Portugal booked their place at the 2026 World Cup in emphatic fashion on Sunday, overwhelming Armenia 9–1 in Porto despite the absence of suspended superstar Cristiano Ronaldo. Bruno Fernandes and Joao Neves stole the show, each delivering a hat-trick as Roberto Martinez’s side stormed to the top of Group...
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At least 32 artisanal miners have died after a makeshift bridge gave way at a cobalt mining site in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, officials confirmed on Sunday. The incident happened on Saturday at the Kalando mine in Lualaba Province. Roy Kaumba Mayonde, the province’s interior minister, told journalists...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwart Samuel Anyanwu has dismissed the party’s recent convention in Ibadan, Oyo State, describing the entire exercise as a “jamboree” and insisting it lacked legitimacy. Speaking in an exclusive chat with Channels Television—just hours after the PDP announced his suspension alongside several other party figures—Anyanwu...
Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima has described the passing of Hajiya Sutura Shehu Shagari, the last surviving wife of former President Shehu Shagari as a huge loss to Nigeria, saying she will be remembered for her life of compassionate and selfless service to her community and the nation at...
Following are the results of Match Day 13 fixtures in the 2025/2026 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) played on Sunday and dates of the remaining fixtures: El-Kanemi Warriors FC 2-0 Kwara United FC Ikorodu City FC 2-1 Plateau United FC Kun Khalifat FC 1-1 Nasarawa United FC Niger Tornadoes...
Nigeria’s hopes of reaching the 2026 FIFA World Cup ended in painful fashion on Sunday, as the Super Eagles lost 4–3 on penalties to the Democratic Republic of Congo after a tense 1–1 draw. The showdown in Rabat, Morocco, had been billed as a heavyweight clash, especially after both...
Emadeb Petroleum Exploration & Production Company Limited (Emadeb E&P) , has announced the achievement of first oil from the Ibom Field (PPL 236), marking another milestone in Nigeria’s upstream oil and gas industry. In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday, the management of the company disclosed that following...
Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, has said the North possesses sufficient human capital to address its long-standing development problems if its elites work together with shared purpose and renewed commitment. The governor stated this when the leadership of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), led by its Board of Trustees...
Nigerian Army has transported 348 troops in and out of the Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) area as part of the second Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Welfare Flight for November. A reliable Army Headquarters source told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the airlift took place on Saturday...
Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has disbursed N116 billion to cover institutional fees and upkeep allowances for students across the country. The Managing Director of the Fund, Mr Akintunde Sawyerr, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. Sawyerr described this move as...
Managing Director, Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), Akintunde Sawyerr, has assured that the repayment process for the student loan scheme has been designed to be seamless, transparent and fair to all beneficiaries. Sawyerr, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, explained that graduates are granted...
Managing Director of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), Akintunde Sawyerr, has clarified why the Fund cannot release tuition fees for newly admitted students until they complete their registration and matriculation. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, Sawyerr warned that paying fees for students who...
National Pension Commission (PenCom), has said the era of delayed pension payments for retirees of treasury-funded Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) is over. Head, Corporate Communications Department in the commission, Mr Ibrahim Buwai, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja on Sunday....
In a bid to restore peace and foster intercommunal harmony in Plateau State, President Tinubu dispatched an emissary, Dr Abiodun Essiet, to the state last Thursday. Essiet, a senior special assistant on community engagement in the North Central Zone, spent two days in the state, according to a statement by...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olayemi Cardoso “to promptly account for and explain the whereabouts of the missing or diverted N3 trillion of public funds, as documented in the recently published 2022 annual report by the Auditor-General...
Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have arrested one Musa Abubakar, suspected to be the major supplier of arms and ammunition to persons and groups terrorizing several Northern states. The arrest came barely three months after the secret police began prosecuting nine persons linked to the recent...
If my late good friend, Dr. Onukaba Ojo of blessed memory were alive, he would have perfectly given the Ibadan PDP Convention a most befitting theatrical production, staging it under the genre: Tragicomedy of the Highest Order, or something even better. Not because the actors lacked costumes or a...
A former Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Kabiru Turaki (SAN), has been chosen as the new National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). His emergence followed the party’s national convention held in Ibadan, Oyo State, where delegates drawn from 17 states voted to fill key leadership...
Newly elected National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kabiru Turaki, used his acceptance speech to reassure party members that the trust they have placed in him “will not be taken for granted.” Turaki clinched the chairmanship at the PDP’s national convention held in Ibadan, Oyo State, where...
Two governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa and Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau, have openly opposed the move to expel Nyesom Wike and several other party figures shortly after delegates cast their ballots at the PDP convention in Ibadan, Oyo State. Fintiri, who chairs the...