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The Guinean Football Federation has dismissed as false reports that it lodged an appeal with the Confederation of African Football seeking to overturn Morocco’s victory at the 1976 Africa Cup of Nations tournament held in Ethiopia. The denial comes amid widespread social media circulation of claims that Guinea demanded the 1976 AFCON trophy be…
Iran on Monday issued sweeping threats to deploy naval mines across the Gulf and strike power infrastructure throughout the Middle East, defying a United States ultimatum to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as the military confrontation with Washington and Israel entered its fourth week. The Islamic Republic showed no sign of backing down ahead…
The Central Bank of Nigeria has been awarded Central Bank of the Year by London-based Central Banking magazine, following a series of monetary reforms credited with stabilising the Nigerian economy after years of macroeconomic distortions. The recognition centres on policy changes introduced under Governor Olayemi Cardoso, who assumed office in October 2023 amid mounting…
Troops of the Nigerian Army have neutralised dozens of armed bandits in a fierce gun battle at the notorious hideout of bandit kingpin Bello Turji, located deep inside Kagara Forest in Fakai community, spanning Shinkafi Local Government Area of Zamfara State and Isa Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The operation, which took place…
A nationwide assessment of fiscal transparency at the grassroots level has exposed a severe deficit in public access to local government financial information, with only 10 of Nigeria’s 36 states making annual budgets of their Local Government Areas publicly available online. The findings, contained in a report titled “The Missing Tier: Mapping Local…
The Nigerian Exchange Limited recorded a significant milestone last week as its all-share index breached the psychological 200,000-point threshold for the first time, settling at 201,156.85 points amid broad-based gains across key sectors and sustained institutional buying interest. The industrial goods sector emerged as the week’s best performer, posting a 9.67 per cent gain to…
A faction of the Peoples Democratic Party under the influence of Nyesom Wike, Nigeria’s Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, has categorically rejected suggestions that it intends to support President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general elections, insisting instead that the party will field its own presidential candidate when the time arrives for primary…
The United Kingdom has commenced a strategic expansion of detention infrastructure designed to accelerate the removal of foreign offenders and illegal migrants from British territory, a move coinciding with and directly enabled by a newly formalised bilateral agreement with Nigeria that streamlines the repatriation of thousands of undocumented nationals. The UK Home Office announced yesterday…
The Confederation of African Football has fundamentally rewritten the history of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, stripping Senegal of a hard won victory on the pitch and awarding the continental championship to Morocco through regulatory intervention. Official checks on the CAF website confirm that Morocco now stands recorded as champions of the TotalEnergies CAF…
Nigeria’s monetary policy architecture is undergoing a fundamental transformation. The Central Bank of Nigeria has committed itself to a deliberate transition toward an inflation-targeting framework, abandoning decades of discretionary monetary management in favour of a transparent, rules-based system explicitly anchored to long-term price stability. The shift represents one of the most significant policy reorientations undertaken…
