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Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen is happy at Galatasaray and wants to remain with the Turkish Super Lig champions beyond the current season, according to club reporter Kutlu Akpınar, who also revealed that two Premier League clubs including Manchester United – are monitoring the forward’s situation. Osimhen, who joined Galatasaray from Napoli, scored 22 goals…
Brighton and Hove Albion midfielder James Milner has announced his retirement from professional football, bringing an end to a 24-season Premier League career in which he set a new all-time appearance record of 658 matches. The 40-year-old, who joined Brighton in the summer of 2023, confirmed his decision in a post on Instagram. “After…
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has called on former President Goodluck Jonathan to reject the presidential ticket offered to him by a faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), describing the move as a “bizarre comedy” and warning that accepting it could damage Jonathan’s global image. The Tanimu Turaki-led faction…
The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) has distanced itself from various results of its recently concluded nationwide primaries circulating on social media, declaring that no official candidate has yet been announced for the 2027 general election. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Osa Director, the party said all results from primaries conducted across…
A student who escaped the coordinated attack on three educational institutions in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State on May 15 has recounted how she fled into the bush as gunshots rang out, while families of the abducted pupils continue to wait for news of their loved ones. Narrating her experience to Nigerian…
Rising public frustration over the federal government’s silence on school kidnapping rescue operations has drawn a direct response from the presidency, with a top aide defending what critics have described as a communication blackout around abductions that have claimed lives and left families in anguish across the country. Dada Olusegun, Special Assistant to President…
Football’s governing body has moved to close one of the sport’s most quietly exploited loopholes, announcing that players at the 2026 FIFA World Cup will no longer be permitted to leave the field of play to receive coaching instructions while a goalkeeper is receiving treatment for an injury. The directive, communicated by FIFA’s chief…
Nigeria spent $2.34 billion on food imports in 2025, representing a 7.37 per cent decline from the $2.53 billion recorded in 2024, according to data published in the Central Bank of Nigeria’s latest Quarterly Statistical Bulletin. The figures, modest on the surface, carry deeper significance when placed within the broader context of how Africa’s…
The political landscape ahead of Nigeria’s 2027 general election continues to shift at a pace that is testing the stability of the country’s opposition structures, and few developments in recent weeks have illustrated this more clearly than the fracturing of the Peoples Democratic Party and the scramble to redefine loyalties that has followed. At…
A war of words has broken out between former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nyesom Wike, after the minister publicly declared that Atiku’s African Democratic Congress (ADC) would fail to secure 10 per cent of votes in Rivers State during the 2027 presidential election. Wike made the declaration…
