Bibi Sonye: ‘Being generous is my love language’
….Clarifies viral comment on oral hygiene among actors By BENJAMIN NJOKU Bibi Sonye, a talented actress and media personality, has clarified her viral comment on Nollywood dental hygiene, saying it…
MCSN hits back at RELPI, announces N1.2billion copyright levy payout
By Benjamin Njoku The Musical Copyright Society Nigeria Ltd/Gte, MCSN, has received N1,205,956,580.20 as the first tranche of the Copyright Levy. The organization is expected to disburse the funds to…
Nollywood needs better data, policy support to unlock economic potential – Ope Ajayi, Cinemax boss
By Benjamin Njoku The Chief Executive Officer of Cinemax Distribution Limited., Mr. Ope Ajayi, has emphasized the need for improved data, structure, and government support to enable the Nigerian movie…
Rivers crisis update, by Donu Kogbara
When President Bola Tinubu returned to Abuja a month ago after a prolonged holiday in Paris and brief stopover at a summit in Abu Dhabi, a newspaper headline sardonically announced…
The inspiring saga of Kayode Ajulo
By ABDULMALIK ADAMS Imagine a man who rises from the bustling streets of Ibadan, Akure and Abuja armed with nothing but unyielding determination and a passion for justice, to become…
Can we quench the fire that might start in Mali? By Azu Ishiekwene
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger – three rogue states that have formed an Alliance of Sahelian States, AES, to resist external pressure from ECOWAS on military rule – have just…
How Nigeria’s reforms are rewriting and moderninsing trade facilitation
By OTEGA OGRA On the surface, the 2026 World Customs Organisations Technology Conference in Abu Dhabi in the last week of January 2026, followed a familiar script. Flags, formal sessions,…
Nozomi Ikuta: From US concentration camp legacy to freedom, by Owei Lakemfa
Liam Conejo Ramos, five, a preschooler at Colombia Heights Public School, Minnesota, returned home on January 20, 2026. He might have looked forward to the warm embrace of his mother,…
Gov. Nwifuru gives commissioners three-month ultimatum to complete projects or face sanctions
By Jeff Agbodo Abakaliki — Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State has given commissioners of key ministries—including Works, Infrastructure, Water Resources, Environment, Commerce and Industry, Housing, and Special Duties—a three-month…
Fela: A Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award well deserved
The post-humous conferment of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award on Fela Anikulapo Kuti, nearly three decades after his death, is a long-overdue acknowledgement of a life spent insisting that art…