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Victor Osimhen remains firmly on Manchester United’s list of striker targets even as Galatasaray dig in against any sale, setting up one of the summer’s most closely watched standoffs between a cash conscious English giant and a Turkish champion determined to build its project around the Nigerian. The Super Eagles forward has become…
A decades old United States forfeiture matter that has shadowed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu since his years as a private businessman has been thrust back into the centre of Nigeria’s political contest, this time through the corridors of power in Washington rather than the courtrooms of Abuja. Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C., a Washington based…
Nearly two decades of recurring violence against Nigerians in South Africa moved from the streets to the floor of the National Assembly on Tuesday, as the House of Representatives resolved to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the human and economic losses suffered by its citizens and to press for compensation from Pretoria. The…
Fuel marketers have resumed lifting petrol and diesel from private depots across the country after nearly a week of disrupted loading, even as ex depot prices climbed again in Lagos and moved unevenly in other coastal hubs, signalling that the volatility unleashed by Dangote Petroleum Refinery’s shift to dollar pricing is far from over….
The New Nigeria People’s Party has declared a decisive turn in its protracted internal war, announcing that the Independent National Electoral Commission has restored its original logo on its portal and affirmed the National Working Committee headed by Dr Major Agbo, even as the party uploaded a placeholder presidential candidate ahead of the…
A rumour that swept across Nigerian social media this week pushed the Minister of Defence, General Christopher Gwabin Musa (retd.), into a rare public rebuttal on Tuesday, as he stepped out of a closed door meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja to declare that he had no intention…
A disputed agency that lawmakers say never legally existed has forced the Nigerian state to account for itself in real time, with the House of Representatives on Tuesday handing defaulting government offices a 48 hour ultimatum to produce documents and officials in a probe that has now drawn in two ministers, the National Security…
President Bola Tinubu’s congratulatory message to Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, the incoming President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), carried more than the usual ceremony. Alongside praise for a historic victory, the President added a pointed instruction: to reach out to her rivals, unify a divided bar, and “make efforts to correct issues that arose during…
Two foreign institutions cited as proof of the credibility of a Cameroonian university that awarded a doctorate to a Nigerian governorship candidate have said they have no record of any relationship with the institution, dealing a blow to efforts by the candidate’s camp to validate the qualification. The University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United…
Fresh cracks have emerged within the Peoples Redemption Party ahead of the 2027 general elections following the resignation of the party’s National Vice Chairman (South West), Wolimoh Olajide Epe, who accused the party of lacking national relevance and pursuing a regional agenda. Epe announced his resignation in a letter addressed to the party’s National…
