Arts
Nollywood isn’t asking for permission anymore. The Black Book arrived on Netflix in September 2023 with a $1 million budget and reached No. 3 on the platform’s global film chart. More than 20 million people watched it in its opening weeks. It entered...
Economy
225,722 That’s where Nigeria’s stock market All-Share Index closed last week. An all-time high. The year-to-date return is 45 percent. Here’s what that means in terms that land. If you had N1 million in the NGX at the start of January, you have...
Governance
Eight states are too dangerous for campaigning, according to some senators. They were not too dangerous to elect the people who left them that way. The Nigerian Senate is considering suspending political campaigns in eight northern states ahead of the 2027 elections....
Governance
The First Lady flew to Borno on Monday. She brought a food bank. The hunger was already there. On Monday, Oluremi Tinubu unveiled the North-East rollout of the National Community Food Bank Programme in Maiduguri. She stood in front of the cameras at a primary...
Diaspora
Nigerian business owners in South Africa were told to close on Monday and Tuesday. Most of them did. Some didn’t have a choice. The xenophobic violence that has been building in South Africa since April 22 hit its planned peak over Freedom Day weekend....
Governance
The opposition is consulting. The consultations are not yet producing anything the opposition doesn’t already have. On Monday evening, Peter Obi led a delegation of South-East leaders to the Maitama home of former President Goodluck Jonathan. The meeting lasted...