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The Federal Government has dispatched a high-level delegation to Burkina Faso to engage the country’s leadership over the continued detention of Nigerian Air Force (NAF) pilots and crew members. The delegation comprises senior officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defence and the Nigerian Air Force Headquarters, and is led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar. Sources familiar with the mission told Zagazola Makama that the delegation is currently in Ouagadougou for peaceful and constructive engagements with Burkinabè authorities, including a scheduled meeting with President Ibrahim Traoré. A senior official said the visit is…

The Edo State Government has said it is using “deodorant” and governmental performance to sanitise the pollution created by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP-led government over the last eight years in the state. DAILY POST reports that Prince Kassim Afegbua, the State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, stated this while responding to a press statement by the main opposition party, the PDP, in Benin City on Wednesday. The PDP press statement was titled, “Edo State under Okpebholo: A year of drift, democratic rupture, and systematic destruction of institutional legacy.” The party accused the Governor Okpebholo-led APC government of squandering state…

Not less than 12 miners have been killed by gunmen, with many unaccounted for in the Faan District of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State. The Berom Educational and Cultural Organization, BECO, which disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists on Wednesday, said the gunmen attacked the miners while they were engaging in their mining activity on Tuesday night. In the statement issued by the BECO Chairman, Dagallang Davott, who also doubles as the Secretary of the Mining Committee in Barkin Ladi, the gunmen suspected to be Fulani militas, attacked the miners while they were carrying…

The Nationwide League One, NLO, has announced players registration guidelines ahead of the upcoming season. The league body has urged clubs to remit a registration fee of ₦600,000 (six hundred thousand Naira) to its account in other to gain access to the NLO’s database. The modalities is for clubs in the NLO Division One and the U-19 Youth League. For the youth league clubs, submission of players’ primary school certificates is required. The deadline for Division One club registration is set for Friday, 27 February, 2026. The NLO board in collaboration with its Secretariat stated this on Tuesday. According to…

The National Pension Commission has recovered over N4.04bn in unremitted pension contributions between January and November 2025, representing an increase of more than 180 per cent compared with the N1.44bn recovered in the entire 2024 financial year. The Director-General of PenCom, Ms Omolola Oloworaran, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja while presenting her one-year scorecard at the Pension Revolution Summit and 2025 Media Conference. Addressing the long-standing challenge of pension non-remittances, Oloworaran said decisive regulatory action by the commission was responsible for the sharp rise in recoveries. “In response, PenCom issued a decisive compliance circular in the second quarter of…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said it will prosecute five herbalists arrested at shrines in Lagos and Osun states over the alleged possession of fake $3.4 million and €280,000. The EFCC disclosed in a statement posted on its Facebook page on Wednesday that the arrests followed a report that the suspects allegedly swindled one Halima Sanni of N26m. According to the commission, the suspects were involved in defrauding unsuspecting members of the public under the guise of providing spiritual cleansing. The statement also noted that the suspects claimed they could conjure foreign currencies and hypnotised their victims into…

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…