The last time a top-flight football derby between two Lagos-based teams happened in the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) was 10 years ago, when goals from Sikiru Olatunbosun, Stephen Odey, and Ifeanyi Ifeanyi gave MFM’s Olukoya Boys a 3-1 win over Ikorodu United in the NPFL16 Matchday 25 at the Agege Stadium. That feels […]
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Eight days after replacing Tim Cook as Apple’s CEO, John Ternus would hold his first product keynote as Apple’s CEO at the Surprise and Shine event on September 9, where Apple announced a slew of new hardware and software, headlined by the foldable iPhone Duo, the iPhone 18 series and a new crop of Apple […]
Like a bolt out of the blue, US-based ride-hailing company Uber effectively shut down its operations in Nigeria on Wednesday, September 2, bringing an end to a 12-year run in the country. It was part of a larger restructuring decision that reduced its global workforce by 10%, even as the ride-hailing giant exited Uganda […]
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Humanity has competed with itself for centuries, from the race to industrialise to the race into space. But few technological contests have moved as quickly, or carried as many questions about our future, as the one now unfolding around artificial intelligence. The world’s frontier AI labs are pouring billions of dollars, enormous computing power and […]
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If you’re an average X user with considerable engagement with writers, media organisations, creators and influencers, you will have seen them: full-fledged articles, with embedded media, subheading formats, hyperlinked text, and everything else that makes up a traditional article or blog post. The only difference is that these articles are siloed on X, the social […]
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Ultimately, nothing compares to the knockout stage of any football tournament. While the group stage is usually no walk in the park, by any means, as the 2026 World Cup proved across the United States, Canada and Mexico, the commencement of the Round of 32 this week has brought the usual tale of end-to-end contests […]
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As one might expect in a World Cup tournament featuring 48 nations, a 50 per cent increase from its last edition, the infrastructure required to stage it — from the action on the pitch to the technical operations, officiating, and production — would also be at an unprecedented level. In that regard, the role of […]
The Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, has hosted Google I/O for most of the last two decades. The annual developer conference, so coined from the computing term “Input/Output,” has long served as a window into Google’s ambitions. This year’s edition, held from May 20 to May 21, was no different, especially consequential because it […]
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Netflix hasn’t had the best of fortunes with its gaming ambitions, but the streaming giant has remained persistent, and right now, that persistence finally appears to be heading somewhere meaningful for the first time since it fully embraced gaming in 2021. Per The Verge’s account, Netflix first dabbled in games through interactive titles such […]
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Ten days after an audacious space mission to the moon and back, the Artemis II astronauts returned to Earth, and the world will never quite look at the night sky the same way again. On April 1, 2026, three American astronauts and one Canadian launched into history from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, embarking on […]
At a sparsely filled 1,000-capacity hall at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) last October, Seye Bandele, co-founder and CEO of PaidHR, speaking to a student audience convened by the Junior Chamber International Nigeria, FUNAAB chapter, revealed one of his firm’s end goals. The startup founder noted that for all of PaidHR’s current strides […]
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Nigeria’s tech and digital economy is still in its formative phase, and growth at this stage needs all the right input it can garner. Live engagements — events, workshops, and conferences — are one of those critical inputs. An ecosystem still finding its footing needs its gatherings to do real work: they are where an […]
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