Most people who follow Nigerian finance know the name Mustafa Chike-Obi from one of three places: the trading floors of Wall Street, the debt-clearing agency that cleaned up the country’s banking mess after 2009, or the boardroom of a major commercial bank. This week a fourth appearance put him back in the search trends. In…
On Saturday in Abuja, a retired Supreme Court justice stood up at a Nigerian Law School reunion and said something that lawyers and judges will be quoting for a while. Corruption, Amina Augie told the room, turns the one place where a citizen should find impartiality into “one more market stall.” Her remarks were carried…
Central bank governors rarely become household names, and the good ones tend to prefer it that way. Olayemi Cardoso, who runs the Central Bank of Nigeria, has not had that luxury. Since late 2023 he has presided over a currency reset, a sharp interest-rate cycle and a banking recapitalisation drive, and this week his name…
Few Nigerian public figures have managed to be a pastor, a law professor, a state attorney general and a vice president at the same time in their careers, and fewer still have stayed in the headlines after leaving office. Yemi Osinbajo is one of them. His name moved up Nigeria’s search trends this week after…
A header in the 92nd minute is the sort of thing that sends a footballer’s name to the top of search lists. On Thursday night in Vigo, Randal Kolo Muani came on as a substitute, met a cross from Andrea Cambiaso and gave Juventus a 2–1 Europa League win over Celta Vigo. The match was…
When Hollywood needs someone to finish another director’s film, the list of people who can step in without making a mess is short. This week one name came up: Steven Soderbergh, who will help complete the last weeks of principal photography on The Batman Part II. Deadline reported the news on 15 October, and Nigerian…
Harlan Coben has a habit of showing up on the Netflix charts, and this week he did it again. A Collider report says his series I Will Find You, which debuted on 8 June, has reached 120.8 million views and sits fifth on the platform’s list of most-watched English-language shows. South African searches for his…
Dave Rennie has a way of making a press conference sound like a casual chat while saying something pointed. On Thursday, ahead of the second Bledisloe Cup Test in Sydney, the All Blacks head coach was asked about the 2027 Rugby World Cup draw, which has New Zealand and South Africa on course for a…
Allan Kilavuka no longer has an executive assistant, and he says it shows. In an interview with the Business Daily this week he admitted he is struggling with his own calendar, and that messages to him can sit unanswered because half the time he is out on a farm in Kitale with his hands in…
Ruben Amorim says he will do a job for exactly as long as he said he would, and then move on. He said so in January 2026 at Elland Road, and the next day Manchester United announced he was gone. Five months later he was appointed head coach of AC Milan, and this week Ghanaian…
South African politics has a handful of figures who are recognisable by their first names, their nicknames and their social media accounts all at once. Fikile Mbalula, the African National Congress’s secretary-general, is one of them. He has been an ANC Youth League president, a cabinet minister under two presidents, and a self-styled “Mr Fix”….
Jadon Sancho’s career has had more turns than most players manage in two decades. He left England’s academy system as a teenager to chase first-team football in Germany, returned home for £73 million, fell out publicly with his manager, and then spent three seasons on loan at Borussia Dortmund, Chelsea and Aston Villa, winning a…
In the summer of 2015, Crystal Palace sent Antoine Semenyo home after an eight-week trial. Eleven years later he is a Manchester City player with an FA Cup final winner on his record and a place in Ghana’s squad for a World Cup. Ghanaian fans were searching for him again this week after a night…
Few African strikers have carried as much weight on their shoulders as Victor Osimhen. At Galatasaray he is the club’s record signing and the front man of a side that has won back-to-back Turkish league titles. For Nigeria he is the vice-captain and, going by current records, the second-highest scorer in the national team’s history….
Big Soso is the on-air name of Sonia Amako, a lawyer and chef from Kaduna who entered Big Brother Naija Season 10 in July 2025. Her time in the house was shorter than she hoped, but her profile combines a law degree, a cooking business and a stated mission to represent women from northern Nigeria….