Nigeria is back in the Oscar conversation, and this time the film carrying the country’s hopes is a quiet family drama rather than a spectacle built for easy headlines. Damilola Orimogunje’s Dear Ajayi has been selected as Nigeria’s official submission for the Best International Feature Film category at the 99th Academy Awards, putting the Nigeria-Germany co-production on the road […]
Don Jazzy has spent more than two decades making music, but his most consequential work may have happened away from the microphone. The hits made him famous. The businesses made him formidable. Somewhere between the producer behind Mo’ Hits, the founder of Mavin Records and the executive who helped build careers for some of Africa’s biggest contemporary stars, Michael […]
Half melancholic, half haunting, wholly human and it has a Shadow too. (Caveat: I have tried as much as possible to keep this largely spoiler-free, especially around the film’s more important turns and revelations. But because I’m talking about the story, some context is unavoidable) Akinola Davies Jr.’s My Father’s Shadow (2025) is the kind of film that does […]
At 19, Ugo Ugochukwu has already found his place in the record books. The American driver of Nigerian heritage was crowned the 2026 FIA Formula 3 Drivers’ Champion in Madrid on September 13, becoming the first driver from the United States to win the championship. He secured the title with a composed second-place finish in the season’s final Feature […]
Taiwo Awoniyi has added another qualification to a football career that is still being written on the pitch. The Nigeria and Coventry City striker has graduated from the PFA Business School with a Postgraduate Diploma in Global Football Sport Directorship, earning the qualification with Merit. Awoniyi announced the achievement on Tuesday, sharing his graduation as a significant moment away […]
Long before hibiscus became a fashionable ingredient on global wellness menus, Nigerians knew it as zobo. For Timi Oke, however, the deep-red flower represented something more consequential: a commodity with a market beyond Nigeria’s borders. While working in banking in the UK, Oke spent his spare time studying agricultural products that could be traded internationally. In 2012, that curiosity […]
A Nigerian-born legal scholar is taking the helm of one of Canada’s established law schools. Dr. Ibironke Odumosu-Ayanu has been appointed dean of the College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan, beginning a five-year term on October 1, 2026. She succeeds Martin Phillipson, who completed two five-year terms as dean. For Odumosu-Ayanu, the appointment represents the latest step […]
At 16, Belusochim Ugochukwu is already working at Apple on machine learning, computer vision and robotics research. For a Nigerian teenager to arrive at one of the world’s most influential technology companies at an age when most of his peers are still making decisions about their first degree is remarkable. But Ugochukwu’s story becomes more compelling when the achievement […]
Nigerian businessman and philanthropist Dr. Tunji Olowolafe has turned the memory of his late wife, Gbemisola Olutayo Olowolafe into a monumental legacy now being carried forward through an investment in the future of ophthalmic surgery. His foundation has funded the establishment of what has been reported as West Africa’s first ophthalmic surgical simulation centre, a specialised facility in Lagos […]
Africa’s largest industrial investor may soon deepen his footprint in East Africa. Aliko Dangote, the continent’s richest man and founder of the Dangote Group, is reportedly evaluating major new investment opportunities in Tanzania, a move that could strengthen the country’s industrial capacity while reinforcing its position as one of East Africa’s fastest-growing economies. The interest comes at a time […]