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Former Kano State governor and 2023 New Nigeria Peoples Party presidential candidate, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has rejected claims that he is secretly working for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election ahead of the 2027 polls, describing the allegation as “false and misleading.” Kwankwaso made the denial on Wednesday night during an interview with Global TV,…
The Labour Party has formally petitioned the Inspector-General of Police and the Department of State Services over the alleged unauthorised circulation of nomination forms linked to former national chairman Julius Abure, describing the development as misleading to aspirants and damaging to the party’s structure. National chairman Senator Nenadi Usman disclosed this on Wednesday in…
United Nations agencies have mounted an urgent emergency response to a fast-spreading Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, mobilising medical supplies, logistics support, and personnel across multiple affected provinces as the death toll climbs and the virus threatens to breach more urban centres. UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric disclosed the scale…
Victor Osimhen could be handed the captain’s armband at Galatasaray if the Istanbul club decides not to retain Argentine forward Mauro Icardi, Turkish football pundit Ali Naci Kucuk has disclosed. “Galatasaray wants to give the captain’s armband to Victor Osimhen if they don’t continue with Mauro Icardi,” Kucuk said, adding fresh dimension to ongoing…
For millions of Muslims across West Africa, Eid al-Adha, known in Mali as Tabaski, is the most sacred family gathering of the year. But for residents of Bamako, Mali’s capital, the 2025 celebration has been reduced to a painful exercise in isolation, as an Al-Qaeda linked jihadist blockade severs the roads connecting families separated by…
The African Democratic Congress has declared that a Federal High Court judgment nullifying key sections of the Independent National Electoral Commission’s regulations for the 2027 general elections will unleash a wave of defections from the ruling All Progressives Congress, as the opposition party welcomed the verdict as a direct vindication of its earlier legal…
Nigeria’s currency held firm against the United States Dollar in the early hours of Thursday, May 21, 2026, trading at 1,371.25 per Dollar in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market, the official window for formal currency trade, following the Central Bank of Nigeria’s decision to retain its benchmark interest rate unchanged. The Monetary Policy Committee…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released 279 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination results that had been withheld following suspicions of examination malpractice, offering relief to a fraction of candidates caught in the board’s post-examination verification dragnet. The board’s spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, confirmed the development on Thursday via a post on X, stating…
An Australian federal court has ordered Elon Musk’s social media platform X to pay a fine of AU$650,000 (approximately US$464,900) after the company failed to adequately respond to demands from the country’s internet safety regulator regarding child protection measures, bringing to a close a legal confrontation that stretched over three years. The ruling, delivered…
The Federal Government has commenced disbursement of outstanding 2025 allowances owed to Nigerian students benefiting from the Bilateral Education Agreement Scholarship Programme in partner countries, offering long-awaited financial relief to scholars who have endured months of hardship due to payment delays. The development was disclosed in an official statement issued on Wednesday by the…
