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👏🏾 Worth recognising

Aptech Nigeria honours 130+ graduates and awards ₦60m in UK scholarships

More than 130 graduates were honoured at Aptech Nigeria’s first National Convocation in Lagos. Four outstanding students received 50% scholarships to eligible Middlesex University programmes, valued at about ₦15m each.

⚡ Useful today

Professor Taofiq Nasir receives SONTA Lifetime Achievement Award

The Society of Nigeria Theatre Artists has honoured FUOYE professor Taofiq Olaide Nasir for more than two decades of work in theatre scholarship, applied drama and dramatherapy. He is widely recognised as Africa’s first professor of dramatherapy.

🇳🇬 Nigeria moving

AREAi and Raspberry Pi expand AI literacy across northern Nigeria

AREAi and the Raspberry Pi Foundation are rolling out Experience AI across Adamawa, Borno, Benue and the FCT, with plans to train 450 educators and reach about 16,000 students and community beneficiaries.

🎭 Culture & sport

GeoPredict AI wins NCDMB’s maiden Technology Innovation Challenge

GeoPredict AI won ₦25 million in the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board’s first Technology Innovation Challenge for an AI-driven reservoir-characterisation and drilling-decision solution. FrassPlus and MAR Thermal SIM also placed among the top winners.

😂 A little Cruise

Lasisi Elenu + Layi Wasabi: job interview wahala

A comedy sketch built around a very familiar Nigerian pressure: the job interview.

🕰️ Never forgotten

Remembering Taiwo Hassan “Ogogo”

The veteran Yoruba actor, filmmaker and screenwriter died at 66 after a career of more than four decades that helped shape Yoruba-language cinema for generations.

✦ Worth your attention

Chibuzor Chijioke wins a 2026 Future Awards public-service prize

Abia State digital-economy aide Chibuzor Elizabeth Chijioke has won The Future Awards Africa Prize for Public Service, recognising work around technology-driven economic opportunities, startup policy and ecosystem-building in the state.