The company running Nigeria's electronic truck system said over 3 million trucks passed through Lagos ports in nearly five years, and they dropped more than 4 billion naira setting up the whole operation. Trucks Transit Parks manages the Eto call-up platform that books trucks digitally to stop...
The insurance commissioner told everyone at some summit that the new capital requirement checks are getting handled by Big 4 audit firms because they need outside verification to keep things legit. Olusegun Ayo Omosehin compared the whole process to airport security scanners that every company...
OPay just opened a legit upgraded branch in Ibadan after running some lower-tier setup there before, and they brought out the whole squad of business partners and merchants to celebrate the launch. Elizabeth Wang from the company said they want people who prefer face-to-face banking to actually...
Nigeria hit severe hunger levels that have experts freaking out about the country needing major system overhauls to fix food production. About 50 million people are starving while the global average sits way lower, and the north is getting destroyed with rates pushing 50 percent. Some foundation...
Nigeria and IFAD kicked off their second checkup mission for the agricultural processing zones program, and the IFAD country director said they profiled over 41,000 small farmers across Ogun and Kano while handing out inputs and training to almost 15,000 people. The whole thing is backed by...
The advertising crew behind LAIF is throwing their big creative conference at the Lagos Marriott Hotel in Ikeja, and they're celebrating two decades of the festival with some theme about being crazy for 20 years. The event pulls together ad people from Nigeria and beyond to talk about AI...
Hanson Johnson from Start Innovation Hub just got voted in as the new board chair for Nigeria's Innovation Support Network, and the tech crowd seems pretty hyped about it. The guy runs a network connecting over 230 innovation hubs spread across 32 states, which makes it one of the bigger...
FCMB teamed up with some Dutch development bank and HeaveVentures to wrap up their AgriTech Hackathon thing, where seven Nigerian startups pitched their farming tech solutions. Qiqi Farms walked away with the top prize, and Farm Monitor plus Tuplant grabbed second and third place. The other four...
Nigeria's oil minister checked out the African Energy Bank headquarters in Abuja and said the building looks fire after getting fully decked out. Senator Heineken Lokpobiri told reporters that his country handled everything it promised as the host nation, and the facility sits in a prime spot...
Bayelsa State just landed its first government-owned plane at the airport in Yenagoa after Governor Douye Diri and a bunch of political heavyweights took the inaugural flight on an ATR-72/600 that seats 72 people. The governor said this whole thing proves his administration actually followed...
Nigeria's online gambling scene keeps getting messier for people betting CS2 skins in 2026. Federal and state rules don't line up, and offshore casinos serving Nigerian players might hold licenses from places like Curaçao but still lack proper authorization to operate locally. The government...
Mouni Roy hit up some restaurant with Disha Patani and Sonam Bajwa for a girls' night situation. Mouni and Sonam both wore cream-colored outfits that basically matched, while Disha went with black and kept her hair down. They posted a bunch of photos showing them laughing and posing together...
Croatia's state-owned ferry company is about to drop serious cash on getting its boat situation sorted out. The government plans to grab somewhere between 10 and 20 new ships over the next few years, and the whole thing will run around 200 million euros. State officials made it clear that...
Chunky Panday showed up on India's Got Talent and absolutely killed it with his comedy bits. He joked that every dude in the country has Malaika Arora posters in their room, but then flipped it by asking whose poster she keeps, answering his own question with Chunky Panday. The whole studio lost...
Someone went off about Greatman Music, asking Fadzayi Mahere for wheelchair donations. They said it was wild to hit up a random private person like she's responsible for fixing government failures. The whole point is that wheelchairs should come from actual state resources like the Zimbabwean...
BYD is throwing up a monster EV factory complex that literally dwarfs San Francisco in total footprint. The Chinese company basically decided to cram everything under one roof, from battery plants to parts suppliers to final assembly, which lets them pump out vehicles way faster and cheaper...
Zimbabwe's finance minister dropped a budget that basically screams how broke the country actually is. The government can only scrape together 9.5 billion dollars for everything next year, which gets completely embarrassing when you realize one South African grocery chain pulls in 12 billion...
Dharmendra's family split his memorial into two completely separate events because things got awkward with the whole two-wife situation. His first wife, Prakash Kaur, and sons Sunny plus Bobby Deol threw a gathering in Mumbai that pulled massive Bollywood names like Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan...
The Deol family threw a memorial gathering for Dharmendra after the Bollywood legend died, and they actually called it a celebration of life instead of the usual prayer meet setup. Singer Sonu Nigam apparently performed the late actor's songs during the event while tons of industry people showed...
Kapil Sharma is heading back to COLOURS after an 11-year gap following their messy professional breakup that killed Comedy Nights with Kapil. The comedian who basically avoided the channel since then will pop up on Laughter Chefs Unlimited Entertainment alongside his old buddies Krushna Abhishek...
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