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News » Premier League news » Arsenal newsFebruary 16, 2026 20:53 GMT (UK), by Sri Aswin Valdepenas to the Gunners? Arsenal are reportedly favourites to sign Real Madrid wonderkid Victor Valdepenas when the transfer window reopens at the end of the campaign. The Gunners have been keeping tabs on the young Spaniard for the past few months and AS claim that they are the front-runners to land his services.The north London giants have not dropped their interest in the teenager and are prepared to accelerate their pursuit closer to the transfer window.AC Milan, Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Dortmund are likewise keeping tabs, but Arsenal…

Ten years ago, in August 2015, Nigeria took a decision that would fundamentally alter the trajectory of its public finance management. The full implementation of the Treasury Single Account under the supervision of the late President Muhammadu Buhari was not merely another government policy. It was a structural intervention that addressed decades of fiscal dysfunction, constitutional violations, and institutionalised opacity. As we mark a decade of this reform, the evidence of its impact provides a compelling case study in what becomes possible when political will meets technical capacity. Powered by the indigenous fintech company, Remita, the TSA’s first major achievement…

Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has approved cash rewards totalling over ₦450 million for athletes and officials of Team Ogun following the state’s outstanding performance at the just-concluded National Sports Festival. The governor announced this on Monday during the cash award ceremony held in honour of medalists, noting that Ogun State finished second overall with 239 medals, its best performance in the history of the festival. Mr Abiodun described the achievement as a testament to the steady growth of sports development in the state, stressing that his administration remains committed to recognising excellence. He disclosed that all training allowances, participation…

The Dangote Group says it has signed a $400 million construction equipment agreement with XCMG Construction Machinery Company Limited, one of China’s leading manufacturers of construction machinery, in a move set to accelerate the expansion of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals from 650,000 barrels per day to 1.4 million barrels per day, positioning it to become the largest refinery in the world. The agreement, it was stated, will enable the group to acquire an additional wide range of advanced construction equipment to support ongoing and forthcoming projects across refining, petrochemicals, agriculture and large-scale infrastructure development. In a statement on…

President Tinubu has called for Africa-Owned Credit Rating Agency in Financial Times Op-Ed. NewsOnline Nigeria reports that President Bola Tinubu has called for the creation of an Africa-owned credit rating agency to address what he described as the persistent mispricing of the continent’s economic risk by global financial markets. Writing in an op-ed published on Monday in the Financial Times, Tinubu warned that African nations continue to face excessively high borrowing costs due to what he termed flawed external risk assessments. The President criticised the so-called “Africa premium” — the gap between perceived and actual economic risk — arguing that…

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Monday the appointment of public servant Janice Charette as the next chief trade negotiator to the United States. Charette will act as a senior advisor to the Prime Minister and to Dominic LeBlanc, the minister responsible for Canada-U.S. trade on the upcoming review of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, a statement from the prime minister’s office said. Canada sends about 70% of its exports to the United States. CUSMA, also known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, is a continental trade pact that has shielded much of Canada’s exports from U.S. tariffs. It is up for joint review…

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said his government would change the law to protect ministers from suspension while they are under criminal investigation, prompting the opposition to accuse him of trying to protect himself and harming judicial independence. A court suspended Rama’s deputy, Belinda Balluku, in November following her indictment by Albania’s anti-graft prosecutors, known as SPAK, over alleged meddling in a tender for infrastructure projects, which she denies. The case has sparked a dispute between SPAK, which has asked parliament to lift Balluku’s immunity to allow her arrest, and Rama, who has complained about judicial overreach, especially with pre-trial detentions. Albania…

After hundreds of Ecuadorean inmates were killed in prison riots in 2021 and 2022, President Daniel Noboa made restoring order in jails one of the central pillars of his security strategy when he took office in 2023. While the government has sharply curbed the number of riots, figures revealed in a Reuters investigation show prison deaths are reaching levels not seen since the height of the unrest. Deaths of inmates almost quadrupled year-on-year in 2025 due to both violence and natural causes, including a tuberculosis outbreak, according to the figures obtained by Reuters through a freedom-of-information request to the Interior…

French police searched the Arab World Institute in Paris on Monday as part of a probe into its former head, ex-culture minister Jack Lang, and his links to late convicted U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, prosecutors said. France’s National Financial Prosecutor (PNF) said in a statement that the Arab World Institute was among several locations being raided. Prosecutors this month opened a preliminary investigation of Lang and his daughter Caroline on suspicion of tax fraud following the release of documents on Epstein in the U.S. Lang, who was culture minister under late Socialist president Francois Mitterrand, resigned this month from the Arab…

Switzerland’s Federal Administrative Court (FAC) has ruled that Ukrainian nationals who previously obtained protection in a European Union (EU) or European Free Trade Association (EFTA) state are not entitled to temporary protection in Switzerland, known as ‘S’ status, clarifying the application of the subsidiarity principle. In a statement on Monday, the court said Ukrainians who were living in Ukraine before Feb. 24, 2022, cannot access Switzerland’s temporary protection if a valid alternative protection status exists in an EU or EFTA country. The case involved a Ukrainian woman who entered Switzerland in April 2025 and applied for temporary protection. She had…