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A former captain lining up with the government's reform effort alongside Shehu Dikko. Nigerian football reform is announced roughly every four years. What would make this one different is a published mandate.
Afreximbank and TopTier Sports Management are staging a legends match in Lagos honouring the 1990s generation. Nostalgia is an easy sell. What that generation is actually owed is a harder conversation.
Tobi Amusan, Nathaniel Ajayi and Onwuzurike head to the World Athletics Ultimate Championship, an event built around large payouts. Nigerian athletics has always had the talent. Payment has been the weak link.
Two goals in Bayern Munich's 5-0 win over Bodo/Glimt. He plays for France. Nigerian football spent the evening discussing a player it does not have, which is its own kind of story.
Eric Chelle gets his centre-forward back and loses a Brighton man in the same week, with Madagascar and Guinea-Bissau to come. Squad announcements are written as news. They are really a running injury audit.
He described what he found working with him beyond the superstar image. Nigerian music has almost no formal talent development, so who an established artist chooses to back is the industry's real hiring process.
Announced on Thursday, released on Friday. The short runway is now normal and it was not always, and the choice tells you who the release is actually aimed at.
Fans think an offhand post revealed the features on his coming album. Whether it was an accident is the least interesting question, because the rollout has already done its job.
Lonely At The Top has crossed the mark on Spotify, and Davido's Oriade passed 100 million in the same week. The milestones are real. What they pay is the part nobody prints.
Including that he has to be obsessed with her. The list went round in a day, and the reaction says more about Nigerian marriage expectations than the list does.
The singer called out an Instagram vendor over an iPhone that never arrived as promised. If it can happen to him, the interesting question is what recourse anybody else has.
He told a podcast he would not have married Simi if her genotype had been SS or AS, because he is SS himself. The reaction split immediately, and the medical facts are not actually in dispute.
The ceremony took place at the town's cemetery in Ogun State, attended by family, friends and colleagues. She died after breast cancer, and hers is the third Nollywood cancer story this week.
Omotunde Ogundimu made a video appealing for help with cervical cancer treatment. A colleague sent a large sum. The generosity is real and the arrangement behind it is the story.
Record allocations to the states, shared out in a currency worth far less than it was. Both sides of this argument are quoting real figures, which is what makes it the most useful economic row in Nigeria right now.
Babajide Sanwo-Olu's phrase, and 160 trucks ordered to go with it. Waste collection is the most visible test of whether a megacity's basic services work, and Lagos has just conceded that its own do not.
Nine local government areas are targeted for IDP voting arrangements ahead of 2027. It is the least glamorous election story of the week and it decides whether tens of thousands of people vote at all.
He told Arise TV he won the last presidential election and has evidence the former INEC chairman worked against him. Sahara Reporters ran the claim. One outlet noted he did not produce it.
The NDC candidate would retain Tinubu's floating exchange rate while calling the old subsidy regime corrupted. Naming a policy of your opponent's that you would not reverse is rare in a Nigerian campaign.
Festus Keyamo criticised the blockade and told Nigerians to reject campaign violence at the ballot box. A ruling-party minister defending an opposition candidate's access is worth more than the usual statement.
