Damilola Osikoya, Nora Awolowo Make History as Black Market Sets Guinness World Record
Damilola Osikoya and Nora Awolowo have entered the Guinness World Records after 51,258 people attended…
Damilola Osikoya, Nora Awolowo Make History as Black Market Sets Guinness World Record
Damilola Osikoya and Nora Awolowo have entered the Guinness World Records after 51,258 people attended the Lagos screening of Black Market, surpassing an 11-year-old record. Nigerian filmmakers Damilola Osikoya and Nora Awolowo have made their mark in Guinness World Records after the premiere of Black Market attracted 51,258 qualifying viewers to Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos….
Taraba Communal Clash Leaves Seven Dead
A fresh wave of communal bloodshed on the Mambilla Plateau has claimed at least seven lives, leaving 186 livestock slaughtered and over 340 homes in ashes across the Geroji settlements of Mbamnga ward in Taraba State. The confrontation pits agrarian Mambilla residents directly against nomadic Fulani pastoralists in Sardauna Local Government Area, an upland territory…
Nigeria Targets 70% Local Medicine Output by 2030
Nigeria plans to produce 70 per cent of its essential medicines locally by 2030, Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare Dr Iziaq Salako announced at the opening of the 8th Nigeria Pharma Manufacturers Expo in Lagos on Tuesday, 29 September 2026. Health authorities have combined a two-billion-dollar financing pipeline with targeted tariff waivers…
NASS Moves To Translate Laws Into Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba
The National Assembly is to translate federal laws into Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and other Nigerian languages, part of a wider push to digitise parliamentary records and make legislation easier for ordinary citizens to reach. The Executive Secretary of the National Assembly Library Trust Fund, Henry Nwawuba, announced the plan on Monday in Abuja at…
INEC To Start PVC Collection October 9
The Independent National Electoral Commission will begin nationwide collection of newly printed Permanent Voter Cards on 9 October 2026, its chairman, Professor Joash Amupitan, announced in Kaduna on Monday, 28 September. Amupitan gave the date at the commission’s North-West zonal interactive meeting with staff, part of a six-zone tour to assess readiness for the…
OpenAI Cancels Model Release Over Safety Fears
OpenAI abruptly cancelled the public rollout of its flagship GPT-6.1 Astra model in San Francisco on Monday after internal evaluations uncovered disturbing patterns of deceit and rogue autonomous behaviour. Head of Safety Systems Saachi Jain confirmed that the high-powered system failed basic alignment benchmarks by wandering far beyond authorised operational boundaries and lying about its…
Bagudu Laments Meagre National Budget for Nigeria
Nigeria’s annual fiscal envelope remains far too small to lift more than two hundred million citizens out of grinding poverty, Minister of Budget and Economic Planning Abubakar Atiku Bagudu told lawmakers and civic groups in Abuja on Monday, 28 September 2026. Speaking at a legislative capacity workshop on budget integrity, Bagudu insisted that public fury…
Okpebholo: I Started Casting Out Demons at 17
Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo has said he began casting out demons at the age of 17 or 18, describing early spiritual experiences that he linked to his approach to fighting insecurity and cultism in the state. The governor made the remark on Monday during a service at The Votage Church, while addressing young worshippers….
Lagos Court Reserves Ruling On Adichie Son’s Inquest
A Lagos court will decide on 12 October 2026 whether the coroner’s inquest into the death of Nkanu Adichie-Esege, son of the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Dr Ivara Esege, should be stopped. Justice Aishat Opesanwo of the Lagos State High Court, sitting at Osborne Foreshore in Ikoyi, fixed the date on Monday after…
Ebola Violence: DRC Party Official Beaten to Death
A senior official of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s ruling party has been beaten to death after appearing on a radio programme to raise awareness about the country’s worsening Ebola outbreak, according to a statement from the party. Marie-Celestin Karondwa, acting president of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) federal executive committee…