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The naira eased further against the United States dollar on Tuesday, closing weaker in both the parallel and official windows as sustained demand for foreign currency continued to test the relative calm that has defined Nigeria’s foreign exchange market for much of 2026. At the parallel market, the currency weakened to N1,405 per…
President Bola Tinubu has taken the reform of Nigeria’s policing architecture a decisive step closer to reality, inaugurating a Presidential Working Group tasked with drafting the legal machinery that will bring state police to life once the ongoing constitutional amendment is concluded. The panel was inaugurated on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja…
President Bola Tinubu has thrown the weight of the anti-corruption machinery behind an unusual national puzzle: how a body the Presidency swears does not exist managed to secure office space, open bank accounts and find its way into the country’s most important financial document. In a directive issued on Tuesday, the President ordered the…
The knockout rounds of the 2026 FIFA World Cup have not only sent proud footballing nations home early; they have also emptied a good number of dugouts. As the tournament in North America moves into its final eight, at least eight national team coaches have walked away from their jobs, some by choice, others…
United States President Donald Trump touched down in Ankara on Tuesday for a NATO summit shadowed by his open frustration with European allies, as leaders across the alliance moved to placate him with fresh pledges and arms contracts worth billions of dollars. According to an AFP correspondent, the US leader landed at 1:51 pm…
The naira turned in a mixed showing against the United States dollar on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, steady at the official window even as it lost a little ground on the streets, a pattern that has come to define the currency’s day to day movement in recent months. At the official Nigerian Foreign Exchange…
The memory of Muhammadu Buhari will return to the centre of national attention next week as family members, former aides and political associates prepare to gather in solemn prayer, marking exactly one year since the former president passed away. A former presidential media aide, Bashir Ahmad, disclosed on Tuesday that a prayer and remembrance…
South Korea began enforcing a tougher law against false and manipulated information online on Tuesday, opening one of Asia’s most consequential experiments in policing digital falsehood, even as journalists, opposition politicians and civic groups warned that the same rules could be turned against legitimate speech. The revised Information and Communications Network Act, widely referred…
Another Air Peace aircraft will lift off from Lagos on Tuesday afternoon bound for Johannesburg, and by the early hours of Wednesday it is expected to touch down at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport with 270 Nigerians who have chosen to leave South Africa behind. It is the latest run in an evacuation…
The man at the heart of one of the most bizarre controversies to hit the Tinubu administration is back in the spotlight, and this time it is his own words, on camera, doing the talking. A video of Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew, who insists he is the Director-General of the disputed Presidential Foreign Intervention…
