A Nigerian Midfielder in Demand Eintracht Frankfurt have opened formal negotiations with Club Brugge for Super Eagles midfielder Raphael Onyedika, and the move tells us something important beyond the transfer itself: Nigerian footballers are no longer afterthoughts in European recruitment…
Thursday evening in Sabon Birni local government area of Sokoto State began with the sound of gunfire. Armed bandits descended on Unguwan Lalle, a community that had seen this kind of terror before, and were met this time with something…
On the morning of 28 June 2026, colleagues of Mary Habila forced open the door of a guest house on the Uburu estate of Minister of Works David Umahi and found her dead. The tap was still running. Nearly three…
What happened in Abuja, and why does it matter? On Thursday, 16 July, a significant gathering of labour leaders, economists, civil society organisations and development experts convened in Abuja to deliver a blunt assessment of four decades of market-driven economic…
UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) has issued a formal public advisory warning visa applicants about four specific signs of fraudulent activity, published via the official UKVI X account @UKVIgovuk on Thursday, 16 July 2026. The advisory came with an infographic…
Bishop David Oyedepo stepped away from scripture on Sunday, 12 July 2026, and delivered something his congregation at Canaan Land in Ota, Ogun State, did not come expecting: a direct civic instruction. Get your Permanent Voter Card. Do it now.…
For much of the past year, Nigerian fuel marketers had been operating against a relatively stable backdrop of ex-depot petrol prices hovering around N1,075 per litre, an uneasy equilibrium that consumers and logistics operators had grudgingly accepted as the new…
Lionel Messi is once again the man to beat. After inspiring Argentina to a dramatic semi-final victory over England, prediction markets have placed him at the front of the queue for a record ninth Ballon d’Or. What the numbers say…
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…
Minister of Works David Umahi has publicly challenged Peter Obi’s refusal to engage in a governance debate, claiming the Labour Party leader is avoiding direct comparison because his record as Anambra governor would not hold up under scrutiny. The row…