Manchester City are set to assess forward Omar Marmoush before Sunday...

Business | 17 seconds ago Dike Onwuamaeze The Business Unit Director and Digital Transformation Champion at mediaReach OMD Nigeria, Mr. Emmanuel Adediran, has urged the advertising industry in Nigeria to embrace integrity, digital innovation and talent development to unlock...

Nigeria | 40 seconds ago Mary Nnah The Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria is set to host its 12th annual public lecture on Wednesday, September 17, at The Marquee, Harbour Point, Victoria Island, Lagos. The lecture will focus on #8216;Poverty Alleviation, Economic Development and Stability of the Nigerian Economy#8217;, a topic that resonates with the current economic challenges facing the nation. The General...

Featured | 16 seconds ago About 70 per cent of Nigerians are engaged in agriculture in one form or the other, with women and girls in the overwhelming majority of this number. However, only 10 per cent of them own the land they farm, making life difficult and uncertain. Seun Akioye met some women farmers and they shared their pains and gains Comfort Sunday rose from where she sat since the rains stopped, between two heaps of freshly harvested groundnuts; she shook off the sand under her and smiled. It was a smile of resignation, one that showed she had accepted her fate. ?The land is dead,? she said for the umpteenth time. ?If you put anything into the soil now and you are not...

Egypt missed a chance to qualify for the 2026 World Cup with two games to spare by settling for a 0-0 draw with Burkina Faso on Tuesday. Morocco and Tunisia are the only African teams so far that have secured their place in next summer#x27;s tournament as the continent wrapped up its latest round of qualifying. Group C leader South Africa also hoped to...

Nigeria | 46 seconds ago Linus Aleke in Abuja Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, yesterday, applauded the Defence and Police Officers? Wives Association (DEPOWA) for introducing a landmark initiative to provide full scholarships for children of...

Nigeria | 31 seconds ago Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt Human rights lawyer, Festus Ogun, has charged young lawyers in Nigeria to take up the fight for accountability and transparency in government through Public Interest Litigation. This as the activist has warned that the inefficiency of the country?s justice system poses a serious risk to both citizens and investors. Ogun made the call at a Strategic and Public Interest Litigation Lab (Litigalab), organised by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) for young lawyers and students, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital....

Nigeria | 53 seconds ago ?As factionalised Bayelsa APC endorses Tinubu for second term Chuks Okocha in Abuja and Olusegun Samuel in Yenagoa National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, has said more governors in the country will join the party ahead of the 2027 general election. Speaking during the Bayelsa State Chapter?s 12th expanded stakeholders? meeting and endorsement for President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday in Yenagoa, the state capital, Yilwatda said because Tinubu had done well, more governors and senators had abandoned their parties and joined APC to ensure that the president wins overwhelmingly in 2027. Yilwatda, represented by APC Deputy National...

Nigeria | 57 seconds ago ?Insists they are not part of scholarship beneficiaries Sylvester Idowu in Warri The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) yesterday disowned responsibility for payment of school fees of 5000 students of Itsekiri extraction in Novena University, Ogume, Delta State. The PAP, in a statement, maintained the agency was not owing fees in the privately owned Novena University or any institution within or outside the country. The sole representative of Olu of Warri, His Royal Majesty, Ogiame Atuwatse III, to NNPLC, Mr. Collins Oritsetimeyin, had last weekend alleged that the Amnesty Programme was ?indebted? to Novena University concerning ?all Itsekiri students? who...

The Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) says its vessel ?Family Boat? was struck by a drone near Tunisian waters, while Tunisian authorities deny any such attack took place. A spokesperson for the GSF said the attack late Monday at Tunisia?s Sidi Bou Said port was carried out by the Israeli regime, while the Tunisian National Guard denied any assault, attributing the fire instead to a cigarette butt or lighter that ignited a life jacket. Israel did not provide an immediate comment. As reported by the Gaza-bound flotilla, the incident on the Family Boat, which operates under a Portuguese flag and is transporting members of the group?s steering committee, occurred at 11:45 p.m. on Monday....

