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Galaxy Backbone has topped the latest Bureau of Public Service Reforms scorecard ranking of government agency websites, outpacing other Ministries, Departments, and Agencies in online performance. The ranking places Galaxy Backbone first with a score of 49, followed by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board with 48 points, while several export, revenue, and regulatory agencies clustered closely behind. Speaking at the Scorecard Ranking of Ministries, Departments and Agencies Websites for the 2024–2025 assessment period on Monday, in Abuja, the Director General of BPSR, Dasuki Arabi, explained the purpose of the initiative, saying, “We came up with this idea of…

The Edo State Commissioner of Police, Monday Agbonika, has said the command arrested 821 suspects for various crimes and rescued 377 kidnapped victims across the state in 2025, Agbonika disclosed this on Monday, while addressing journalists during a press conference in Benin, where he presented a summary of the command’s major achievements for the year. According to figures released by the police, the arrests included 39 suspects for armed robbery, 171 for kidnapping, 117 for murder, 62 for rape and sexual offences, 239 for cultism, 36 for unlawful possession of firearms, and 157 for other offences. The command also recorded…

Burnley striker Lyle Foster scored in the 79th minute as South Africa edged Angola 2-1 in Marrakesh on Monday to win their opening match of an Africa Cup of Nations campaign for the first time in 21 years. Since beating Benin in the 2004 tournament, Bafana Bafana have drawn twice and lost four times when they debuted in different editions of the premier African football tournament. The opening Group B match had three distinct phases. South Africa started impressively, and Oswin Appollis scored in 21 minutes before a small crowd in the near-42,000-seat stadium. Angola controlled the rest of the…

Bitcoin culture, by nature, is anarchical and chaotic. It has to be, given the nature of Bitcoin itself and the people who adopted it: free-market libertarians who’ve gone all in on turning computer code into a form of money divorced from central banks, government intervention, and traceability. In short, it’s the exact opposite culture of Washington, DC, home of the federal government, where everyone agrees that the American dollar exists and is worth X amount because the government says so.So it was a bizarre shock to K Street, the corporate lobbying heart of the nation’s capital, when it was announced…

Tokenized US Treasurys have emerged as one of the fastest-growing segments of the real-world asset (RWA) market, with data pointing to 50x growth in less than two years amid rising institutional demand for on-chain yield.Data from Token Terminal shows that the combined market capitalization of tokenized US Treasury products has exploded from well under $200 million in January 2024 to almost $7 billion in late 2025. The growth underscores the rapid acceleration of onchain adoption for government-backed debt instruments. Source: Token TerminalAt the center of this expansion is BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL), which is widely regarded as…

James Ransone is survived by his wife, Jamie McPhee, and two kids. News broke on Sunday, December 21 that The Wire alum died at age 46. Us Weekly confirmed via the Los Angeles Medical Examiner records that Ransone had died by suicide. McPhee has since spoken out in the wake of her husband’s death with a heartfelt Instagram tribute. “I told you I have loved you 1000 times before and I know I will love you again,” she captioned the social media post on Sunday. “You told me — I need to be more like you and you need to…

When the buses rolled into the Government House in Minna on Monday, silence briefly settled over the compound. Then came tears, prayers and embraces. The remaining 130 schoolchildren and teachers abducted from St. Mary’s Catholic School, Papiri, were finally home. For weeks, their absence had hung heavily over Nigeria and their families and community in Niger State, turning classrooms into painful reminders of fear and uncertainty. Governor Mohammed Bago received the rescued victims at the Government House, describing their release as a profound relief for the state and the families who had lived in anguish since the night armed men…

Nigeria’s growing reliance on medical tourism is being driven, in part, by strained relationships between doctors and patients, as well as gaps in infrastructure, according to UK-based physician Tokunbo Fasuyi. He said many Nigerians increasingly seek healthcare abroad not only because of better facilities, but because they feel unheard, confused and excluded from decisions about their own treatment within the local healthcare system. Nigeria has long grappled with a heavy dependence on medical tourism, with thousands of citizens travelling abroad annually for treatments ranging from routine check-ups to complex surgeries. Popular destinations include the United Kingdom, India, Turkey and the…

The Adamawa State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has deployed 1,200 personnel to enhance security during the Christmas and New Year celebrations. The command’s Public Relations Officer, DSC Hamidu Nyako, disclosed this to newsmen in Yola, explaining that the personnel have been stationed at strategic locations across the state to ensure peaceful and trouble-free celebrations. Nyako said that under the leadership of the State Commandant, Idris Bande, NSCDC is fully prepared to monitor all areas expected to witness large gatherings during the festivals. According to him, patrol vehicles provided by the Adamawa State Government will…

Several members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Katsina State have defected to the African Democratic Congress, ADC. A chieftain of the party, Austin Okai, who disclosed this in a post on his Facebook page on Monday, said the defection spanned from polling units up to the state level. His post reads: “Katsina PDP collapsed structures from polling units, ward, LGA and State to ADC Coalition.” DAILY POST reports that there has been a massive defection of politicians to ADC ahead of the 2027 general elections. About one hundred thousand supporters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lega…