Nigerian music star Burna Boy presented the Socrates Award to Arsenal forward Bukayo Saka at the 2026 Ballon d’Or ceremony. The Afrobeats singer took to the stage to present the award to the England international during the prestigious football awards ceremony, bringing together two prominent figures from the worlds of music and football. Burna boy…
US President Donald Trump hit back at Barack Obama on Monday after the former president jokingly said his successor’s White House looked as if it were a cheesecake restaurant run by Saddam Hussein. “For you to say it’s a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president,” Trump said in a three-minute…
•INEC to clarify omitted candidate’s status this week By Henry Umoru, John Alechenu, Luminous Jannamike & Emma Una ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has met the Independent National Electoral Commission’s, INEC, October 24 deadline for correcting the names of candidates omitted from its published list, the party’s National Organising Secretary, Captain Umar Bature,…
Professor Pat Utomi has criticised the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the distribution of luxury sport utility vehicles (SUVs) to selected youth leaders, contrasting the expenditure with what he described as poor salaries paid to Nigerian soldiers. Utomi, a chieftain of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), said it was troubling that an APC youth leader…
By Omeiza Ajayi, ABUJA Pastoralist groups have rejected the profiling of Fulani pastoralists as bandits and called on President Bola Tinubu to immediately declare a national dialogue on farmer-herder conflicts, following what they say are the killings of hundreds of pastoralists in recent months. At a news conference on Sunday in Abuja, President of Kautal…
By Elizabeth Adegbesan A disturbing new trend is fast gaining ground across major open-air food markets, sparking urgent public health warnings and triggering widespread panic among consumers. Read Also: Unhealthy profit: Fish vendors now using dye to fake freshness Economy&Lifestyle findings revealed that several local fruit vendors are systematically washing their produce with synthetic laundry…
By Steve Oko UMUAHIA—The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, has alleged that 68 detained Biafrans were secretly transferred from Wawa Barracks to correctional facilities in Kuje, Keffi and Suleja, accusing the Federal Government of using the justice system to prolong the detention of its members. The group also alleged that the Court of Appeal had…
At least eight countries have officially been eliminated from the ongoing FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in Morocco. They are Samoa, Chile, Australia, Zambia, Canada, Norway, Puerto Rico and New Zealand. This follows the conclusion of the final group stage matches played on Sunday. Samoa is the latest team to be sent packing after losing…
Real Madrid manager, Jose Mourinho, has won his first El Clasico in his second stint at the club. This follows their 2-1 win over Barcelona on Sunday night. Los Blancos came into the game at the Camp Nou, knowing that defeat would all but rule them out of the title race. It was Mourinho’s men…
By Luminous Jannamike & Olayinka Ajayi Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu of shifting responsibility for Nigeria’s economic hardship to the opposition, insisting that the administration must account for its record ahead of the 2027 presidential election. Read Also: Atiku, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), was reacting…
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