It started with a football, a phone camera, and a stubbornness that most adults would have abandoned by week three. Sajjad Yusuff, a 12-year-old Nigerian footballer who goes by @SAJJ_Y19 on Instagram, decided that if Adidas would not come to…
A Damaging Claim, Swiftly Debunked A video purporting to show Christians in northern Nigeria being massacred and sold into slavery has been exposed as a deliberate misrepresentation. The footage has no connection to Nigeria whatsoever — it originates from the…
What happened to coaches at the 2026 World Cup? The 2026 FIFA World Cup, hosted across the United States, Canada and Mexico, did not just produce drama on the pitch — it ended careers in the dugout. Nine national team…
Nigeria’s pension framework has been running on legislation that nobody has touched since 2014. That changes now. The National Pension Commission has formally launched a review of the Pension Reform Act, and its Director-General, Omolola Oloworaran, made clear on Tuesday…
Cristiano Ronaldo had told the world this was his last dance. He said it plainly, on the eve of the match, with the quiet certainty of a man who has nothing left to prove. On Monday night in Dallas, that…
Primate Elijah Ayodele, leader of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church in Lagos, has released the 32nd edition of his annual prophecy publication, Warnings to the Nations, at a world press conference held on Saturday, 4 July 2026 at his church…
The freedom to criticise a security agency is not the same as the right to do so without consequence — and a civil society group has decided it has heard enough from Omoyele Sowore. The Centre for Public Integrity (CPI)…
A 300-level student at the University of Abuja has achieved what no woman before her has managed: winning the presidency of the institution’s Students’ Union Government (SUG), marking a historic milestone in the university’s political history. Eyamu Oghenenyerovwo Peculiar, a…
Lionel Messi has produced the most striking statistical paradox of the 2026 FIFA World Cup: he ranks dead last among outfield players for distance covered per game, yet leads the entire tournament in goals scored. That contradiction is not a…
There are players who perform when the occasion demands it, and then there is Casemiro. On Monday, 29 June, at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the Manchester United midfielder reminded the world exactly why his name still commands respect at…