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Nigeria’s absence from the officiating ranks of the 2026 FIFA World Cup is complete. When FIFA unveiled its full roster of match officials for the tournament on Thursday, not a single Nigerian name appeared among the 170 appointed, deepening a pattern of exclusion that has become increasingly difficult to ignore. The global football governing…
The consequences of a bruising Wednesday night at Camp Nou are already reshaping Barcelona’s week, as coach Hansi Flick navigates one of the trickiest decisions of his tenure, how to balance an urgent La Liga derby against Espanyol on Saturday while keeping enough firepower intact for what promises to be a monumental Champions League…
Escalating violence across the Middle East has forced more than four million people from their homes and crippled the regional healthcare infrastructure. The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on 9 April that the humanitarian crisis is deepening as medical facilities face deliberate strikes. Iran and Lebanon bear the brunt of the displacement, with 3.2 million…
Habib Beye has dismissed suggestions that Tochukwu Nnadi could leave Olympique de Marseille this summer, despite the Nigerian midfielder’s limited playing time. The 22-year-old joined the French giants from Zulte Waregem for €6 million in January but has struggled to break into a congested starting eleven. Since his arrival, Nnadi has managed only 26 minutes…
Four astronauts are bracing for a violent re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere on Friday following a historic mission around the moon. The crew of Artemis II, the first humans to visit the lunar vicinity in over five decades, will conclude their journey with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Victor Glover, the mission pilot, described…
Nigeria will deepen its collaboration with the United Nations to fast-track the economic empowerment of women and young citizens. Vice President Kashim Shettima confirmed the plan during a meeting with UN Assistant Secretary General on Youth Affairs, Felipe Paullier, in Abuja on Thursday. The renewed pact focuses on financial inclusion, job creation, and technical skills…
Pope Leo XIV departs Rome on Monday for an 11-day, 18,000-kilometre tour of Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea. The trip marks the American-born pontiff’s first major foreign mission since his election in May 2025 and comes at a moment of acute global instability. Over the course of the four-nation visit, the 70-year-old head of…
The Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Farouk Ahmed Umar, has warned that the country is on the verge of losing its ability to track aircraft due to the “obsolete” state of the Total Radar Coverage of Nigeria (TRACON) equipment. Commissioned in 2010 with a projected ten-year lifespan, the multibillion-naira system has…
The African Democratic Congress has approached a Federal High Court in Abuja seeking an order compelling the Independent National Electoral Commission to restore the names of Senator David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola as National Chairman and National Secretary respectively on the commission’s official portal. The suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1819/2025, was filed following the removal of…
Nigeria’s security landscape suffered one of its most alarming blows in recent memory on Thursday when heavily armed insurgents overran a military base in Borno State, killing a brigadier general and at least 17 soldiers, a massacre that arrived simultaneously with a United States Embassy visa suspension and a stern travel warning that laid…
