Africa Scrabble announces record prize money for 2026 champs
African Scrabble have announced a record prize purse of $35,000 for the 2026 Africa Scrabble Championship scheduled to hold in Monrovia, Liberia. The Pan African Scrabble Association confirmed that the 16th edition of the championship will take place from October 21 to 25, 2026, with the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Ministerial Complex on Tubman Boulevard set […]
Messi gives condition to join Osimhen at Galatasaray
According to reports in Turkey, Lionel Messi has been linked with a surprise move to Galatasaray, a switch that could see him line up alongside Nigeria striker Victor Osimhen at the Turkish giants. The eight-time Ballon d’Or winner is currently enjoying a break from competitive football, with the new Major League Soccer season scheduled to […]
Kante joins Fenerbahce as Turkish president intervenes
France midfielder Ngolo Kante has signed for Fenerbahce from Saudi outfit Al-Ittihad thanks to “support” from president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish club said on Wednesday. World Cup winner Kante, who turns 35 next month, had been set to move to Istanbul earlier but the transfer seemed to have failed due to an administrative error. […]
FG’ll stabilise food prices, agric inputs – Minister
The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, has pledged to work hard towards ensuring that prices of Agricultural inputs are stabilised in the country, the same way foodstuff prices were stabilised following efforts by the President Bola Tinubu’s administration to tackle hunger in Nigeria. The Minister made the pledge on Wednesday in […]
Court rejects Sowore’s evidence that Tinubu called Jonathan ‘drunkard’
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, rejected an evidence that President Bola Tinubu had in 2011, called former President Goodluck Jonathan a drunkard. The exhibit which an activist and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, who is answering to a cybercrime charge, tendered before the court, alleged […]
Tinubu congratulates Chief Pondi of Gbaramatu on birthday
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has extended his warm congratulations to Engr. Kestin Ebimorbowei Pondi, Managing Director of Tantita Security Services and the Ibe Benimowei of Gbaramatu Kingdom, on his birthday. President Tinubu in a Statment by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, described the celebrant “as a distinguished personality whose life exemplifies service, […]
FCT Polls: INEC clears 1.6 million voters for election
No fewer than 1.6 million persons are expected to vote in the February 21 elections to be conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission in the six Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory.The actual number of voters for the area councils election stands at 1,680,315, according to the figure released by the Resident Electoral […]
We’ll not hold PDP for another party to be in power in 2027 – Makinde
Gov Seyi Makinde has declared that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State would not be part of any agreement to hold the party down for another party to win power at the centre in 2027. Makinde stated this on Tuesday at the inauguration of a newly built PDP Secretariat in Oyo State, located […]
INEC finalises 2027 election timetable
Despite the seeming delay in the passage of the amended Electoral Act currently before the National Assembly, the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, has assured of its readiness for the 2027 general election. Accordingly, the Commission said it has finalised work on the election timetable and schedule of activities. INEC Chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, disclosed […]
‘Notorious Tanzanian drug trafficker’ arrested during raid in Zambia
A “notorious” Tanzanian drug-trafficking kingpin has been arrested in Zambia during a raid, the Zambian Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has announced. Ahmed Muharram was among several suspects detained in Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, along with large quantities of marijuana and cough syrup containing codeine in several drug busts on Tuesday, the authorities said. “The suspect is […]