegal threw the African Television Forum, where government spokesperson Marie Rose Khady Fatou Faye and other big shots talked about how terrestrial digital TV helps Africa lock down digital sovereignty and pump up local content production. The gathering pushed TNT as more than just tech gear...

Côte d'Ivoire's Regina Fleur Bessou just became the first African to run the International Telecommunication Union's Telecommunication Development Advisory Group after getting backed through regional consensus. South Korea and the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity threw their support behind the pick...

Nigeria's data protection chief, Vincent Olatunji, met with French digital authorities in Paris to hash out cross-border governance stuff and AI policy. The French embassy set up talks between the Nigerian delegation and France's digital affairs directorate plus CNIL, which handles their data...

Liberia's telecom authority dropped a new communications tower in Vahun in Lofa County through their Universal Access Fund setup, which basically fixed spotty mobile coverage for people living there. The government is rolling out 14 more towers across the country with Rivercess and Sinoe...