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A divergence of perspectives has emerged among senior opposition figures regarding the source of Nigeria’s escalating pre-election turbulence, with contradictory assessments appearing within hours from two prominent PDP leaders. The discord highlights internal analytical fractures as the party confronts institutional challenges ahead of the 2027 electoral cycle. Olabode George, the former Deputy National Chairman…
CAF president Patrice Motsepe arrived in Dakar on Wednesday for meetings that carry considerably more diplomatic weight than the official agenda suggests, as the continent’s football governing body navigates one of its most contentious decisions in recent memory. CAF confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that Motsepe would visit Senegal on Wednesday, April 8,…
The Nigerian DJ Association has announced an immediate boycott of music by Grammy-winning Afrobeats artist Burna Boy, following reports of a physical confrontation between the singer and prominent disc jockey DJ Tunez at a Lagos nightlife venue. The decision marks a rare instance of collective industry action against a major Nigerian artist and has intensified…
The leadership crisis within the African Democratic Congress has deepened further with the emergence of a third faction led by Abia State Chairman Don Norman Obinna, rejecting both the Senator David Mark-led coalition and the group associated with Nafiu Bala. The development comes days after the Independent National Electoral Commission delisted the Mark…
A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Joemartins Uzodike, has called for the immediate resignation of the Independent National Electoral Commission Chairman, Professor Joash Amupitan, accusing him of bias and incompetence in handling the Commission’s withdrawal of recognition from the Senator David Mark-led leadership of the party. Uzodike, a legal practitioner, described the…
Nigeria’s Federal Government has significantly expanded its borrowing plan for 2026, pushing total debt financing to N29.20 trillion, a sharp jump of N11.31 trillion from the N17.89 trillion projection that appeared in the Abridged Budget Call Circular issued by the Federal Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning in December 2025. The revised figure is contained…
Three young men were killed and one injured on Good Friday after suspected armed assailants ambushed a group of youths returning home from a mining site in Nyamgo Gyel, Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State, in an attack that has left the community in grief and renewed alarm over the state’s worsening…
The grief of Mrs Favour Ayuba has taken a form that has gripped Nigeria. Days after suspected gunmen killed her son, Promise Gideon Ayuba, in the Palm Sunday terror attack that tore through the Angwan Rukuba area of Jos North Local Government Area, the bereaved mother stood over his coffin, drew a cutlass wrapped…
Tottenham Hotspur have appointed Roberto De Zerbi as their new head coach, with the Italian manager agreeing to a five-year contract effective immediately. The appointment was confirmed on Tuesday through a post by transfer market specialist Fabrizio Romano on X. The post read, “Tottenham agree deal to appoint Roberto De Zerbi as new head…
American motorists are now paying more than $4 per gallon at the pump for the first time in nearly four years, as the ongoing US-Israeli war against Iran continues to choke global energy supplies through the shutdown of the critical Strait of Hormuz. The American Automobile Association (AAA) confirmed that the national average…
