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Police authorities deployed 15,000 operatives across Osun State ahead of the upcoming governorship election. The state Commissioner of Police (CP), Samuel Etaifo Erale, announced the massive security apparatus to reassure voters and deter potential troublemakers. Uniformed officers, tactical units, and intelligence personnel will cover all polling units and collation centres statewide. High-profile security presence aims…
British-Nigerian heavyweight Moses Itauma will fight Croatia’s Filip Hrgovic for the vacant IBF world title on August 29 at London’s O2 Arena. Former undisputed champion Oleksandr Usyk vacated his championship belts to pursue a lucrative final career bout. The decision instantly transformed a planned contender clash into a full world championship showdown. Itauma now stands…
African telecom operators will spend $76bn on network hardware over five years. Industry lobby group GSMA expects capital expenditure to peak before 2030. Heavy private spending must boost coverage and service quality across the continent. Mobile networks currently contribute $240bn to African economic output annually. Capital investments drive regional digital expansion. Big corporate bets face…
Gianni Infantino’s decade of near total control over world football has entered its most precarious stretch, with the Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, becoming the first sitting head of government from a 2026 World Cup host nation to publicly withdraw confidence in the FIFA president over a shelved plan to sell part of the…
Fresh ground shaking in Nigeria’s capital on Tuesday morning has once again placed the Federal Capital Territory’s quiet but recurring seismic record under public scrutiny, with the Nigerian Geological Survey Agency (NGSA) confirming a light earth tremor that rattled several buildings before dissipating in five seconds. The Seismic Monitoring Station at Utako recorded the…
Three converted penalties, six goals and a night of nervous arithmetic in Rabat have kept Nigeria’s title defence alive at the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, with the Super Falcons beating Egypt 6-2 on Wednesday to finish second in Group C and set up a quarter-final against Cameroon. The result closed one of…
Corporate Nigeria has just closed one of its most profitable six months on record, and the Presidency is claiming credit for it. What the underlying numbers show is a more complicated story of policy, price and timing. The claim came on Wednesday from Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, who…
Three Nigerians are among 25 naturalised Americans whose citizenship the United States Department of Justice is now moving to strip in federal courts, the largest single wave of denaturalisation filings the department says it has ever undertaken. The complaints, filed in various US district courts between July 20 and August 3, 2026, were announced by…
Nearly one in every twelve candidates who sat this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination for School Candidates has ended the season in a state of limbo, with the West African Examinations Council confirming that the results of 167,486 candidates, representing 8.59 per cent of those who sat the 2026 Computer-Based WASSCE, have…
Barely hours after the West African Examinations Council announced the release of the 2026 Computer Based West African Senior School Certificate Examination for school candidates, a document bearing the council’s letterhead, stamps and the signature of its Nigeria National Office head began spreading across WhatsApp groups and social media timelines, naming 50 secondary schools…
