Actress and producer Toyin Abraham’s ‘Oversabi Aunty’ has made history, as it surpassed N1 billion at the Nigerian box office. The feat marks the first time Abraham has crossed the N1 billion earnings threshold, with the film emerging as the fourth highest-grossing Nollywood movie of all time. Released in December 2025, Oversabi Aunty has also become the first Nollywood directorial...
Gladys Mae West, an American mathematician known for her contributions to the development of satellite geodesy models, which were later incorporated into the Global Positioning System (GPS), has died at 95. West “passed peacefully alongside her family and friends and is now in heaven with her loved ones,” her family said as they announced her death. Often described as a “hidden figure,” West’s groundbreaking contributions...
Nigerian celebrity chef Hilda Baci has become a Guinness World Record holder for the third time. According to the chef, she received news that her record-breaking jollof rice feat in September 2025 had broken two records, not just one: largest serving of Nigerian-style jollof rice and largest serving of rice overall. Announcing on social media, she said, “Woke up a...
One actress that Nigerians can’t get enough of at the moment is Teniola Aladese. Also a producer and casting director, here are some interesting facts to know about her. 1. Teniola Aladese was born on 18 September 1993 into a family of six in Agege, Lagos State. 2. She attended Raregift Nursery and Primary School, Ogba, Lagos, for her primary education...
The long-awaited film adaptation of “The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives,” a novel written by Lola Shoneyin and produced by EbonyLife Films, is set to hit the cinemas in December 2026. Previously announced as a Netflix original series in 2020, this new development was announced in a statement by Ebonylife Group’s CEO, Mo Abudu, via Instagram on Friday, January...
The federal government has directed banks and financial technology firms to begin collecting and remitting a 7.5 percent value-added tax (VAT) on selected electronic banking services and bank charges, effective Monday, January 19, 2026. The directive, communicated to customers through email notices from payment platforms on Wednesday, January 14, applies to charges on services such as mobile money transfers, USSD...
History is about to be made as Spain is set to have its first queen in 150 years. Princess Leonor, the 20-year-old daughter of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, is next in line to become the country’s first queen regnant since Isabella II, her fourth great-grandmother, who reigned from 1833 to 1868. While there is no official timeline for...
The Nigerian legal community has been thrown into mourning following the tragic killing of Barrister Princess Mediatrix Nwamaka Chigbo, an Abuja-based lawyer who was abducted and later murdered in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Chigbo, a former treasurer of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Abuja Branch, was reported missing after she was kidnapped while travelling within Abuja on January 5,...
Claudette Colvin, a courageous figure whose early act of defiance helped ignite the modern American civil rights movement, has passed away at the age of 86. She became famous when she refused to relinquish her seat to a white passenger on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama, bus. This was a pivotal moment in the long struggle to end racial segregation. As...
Judith Amadi, who recently embarked on a solo trip from Lagos to France on her motorcycle, has relived her experience, describing the journey as highly challenging. Amadi began her journey on October 8, 2025, to raise ₦100 million to support cancer patients across Nigeria. Despite sustaining an injury to her finger in an accident in Burkina Faso, which required stitches,...