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Seplat Energy Plc has appointed Saidu Mohammed and Larry Ettah as Independent Non-Executive Directors, effective 1 January 2026. The appointments were announced by the company in a statement issued in Lagos and London on Wednesday. According to Seplat Energy, the appointments follow the resignation of Mr Bello Rabiu and Mr Babs Omotowa from the Board in April 2025, after their appointments to the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The company said the new appointments were made in line with its Board of Directors’ succession plan. Engr Mohammed is…
Barcelona and Lyon clinched places in the quarter-finals of the Women’s Champions League on Wednesday, while Chelsea came from behind to beat Wolfsburg and qualify directly for the last eight. Holders Arsenal must go through the play-offs along with Manchester United after missing out on a top-four finish, as Bayern Munich pinched the final automatic quarter-final berth. Spanish champions Barcelona finished top of the league phase unbeaten after a 2-0 win away to Paris FC, with Vicky Lopez and Caroline Graham Hansen scoring in the French capital. Three-time Champions League winners Barcelona have reached the final each of the past…
If you’ve been holding off on getting a new iPhone, now’s the perfect time to size up your options. Apple’s 2025 iPhone lineup is now available, which includes the iPhone 17, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max, and a brand-new model, the ultra-thin iPhone Air. These new phones offer a number of new features over their predecessors, such as upgraded cameras, faster chips, better battery life, and even better screens — Apple Intelligence, however, is still a work in progress.Alongside the new hardware, Apple also launched iOS 26 (yes, the numbering system has changed and we’re jumping from iOS 18), which…
Coinbase is launching stock trading and prediction markets as the crypto exchange looks beyond digital assets to chase its ambition of creating an “everything app.”Coinbase head of consumer and business products, Max Branzburg, announced at the company’s year-end conference that “stock trading is now available on Coinbase.”“This is a major milestone in our plan to enable 24/7 trading of stocks and ETFs from anywhere in the world, powered by crypto,” he said.Stock trading.Rolling out on Coinbase in the U.S. pic.twitter.com/tTcjpvVyXc— Coinbase 🛡️ (@coinbase) December 17, 2025 Branzburg also said that Coinbase has launched prediction markets in partnership with Kalshi, which…
Authorities have filed a criminal charge against an unruly woman who was caught on camera attacking staff at a San Francisco restaurant in video footage that has since gone viral, Us Weekly has learned. Police did not provide an age for Shireen Afkari, but they have formally charged the woman with public intoxication for an incident that unfolded in and outside of American restaurant Hazie’s on Hayes Street on Saturday, December 13, according to police. The beginning of the three-minute-long TikTok footage appeared to show Afkari and a man named Christian in the middle of a heated discussion with restaurant…
A former Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says his new book is aimed at correcting misconceptions, providing context, and sharing firsthand accounts of the Muhammadu Buhari administration. Mr Mohammed stated this in Abuja on Wednesday at the presentation of his book “Headlines and Soundbites: Media Moments that Defined an Administration.” He described the book as a personal effort to document his work as the longest-serving minister of information and culture in Nigeria’s history, spanning information, culture, tourism and national orientation. The former minister said the book placed his experiences within the wider context of how government policies under…
A civil society group, Rights for All International (RAI), has sued President Bola Tinubu to force him to suspend Farouk Ahmed, the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), over allegations of corruption and living beyond his legitimate means. The group filed the suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, calling for the investigation and prosecution of Mr Ahmed. PREMIUM TIMES got wind of the suit after news later broke on Wednesday that Mr Ahmed and Gbenga Komolafe, the chief executive of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), resigned their positions. President…
Frantz Fanon The reimagination of the African condition can take a cue from Fanon’s “New Humanism,” (Fanon, 1963, pp. 245) to be realised by a liberation project that leaves no one behind and is embedded in the people’s culture. The resuscitation of the Fanonian pedagogy within the African academy should thus entail an interpretation of the present through the lens of the past in devising collectively sustainable futures for the continent’s development. I, the man of color, want only this:That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by…
The controversy surrounding the selection of a new Awujale of Ijebuland in Ogun State deepened on Wednesday, as the Fidipote Ruling House of Ijebu-Ode sought to disqualify the Fusengbuwa Ruling House which is next in line to produce the monarch. The Fidipote ruling house, also known as the House of Fidipote, is the fourth of the four ruling houses entitled to the throne, while the Fusengbuwa ruling house is the third in line. The house (Fusengbuwa) is currently in line to produce the next Awujale. The late Awujale, Oba Sikiru Adetona who died on 13 July 2025 was from the…
Former Super Eagles captain Ahmed Musa has announced his retirement from international football, bringing the curtain down on one of the most enduring and decorated careers in Nigeria’s football history. Musa, who remains active at club level with Kano Pillars—where he also serves as General Manager—confirmed his decision in a heartfelt message addressed to Nigerians and the Super Eagles family. His announcement comes just days after fellow former captain William Troost-Ekong also bowed out of international football, marking a symbolic changing of the guard within the national team. In a brief yet powerful message, Musa reflected on a journey spanning…
