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Nigerian singer 2Baba and his wife, Natasha Osawaru, got caught fighting on an Instagram live stream hosted by Daddy Freeze, and the whole thing turned into a mess. His old managers, Kaka Igbokwe and Lori Tosan, went on the broadcast claiming Natasha wanted total power over everything in his...

Jorja Smith's label FAMM is going after royalties from a track called I Run that blew up on TikTok before getting yanked off streaming platforms. Producer Harrison Walker apparently fed his voice through an AI tool called Suno to make it sound like the British singer, and the whole thing...

Warner Music just hit PacSun with a massive lawsuit over the clothing chain ripping off nearly 300 songs from artists like Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, and Cardi B in their TikTok and Instagram promo videos. The fashion retailer apparently ignored a cease-and-desist letter sent back in February and...

A new Grade-A logistics facility called TY Logistics Park just opened inside the Lekki Free Trade Zone, and CEO Arno van der Merwe thinks it might actually fix Nigeria's absolutely busted supply chain system that bleeds around $1.7 billion every year. The park sits close to both the airport and...

FCMB teamed up with FMO and HeaveVentures to wrap up their 2025 AgriTech Hackathon in Nigeria, and seven startups pitched tech solutions for farming problems. Qiqi Farms took first place, while Farm Monitor and Tuplant grabbed second and third. The other four companies each walked away with 1...

SMECore just rolled out as the first all-in-one ERP platform built specifically for small and medium businesses across Africa. The company showed off its tech at a major business conference in Nigeria, where Tony Elumelu and government officials talked about how most Nigerian companies struggle...

A Lagos summit threw industry players and government types together to figure out why small businesses keep getting wrecked instead of actually growing into real competitors. The SMEDAN manager for Lagos said shoppers voting with their wallets for foreign stuff basically murders any chance the...

The leasing watchdog gave Azman Air props after the airline said it would register all its rented gear under a 2015 law that most operators ignore. Donald Wokoma runs the registration authority and used the airline's finance chief dropping by his office as a chance to remind everyone that...

A UK energy watchdog threw some praise at Nigeria's oil regulator after they dropped a new licensing portal that lets companies bid on 50 different blocks spread across offshore zones and frontier areas. The group said Gbenga Komolafe, running the upstream commission, basically cracked open the...

The weather agency boss grabbed a pile of awards after flipping operations upside down since landing the job two years back. Charles Anosike runs the meteorological outfit and swapped out old paper systems for digital flight briefing apps, rolled electric vehicles into airport operations, and...

The oil regulator guy running things says they could pull in around 10 billion bucks from companies bidding on exploration blocks over the next half year. Gbenga Komolafe runs the upstream petroleum commission and announced the portal went live for 50 different sites spread across onshore spots...

Nigeria threw a thank-you lunch in London after landing a spot on the maritime organization's council, and the marine minister told everyone his country plans to actually show up and do the work. Adegboyega Oyetola said the election proves other nations still trust Nigeria to help shape global...

The central bank governor told people in Lagos that his crew is revamping the whole credit risk setup to make sure the roughly N4.14 trillion being raised through bank recapitalisation doesn't get blown on sketchy loans. Olayemi Cardoso said 27 lenders already tapped public offers and rights...

The stats bureau dropped numbers showing the economy expanded close to 4 percent compared to the same stretch last year. Agriculture bumped up its performance from the previous year, and the industry segment also posted better growth than before. Services kept pulling most of the weight at just...

An investment firm out of Africa just dropped its take on what rich people need to worry about going forward, and it basically boils down to having backup plans across multiple countries. Franklin Nechi runs Optiva Capital Partners and told some business reporters that being stuck in one spot is...

The boss at Air Peace told people in Abuja that domestic carriers will tank if a new tax package kicks in next year. Allen Onyema said his group plans to sit down with lawmakers and the president to hash out adjustments, and he thinks the administration will come through when operators make...

Lawmakers told a Lagos crowd they are serious about shifting the country away from oil and gas while keeping things fair for everyone involved. Speaker Tajudeen Abbas sent his media committee chair to a workshop run by advocacy groups, and the rep said parliament committees handling budgets and...

A Nigerian lender grabbed the top small business bank title after handing out nearly a quarter of all the cash that went to entrepreneurs last year. First City Monument Bank scored the award from the country's professional banking group after pumping money into farms, shops, telecom ventures...

The head of Nigeria's shippers group says a ports law stuck in final approval will end up saving importers and exporters about N6 billion every year by cutting down on legal fights and delays. Pius Akutah told people at a Lagos bar association event that the bill gives his council actual...

A government commission and lawmakers dropped a report calling out Nigeria's oil sector for losing billions through sketchy accounting and toothless oversight rules. The paper showed the national petroleum company alone was on the hook for roughly 84 percent of $8.26 billion in missing revenue...