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Enugu’s push to become a globally competitive city by stopping the operation of Keke and yellow buses is vexingly ambitious. According to the Commissioner for Transport, Obi Ozor, the affected (roads) corridors include Okpara Avenue, Abakaliki Road, New Haven Junction, Naira Triangle, Emene Airport, Ogui Road, Chime Avenue, Bisala Road, Rangers Avenue, WAEC, Nkpokiti, Zik’s Avenue, Presidential Road, and the entire Agbani Road stretch. These five major highways, now designated as Bus Rapid Transit routes under Governor Peter Mbah’s vision of a modern, multimodal city, are also the busiest for Keke riders and yellow buses, carrying the highest number of…

The Bauchi State Peoples Democratic Party Caretaker Committee has pledged to run the affairs of the party in the state in line with the rule of law, unity, and internal discipline, following its approval by the party’s National Working Committee. The committee commended the NWC faction led by its Chairman, Abdulrahman Mohammed, for approving its appointment and formally accepted the mandate to oversee the party’s activities in Bauchi State in accordance with the PDP Constitution and directives of the national leadership. Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, the chairman of the committee, Jungudo Mohammed, praised the Minister…

Polaris Bank has continued its commitment to empowering the Nigerian girl-child through health education and essential support, as it distributed hygiene essentials to female students of Kuramo and Victoria Island Junior and Senior Secondary Schools, Lagos. According to the bank, the initiative stems from Polaris Bank’s 2025 International Women’s Day celebration and forms part of its ongoing Adolescent Health and Hygiene Support Programme. Through the bank’s Girl-Child Support and Hygiene Education Initiative, the outreach aims to improve menstrual hygiene education, build confidence and dignity among young girls, and reduce school absenteeism resulting from lack of access to sanitary products. Speaking…

Tributes have poured in for Ahmed Musa after the former Super Eagles captain announced his retirement from international football on Wednesday, bringing to an end a 15-year career that established him as Nigeria’s most capped men’s international and one of the country’s most successful modern players, The PUNCH reports. The Nigeria Football Federation led the reaction, saluting Musa’s achievements and longevity with the national team. In a statement shared on X, the federation wrote, “Thank you, Captain. 111 caps. AFCON Champion. World Cup history-maker. Ahmed Musa bows out a Super Eagle forever.” Kano Pillars, where Musa currently serves as general…

Dolby Atmos FlexConnect technology debuted this year with the TCL Z100 speakers, and now we’re getting our first FlexConnect soundbar thanks to LG. The new H7 soundbar — which runs on the same Alpha 11 Gen 3 chip as LG’s OLEDs and new Micro RGB LED — is a part of the LG Sound Suite, a modular home audio system the company will debut at CES 2026. In addition to the soundbar, the Sound Suite will include the M5 and M7 surround speakers and the W7 subwoofer. All of the speakers feature Peerless Audio components.The two main drawbacks of TCL’s…

The Jito Foundation, the nonprofit organization facilitating the development of the Jito platform, said it will return to the United States, citing “clearer rules” for digital assets in the country.Jito is a maximal extractable value (MEV) infrastructure builder for the Solana network. MEV refers to the profit that traders or validators can make by controlling the order, inclusion or exclusion of transactions in a blockchain block. By rearranging transactions before they are confirmed, MEV participants can capitalize on opportunities such as arbitrage or front-running to earn extra fees on transaction rewards.The Jito Foundation was forced to operate overseas due to…

Rob Reiner’s family has always been synonymous with showbiz. The Princess Bride director and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Brentwood, Los Angeles, home on Sunday, December 14. Rob leaves behind four children. Rob, who was 78, won two Emmy Awards for his role as Mike “Meathead” Stivic in the classic sitcom All in the Family before gaining notoriety as a filmmaker. In the span of just six years, he released acclaimed movies Stand by Me (1986), The Princess Bride (1987), When Harry Met Sally… (1989), Misery (1990) and A Few Good Men (1992). But talent has…

The federal government economic team is expected to appear before the Senate Committee on Appropriations on Thursday to explain the rationale behind the proposed repeal and re-enactment of the 2024 Appropriation Act, which seeks to increase total expenditure from ₦28.7 trillion to ₦43.56 trillion. The team, led by the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun; the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Atiku Bagudu; and the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Zacch Adedeji, was summoned when the lawmakers were debating the president’s request to amend the 2024 budget, during the plenary on Wednesday. Earlier during plenary, the Senate…

Seplat Energy Plc has appointed Saidu Aliyu Mohammed and Larry Ettah as independent non-executive directors, effective from 1 January 2026, as the company moves to strengthen its board and corporate governance. This is contained in a disclosure signed by its secretary, Edith Onwuchekwa, on Wednesday. The appointments followed the resignation in April of Bello Rabiu and Babs Omotowa, who left the Seplat board after being appointed to the NNPC Limited board by President Bola Tinubu. Seplat said the new directors were selected through its board succession plan to fill the vacancies created by the exits. Mr Mohammed is a seasoned…

…dear President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, I respectfully and passionately appeal to you to reconsider and jettison any move that elevates your Aide-de-Camp above his seniors through accelerated or exceptional promotion. At this critical moment in our nation’s security journey, restraint, fairness, and respect for military tradition will speak louder than authority exercised without caution. Mr President, sir, I hope this open letter will not be misconstrued, as it happened about six years ago, precisely in January 2020, when I wrote a memo to former President Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to disengage service chiefs who had overstayed their tenures and whose…