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Tobi Amusan secured a commanding victory in the women’s 100-metre hurdles at the Paris Diamond League. The Nigerian world record holder crossed the finish line in 12.28 seconds to equal her season’s best. Her clinical performance at the Stade Charléty reinforces her status as the gold-medal favourite for the upcoming Commonwealth Games. Amusan successfully held…
Apple and Microsoft have rolled out steep price increases for their primary hardware products, blaming a global surge in memory chip costs. The global tech giants announced the coordinated price adjustments on Thursday to offset the rising cost of semiconductor components. Apple immediately implemented price hikes of twenty per cent or more across its entire…
More than nine out of every ten naira in circulation remains outside the formal banking system despite aggressive digital payment initiatives. The latest Money and Credit Statistics released by the Central Bank of Nigeria revealed that cash held outside banks climbed to N5.19tn in May. This figure marks a steady increase from the N5.08tn recorded…
Former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has chosen to file a no-case submission in his criminal trial for alleged wiretapping. His defence lawyer, Paul Erokoro, announced the decision before the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday. The move followed an announcement by the Department of State Services that it had concluded its prosecution. State…
A deadly surge in Lassa fever infections is overwhelming local containment efforts across Nigeria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that total fatalities from the viral outbreak have climbed to 214 this year. More troubling than the raw death toll is a soaring case fatality rate, which has reached a grim 25…
A continuous wave of armed banditry and ransom kidnappings has forced the total abandonment of Owa-Onire town in the Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. Police tactical units, including the Mobile Police Force and specialized anti-kidnapping squads, discovered the empty settlement during a sweeping forest clearance operation. Heavily armed patrols moved through deserted residential…
President Bola Tinubu has congratulated the armed forces following a breakthrough in the domestic security campaign. Military operatives have killed a notorious bandit leader responsible for terrorising communities across north-central Nigeria. The successful strike team also secured the release of a high-profile kidnap victim during the same operational push. This dual breakthrough offers a rare…
The Federal Government has formally requested strategic partnership and technical support from the BRICS economic bloc to fundamentally revamp Nigeria’s agricultural sector and guarantee long-term national food security. Speaking at the 16th BRICS Agriculture Ministers’ Conference held in Indore, India, Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, stated that the administration is…
Elon Musk has officially become the world’s first trillionaire following the highly anticipated, record-breaking stock market debut of his aerospace company, SpaceX. Wall Street history was rewritten on Friday as the company’s Initial Public Offering (IPO) experienced a spectacular, unprecedented opening-day surge on the New York Stock Exchange. Driven by intense institutional demand and frantic…
President Bola Tinubu has conferred fresh national honours on an expanded list of prominent activists, journalists, and retired military officers who fought against military dictatorship. In a nationwide televised broadcast on Friday to mark the 2026 Democracy Day, the president praised these patriots for enduring severe state persecution, imprisonment, and exile to secure civilian rule….
