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Martin Odegaard has criticised Bernardo Silva for a challenge on him that “does not belong on a football pitch” during Norway’s Nations League match against Portugal.
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Lagos, meet the first artiste for DEEP ENDZ: RAVINGTON
We’re bringing the underground together Oct 1st at Mantra.
Every performer gets their own hero/villain cartoon.
First of many. Who do you want to see next?👀👀👀
Integrating gambling into a banking app is deeply concerning. Banking should promote financial stability, not encourage people to gamble with their money. This is very UNFAIR.
A lot of Nigerian artists mistake access for opportunity.
You got the number. You met the A&R. Somebody followed you back. You performed at the event.
None of that means your career is moving.
Opportunity only becomes real when something changes because you were in the room.
Access opens doors. Execution determines whether anybody remembers you.
Meet our speaker @mannanagee, joining us for Game Developers & Music Licensing: What You Need to Know.
If you’re a game developer, music creator or industry professional, this conversation is for you.
Join us this Friday and don’t miss it!
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Stop flooding our markets with fake products!
Stop flooding our markets with fake products!
Stop flooding our markets with fake products!
Please, retweet this if it appears on your timeline. 😭🙏🏾
Na our lives dey at stake here. Don’t kill us all with fake products, abeg! 🥲🙏🏾
This life is interesting.
In the 2003/2004 UEFA Champions League season, I watched Monaco and Deportivo La Coruna play a very entertaining and high-scoring match that ended 8–3 to Monaco. That game could easily have ended 15–11. It was simply a game of attacks.
Monaco and Deportivo both qualified from their group, and after that match, I kept my eyes on both teams.
Then Deportivo performed that miracle comeback against AC Milan. They had lost the first leg 4–1, only to come back home and scatter Milan 4–0.
Monaco also shocked Real Madrid.
Madrid had won the first leg 4–2 and even scored first in the second leg. At that point, they were 5–2 up on aggregate and looked certain to qualify. Somehow, Monaco came back to win 3–1 and knocked them out.
At that point, I was expecting a Deportivo vs Monaco final.
Especially after my own Man United had been knocked out by a certain Porto, courtesy of a very annoying last-minute goal.
Then Porto met Deportivo in the semifinal.
To my surprise, Porto beat them. Even more surprisingly, Deportivo did not score a single goal against Porto over the two legs.
I didn't watch the final. I later heard that Porto had beaten that free-scoring Monaco team 3–0.
I couldn't believe it.
A few months later, I heard that the coach who took Porto to those shocking victories had been signed by Chelsea. Then he came to England and called himself “a Special One.”
I laughed.
Who does this man think he is? 😂
I expected him to, at best, be average.
Today, I am a big fan of that Special One.
I remember how long I kept thinking about those games. How did he beat a Deportivo team that had just scattered AC Milan 4–0 and not allow them to score even one goal in 180 minutes?
How did he stop Monaco from scoring?
The same Monaco that put 8 past Deportivo, 3 past Real Madrid and 5 past Chelsea over two legs couldn't score one goal against Porto in the final.
It took me a while to stop thinking about those questions.
Many years later, I understood.
To do special things, you have to think you are special.
Four years ago, Sony Music Publishing handed me a blank page. Today I close my chapter as Managing Director for Nigeria & West Africa.
What we wrote on that page:
We opened the door - "West Africa" became a starting point rather than a boundary.
We built the Legends Project because the people who wrote the songs that raised us deserve to own and benefit from the songs that raised us.
We signed young writers who are now on records currently following you around on the radio, TV and every playlist you own. 😌
We pulled off one of the biggest writing camps this continent has seen, and we sat in the rooms where policy actually gets made.
To the writers who shaped our history and the ones carrying the baton now — working with you has been the honour of my professional life. Thank you for the trust.
Thank you, Sony Music Publishing for the mandate and for backing the build. To the SMP Nigeria team, it has been a pleasure working with you all.
