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Nigerian afro-house musician Niniola Apata has announced the death of her husband, Michael Ndika. The Grammy-nominated artist shared the news through a series of brief, emotional social media posts on May 20. The couple had spent 13 years together before his passing. Known professionally as Niniola, the singer chose not to disclose the cause of…
Pascal Chibuike Okechukwu, the socialite and nightlife entrepreneur widely known as Cubana Chief Priest, has made a candid public admission that President Bola Tinubu does not fully trust him, citing both his Igbo ethnic identity and his well-documented support for Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi during the 2023 general elections as reasons for…
The United Nations has cut its global economic growth projections, warning that the war in the Middle East threatens to derail international trade and commodity markets. UN economists now forecast global gross domestic product to expand by 2.5 percent this year. A slightly better performance of 2.8 percent is pencilled in for next year. The…
Nigeria holds over 200 trillion cubic feet of proven natural gas reserves, enough to power a continent. Yet its citizens sit in darkness, its factories run on diesel, and its neighbours inch closer to economic collapse for want of the very resource buried beneath their feet. This is not misfortune. It is policy. That damning…
The Nigerian naira recorded a mixed performance against the United States dollar on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, closing at ₦1,373.65 per dollar at the official Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market, a marginal depreciation of 15 kobo from the previous session’s rate of ₦1,373.50, according to data published by the Central Bank of Nigeria. At the…
The Securities and Exchange Commission will force the Nigerian capital market to settle equity and commodity trades within one business day from June 1. This shift from the current two-day cycle slashes the time investors must wait to get cash from share sales. Market operators have until the deadline to fix their back-office systems or…
Twenty-two years. That is how long Arsenal supporters have waited for a sentence this simple: Arsenal are champions of England. It ended, as these things so often do in football, not with a winner at the Emirates, not with a last-minute redemption arc, but with a 1–1 draw in Bournemouth on a Tuesday night in…
Chelsea forward João Pedro experienced one of the most bittersweet nights of his professional career after being named the club’s Player of the Season just hours after Brazil head coach Dorival Júnior left him out of the country’s final FIFA World Cup squad. The 24-year-old Brazilian received the prestigious club honour following a remarkable…
Peter Obi, former Anambra State governor and 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, has dismissed growing speculation that former President Goodluck Jonathan’s potential entry into the 2027 presidential race poses any threat to his own ambitions. Obi made the remarks on Tuesday evening after completing a two-hour presidential screening exercise at the national secretariat of…
Arsenal have won the Premier League title for the first time in 22 years after reigning champions Manchester City were held to a 1-1 draw at Bournemouth. The result leaves Mikel Arteta’s side with an unassailable four-point lead at the top of the table with only one domestic fixture remaining. City needed a victory at…
