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Napoleon Hat Sells For Record $2.1 Million

A bicorne hat believed to have belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte sold for a record 1,932,000 euros ($2.11 million) at the Drouot auction house in...

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Okadabooks To Shut Down Bookshelves

OkadaBooks is shutting down its bookshelves after running for 10 years. Okechukwu Ofili, the company’s CEO, shared the news via a statement today, November 20,...

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Monet Painting To Go On Sale At Paris Auction For First Time In Decades

A painting by French impressionist master Claude Monet, which has remained in private hands since 1948, is expected to fetch up to 3 million...

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LABAF: Entries For 2023 Ken Saro-Wiwa Prize Opens

The Committee for Relevant Art, CORA, promoters of the yearly Lagos Book & Art Festival (LABAF), has called for entries for the 2023 edition...

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How You Can Prepare For The Rainy Season

The rainy season is no longer knocking—it’s here. And if we learned anything from 2024, it’s that waiting till the skies open up before taking action is a costly mistake. Last year, floods impacted over 30 states across Nigeria. From the submerged neighborhoods of Bayelsa to Lagos’ flooded...

Will Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB Leader, Be Released Soon?

The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has expressed confidence that he will be granted bail this April after spending four years in custody. Kanu conveyed this assurance during a visit from the President-General of the Igbo Community Association (ICA) in Abuja,...

Five Times Nigeria Introduced New Naira Notes

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) recently debunked claims that it is set to introduce ₦5,000 and ₦10,000 banknotes, describing the viral reports and accompanying circulars as fake and misleading. In a post shared via its official X (formerly Twitter) handle on Wednesday, the apex bank stated unequivocally...