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N2.7 Billion Across Three Films, And Funke Akindele Is Not Finished
Aug 20

Aug 20 N2.7 Billion Across Three Films, And Funke Akindele Is Not Finished

sukky dawodu
Entertainment

The censors board named her Nollywood's box office champion. Her next film, The Four, arrives in cinemas worldwide on 11 December.

The Super Eagles Have Eighteen Months And No Excuse
Aug 20

Aug 20 The Super Eagles Have Eighteen Months And No Excuse

sukky dawodu
Sports

No World Cup, no qualification pressure, no tournament to survive. Nigerian football has been handed the one thing it never gets, which is time.

Osimhen Scored Twice To Save Galatasaray From Çorum FK
Aug 20

Aug 20 Osimhen Scored Twice To Save Galatasaray From Çorum FK

sukky dawodu
Sports

An opening-day banana skin against a promoted side, and the most expensive player in Turkish football history did what he was bought to do.

Nigeria Are Not At The World Cup, And The Song Is Nigerian
Aug 20

Aug 20 Nigeria Are Not At The World Cup, And The Song Is Nigerian

sukky dawodu
Sports

The Super Eagles went out on penalties to DR Congo in the African playoff final. Burna Boy is on the tournament's official record. Hold both facts at once.

Every Big Nigerian Fintech Is Quietly Becoming A Bank
Aug 20

Aug 20 Every Big Nigerian Fintech Is Quietly Becoming A Bank

sukky dawodu
Business

Flutterwave holds a microfinance banking licence. So do Moniepoint, OPay, PalmPay and PiggyVest. The companies built to route around Nigerian banks have decided to become them.

NNPC Has Called Dangote A Monopolist In Court, Weeks Before The IPO
Aug 20

Aug 20 NNPC Has Called Dangote A Monopolist In Court, Weeks Before The IPO

sukky dawodu
Business

The state oil company says the refinery is trying to shut out fuel importers. Dangote says the licences should never have been issued. Both are arguing about who supplies Nigeria's petrol.

JAMB Kept The Cut-Off At 150. Almost No University Will Use It.
Aug 20

Aug 20 JAMB Kept The Cut-Off At 150. Almost No University Will Use It.

sukky dawodu
politics

The 2026 policy meeting retained 150 for universities and colleges of nursing and 100 for polytechnics. It is a floor, not a threshold, and the difference matters to 1.5 million candidates.

Atiku Wants Twenty Million Votes And Is Building Downward To Get Them
Aug 20

Aug 20 Atiku Wants Twenty Million Votes And Is Building Downward To Get Them

sukky dawodu
politics

The ADC campaign has moved from coalition talks to structure: coordinators inaugurated, a target set, and a youth movement recruiting across party lines to reach every polling unit.

Six Parties Sat Down In Abuja. The Last Time They Tried This It Collapsed.
Aug 20

Aug 20 Six Parties Sat Down In Abuja. The Last Time They Tried This It Collapsed.

sukky dawodu
politics

A summit of opposition parties met on Tuesday to build a united front against Tinubu. The same people attempted the same thing in 2025 and it fell apart before it started.

Nigerian Designers Are Building A Second Market In London
Aug 20

Aug 20 Nigerian Designers Are Building A Second Market In London

sukky dawodu
Fashion

Africa Fashion Week London's 2026 cohort leans hard on aso oke and slow production. It is the same bet Mo Abudu is making with a cinema, in a different industry.

Four Nigerians, Seven Nominations, No Wins: The BET Pattern
Aug 20

Aug 20 Four Nigerians, Seven Nominations, No Wins: The BET Pattern

sukky dawodu
Music

Wizkid and Asake made history in Best Group. Tems had three nominations. Burna Boy was up for Best Collaboration. All of them went home empty-handed, and that is the more interesting story.

Nollywood Has Discovered The Historical Epic, And August Is Full Of Them
Aug 20

Aug 20 Nollywood Has Discovered The Historical Epic, And August Is Full Of Them

sukky dawodu
Entertainment

King Kosoko: The Battle for Lagos premieres on 28 August. It sits in a month of releases that suggests the industry has found a genre it can build on.

Reserves At A Seventeen-Year High, And The Naira Is Finally Behaving
Aug 20

Aug 20 Reserves At A Seventeen-Year High, And The Naira Is Finally Behaving

sukky dawodu
Business

External reserves have passed $52 billion, their strongest level since 2009. The naira closed at N1,350 to the dollar, and the gap between the official and street rate is now under two per cent.

445 Casualties In Fourteen Days, And Where They Happened
Aug 20

Aug 20 445 Casualties In Fourteen Days, And Where They Happened

sukky dawodu
politics

A two-week tally of Nigerian violence: 106 incidents, 445 casualties, 256 people kidnapped. The North West accounted for 83 per cent of the abductions.

Nine Men, Ninety Days, And A Deadline That Lands Before The Election
Aug 20

Aug 20 Nine Men, Ninety Days, And A Deadline That Lands Before The Election

sukky dawodu
politics

Tinubu has ordered a National Threat Assessment and a rolling five-year defence plan. The committee reports in November. The vote is in January.

The Super Falcons Are Out, And Now There Is A Playoff To Survive
Aug 20

Aug 20 The Super Falcons Are Out, And Now There Is A Playoff To Survive

sukky dawodu
Sports

Cameroon knocked Nigeria out of WAFCON in the quarter-final in Casablanca. The cost is not the trophy. It is the automatic ticket to Brazil 2027.

Mo Abudu Is Opening A London Cinema That Only Shows Us
Aug 20

Aug 20 Mo Abudu Is Opening A London Cinema That Only Shows Us

sukky dawodu
Entertainment

EbonyLife Place London lands on Wandsworth Road in October: a 180-seat cinema, a restaurant, a gallery and a retail floor, built as the UK's first venue dedicated to African and Black film.

The Naira Got Stronger. Your Market Money Did Not.
Aug 20

Aug 20 The Naira Got Stronger. Your Market Money Did Not.

sukky dawodu
Business

A currency up 1.3 per cent in a fortnight and food inflation that barely moves are not a contradiction. They are two different problems, and only one of them is monetary.

The Adire Supply Problem Is Now Nigerian Fashion's Best Opportunity
Aug 20

Aug 20 The Adire Supply Problem Is Now Nigerian Fashion's Best Opportunity

sukky dawodu
Fashion

Designers have turned back to aso oke and adire, demand for genuine hand-dyed cloth outstrips what Abeokuta can produce, and the people who fix that will own the next decade.

Mama G Has Spent Thirty Years Being The Reason You Cried
Aug 20

Aug 20 Mama G Has Spent Thirty Years Being The Reason You Cried

sukky dawodu
Entertainment

Patience Ozokwor has addressed the question that follows her everywhere: why the wicked mother-in-law, why the witch, why always her. The answer says as much about Nollywood's economics as about her.

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