Portugal Loses Millions of Followers After Ronaldo Exit
Portugal’s national team has lost a large number of Instagram followers in the hours after…
Portugal Loses Millions of Followers After Ronaldo Exit
Portugal’s national team has lost a large number of Instagram followers in the hours after captain Cristiano Ronaldo walked out of the squad’s training camp, with trackers putting the drop anywhere between several hundred thousand and more than a million within a single day. The fall followed Ronaldo’s abrupt departure from the camp in Copenhagen…
Cost of Living Pushes UK Youth Out of Pensions
A growing number of young workers in the United Kingdom are walking away from their workplace pensions, choosing cash in hand now over savings they will not touch for decades, as rent, debt and daily costs squeeze household budgets. The shift is being driven by affordability rather than carelessness, according to accounts from the…
FA Weighs In On Man City Guilty Verdict
The English Football Association has said the finding that Manchester City broke the Premier League’s financial rules carries implications for the integrity of the game, while stopping short of saying what action it might take. In a statement on Friday, the FA said it was carefully considering the decision and its implications and would…
UK Swears In New Attorney General, Solicitor General
Ellie Reeves KC MP has been sworn in as Attorney General for England and Wales, and Andy Slaughter MP as Solicitor General, at a ceremony on Thursday, 1 October 2026 at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. The Attorney General’s Office announced the swearing in in a statement published the same day. The two…
Argentina Cannot Retire Messi’s Shirt, Says FIFA Rule
Argentina will not be able to permanently retire the No. 10 shirt in honour of Lionel Messi, as FIFA squad regulations stand in the way of the tribute, according to a report by GOAL.com. The Argentine Football Association had wanted to take the number out of circulation for good once Messi stepped away from…
Opposition Disputes Tinubu Prosperity Claim
Opposition leaders have pushed back hard against President Bola Tinubu’s Independence Day declaration that Nigeria has entered an “age of prosperity”, insisting that the prices Nigerians pay for food, fuel and transport tell a different story from the one told at Aso Rock. In his 1 October address marking the country’s 66th anniversary, Tinubu…
NNPC Spends N27.76trn as 2025 Profit Hits N7.2trn
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited spent about N27.76 trillion running its business in 2025, a sum equal to roughly 80 per cent of the N34.52 trillion revenue the group reported for the year. The figure, drawn from the company’s 2025 audited financial statements, has put fresh attention on the cost structure of Nigeria’s…
Carter Efe, Phyna Win Independence Day Bouts
Reality television star Josephina Otabor, known as Phyna, knocked out actress Nkechi Blessing Sunday in the fourth round of a celebrity boxing contest in Lagos, while streamer and skit maker Oderhohwo Joseph Efe, known as Carter Efe, beat rapper Darlington Okoye, known as Speed Darlington, in the men’s bout on the same card. The…
NIPOST Launches Nationwide Digital Postcode System
The Nigerian Postal Service rolled out a national digital postcode system across all thirty-six states on Thursday, 1 October 2026, assigning unique eleven-character codes to every addressable building in the country. Communications Minister Bosun Tijani presented the project as an essential base for modern trade, linking the mapping drive to President Bola Tinubu’s stated goal…
INEC Registers 9.3m Youths Ahead of 2027 Polls
Nigeria’s electoral umpire enrolled more than 9.32 million young citizens during its 2026 continuous voter registration exercise, unveiling the tally in Abuja on Wednesday, 30 September, alongside nine celebrity ambassadors from the film, music, and comedy sectors to mobilise new voters. Speaking through national commissioner Rhoda Gumus at the investiture ceremony, commission chairman Joash Amupitan…