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The Confederation of African Football (CAF) met yesterday to discuss the poor state of the pitch in Douala and whether Africa Cup of Nations matches may need to be moved from the arena. Cameroon’s largest city has hosted just…

The 2023 political season started flowering towards the end of 2021 when the various regions and geopolitical interest groups began staking claims for their right to produce the next president. Already, several presidential…

The race for elective positions in 2023 has started and with it a lot of speculations about the candidates for the next presidential election. One of the names that have continued to feature in the news in this regard is…

The United States has donated 3.2 million doses of the Pfizer COVID vaccine to Nigeria. In a statement on Tuesday, the US mission in Nigeria said Mary Beth Leonard, US ambassador to…

A former Managing Director of Alpha Beta Consulting, Dapo Apara, the All Progressives Congress leader, Bola Tinubu; and the current Managing Director of the company, Akin Doherty, have begun discussions on a possible…

After series of back and forth, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has finally announced February 26 for its national convention.Chairman of its Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, CECPC, Governor…

The president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Ayuba Wabba, has urged the Federal Civil Service to review salaries and welfare of public servants. He spoke in Abuja during a meeting of the National Public Service Negotiating…

Senator Babafemi Ojudu, Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters,  has said many of associates of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), were not made by him. He said this in…

The Presidency has said corrupt elites in the country do not want “another Buhari” in 2023 because of their selfish agenda. The Media Aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu,…

Olasupo Shasore, a former attorney-general and commissioner for justice in Lagos, is being questioned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over his involvement in the…

President Muhammadu Buhari leaves Abuja on Wednesday, for Banjul, Republic of The Gambia, to attend the inauguration of Gambian President, Adama Barrow, following his re-election for a second term. Garba Shehu, the Senior…

The leadership of the All Progressives Congress may have decided to zone the National Secretary position of the APC to the South-East while the North-Central will get the chairmanship of the party. The deputy national chairman…

Ayo ‘AY’ Makun, the Nigerian stand-up comedian, and Mabel, his wife, have welcomed their second child — a baby girl — together. The entertainer announced the arrival of their daughter…

A bill seeking to create a board to oversee the compensation and resettlement of indigenes in the federal capital territory (FCT) has passed second reading at the house of…

Idris Yusuf, 18, has been arraigned before a Katsina senior magistrate court for allegedly killing Saifullahi Abdullah over an argument about football.  , the 28-year-old deceased died after a dispute on which is the better…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday denied an accusation by his former adviser that he had lied to parliament about a lockdown party. He said nobody had warned him the “bring your own booze” gathering might…

Oil jumped to a seven-year high early on Tuesday, a day after Yemeni Houthis attacked targets in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with drones. The attack and the the continued tightness in the oil market lifted prices, reports…

Nigerian singer and songwriter Joseph Akinwale Akinfenwa, known professionally as Joeboy, has surpassed 100 million streams on popular streaming platform, Boomplay. With this feat, the singer joins Burna Boy, Olamide and…

Singer, Davido has on Tuesday called out his cousin, Bamidele Adeleke for daring to contest against his uncle, Senator Ademola Adeleke in 2022 Osun State gubernatorial election. Back in 2018, Senator Ademola also known as The…

The Nigerian Army has said troops, in conjunction with other security agencies, have dislodged a notorious stronghold of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra and its armed affiliate, Eastern Security Network, at Lilu…

Mrs Gladys Ndubuisi Kanu, widow of late Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu (retd), on Tuesday, insisted that she remained the legal and only wife to the former Military administrator of Imo and Lagos States. She, however, warned…

The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has said it will not release the 2023 general election timetable until the Electoral Act Amendment Bill is signed into law. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this…

Each time Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu makes a move to advance his political interests, his traducers come out of hiding, red-eyed and begin to spin all sorts of outlandish tales by moonlight to deceive their gullible audience and cast a…

Gunmen suspected to members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on Tuesday, stormed a Catholic Church in Onitsha, Anambra State. Daily Trust gathered that the…