FilmOne Entertainment launches 7th edition of The Nigeria Box Office Yearbook
By Etop Ekanem Lagos—FilmOne Entertainment has officially launched the seventh edition of The Nigeria Box Office Yearbook, Nigeria’s definitive annual industry publication documenting verified theatrical box office performance across cinemas nationwide.First published in 2019, the Nigeria Box Office Yearbook has, over seven consecutive editions, established itself as the most credible, consistent, and authoritative record of […]
The coming hunger
By NICK DAZANG Two grim reports, and which should profoundly concern all Nigerians, were issued recently. One, by the United Nations, through its Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mohamed Malick Fall, disclosed that not less than 35 million Nigerians would face food insecurity in this year’s lean season, namely, May to October, and that another […]
Royalty, loyalty and disloyalty: Protecting our traditions from their keepers, by Owei Lakemfa
The simple and straightforward appointment of the Awujale of Ijebu Kingdom, one of the most revered, is stalled like a car with a dead battery. Actions associated with the Benin monarchy, one of the most famous in Africa, is clanging like a faulty engine. Meanwhile, the new Alaafin of Oyo’s public displays are like a man […]
On CBN’s relentless quest to curb bank frauds
By ARIZE NWOBU The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, is in the forefront of a collaboration with other regulatory institutions to curb bank frauds and the results are manifest. Fraud losses fell to N25.85 billion from N52.26 billion in 2025, representing a 51 percent drop. Also reported cases dropped to 67, 518 from 70, 111, representing a […]
In the House of ‘My Lord’, There are Judgements, by Chidi Odinkalu
Abdul Leigh Balogun became a judge of the High Court of Lagos State in 1976. In a career as a trial judge spanning 17 years and three different decades, the man better known as A.L.A.L Balogun earned a deserved reputation as one of the most knowledgeable trial judges to adorn the Nigerian judiciary. His reputation for fairness […]
NDLEA intercepts Brazil returnee with cocaine hidden in private part, footwear
*Seizes drugs, 12,500 pentazocine ampoules in 6 states By Kingsley Omonobi Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have arrested Uche Franklin Onyekwere, a Brazil-based Nigerian businessman, at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, for concealing cocaine in his private part and the soles of his footwear. Onyekwere, 47, was intercepted on January 29, […]
