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Former US President Joe Biden faces a deteriorating medical condition as his prostate cancer spreads further into his bones. His son Hunter Biden revealed the update during a BBC interview broadcast on Friday evening. The 83-year-old former leader now suffers from severe pain and debilitating physical symptoms. Doctors initially diagnosed the elder Biden with an…
Arsenal have secured Brazilian midfielder Bruno Guimaraes from Newcastle United in a deal worth £75 million. The 28-year-old international signed a four-year contract with an option for an additional season. Mikel Arteta’s side moved swiftly to bolster their central midfield ahead of the new campaign. Title defences require ruthless efficiency in the summer market. Buying…
A cross-party coalition of lawmakers wants Nigeria’s parliament recalled immediately to address an alleged ₦8.83 trillion off-budget spend. The group, calling itself the Save Nigeria Group, sent its demand directly to Senate President Godswill Akpabio and House Speaker Tajudeen Abbas. Official silence on such massive unauthorised spending threatens to gut democratic accountability entirely. Federal coffers…
Russian missile and drone strikes killed three civilians, including a child, across the Kyiv region early Saturday morning. Regional administration head Tymur Tkachenko confirmed emergency crews recorded direct hits at three separate locations in Boryspil district. The local barrage injured three other residents as debris slammed into residential areas near the capital. Explosions shook central…
Fresh court documents show Nigeria’s anti-graft agency secretly froze three Osun State government accounts rather than the single bank facility it publicly acknowledged. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission obtained a sweeping ex parte court order in Abuja on August 5th to lock down state money. Investigator affidavits targeted both the state’s primary federal allocation…
Urban planning is a critical component of any city’s development; as Lagos State evolves into a megacity, the importance of an efficient and transparent planning process cannot be overstated. In November 2025, Lagos State made significant strides toward modernising urban planning through the Electronic Physical Planning Process System (EPPS). This digital innovation seeks to streamline…
Former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi donated ten million naira to the Faith Foundation College of Nursing Sciences in Nsukka on Thursday. The gift adds to his previous financial contributions to help complete classrooms, laboratories, and clinical training infrastructure at the institution. Obi stated that building local human capacity remains the only viable path toward…
Typhoon Dolphin battered Japan’s southern Okinawa prefecture on Saturday, unleashing destructive winds and torrential rain before heading toward eastern China. The Japan Meteorological Agency reported peak gusts exceeding 180 kilometres per hour, knocking out power to thousands of homes and grounding regional flights. Local authorities urged over 100,000 residents across low-lying coastal zones to seek…
For two consecutive months, the Dangote Petroleum Refinery in Lagos has outpaced exporters from the United States to become the largest single foreign supplier of jet fuel to the European market. Data from commodity-tracking services indicates a steady stream of Aframax tankers departing the Lekki Free Zone, laden with Jet A-1 fuel bound for storage…
A single unsolicited bank transfer has pushed Nigeria’s fragile financial privacy regime back into national conversation, barely twelve days before campaigning formally opens for the 2027 presidential election. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, said on Friday that an unknown person paid money into one of his private…
