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Nollywood Eyes $10B Asian Market In Landmark Nigeria-China Film Pact

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A groundbreaking strategic alliance poised to redefine the global footprint of African cinema has been unveiled in Abuja as Nollywood leaders and top Chinese film executives announced a direct commercial theatrical pathway between Nigeria and China. The historic initiative, launched at the China Cultural Centre during the opening of the Chinese Film Exhibition in Nigeria 2026—hosted alongside the 23rd Abuja International Film Festival (AIFF)—aims to bypass traditional Western distribution gatekeepers and connect Nigerian storytelling directly to the world’s second-largest box office. Addressing an audience of regulatory officials, foreign diplomats, and filmmakers, AIFF Founder Fidelis Duker framed the partnership as a strategic economic imperative for the continent’s creative econom...

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“I Feared Losing The Use Of My Legs”- Broda Shaggi Recounts Near-Death Experience After Stray Bullet Hit Him In Ogun Traffic

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Popular Nigerian comedian and content creator, Samuel Animashaun Perry, known as Broda Shaggi, has revealed that a stray bullet hit him in an incident that forced him away from the public eye for several months, and he feared losing the use of his legs. In an emotional social media video, the entertainer broke his silence on the harrowing ordeal, explaining that the shooting occurred on March 9, 2026, while he was filming a comedy skit around the Sango-Ota Bridge area in Ogun State. He recalled the frightening moment he touched his hip, realised he was bleeding, and was immediately rushed by his crew to a nearby medical facility. Following the shooting, the actor received initial emergency first aid treatment at a private hospital in Alakuko, Lagos State. Due to the severity of th...

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Over 500m Fans Will Watch 2027 AFCON Free On Television — CAF

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More than 500 million African football fans are expected to have access to the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) through free-to-air television following a broadcast rights agreement secured by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The arrangement will enable national terrestrial television stations across sub-Saharan Africa to broadcast live matches of the tournament, expanding access for fans who cannot afford subscription-based television services. The competition, branded AFCON PAMOJA 2027, will run from 19 June to 17 July 2027, with Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania becoming the first three countries to jointly host the continental showpiece. The agreement involves Media Experts Limited (MEL) and Media Business Solutions (MBS), which will distribute live match feeds to natio...

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Italy rejects 2,220 Nigerians seeking asylum

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By Stephen Angbulu At least 3,385 Nigerians applied for asylum in Italy in 2025 as 2,220 applicants were rejected in first-instance decisions. This is according to figures contained in the Asylum Information Database 2025 Country Report on Italy, a project of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles and compiled using data from Italy’s Asylum Service and the European Union Agency for Asylum. The report was produced by the Association for Legal Studies on Immigration. The volume of applications made Nigeria the only sub-Saharan African country among the country’s top 10 nationalities of asylum seekers, according to the data obtained by The PUNCH. It showed that 660 of the Nigerians who went through the process were granted full refugee status, recording a 19.47 per c...

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Ghana Petroleum Authority, PTI partner for increased capacity

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A high-level delegation from Ghana’s National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has visited the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Effurun, Delta State, to explore a “strategic partnership aimed at strengthening technical capacity in Ghana’s oil and gas sector”. The visit to the PTI was said to be a part of Ghana’s plans to build its own centre of excellence for petroleum training by drawing on Nigeria’s over five decades of experience in hydrocarbon manpower development. Receiving the delegation on behalf of the Principal and Chief Executive of PTI, Dr. Samuel Onoji, the Director of Research and Development, Dr. Tina Isechei, said the Institute was ready to establish a mutually beneficial partnership with Ghana. While describing the visit as timely and critical for regional solidar...

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FG links 15.6m Nigerians to NIN in social register

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By Damilola Aina The Federal Government has integrated the National Identification Number of 15.65 million Nigerians into the National Social Register, as efforts to improve the identification of poor and vulnerable households continue amid calls for wider coverage and more reliable cash transfers. The National Social Safety-Nets Coordinating Office disclosed this in a post on its official X handle obtained by our correspondent on Wednesday, stating that more than 13.3 million unique households had been updated across 771 local government areas in 37 states as of October 2026. The development comes as the Federal Government reports disbursing N658.9bn in direct cash transfers to 10.46 million poor and vulnerable households as of September 2026, according to the World Bank’s ...

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Ebola: Medical expert demands contact tracing for all travellers, no VIP exemptions

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The President of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Professor Oladapo Ashiru, has called for mandatory Ebola contact tracing for all travellers, regardless of their political or social status, and permanent disease surveillance facilities across Nigeria’s 774 local government areas. Speaking during an interview with ARISE News on Wednesday, Ashiru warned that exempting influential individuals from airport screening protocols could undermine efforts to contain the disease. “They must recognise this and they must make it mandatory for every single person, no VIP, going to the airport to have that form done,It should be for communicable diseases, and there should be installations across the local government, not even state, to recognise this and maintain it,” Ashiru said. The professor...

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Dangote Unveils $50bn African Expansion, 25% Stake In Kenya Pipeline, 700,000bpd Refinery

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…Warns Africa against Africa exporting jobs, importing poverty President and chief executive of Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote, has warned that Africa’s continued dependence on imports is costing the continent its jobs and future, urging governments to protect local industries as a pathway to industrialisation. “Allowing imports to displace local production means we are exporting our jobs out of the continent and importing poverty into the continent,” Dangote said. He spoke during a wide-ranging interview with Financial Times Africa Editor, David Pilling, at the FT Africa Summit in London, where he unveiled a $50 billion investment plan for 2026 to 2030 and an aggressive pan-African petroleum distribution network. Dangote disclosed that the Group just acquired a 25 p...

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Ebola: FG orders 46 exposed persons on 21-day no-fly list

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The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has directed the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority to notify local and international airlines to place 46 persons who had contact with the index Ebola patient on a no-fly list for 21 days. The directive followed a virtual meeting Keyamo held on Wednesday with the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, to discuss measures to contain Nigeria’s first confirmed Ebola case since 2014 according to a statement he shared with our correspondent. The patient was diagnosed with the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola virus disease after laboratory tests confirmed the infection on October 20. So This Happened (EP 436) reviews: Nigeria’s debt interest payments exceed revenue by ₦1.5 trillion T...

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Nigeria must build own machines to accelerate growth – Engineers

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The Nigerian Institution of Mechanical Engineers has called for greater investment in indigenous technology and local manufacturing, saying the country must reduce its dependence on imported machinery and develop home-grown engineering solutions to address insecurity, unemployment and economic challenges. The National Chairman of NIMechE, Babagana Modu Tela, made the call in his welcome address at the institution’s 39th International Conference, Exhibitions and Annual General Meeting, tagged Jewel 2026, on Wednesday in Abuja. Tela said mechanical engineering should be recognised as an instrument of national transformation, stressing that the profession had a critical role to play in strengthening security, improving energy supply, expanding manufacturing and supporting economic diver...