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The naira turned in a mixed showing against the United States dollar on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, steady at the official window even as it lost a little ground on the streets, a pattern that has come to define the currency’s day to day movement in recent months. At the official Nigerian Foreign Exchange…
Nigeria has opened one of its most consequential regulatory battles with the world’s biggest technology companies, after President Bola Tinubu directed the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission to investigate Meta, Alphabet, X and a number of Generative Artificial Intelligence platforms over allegations that they are exploiting Nigerian journalism without paying for it and…
The memory of Muhammadu Buhari will return to the centre of national attention next week as family members, former aides and political associates prepare to gather in solemn prayer, marking exactly one year since the former president passed away. A former presidential media aide, Bashir Ahmad, disclosed on Tuesday that a prayer and remembrance…
South Korea began enforcing a tougher law against false and manipulated information online on Tuesday, opening one of Asia’s most consequential experiments in policing digital falsehood, even as journalists, opposition politicians and civic groups warned that the same rules could be turned against legitimate speech. The revised Information and Communications Network Act, widely referred…
Ali Modu Sheriff has drawn a firm line under the 2027 succession debate, telling former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to abandon any hope of returning to the presidency next cycle and instead hold his ambition until 2031. The former Borno State governor and All Progressives Congress chieftain argued that power must remain in the South…
The bitter feud between the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Femi Gbajabiamila, and the self-styled director-general of a disputed government council took a fresh legal turn this week, with the presidential aide threatening to drag his accuser to court over allegations that range from bribery to murder. Through his lawyers, Pinheiro LP,…
Cristiano Ronaldo walked off the pitch at the home of the Dallas Cowboys on Monday night knowing there would be no more World Cups, no more grand entrances on football’s biggest stage. Spain saw to that, grinding out a 1-0 win over Portugal in a round of 16 tie that took almost the full 90…
Another Air Peace aircraft will lift off from Lagos on Tuesday afternoon bound for Johannesburg, and by the early hours of Wednesday it is expected to touch down at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport with 270 Nigerians who have chosen to leave South Africa behind. It is the latest run in an evacuation…
A Magistrate Court in Isabo, Abeokuta, on Monday ordered that three men accused of murdering retired Ogun State Television broadcaster, Kitan Oyesiku, and her security guard, Pelumi Adetayo, be held in custody for 60 days while prosecutors decide how the case will proceed. Chief Magistrate O.T. Odubanjo of Court 3 gave the order after…
Fame has taken Habeeb Okikiola, the street-pop entertainer known to millions as Portable, from the rough edges of hustling to sold-out stages and viral headlines, yet the singer says one wound has refused to heal: he never finished school. In a preview of the Honest Brunch Podcast, billed for release on YouTube on Monday,…
