By Ayo Onikoyi Agbolade Omowole, CEO of Mascot IT Nigeria Limited, has been recognized as one of the 50 African personalities and brands making a visible impact across the continent. The Visibility 50 Africa (2025) award celebrates individuals whose work demonstrates sustained public relevance, influence, and contribution across diverse sectors. Omowole, known for his contributions […]

Nollywood actress Padita Agu has opened up about her beliefs regarding juju, saying she acknowledges its existence but refuses to let it have any influence over her life or career.

Queen Latifah has emerged as the standout figure on Africa Magic’s dating reality show Heartbeat, quickly becoming the axis around which the show’s early drama revolves.

By Etop Ekanem Ambassador Elvis Akpobi, Special Assistant to the Delta State Governor on Youth Mentoring and Development, has in his opinion stated that Governor Sheriff Oborevwori deserves re-election for unprecedented youth inclusion, with young people now occupying  a larger percent of the State Executive Council. He made this assertion in a statement recently, highlighting […]

By Collins Adaka Since the advent of the Fourth Republic in 1999, politics in Nigeria has gone haywire. Politicians no longer deliver on their promises having made so many alluring ones during campaigns. To them, the political romance has come to an inevitable end. What else can we do? Until the next election, they come again […]

By Chukwudi Abiandu Senator Ovie Omo-Agege’s remarks at the January 23, 2026 APC high-level stakeholders’ meeting in Asaba were short, polite, and outwardly conciliatory. But beneath the measured tone lay a speech heavy with subtext, unresolved tensions, and quiet warnings to a party still struggling to reconcile conquest with coexistence. At first glance, the former Deputy […]

By Adebayo Adeoye Within the quiet but consequential halls of Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar has carved a reputation for calm authority in an era defined by global uncertainty. Since his appointment in August 2023 by President Bola Tinubu, he has steered Nigeria’s diplomacy with measured confidence, balancing international expectations with national […]

By John Maiyaki This piece examines how Governor Monday Okpebholo’s construction drive is reshaping Edo State’s economy and infrastructure. Positive news about Edo State has been further validated by several videos that emerged on the internet by Edo citizens who travelled home during the Yuletide and most especially repeated inspection of the state governor, Senator Monday […]

….induct 25 students By Gabriel Ewepu ABUJA – A nonprofit organization, TechHer has partnered with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps Gender Unit, NSCDC, to launch a School-Based Gender Based, GBV, prevention programme in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. This was made known in a statement issued by TechHer, where it explained the […]

What makes Job Seekers unsettling is not what is said, but what is implied – “One of the reasons I founded Mintslate Media was to tell stories that are real”

There is an adage which says once bitten twice shy. That was what Morocco thought to itself after they lost the 2010 World Cup hosting right to South Africa. Former FIFA president, Sepp Blatter wanted to compensate Africa for the support the continent gave him all the years his mandate as head of the world […]

By Gabriel Ewepu ABUJA – IN a bid to boost production and profitability, Paras Energy and partners have commissioned a 1,800 Megawatt-hours (MWh) hybrid solar power project at UMZA Oil & Rice Mills in Kano State, marking a major milestone in the drive for sustainable industrial energy solutions in northern Nigeria. Speaking at the commissioning […]

A while ago, I watched a video online, in which a woman was calling out another woman for not being a ‘proper widow’. This young widow is an Event Planner who is now the sole bread winner of her family. She wiped her tears and summoned the energy to leave her home and fend for herself […]

By Bunmi Sofola How would you feel if your dad slept with your best friend?  It happens all of the time but it’s no fun when you’re at the receiving end.  ‘To say that my father, a great raconteur, often put on a show for my female friends would be an understatement.  From the moment they […]

In a country such as Nigeria where politics permanently determines the matter of the moment, discerning citizens must find time to occasionally draw attention to more critical issues that the political class often ignores. When rating a nation, issues such as the economic and political stability of the nation as well as its international posture […]