Nollywood actress and filmmaker Funke Akindele has responded to criticism surrounding her unconventional movie marketing approach, particularly her use of dance and comedy to promote her films.
Akindele, who currently holds the record as the highest-grossing filmmaker in Nollywood, shared...
Journalists were on Saturday barred from covering the 45th convocation ceremony of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, after the institution’s security division denied them entry to the event venue.
Correspondents from several media organisations, including the Federal Radio Corporation of...
Israel carried out its heaviest airstrikes in Gaza in weeks on Saturday, January 31, 2026, killing 26 people.
Despite the tenuous ceasefire agreed between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas, Israeli warplanes targeted the Sheikh Radwan police station west of...
Troops of the Joint Task Force (North East), Operation HADIN KAI, have killed a senior Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) commander and disrupted several terrorist and criminal operations across Borno and Adamawa states.
The task force disclosed this in...
The Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, Taiwo Oyedele, has called on Nigerians to ensure they file their annual tax returns, stressing that compliance is mandatory for both employers and individual taxpayers.
Oyedele made the...
The Osun State Police Command has arrested four persons, including an Imam, over the alleged death of a yet-to-be-identified man in Osogbo, the state capital.
It was gathered that the man went to the Ogo-Oluwa Mosque in Osogbo for early...
Afrobeat musician Femi Kuti has dismissed renewed comparisons between modern Nigerian music stars and his late father, Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, describing the debate as unnecessary and unproductive.
Speaking during an interview on Arise Television, clips of which were shared...
Lukman Abdulmalik
By day, the city’s main arteries hum with commerce and prayer. By night, another economy comes alive, quiet, nimble, and dangerous.
At about 8 p.m. on Tuesday night on a busy roadside of Sabon Titi, Kumbotso LGA, a young...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, has upheld the death sentences handed to five men convicted for their roles in the 2018 Offa bank robbery.
In a unanimous judgement delivered on Friday, Justices Ridwan Maiwada Abdullahi, Gabriel...
A social media user identified by the X handle @_elite_girl has apologised to Nigerian influencer Priscilla Ojo for falsely attributing an insensitive comment about postpartum depression to her, a claim that triggered widespread backlash online.
The controversy began on Thursday...
