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A rare total solar eclipse will sweep across western Europe today. Millions of sky watchers have gathered along a narrow corridor stretching from Greenland and Iceland down to northern Spain. This cosmic event marks the first total solar eclipse visible from mainland Europe in nearly three decades. The moon will briefly hide the sun. Local…
Three days before voters in Osun State choose their next governor, the Nigeria Police Force has drawn a firm line around who may provide security for the poll, excluding the Western Nigeria Security Network, better known as Amotekun, along with vigilante groups and other non-state outfits. In a statement issued on Wednesday by Force…
African airlines and global aviation bodies have formally rejected moves by governments to shift the cost of Advance Passenger Information and Passenger Name Record systems onto carriers and travellers, arguing that border security remains a core state responsibility that should be funded from national budgets. In a joint statement, the African Airlines Association, the…
Cristiano Ronaldo has entered a new chapter away from football after marrying Georgina Rodríguez in a private civil ceremony in Cascais, Portugal, nearly a decade after their relationship began. The couple confirmed the marriage on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, by sharing photographs of their wedding rings on Instagram. The ceremony brought together the football…
Human rights lawyer Deji Adeyanju has asked the United States, United Kingdom and Canada to consider sanctions against Senator Francis Fadahunsi over remarks he alleged amounted to a threat against members of the Accord Party ahead of Saturday’s Osun State governorship election. Adeyanju said he had petitioned the three countries, seeking possible visa restrictions…
Four frontline candidates in Saturday’s Osun State governorship election used a televised town hall in Osogbo on Tuesday to defend their records and stake competing claims on the state’s finances, days after a controversial move by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to freeze the state government’s accounts thrust Osun’s public finances to the…
The naira traded within a familiar, narrow band against the United States dollar on Wednesday, holding its recent run of relative calm in both the official and street markets even as retail demand kept the parallel rate above the ₦1,400 mark. Figures from the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market, NFEM, placed…
The National Human Rights Commission has asked the Inspector-General of Police and the Director-General of the Department of State Services to arrest and prosecute Islamic cleric Sheikh Sani Yahaya Jingir, in one of the strongest institutional responses yet to a viral video in which he described Christians as infidels and urged Muslims to use…
A war of words over a viral campaign video has plunged Osun State’s already tense governorship race into deeper controversy, just days before residents head to the polls on Saturday, August 15, 2026, in one of the most closely watched off cycle elections in Nigeria’s recent political history. At the centre of the storm…
Two of Nigeria’s most prominent political figures, former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Nigeria Democratic Congress presidential candidate Peter Obi, used a democracy forum in Bauchi on Tuesday to press for structural changes to Nigeria’s political and judicial institutions, reviving a debate that recent data on gender representation, electoral litigation and party defections suggests has grown…
