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Aminu Tambuwal, former Speaker of the House of Representatives and two-term Governor of Sokoto State, has formally severed his 23-year association with the Peoples Democratic Party, announcing his defection to the African Democratic Congress in the early hours of Thursday. The move, disclosed via a statement posted on his X account at approximately 12:30 a.m.,…
Tokyo has moved ahead of its international partners. Japan will begin releasing strategic petroleum reserves as early as Monday, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced on Wednesday, in a unilateral step that signals the depth of concern in the world’s fourth-largest economy over a rapidly deteriorating energy supply outlook tied to the widening conflict in…
Global oil markets swung sharply upward on Wednesday, recovering five per cent after a brief retreat to $88 per barrel the previous day, as the conflict involving the United States, Iran, and Israel continued to drive volatility across energy markets and its consequences rippled directly into Nigeria’s fuel economy. Brent crude climbed to $92.43…
For the first time in more than a decade, the British government has banned a protest march in London. Interior Minister Shabana Mahmood announced late Tuesday that she had approved a Metropolitan Police request to prohibit the annual Al-Quds Day march, which had been planned for Sunday, citing fears of serious public disorder arising…
The Federal Government has moved to extract Nigerians from Iran as the Middle East crisis deepens, escorting willing citizens across the Armenian border in what officials have described as the safest available route out of the country. The land corridor through Armenia has become the primary channel for evacuation after airspace over the region…
Mobile internet disruptions spreading across Russian cities are not going away any time soon. The Kremlin made that plain on Wednesday, telling the public that network outages will continue for as long as the authorities deem them necessary, a formulation that offered no timeline and no ceiling on how far the restrictions could go. Kremlin…
The Nigerian Exchange Limited closed Tuesday in negative territory, as investors moved to lock in gains from a sustained rally, triggering a broad sell-off that reversed Monday’s advances and shaved nearly three-quarters of a trillion naira from the market’s total value in a single session. The benchmark All-Share Index fell by 1,130.87 points, settling at…
Nigeria’s correctional system has long been a space where the state’s obligations to those in its custody receive little public scrutiny. That reality is now being forced into view. President Bola Tinubu has approved the deployment of 50 medical doctors and 100 nurses to hospitals inside the country’s correctional centres, a direct response to…
A Norwegian court has sentenced Daniel Daga, a Nigerian professional footballer and former Flying Eagles midfielder, to six months in prison after finding him guilty of committing a sexual act without consent. The verdict, delivered on Tuesday, marks one of the more high-profile criminal cases to touch Nigerian football at the junior international level…
Generative artificial intelligence is poised to reshape global labour markets, but new data from the International Labour Organisation confirms that women will bear a disproportionate share of the disruption, with female-dominated occupations facing nearly twice the exposure risk of male-dominated roles. The findings, published in the research brief titled “GenAI, Occupational Segregation and Gender…
