Month: July 2025

The Federal Ministry of Environment has predicted that about eleven states are likely to experience flood disaster in the month July, 2025. The ministry in an early warning circular signed by the Director Erosion, Flood & Coastal Zone Management Department, Usman Abdullahi, gave the prediction through its National Flood Early Warning Centre (FEWS Center) in […]

A petrol tanker loaded with 33,000 litres capacity of premium motor spirit (PMS), a Toyota Prado Jeep and another were razed at Celica Junction, along Ife-Ibadan Expressway of Ibadan, Oyo State capital. General Manager of the state’s Fire Services Agency, Akinyemi Akinyinka who confirmed the incident, said it was reported at exactly 6:27pm through telephone […]

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has stated that the youth of Nigeria’s North-East are rewriting the region’s story through creativity, code, and modern innovations despite the security challenges in the past and economic hardship. Director-General, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, stated this on Thursday at the GITEX Nigeria 2025 Startup Roadshow held at the International […]

The Best of Ife, an annual arts exhibition will open its 31st edition themed Women of Ife July 19 to 26 at the John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History, Lagos Island. Women of Ife, will honour the silent architects and preservers of heritage, and their contributions to culture and kingdom quietly woven into […]

Managing director, Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC), Dr Ali Nuhu, has announced the return of a heritage film festival ‘Decasia’ to Lagos for its 2025 edition scheduled for July 27 to July 30. Nuhu, who is also the chief executive officer (CEO) of NFC, made this announcement in a statement by NFC’s director of Public Affairs, […]

Almighty Motion Picture has acquired the film and television rights to ‘Sabu: The Remarkable Story of India’s First Actor In Hollywood’ –the biography of Sabu Dastagir. Millennials knew him as the Abu in ‘Thief of Baghdad’ (1940), Mowgli in the 1942 screen adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Jungle Book’, as The Young General in ‘Black […]

Stage 32, a television and feature film writing platform, with over 1.3 million global memberships, has launched a Global Screenwriting Contest Hub. Announced by the Stage 32 CEO, Richard Botto, Deadline online magazine reports that the hub will bring together dozens of writing competitions from around the world into one place. These include Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts […]

About 60 Nigerians have graduated from the 2025 KPop Vocal and Dance Academy Class hosted by the Korea Culture Centre, Nigeria (KCCN). Established less than a decade ago, by the KCCN, the KPop Dance Academy enables Nigerian youths who are fans of Korea Popular Music (KPop) to learn the basic dance steps of the now […]

The Director General of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), Professor Abubakar Sulaiman has dismissed speculations about any plan to join the African Democratic Congress (ADC). Abubakar described speculation of his joining ADC as “false, baseless, and a figment of the imagination of those threatened by my firmness and national profile.” The […]