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Flying Eagles head coach Aliyu Zubairu is disappointed over his team’s defeat by Norway. The seven-time African champions suffered a narrow 1-0 loss against Bjorn Johansen’s side in their opening match of the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Talca on Monday. Captain Rasmus Holten secured the win for Norway with a penalty in the […]

The second edition of the Quomodo Inter-Schools Swimming Competition concluded recently at Ikoyi Club 1938, with Grange School emerging as the overall champions after a closely contested event among the participating schools. The swimming pool at Ikoyi Club was filled with excitement over the weekend as seven schools showcased their young primary and secondary school […]

A viral video on social media has captured the moment flamboyant Nigerian-born UK-based clergyman, Pastor Tobi Adegboyega, gifted TikTok sensation, Peller, a Rolex wristwatch to celebrate his recent successes. Pastor Adegboyega, 44, is the founder of Salvation Proclaimers Anointed Church (SPAC Nation), popularly known as The Nxtion Family, a London-based Pentecostal movement. In the clip, […]

Governments at all levels have been urged to intensify efforts towards making life more meaningful to the people. The founder of Opeyemi-David Falegan Foundation, Hon. Opeyemi Falegan, who made the call, said the government’s primary responsibilities are to secure the lives and cater for the welfare of the people. Falegan spoke in Ado Ekiti, the […]

Amid the growing burden of Gender-based Violence, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Women’s Aid Collective (WACOL) has held a two-day workshop to mobilise Christian leaders and other stakeholders against the problem. The workshop, Empowering Christian Women and Women Leaders of Culture for Prevention and Response to Gender-based Violence in Nigeria through the Strengthening of Grassroots Organisations, […]

The Senator representing Ogun-East Senatorial District, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, through his group, has empowered residents of Ijebu North-East Local Government with livelihood tools while renewing his call to create Ijebu-Remo State. The event, held at Equity Hotel and Suites, Ijebu-Ode, under the BATOGD Initiative Movement, saw beneficiaries receive generators, motorcycles, sewing machines, and other equipment […]

Lagos State government has reopened the Ogudu-Ifako Bridge to vehicular traffic following the early completion of major works on its expansion joints. The bridge, a vital link on one of the state’s busiest transport corridors, had been partially closed since June 28 to allow critical maintenance. Originally slated to take 101 days, the project was […]

Lagos State government has intensified its immunisation campaign in a renewed effort to improve vaccine coverage nationwide. In collaboration with local government chairmen, religious leaders and other key stakeholders, the state is pushing to ensure that all residents, particularly children are fully immunised against preventable diseases. At the inauguration of the Lagos State Task Force […]

The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Rasidi Adewolu Ladoja, has declared that with his new status as a monarch, he is no longer a politician. The monarch, a former governor of Oyo State, asserted this during a courtesy visit paid to him by former vice president Atiku Abubakar, former governor of Kaduna State Nasir El-Rufai, former […]

The Enugu State Police Command has arraigned and secured the court-ordered remand of a 63-year-old pastor identified as Luke Eze, for the alleged rape of two sisters (names withheld), aged 16 and 19. Recall that the suspect was arrested on September 11, 2025, by operatives of the Iwollo Police Division of the Command, following a […]