nyuuz

Don Jazzy just added another artist to Mavin Global, and this time it's LOVN from the Mavin Academy program. The producer hyped him up on X by pointing out that the guy has been grinding through talent competitions like Access The Stars and The Voice Nigeria for years without giving up. Jazzy...

Rahma Adam Mohammed from Amaryadotcom and HER360 just made the Global 100 Most Impactful Leaders list that PAYLEF put together, and the award ceremony went down in Kigali. Her COO, Summaya Mohammed, picked up the trophy since Rahma couldn't make it, and the recognition was basically for building...

The Nigerian Marketing Awards handed out trophies to companies that actually delivered results this year, and Insight Publicis grabbed the top agency spot while Lafarge Africa scored brand innovation honors for their Ecoplanet cement thing. Dufil Prima won for best AI usage in marketing...

Abode Assets just dropped a 100-acre project called Empire Park Estate, and they're letting people buy in with literally 100,000 naira, which is wild for Nigerian real estate. CEO Jeffrey Itepu said the whole point was making property investment accessible beyond just rich people, and COO...

The head of the Nigerian Railway Corporation just dropped some brutal numbers about how the country basically ignored trains for six decades straight. Kayode Opeifa pointed out that from 1962 through 2000, the government built absolutely nothing while other places were upgrading to bullet trains...

Paul Alaje from SPM Professionals told a journalism training session in Abuja that Nigeria keeps spinning its wheels because the country never properly built out its manufacturing base. The economist said America and China both needed industrial revolutions before they became economic...

MATAN Food Bank rolled out a digital food security system at a three-day event in Lagos that pulled farmers from every state to talk about fixing hunger from the ground up. Olakunle Johnson said the plan uses multipurpose ID cards linked to bank verification numbers and national ID info to cut...

Olaide Alimi got fed up after getting debited for a bill payment that never went through, so he built SnappyPay to fix the busted digital payment system in Nigeria. The Lagos entrepreneur said the platform handles stuff like airtime top-ups and data purchases without the usual failed transaction...

FoodCo just snagged Retail Brand of the Year at the Nigerian Business Leadership Awards for the second time in a row, and it's their fifth trophy from that series overall. BusinessDay handed out the recognition, with publisher Frank Aigbogun praising the supermarket chain for staying competitive...

Stanbic IBTC Pension Managers sponsored The Library installation at ART X Lagos, which just hit its tenth anniversary, with a theme about reimagining African cities. The setup was basically a quiet zone filled with books from the G.A.S. Foundation art library, curator research materials, cinema...

Lagos just wrapped its 11th climate summit at the Continental Hotel, and Governor Sanwo-Olu pitched the city's coastline as a money printer if they can stop it from washing away first. The big play involves converting ocean resources into actual revenue through coastal protection projects...

Dr Biodun Shobanjo basically told 45 newly minted ARCON Fellows that their fancy titles mean nothing if they're just collecting dust on a wall. The advertising legend compared the fellowship to how lawyers treat the SAN designation, saying it needs to actually stand for something real instead of...

Elvis Nduibisi Iruh, who runs The Voice News Magazine out of the Netherlands, told Nigerian media people they need to stop pushing stories that make the country look bad. He thinks the negative coverage scares off investors and makes Africa look worse than it actually is. The guy was in Lagos...

Alpha teamed up with Roadrunner to launch electric tricycles in Nigeria, and they're pitching them as a way to cut pollution while making it easier for delivery drivers to actually afford the vehicles. The companies are offering lease-to-own financing, so operators don't have to drop a huge...

Lafarge Africa just finished renovating a school in Agbesi, Ewekoro, Ogun State, and they went pretty hard on the upgrades. The company fixed up five classroom blocks, expanded the head teacher's office, and built new dining halls and bathrooms. They also threw in a playground and a football...

Full Bucket Music just dropped FB-02, and it's basically a software recreation of that old Yamaha FB-01 synth module from the mid-80s. The thing runs on Windows and macOS through a bunch of different plugin formats, and apparently, it's built with native C++ to keep the CPU usage pretty light...

BRAC threw their annual youth fest in Savar with over 250 kids showing off social impact projects they built from scratch. The Carnival of Change ran exhibitions and workshops where young entrepreneurs pitched everything from disability-friendly audiobooks to coconut shell charcoal startups...

Some Dhaka University professor just dropped an analysis about what Tarique Rahman wants to do with Bangladesh if the BNP gets power, and the whole thing went down at a policy talk hosted by a brand-new outfit called the Initiative for Policy and Politics. Mohammad Siddiqur Rahman Khan basically...

BNP's Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury dropped their whole economic game plan at some conference in Dhaka, and the party is swearing they can pump out 10 million jobs within a year and a half if they win elections. The standing committee guy said they want Bangladesh hitting a trillion-dollar GDP...

Khaleda Zia is lying in a hospital bed fighting serious health problems, and people across Bangladesh are sending prayers regardless of which party they back. The former prime minister refused to bail on the country when military types tried pushing her into exile back in 2007, and that move...