What Happens to Your Body When You Have Sex Every Day?
Emem tossed the tangled sheets aside, the 3:00 am silence ringing in her ears. Her…
What Happens to Your Body When You Have Sex Every Day?
Emem tossed the tangled sheets aside, the 3:00 am silence ringing in her ears. Her sleep was increasingly fragmented, leaving her days drained and painted in muted, joyless tones. Without the release and connection of intimacy, a persistent, buzzing tension sat heavily in her shoulders. She hugged a pillow to her chest, trying to soothe…
Ex-Kogi Governor Ibrahim Idris Dies at 77
Former Kogi State governor Ibrahim Idris died in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 20 September 2026, at the age of 77. Incumbent Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo has declared a three-day period of state mourning and ordered flags flown at half-mast across public buildings. The state government announced that it will bear the full cost of…
Shettima Leads Nigeria Delegation to 81st UNGA
President Bola Tinubu has directed Vice President Kashim Shettima to lead Nigeria’s delegation to the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The vice president departs Abuja to take charge of high-level diplomatic talks and deliver the national statement during the general debate. The assignment marks a sudden shift from earlier…
BBNaija S11: Oyin Rejects Flora’s Advice After Laundry Brawl
A fierce row over clothes drying erupted inside the Big Brother Naija Season 11 house on Sunday morning, testing the alliance between Oyin and Flora on Day 56. The clash stemmed directly from a Saturday night brawl between Oyin and Bluethopia in the laundry area. What began as an effort by Flora to soothe her…
Ukraine Hits Moscow with Record Drone Barrage
Ukrainian forces launched their largest drone attack on Moscow on Sunday, 20 September 2026, striking deep into the capital as Russians voted in parliamentary elections. The assault killed two people in the Moscow region and struck an oil refinery in the city. Two further deaths occurred in Russian-held Kherson, where a strike killed an election…
NDLEA Seizes N3.4bn Drugs in Raids Across Nigeria
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency took over 1.3 million opioid pills and six tonnes of cannabis off Nigerian streets this week in a nationwide sweep spanning eight states and the Federal Capital Territory. The haul carries an estimated street value exceeding ₦3.4bn. Operatives rounded up a network of couriers, including a trafficker posing as…
Burna Boy Takes Delivery of N9bn Bugatti Chiron
Grammy-winning musician Damini Ogulu, known globally as Burna Boy, took formal delivery of a bespoke Bugatti Chiron VXX hypercar in Lagos on Saturday, 19 September 2026. Dubai-based vehicle customiser Venuum and dealership Abuja Car valued the one-of-a-kind vehicle at roughly nine billion naira. A handover ceremony, broadcast through promotional video clips on social media, showed…
Falconets Face Colombia in World Cup Quarter-Final
Nigeria’s under-20 women’s football team take on Colombia in the quarter-finals of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Łódź, Poland, on Sunday, 20 September 2026. The Falconets carry the entire weight of African ambition into the tie at Stadion Miejski ŁKS as the continent’s sole surviving representative in the tournament. Head coach Moses Aduku…
The Decentralised Grid: How Small Businesses and Estates are Quietly Divorcing the National Grid
Across commercial hubs and gated residential communities in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, and Ibadan, a quiet infrastructure divorce is underway. Commercial clusters, private housing estates, and small manufacturing firms are systematically disconnecting their primary operations from the national grid. Spurred by relentless grid collapses, steep distribution company (DisCo) tariff revisions, and the erratic delivery of…
The Phantom Wealth of States
Fresh economic disclosures on subnational finance reveal an enduring paradox of the Nigerian federation. States endowed with vast deposits of critical minerals, lithium, tantalite, gold, lead, zinc, and rare-earth elements, continue to record near-negligible figures for internally generated revenue (IGR). From the lithium-heavy corridors of Nasarawa and Kwara to the goldfields of Osun and Zamfara,…