What's next? Other opportunities and announcements in due course. We'll all just have to wait and see. 👀
But first, a few months of cuddling my wife and my sons. 💙💕
Nigerian Doctor Raises Alarm Over Counterfeit Toothpaste Found In Multiple Stores 🚨🪥🇳🇬
“I Went To Over 6 Stores, And They All Had The Fake Toothpaste. They Didn’t Even Know It Was The Fake They Were Selling.
FAKE TOOTHPASTE CAN BE MORE THAN JUST A BAD DEAL. IT CAN BE A HEALTH HAZARD.
Can You Tell The Difference Between Original Oral-B Toothpaste And A Counterfeit One? In This Video, I Show You Some Of The Things To Look Out For When Buying Toothpaste And Why You Should Not Ignore Suspicious Packaging, Labelling, Smell, Texture, Or Unusually Cheap Products.”
~ Nigerian Doctor Warns
It is high time the Federal Government declared a state of emergency on fake and substandard products in Nigeria. A group of greedy, organised criminals cannot keep poisoning this country while they smile to the bank. What is happening in our markets is not petty trading. It is organised economic and public-health sabotage. It should be treated with the seriousness we reserve for terrorism, because the outcome is the same: Nigerians are being killed slowly, quietly, and profitably.
NAFDAC has said cosmetics, food and beverages now account for over 50% of the counterfeit products it seizes. Pharmaceuticals remain a major share. That means the things we put on our skin, put in our children’s mouths, and swallow when we are sick are the most faked categories.
In February 2025, coordinated raids on the big open drug markets in Idumota, Onitsha and Aba sealed more than 11,000 shops and evacuated 138 truckloads of suspected fake, expired, banned and unregistered medicines valued at over ₦1 trillion. Markets that supply a huge share of medicines used across Nigeria.
In February 2026, NAFDAC uncovered what it called a “death warehouse” at Lagos Trade Fair: over 10 million doses of fake cerebral malaria injections, antibiotics and banned Analgin, worth about ₦3 billion, products officials said could have killed three million Nigerians if they reached the streets. Days later, another ₦3 billion haul of banned and toxic cosmetics came from the same complex.
Customs has been intercepting containers of expired drugs and products carrying fake NAFDAC labels; one Apapa seizure alone was valued at ₦53.4 billion. Fake malaria drugs worth ₦1.2 billion have been found declared as “spare parts.” Counterfeiters now use online ordering and groupage cargo to stay one step ahead.
Official estimates put substandard and falsified medicines at around 13–17%. Pharmacists and some market studies put the figure far higher in open markets; 30% and above, and in some assessments over 50%. Even bottled water is being refilled and resealed. Imported auto spare parts fail SON standards at rates reported as high as 95%.
People die from malaria that “treatment” never treated, from antibiotics that never fought infection, from cosmetics loaded with mercury and steroids, from electrical and auto parts that fail when lives depend on them.
Confidence in every product collapses. When citizens cannot trust medicine, food or water, the social contract itself is damaged. NAFDAC has already described the trend as a threat to public health and national security. That language is not accidental. Seizures without enough prosecutions and convictions only recycle the problem.
Criminals calculate that the profit is worth the risk.
A state of emergency here does not mean empty speeches. Treating large-scale manufacture, importation and distribution of life-threatening fakes as organised crime against the civilian population with the intelligence, inter-agency and prosecutorial weight that implies.
Properly funding and coordinating NAFDAC, SON, Customs, FCCPC and the police so raids are followed by convictions, not just bonfires. Closing or strictly converting the worst open drug markets into coordinated, traceable wholesale systems.
Public naming of syndicates and the ports, warehouses and markets that keep feeding them.
We cannot continue like this. A nation that cannot protect what its people eat, drink and use for treatment is not merely facing a regulatory failure. It is facing a slow-motion assault on its own population. The Federal Government should treat it as such.