January 2026 edition of our magazine for you – Just Like a Physical Magazine.
Inside the January 2026 Edition: Power Lists, a Festival’s Return, and Nollywood’s Biggest Season Yet
Alice Magazine, the Air Peace in-flight magazine, opens 2026 with a cover story built for the turn of the year: a power list. “Power, Influence and Innovation: 20 Nigerians to Watch in 2026” anchors the issue, profiling the individuals the magazine expects to shape the country’s economy, governance, and culture over the coming twelve months, and it sets a confident, forward-looking tone for the rest of the issue.
The list opens, unsurprisingly, with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, whose profile frames 2026 as the year his subsidy reforms, currency stabilisation, and tax overhaul will be judged not by headlines but by measurable outcomes in governance and public confidence. Right behind him is Zacch Adedeji, Executive Chairman of the Nigeria Revenue Service, described as the architect of a technology-driven push to broaden Nigeria’s tax base through voluntary compliance rather than punitive enforcement. Further down the list, Aliko Dangote appears at number five, with 2026 pitched as the year that determines whether the Dangote Refinery’s promise of industrial self-sufficiency translates into real operational stability, and Femi Otedola follows at six, his recent sale of a majority stake in Geregu Power Plant read as a disciplined bet freeing up capital for a deeper play at First Bank Holdings. Each profile follows the same shape: what the person has built, what’s being tested this year, and what success or failure would mean.
Chairman Dr. Allen Onyema’s welcome message looks back at 2025 as, in his words, a defining chapter for Air Peace, while being candid about the pressures facing Nigerian aviation: a heavy, overlapping tax and levy burden that squeezes airlines even as passenger demand softens. He confirms the airline’s shift from night-time to daytime regional flights, effective February 2, 2026, and previews new regional routes to Douala, Libreville, Kinshasa, Conakry, Bamako, and Johannesburg before the end of the first quarter.
One of the issue’s richest features, “How the Eyo Festival Turned Lagos Snow-White at Yuletide” by David Edremoda, covers the festival’s return to Lagos on December 27, 2025, after an eight-year hiatus. The piece lingers on the spectacle of white-robed, veiled figures processing through Tafawa Balewa Square and Lagos Island carrying ceremonial opambata staffs, and frames the festival’s revival as Lagos reclaiming a piece of ancestral memory even as the city races ahead with glass towers and commuter trains.
Nollywood gets serious attention too, in a feature on “Nigeria’s Soaring Cinema Culture and the Reinvention of an Entertainment Economy.” It digs into a strong holiday box office season, spotlighting Toyin Abraham’s “Oversabi Aunty” (grossing ₦711.5 million in eighteen days, making it the fourth-highest-grossing Nollywood film of all time in West Africa), alongside Ini Edo’s family drama “A Very Dirty Christmas” and the crime comedy “Ginger,” anchored by KieKie’s comedic timing. The piece treats these films less as entertainment than as a barometer of a maturing industry.
Lighter travel and lifestyle coverage rounds out the issue: “10 Best Things to Do in London in Early 2026” and “A City’s Lively Beach Culture” offer practical destination guidance, while “7 Clean, Modern Ways to Lose Holiday Weight” and “Beauty Resolutions That Actually Work” lean into the new-year, new-habits mood readers expect from a January issue. “Reliving an Era of Train Travel in Nigeria” takes a nostalgic look at the country’s rail history, and the food pages offer a more elevated note with a “Pan-Grilled Steak with Potato Fondant, Oha Demi-Glacé and Bone Marrow Jus,” billed as a celebration of Nigerian heritage through fine culinary technique.
Fashion closes the issue out with “At the Golden Globes 2026: Stars Reimagine Fashion,” a red carpet recap timed to the ceremony, while the Air Peace News section celebrates Solomon Ayegba’s elevation to Captain, framed as a marker of the airline’s investment in homegrown aviation talent.
Taken together, January’s edition reads as Alice Magazine in full new-year mode: ambitious, list-driven, and confident, pairing hard assessments of Nigeria’s most powerful people with the warmth of a festival returning home and a film industry breaking its own records. Flip through the full January 2026 edition to explore every story in detail, from Tafawa Balewa Square to the Golden Globes red carpet.
