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  An alleged affair between a gym instructor, Dennis Emmanuel, and a social media feminist, Folakemi Martins, has turned into a messy public dispute, with the two dragging each other online over allegations surrounding their failed relationship. The controversy started when Emmanuel, who claimed to be married, accused Martins, in a lengthy post on X (formerly Twitter), of harassment, stalking and attempts to damage his reputation and marriage. Emmanuel, who admitted to having a sexual relationship with Martins, also accused her of refusing to let go after he decided to end their affair. According to him, his relationship with Martins began on May 9, 2026, after he told her that he was married and was looking for a “side chic.” Emmanuel, who shared several screenshots of alleged conversations between him and Martins, claimed that she knew about his marriage and agreed to the arrangement. He said the trouble began when Martins allegedly became persistent, demanding and disrespectful,...

  Kenya President Visits Dangote Refinary In Ibeju, Lagos Toured the Dangote Refinery in Lekki, Lagos State, Nigeria, at the invitation of Dangote Group President and CEO @AlikoDangote ahead of our groundbreaking ceremony for the Dangote East African Refinery in Lamu, Kenya, next week. The refinery in Nigeria is a massive investment with a crude oil refining capacity of 700,000 barrels a day and produces more than 100 million litres of petrol, diesel and aviation fuel every day. The company has built 120km of sea cables to move crude from ships to the refinery. This huge achievement is a testament of what African governments, investors and financial institutions can do together. The refinery whose construction we launch in Kenya next week will be bigger. It will transform the petroleum sector in our country and region, providing fuel reliability and security, scaling up industrialisation and creating 60,000 jobs. When the refinery is completed, spin off industries will emerge, incl...

  One Ground Station. Nearly 100,000 Customers. There is a number hiding inside Nigeria's latest ISP statistics that deserves more attention than another routine broadband-growth headline. Starlink had 98,642 active Nigerian subscribers in the second quarter of 2026, according to Nigerian Communications Commission data. Spectranet remained ahead at 111,384, leaving a gap of only 12,742 subscribers. The more intriguing figure sits underneath those subscriber totals. Analysis of the same NCC dataset shows Starlink serving its Nigerian base through one declared ground station, while Spectranet operates roughly 640 points of presence. That is not an apples-to-apples infrastructure comparison. Satellite and terrestrial broadband are built differently. But it exposes something much larger. The economics of reaching the Nigerian customer are changing. The Last-Mile Equation Is Being Rewritten Traditional broadband expansion is physically demanding. Operators invest in fibre routes, transm...

  by Nse Anthony-Uko Nigeria’s earnings from Premium Motor Spirit exports rose more than sixfold year-on-year to N998.5bn in the first half of 2026, as increased production by the Dangote refinery and disruptions to global supply routes reshaped the country’s petroleum trade . Data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), showed that African buyers accounted for N621.72bn, or more than 60 per cent, of the total value of Nigeria’s PMS exports during the period. In the second quarter alone, petrol exports were valued at N546.02bn, making PMS Nigeria’s seventh-largest export commodity. It ranked behind crude oil, valued at N12.91tn; jet fuel; natural gas; urea; other petroleum gases; and gas oil. The latest figures mark a sharp reversal for Nigeria, which was still heavily dependent on imported petrol barely a year earlier. In the first quarter of 2025, PMS did not feature among the country’s leading export products. During the same quarter, Nigeria spent N1.76tn importing petro...

As Nigeria’s 2023 general elections approached, Joshua Okoro stood before students in Ebonyi State and urged them to vote for David Umahi, then the state’s governor and a candidate for the Ebonyi South senatorial seat. Okoro, who was chairman of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Stakeholders Forum in Ebonyi State and coordinator of the Divine Mandate Students Campaign, was canvassing support for Umahi’s Ebonyi South senatorial seat. He urged the students to “vote wisely” and choose Umahi. “Your support and vote will be reciprocated in many ways,” Okoro told the students. At the time of the campaign, Okoro’s appeal appeared to be a routine show of political support. Umahi won the election, but the Senate seat would not hold him for long. He resigned from the Senate and became President Bola Tinubu’s Minister of Works, one of the most contract-heavy portfolios in the federal government. Months later, after Umahi became Minister of Works, a company led by Okoro began r...