Modric Extends Milan Stay As Amorim Rebuild Takes Shape
Luka Modric has committed to another season at San Siro, with AC Milan confirming on…
Modric Extends Milan Stay As Amorim Rebuild Takes Shape
Luka Modric has committed to another season at San Siro, with AC Milan confirming on Thursday that the Croatia captain has signed on until 30 June 2027, a decision that closes months of speculation over whether the 2018 Ballon d’Or winner would retire, return to Spain or push on into a 21st professional campaign. The…
Banks Lend More To Firms As CBN Holds Rates At 26.5%
Fresh monetary data from the Central Bank of Nigeria has put credit to the private sector at N83.3 trillion in June 2026, a 2.8 per cent rise from the N81 trillion recorded in May, offering the clearest sign yet that bank lending to businesses and households is recovering after a punishing first half of…
I Deceived Nobody: Obasanjo Replies Osoba Over 2003 Polls
Twenty three years after the Alliance for Democracy lost five of the six states it controlled in the South West, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has reopened one of the Fourth Republic’s most contested political arguments, rejecting claims by former Ogun State Governor, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, that he deceived Yoruba political leaders ahead of the…
Google Introduces Selfie Verification for Locked Accounts
Google has opened a new route back into locked accounts, allowing users to verify their identity with a short selfie video, a move that places facial biometrics at the centre of one of the most sensitive moments in digital life, the moment a user has lost every other way in. The company announced the feature…
 Blessing CEO Granted N20m Bail As Three Fraud Files Advance
Social media personality Okoro Blessing Nkiruka, widely known as Blessing CEO, walked out of the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja on Thursday with bail set at N20 million, closing one chapter of a prosecution that has placed her before three separate courts in Lagos within a span of eight weeks. Justice Rahman…
AI Now Removes 99.8% Of Flagged Nigerian TikTok Content
Nigeria’s fastest growing social platform pulled down more than 4.8 million videos from its local community between January and March 2026, a figure that lands in the middle of the most aggressive push for platform regulation the country has seen since the Twitter ban of 2021. The disclosure is contained in TikTok’s Community Guidelines…
Insults Won’t Save You: Atiku Renews Budget Challenge To Tinubu
A fiscal argument over how ₦12.8 trillion is parked inside Nigeria’s 2026 budget has hardened into one of the sharpest personal confrontations of the pre 2027 political season, with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar accusing the Presidency of trading disclosure for insults, and the Presidency accusing him of exporting a domestic quarrel to Washington….
Oil Crosses $100 As Red Sea Attacks Widen Global Supply Fears
Brent crude closed above $100 a barrel on Thursday for the first time since late May, after Iran aligned Houthi fighters struck Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea and opened a second maritime front in a conflict that has already crippled traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. The international benchmark settled 7 percent…
Aregbesola: I Left Office Without Owning a House
Three weeks before Osun State votes for a governor, a claim by former Governor Rauf Aregbesola that he completed eight years in office without owning a house of his own has pushed the question of personal probity to the centre of an already crowded campaign, and revived scrutiny of an administration whose fiscal record remains…
United Nigeria Suspends Benin Flights Over Runway Closure
United Nigeria Airlines has halted all operations to Benin Airport following an emergency runway closure. The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria ordered the immediate shutdown after an aircraft skidded off the tarmac on Thursday. Management announced that flights will remain cancelled until regulators reopen the airfield. The suspension leaves hundreds of domestic travellers stranded across…