Arsenal began their 2026/27 UEFA Champions League campaign with another statement performance away from home, defeating Napoli 1-0 at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium on Wednesday night. Martin Ødegaard settled a game Arsenal had largely controlled with a superb 75th-minute finish, extending the Gunners’ remarkable winning start to the new season. Yet the narrow scoreline […]
Popular Nigerian comedian and content creator Carter Efe has reportedly been permanently banned from TikTok after the platform said his account violated its community guidelines multiple times. The ban, which took effect on Wednesday, cuts off one of the major short-form video platforms through which Carter Efe had maintained a substantial audience and promoted his […]
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Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has appealed to voters in the South-East to support President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s bid for a second term in 2027, saying she wants to see the country become better as she grows older. She made the appeal on Wednesday in Owerri, Imo State, where she visited as part of […]
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A planned visit by Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate Peter Obi to Yelwata community in Benue State was abruptly cut short on Tuesday after a group of youths barricaded the road leading from Makurdi and refused to allow his convoy to proceed. The confrontation, which occurred along the Makurdi-Gboko Road close to the airport […]
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Borno State — Nigerian Army troops have arrested two men suspected of supplying motorcycle spare parts to Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) elements operating around the Borno-Yobe border area. The arrests were carried out on Tuesday, September 8, by troops of Operation Hadin Kai, working alongside members of the Civilian Joint […]
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A long-running legal battle over the release of United States government records concerning President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has taken another turn after a Washington-based political advisory and lobbying firm said its proposed court submissions have been formally docketed in the case. Von Batten-Montague-York said the United States District Court for the District of Columbia has […]
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ABUJA — The 2027 presidential race has entered a more active phase as Oyo State Governor and Allied Peoples Movement (APM) presidential candidate, Seyi Makinde, formally opened his campaign headquarters in Abuja and challenged Nigerians to judge political contenders by their ideas, records and ability to deliver. At the commissioning of the APM presidential campaign […]
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A fresh war of words has erupted over the long-running controversy surrounding United States law-enforcement records linked to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, with a US-based political advisory and lobbying firm urging the public to focus on the records at the centre of an ongoing Freedom of Information Act dispute rather than what it described as […]
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Two years after Nigeria’s #EndBadGovernance protests brought thousands of young people into the streets over hunger, rising living costs and economic hardship, the consequences are still being felt in Kano — not only in memories of violence, but in hospital beds, unpaid medical bills and families struggling to rebuild their lives. For some survivors, August […]
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A three-storey building on Abidjan Street in Wuse Zone 3, Abuja, collapsed on Monday night after previously being marked and sealed by authorities over structural concerns. The Federal Capital Territory Police Command said emergency responders were deployed shortly after receiving a distress call at about 7:45 p.m., while search-and-rescue operations continued at the scene. As […]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — US President Donald Trump has sparked a fresh political controversy after suggesting that the state of New Mexico should be renamed “New America”, an idea that was quickly rejected by the state’s governor and members of its congressional delegation. Trump raised the proposal Sunday, September 6, in a post on his Truth […]
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Nigeria’s federal government has sharply increased its reliance on the domestic debt market, with borrowing from local investors reaching N24.7 trillion between January and August 2026, a 90.5 per cent increase compared with the N12.98 trillion recorded during the same period in 2025. The scale of the increase is raising fresh concerns about the availability […]
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Omoyele Sowore, the African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate for the 2027 election, has launched a fresh attack on Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, accusing the former Labour Party vice-presidential candidate of knowing that Peter Obi was allegedly “a packaged fraud” during their 2023 presidential campaign. Sowore made the claim while reacting to recent comments attributed to […]
