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Singer Peter Okoye is completely wrecked by a fatal crash involving Anthony Joshua's team. The musician expressed his grief over the accident on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway that killed boxer Anthony Joshua's strength coach, Sina Ghami, and personal trainer Latif Ayodele, calling the loss...

AFRIMA just tapped a Nigerian rapper and a French-Senegalese host for its big night. The All Africa Music Awards revealed FalzTheBahdGuy and Liliane Maroune as hosts for its ninth edition happening in Lagos next January, making Falz the second Nigerian after 2Baba to helm the continental...

Toyin Abraham's new movie just became a massive box office hit in record time. Her directorial debut, Oversabi Aunty, earned over three hundred eighty two million naira in just eleven days, making it Nollywood's second biggest weekend film of the year. The comedy features a cast including Mike...

Sean Tizzle is dropping a romantic track to kick off his new era. Afrobeats artist Oluwaseun Oluwabamidele, known as Sean Tizzle, announced a single called Husband and Wife set for release at the start of next year, marking a refined return to his signature style with themes of romance and...

Benin gets a shot at a historic upset against a regional giant tonight. The Cheetahs face Senegal in Tangier, Morocco, for their final AFCON group stage match, needing a victory to advance to the knockout phase for the first time ever after their first finals win over Botswana. Senegal, the 2021...

Nigeria's older athletes just brought home a monster haul from an African championship. The Nigerian Athletics Masters team, led by Secretary-General Dr. Safiya Yahaya-Kongoila, secured twenty-five medals at the Open Africa Masters Athletics Championship in Tunis, Tunisia, with a small...

Lagos is getting lit up by a major African fight card tonight. The African KnockOut Championship AKO 12 is set for the Landmark Event Centre, featuring nine bouts with top fighters from across the continent like Nigeria's undefeated Yahaya Yahuza, Algeria's Fouad Madani, and Senegal's Gasmire...

FIFA's boss just basically said World Cup tickets are pricey because everyone wants one. President Gianni Infantino defended the high costs for the 2026 tournament in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, pointing to overwhelming demand of over a hundred fifty million ticket requests in two...

The deposit insurance guys say they always pay their taxes on time. NDIC boss Oludare Sunday stated the corporation strictly follows fiscal rules, remitting either twenty percent of its gross earnings or eighty percent of its net surplus to the federal government while submitting audited reports...

Everyone's fighting over how to control phone games while the market explodes. Nigeria's own debate centers on a new Central Gaming Bill awaiting final approval, which aims to replace fractured state laws with one national rulebook for online gaming, sparking opposition from figures like the...

Otedola just cashed out of his power company for three-quarters of a billion dollars. Nigerian billionaire Femi Otedola sold his seventy seven percent controlling stake in Geregu Power Plc, valued at nearly three trillion naira, through a deal structured around the plant's majority shareholder...

Nigeria's national grid did the classic "lights out" move again. The system collapsed entirely in the afternoon, dropping generation to absolutely nothing and causing a nationwide blackout affecting distributors like Eko DisCo and Abuja DisCo. The Nigeria Independent System Operator managed to...

So a Nigerian fintech built by local grads just bagged another 90 million to go invade Britain. Moniepoint, co-founded by Tosin Eniolorunda and Felix Ike, closed a funding round at 200 million total, aiming to expand from Nigeria into the United Kingdom and Kenya while insisting their homegrown...

Nigeria's state oil company is basically having a garage sale. NNPC Limited just opened bidding for partial ownership in a bunch of its oil and gas fields, partnerships it holds with giants like Shell, Chevron, Eni, and TotalEnergies, setting a registration deadline for interested buyers. This...

Nigeria's ginger farmers just got absolutely nuked by a fungus. The country, a top global producer growing over 700,000 tons a year mostly in Kaduna, Plateau, and Nasarawa states, saw its industry collapse when a blight wiped out nearly every farm last year, causing exports to plummet by almost...

Simu Liu is finally making the Sleeping Dogs movie happen by locking in a director. The actor, set to star as undercover cop Wei Shen and produce the adaptation, announced on social media that Timo Tjahjanto will helm the project. Tjahjanto confirmed his involvement, citing the game as a direct...

The console market is stuck at about 250 million users per generation and needs a universal format. Former Sony executive Shawn Layden recently argued that the gaming industry must break this ceiling by forming a consortium, similar to those behind VHS or Blu-ray, to create a single licensed...

Samsung is cooking up a new sideways chip packaging tech to fight heat. The company is developing a side-by-side structure for future Exynos processors where the main chip die and the DRAM sit horizontally next to each other, topped with a Heat Pass Block. This layout supposedly allows both...

Samsung's S26 Ultra dummy units show a return to rounded edges and a dedicated camera island. Leaked images reveal an all-black color option, a USB-C port, the signature S Pen slot, and a SIM tray. The phone is expected to be thinner than its predecessor and feature a larger front camera hole...

Samsung's chip division employees are getting massive bonuses thanks to the memory crisis. Workers in the Device Solutions semiconductor unit will reportedly receive a performance bonus worth forty-three to forty-eight percent of their annual salary early next year, a huge jump from last year's...