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Filmmaker Tunde Kelani has announced that an upcoming episode of his documentary series will be dedicated to late actor, scholar and cultural figure Gabriel Kola Oyewo. Mr Kelani made the announcement in an Instagram post on Tuesday, where he paid tribute to the actor’s contributions to Nigerian theatre and cinema. He said the episode will feature an archival interview with Mr Oyewo, allowing audiences to reflect on his life, career and influence on the creative industry. “Sometimes before we continue telling stories, we must first honour the people who made those stories possible,” Mr Kelani wrote in the post. He…

The National Business and Technical Examinations Board has released the results of the 2026 National Common Entrance Examination, with 75 per cent of candidates scoring 50 per cent and above. The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of NABTEB, Dr Aminu Mohammed, announced the results on Tuesday, saying the examination was conducted nationwide on June 13. Mohammed said enrolment dropped significantly, with 15,290 candidates registering for the examination compared to 29,260 in 2025. According to him, the figure represents a decline of 13,970 candidates, equivalent to 47.74 per cent of the previous year’s enrolment. He said 13,848 candidates, representing 90.57 per…

iRobot just announced its first ever non-robotic floor cleaner. The $399 Roomba Electro Plus is a 5-in-1 hard-floor cleaner that combines vacuuming, mopping, and disinfecting, but you have to operate it yourself. The company also announced updates to its line of Roomba robot vacuums, launching five new models with higher suction power, smaller footprints, and lower prices. These largely replace the line that arrived in 2025.Designed exclusively for hard floors, the new Electro Plus is similar to the new breed of manual wet-dry floor cleaners available from Dreame, Roborock, and others. iRobot’s distinguishing feature is Electro’s ability to turn regular…

Bitcoin is trading in a market that’s getting harder to define.Hovering around $64,000 at the time of writing, Bitcoin is down by almost 50% from its cycle peak. That’s a much shallower draw down than previous cycles, but the bull run this time around did not reach the same heights. The 2025 rally was driven by exchange-traded fund (ETF) inflows, post-halving momentum and renewed institutional demand, pushing the market to a new all-time high of more than $126,000 in October 2025.Since then, the trend has been inexorably downward, but analysts are split on what that decline signifies. According to Standard…

Scores of demonstrators on Tuesday stormed the National Assembly, Abuja, urging the Senate to suspend the confirmation of Professor Abayomi Fasina as a non-career ambassadorial nominee over allegations of sexual harassment, human rights violations and victimisation, which they said are currently before the courts. President Bola Tinubu recently transmitted a list of ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for screening and confirmation as part of efforts to fill Nigeria’s diplomatic missions abroad after months of vacancies. However, Fasina’s nomination has continued to attract controversy, with several civil society groups insisting that the Senate should defer any confirmation until pending court cases…

Google is going to give content creators and website owners a better idea of how people find their social media profiles and YouTube content through Search. With a new feature in the Google Search Console called “platform properties,” Google says that you’ll be able to “easily track which search terms lead people to your Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube content on Search, and see exactly how your audience is interacting with your posts,” according to a blog post.The new feature continues Google’s push to make Search more of a hub for everything creators and publishers do online. In June, Google…

EU lawmakers on Tuesday adopted a position paper on digital assets, setting out their view on how the bloc should approach crypto regulation after the rollout of its Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework.The paper calls on the European Commission to assess whether activities including decentralized finance (DeFi), crypto lending and borrowing, staking and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) should be brought more clearly into the EU’s regulatory perimeter. It also urges consistent application of MiCA across member states and warns against national rules that could fragment the bloc’s digital asset market.The vote turns the report, “Digital assets – challenges for the competitiveness…

Dior Creative Director Jonathan Anderson broke his silence about collaborating with Taylor Swift on her wedding dress. “It was a joy to work with her,” Anderson, 41, told WWD at the launch of his 2026 couture collection in Paris on Monday, July 6, adding, “We became very good friends.” Swift’s spokesperson confirmed on Friday, July 3, that she and husband Travis Kelce both wore Christian Dior Haute Couture for their wedding at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Anderson’s bespoke couture wedding dress for Swift, 36, was the fashion house’s first for a celebrity bride. In addition to their…

The University of Calabar (UniCal) has suspended 19 students over alleged examination misconduct, following recommendations by the Students’ Disciplinary Committee. The suspension order is contained in a letter signed by the Director of Administration, Citizen Ekpo, on behalf of the institution’s Registrar, Chukwuka Icha, which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Calabar. Speaking to NAN on the suspension, the university’s spokesperson, Effiong Eyo, said the letter followed approval by the university’s senate after consideration of the committee’s recommendations. Mr Eyo said the affected students were suspended for one academic session covering the 2025/2026…

Nigeria’s digital creator’s community was thrown into mourning on Monday following reports that TikTok content creator Akube Nation died in an auto crash in Lagos. However, the circumstances surrounding the crash have not been officially confirmed. As of the time of filing this report, the Lagos State Police Command and the Federal Road Safety Corps had not issued a statement, and PREMIUM TIMES could not independently verify the claims circulating online. A video circulating on social media on Tuesday showed an unidentified man claiming to recount the events leading to the crash. In the video, the man said he had…