Download logo Shortly after presenting a mandated report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday, chair of the Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan, Mohamed Chande Othman, insisted that both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia had carried out atrocity crimes. Among the testimonies gathered for the report, survivors from RSF detention sites described the locations as ldquo;slaughterhousesrdquo;. Tortured, staved, denied medical care In one notorious RSF facility, dozens of detainees died between June and October this year after being tortured, denied food and medical care, the independent rights expert...

Egypt?s national football team drew 0-0 against Burkina Faso, on 9 September in the Stade du 4 Août, Ouagadougou, a mere point...

Egypt has formally addressed the UN Security Council through Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, warning against Ethiopia?s ?unilateral actions? regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile. Cairo affirmed that it ?will not allow its water rights to be compromised and will take all measures guaranteed by international law and the UN Charter to defend the existential interests of its people.? In a statement on Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry said the letter to the Council president underscored Egypt?s categorical rejection of what it described as a blatant violation of...

Eric Chelle?s side now have a mountain to climb if they are to play in America next summer ......

From soda to sports, global consumers are implicated in Africa?s most deadly conflicts. This also creates an avenue for change. ......

The far right has normalized the idea of expelling Palestinians. ......

The minister praised the Tinubu administration for confronting long-standing economic distortions head-on, particularly the removal of fuel subsidies and the unification of multiple exchange rates. ......

Abuja -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes recent...

South Africa moved a step closer to the FIFA 2026 World Cup with a 1-1 home draw with Nigeria, who are left facing a nervy final two qualifying matches in the Confederation of African Football (CAF) group stages. Bafana Bafana took the lead in the Group C encounter at Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein, South Africa on Tuesday when Super Eagles captain William Troost-Ekong put through his own net in the 25th minute.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Asia Cup: Is politically-charged India vs Pakistan match driven by profit?list 2 of 4Your guide to cricket?s T20 Asia Cup 2025list 3 of...

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This silence is not just disappointing -- it is dangerous. It signals either a profound disregard for the rights of Nigerian citizens or complicity in their continued suffering, the CSOs said. ......

An official of the government said the developers returned to continue the building project after they were initially stopped. ......

This annual championship is part of the CDS' non-kinetic approach to strengthen security and foster unity, discipline, and teamwork among Nigerian youths ......

Nigeria has a chance to rethink what entrepreneurship means. ......

South Africa maintain Group C lead with 1-1 draw with Nigeria in the CAF qualifiers for the FIFA 2026 World Cup.

Former TRRC Executive Secretary Dr. Baba Galleh Jallow just returned from the South Sudanese capital Juba where he spent the last two months sharing lessons and experiences from Gambia?s transitional justice process with the government and other stakeholders. Dr. Jallow was invited by the UNDP South Sudan office to advise the government and design a roadmap for the establishment and operationalization of a Commission for Truth, Reconciliation and Healing (CTRH) and a Compensation and Reparation Authority (CRA). In 2023, a South Sudanese delegation led by former Justice minister Madol Arol visited The Gambia to learn from the TRRC?s experiences. The delegation met with Dr. Jallow and former...

Download logo Today, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received Commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) Admiral Brad Cooper at Al-Ittihadiya Palace. The meeting was attended by Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Minister of Defense and Military Production General Abdel Mageed Saqr. From the US side, US Ambassador to Egypt Herro Mustafa, Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy and Defense Attacheacute;...

Download logo Thirty Libyan journalists, media professors, students and fact checkers joined a UNSMIL-backed online training session Thursday to sharpen their skills in digital research and verification, as part of wider efforts to strengthen the countryrsquo;s media sector against the spread of false information. The Zoom-based workshop was organised by the UNSMIL as part of its Basirah professional development programme. Pamela Kesrouani from the Google News Initiative presented the...

Doolow -- Security forces from...

Cairo -- Egypt has completed its plans to deploy military forces to Somalia, officials said Monday, in a move that could reshape regional security dynamics in the Horn of Africa. ......