Author: damazah@gmail.com

…Brent tops $107 Dangote Petroleum Refinery has raised its Premium Motor Spirit gantry price by N85 per to N1,350 per litre, from N1,265, as a surge in global crude oil prices and higher product replacement costs put renewed pressure on Nigeria’s downstream market. The latest adjustment represents a 6.7 percent increase and takes the refinery’s wholesale price above the current petrol landing cost of N1,311.36 per litre, according to a note from Petroleumprice.ng. Brent crude, the benchmark for Nigeria’s oil, was trading at about $107.86 per barrel on Friday, according to OilPrice.com, after earlier climbing above $108. The sharp rise…

Mastercard has partnered with Busha, a pan-African digital asset exchange, to expand Mastercard Crypto Credential across Africa and bring greater trust and simplicity to digital asset transfers. Effective immediately, all eligible Busha users in Nigeria are enabled to use a unique Crypto Credential alias, expanding the network of verified users and making it easier to send and receive cryptocurrency across participating exchanges and wallets in the Crypto Credential ecosystem. The partnership makes Busha among the first digital asset exchanges in Africa to enable Crypto Credential for its users, reinforcing both companies’ commitment to making digital asset transactions more trusted, simpler,…

Reform’s fundraising has been under scrutiny with police announcing an investigation over allegations it broke foreign funding laws, following a broadcast by Channel 4 News last week.The party denied any wrongdoing and said it would co-operate with the investigation.Farage is also under investigation by the parliamentary standards commissioner over whether he should have declared a £5m cash gift he received from Thailand-based cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne ahead of the 2024 election upon his election as an MP.Farage argues he was under no obligation to register the “purely private” gift, as it was unrelated to his parliamentary or political activities.The Metropolitan…

Week 1 of the NFL is here, and while that is exciting, several teams are dealing with notable injuries as they enter their first games of the season. The Atlanta Falcons won’t have their top two quarterbacks, the Las Vegas Raiders will be without their top weapon, Brock Bowers, and the New York Giants could be without their top wideout, Malik Nabers, for their primetime conference clash with the Dallas Cowboys.While almost every NFL team will have a player or two listed on their final injury reports, these will likely be the cleanest injury reports all year! Below, we will break down the…

Veteran Nollywood actor Pete Edochie has sparked conversations on social media following a wide-ranging interview in which he spoke about his career, marriage, culture, politics and his standing in the Nigerian film industry. The actor, renowned for his commanding screen presence and proverbial expressions, was a guest on comedian Isbae U’s “Curiosity Made Me Ask”, where he fielded questions about subjects ranging from being described as a Nollywood legend to his views on marriage and cultural identity. Several excerpts from the interview have since circulated on social media, generating debate over some of the 79-year-old actor’s views. Several excerpts from…

Click here to access the print version.Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3×3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9. Continue reading…

Many Nigerian men looking for a wife are now de-emphasising church. Some of them claim that once they hear that a lady is a “born-again”, too many vices (and not virtues) come to mind, including: The possibility of an extramarital affair with her pastor Loyalty to pastors and not her husband Priority to church and not family obligations Becoming an agent of disunity in the family she’s married into Sowing church seeds with his hard-earned money These men believe that the charity of many church girls does not begin at home, but starts and ends with pleasing her pastor. They…

The Republican senator for Ohio, Jon Husted, has fired an aide who was discovered to have used a photo of Nazi SS soldiers as his Facebook profile photo.Stephen Woytek was appointed as Husted’s political director last month in the senator’s knife-edge re-election contest against former Democrat senator Sherrod Brown. According to the Washington Post, Husted had decided to “part ways” with Woytek, 25, after learning that his Facebook profile showed he followed a military re-enactment group called LAH Living History Unit, which portrays the 1st SS Panzer division.The group’s website says its members dress up as the Leibstandarte, a Waffen-SS…

GLENDALE, ARIZONA – SEPTEMBER 11: Regina Tarin of Mexico during the Noche UFC official weigh-ins at Sheraton Phoenix Downtown on September 11, 2026 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)Zuffa LLCAll 26 fighters made weight for Noche UFC in Glendale, Arizona on Friday morning, and the event is set to go without another hitch. The main event was originally supposed to be Jean Silva vs. former UFC interim champion Yair Rodriguez. However, La Pantera was forced out with an injury and Jose Miguel Delgado stepped in on short notice. Silva and Delgado have done their part to sell the…

Comedian Garrett Millerick has created an AI avatar based on his own material. Is it any good?