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African Democratic Congress presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has welcomed the Court of Appeal’s decision to stay the execution of a Federal High Court judgment ordering the deregistration of the ADC and four other political parties. The Federal High Court in Abuja, presided over by Justice Peter Lifu, had on Monday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to deregister ADC, Accord Party, Action Alliance, Action Peoples Party and Zenith Labour Party. The court ruled that the parties failed to meet the constitutional performance thresholds under Section 225A of the 1999 Constitution, specifically requirements related to securing at least 25 per cent…

Amid concerns over the resurgence of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola virus disease in parts of Africa, the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr Jide Idris, has appealed to governors across the 36 states to provide adequate funding for their health workers as part of measures aimed at preventing the virus from entering Nigeria. Idris made the appeal at the 3rd edition of the Adetokunbo Alakija Memorial Lecture and induction of new members into the Nigerian Society of Travel Medicine, held in Victoria Island, Lagos, on Thursday. Idris said that while the Federal Government had…

The FIFA World Cup has produced some of football’s greatest goalscorers since its inception in 1930, with legends from across generations featuring on the all-time scoring chart. Argentina’s Lionel Messi and Germany’s Miroslav Klose now share the top spot following Messi’s hat-trick against Algeria in the 2026 FIFA World Cup Group J opener in Kansas City on Wednesday. Below is the official list of the leading scorers in World Cup history as provided by FIFA on Wednesday. FULL LIST: FIFA World Cup all-time leading scorers 1. Miroslav Klose (Germany) – 16 goalsWorld Cups: 4 (2002, 2006, 2010, 2014), in 24…

Nigerian media personality and actor, Denrele Edun, has explained why he symbolically “married” himself while celebrating his 45th birthday. The entertainer, born Adenrele Oluwafemi Edun, shared a video on social media announcing the unconventional union on June 13, which quickly sparked widespread reactions online. In an Instagram story he shared on Tuesday, Denrele explained that the self-marriage was a celebration of his journey through years of highs and lows. Reflecting on his life at 45, he said he chose to honour the one person who had remained with him through every stage of his journey. “Till death didn’t do us…

A prosecution witness in the rape and murder trial of a Bus Rapid Transit driver, Andrew Ominnikoron, on Monday, narrated how she was allegedly raped by Ominnikoron after boarding BRT. Ominnikoron is standing trial on a five-count charge bordering on conspiracy, murder and rape. He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge. On Monday, the witness (name withheld), who is the first for prosecution, testified before Justice Sherifat Sonaike of a Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square. The 29-year-old witness said that the defendant tore her clothes and raped her from behind. She was led in evidence by…

When the news filtered in that Major General Rabe Abubakar had been abducted alongside his wife, it jolted me in a manner that I still do not fully understand. Seeing him in a video in such a degraded condition in the kidnappers’ den pierced my heart. That was an Army General being treated in that manner. As if that was not enough, the announcement of his death came from the blues. I was shocked. His death in kidnappers’ captivity is a tragedy that should trouble every Nigerian. If a man who once rose to the highest ranks of the military…

Nigeria is experiencing a rise in cyberattacks driven largely by preventable security lapses rather than advanced hacking techniques, according to a cybersecurity advisory by Digital Encode Limited. The firm warned that recent breaches affecting financial institutions, fintech companies, government agencies and other organisations are increasingly linked to weak configurations, exposed systems and poor credential management. It said cyber threat actors are exploiting misconfigured cloud services, unsecured databases, exposed application programming interfaces, leaked credentials and publicly accessible storage systems. According to the advisory, many of the compromised systems were exposed through basic operational weaknesses such as hardcoded API keys, weak authentication…

A fresh controversy has erupted in Gombe State over the political status of former Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Ali Pantami, as the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party laid conflicting claims to his party membership. The dispute followed Pantami’s emergence as the PDP governorship candidate ahead of the 2027 general elections, after the APC primary election produced Jamilu Gwamna as its candidate. The Gombe State chapter of the PDP insisted that Pantami had validly resigned from the APC and is now a bona fide member of the opposition party. The APC, however, maintained that the former…

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By Adeola Badru Governor Seyi Makinde has declared that Oyo State “is not Chibok and will never be Chibok”, vowing that the pupils and teachers abducted in Oriire Local Government Area will be rescued safely, as social media activist Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), led a protest over rising insecurity and kidnappings in the state. The protest, which followed a series of kidnapping incidents across Oyo State, saw demonstrators demand urgent action from the government to secure the release of the victims and improve security across the state. Addressing the protesters at his Ikolaba private residence, Ibadan,…