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Former presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabi’u Kwankwaso, has revealed that the Nigerian Democratic Congress, NDC, and the African Democratic Congress, ADC, may work together before the 2027 general elections. Kwankwaso stated this on Monday during a live appearance in an interview on Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time’. He was speaking about his departure from the ADC and alliance with former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi. “The NDC and ADC may still work together before the election. “So you see, there is a lot happening in this country, but older people don’t even understand. “People are talking of…
Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have arrested three female suspects during a raid on suspected drug dens in the Ogbomoro and Ugolo areas of Warri metropolis. The operation was reportedly carried out by officers attached to the Effurun Area Command following intelligence reports on suspected illegal drug activities within the communities. The suspects were identified as Favour Isaac, 25, Favour Felix, 24, and Samson Precious, 19. The raid was said to have taken place on May 7, 2026, at about 9:20 p.m. During the operation, police operatives executed a search warrant at hideouts located along River Road in…
Nollywood actress and filmmaker, Bolaji Ogunmola has opened up about the challenges of making movies for YouTube, claiming that the platform was not originally designed for films. Speaking in a recent interview with Jay On-Air, Ogunmola said making films for YouTube audience is expensive and risky. She explained that actors charge expensive fees and fans also assumed producers make a lot of money from movies with millions of views, which isn’t often the case. “YouTube was never designed for films. Film is a very expensive art. Actors are collecting N4-5 million for four days. The least maybe N1-2 million,” she…
Galatasaray striker, Victor Osimhen, is now firmly on Real Madrid’s radar ahead of this summer transfer market, Soccernet reports. The LaLiga giants are close to appointing Benfica’s Jose Mourinho as their next manager. And Mourinho has already identified Osimhen as the striker to lead the line for him. Mourinho has admired the Super Eagles talisman for years. During Osimhen’s time at Napoli, the pair faced each other in Serie A when Mourinho managed AS Roma. The Portuguese manager has also publicly compared Osimhen to Ivorian legend, Didier Drogba, who he brought to Chelsea. Osimhen’s potential arrival would allow Kylian Mbappe…
President Donald Trump has said he is ready to discuss US arms sales to Taiwan during his visit to Beijing this week, as he suggested his personal chemistry with counterpart Xi Jinping would prevent a Chinese invasion of the island. The White House said Trump will bring along top US executives including his former nemesis Elon Musk and Apple’s Tim Cook for a trip expected to focus heavily on the US president’s hopes to ramp up trade. China said it hoped to achieve greater stability between the world’s two largest economies during the visit lasting Wednesday through Friday, the first…
A suicide bomber in a three-wheel vehicle laden with explosives killed at least seven people and wounded 20 in northwest Pakistan, police said on Tuesday. The blast comes days after another suicide attack saw a car bomb detonate at a checkpoint in Bannu before militants opened fire on police, killing at least 15 people. “According to the initial reports, the suspected suicide attacker approached the two traffic police officers stationed at the checkpoint before blowing himself up,” senior police official Muhammad Sajjad Khan told AFP. Pakistan’s foreign ministry on Monday summoned the top Afghan diplomat in the country after concluding…
History is often described as a great teacher. Nations that study their past mistakes tend to avoid repeating them. Leaders who understand history govern with caution, humility and foresight. Yet in Nigeria, many politicians appear determined to prove the opposite. Election after election, crisis after crisis, scandal after scandal, and the same errors are repeated with alarming consistency. It is as if history in Nigeria is not a guide, but a discarded book gathering dust on a forgotten shelf. From the First Republic to the present Fourth Republic, the patterns are painfully familiar: intolerance of opposition, abuse of institutions, ethnic…
A former Kano State Governor and leader of the Kwankwasiyya Movement, Rabiu Kwankwaso, says he and some “leadership in the north” did an assessment of potential allies before settling on Peter Obi as the most capable partner to prosecute the 2027 presidential campaign. He dismissed concerns about a hidden power struggle between his camp and Obi’s. Kwankwaso made the disclosure in an interview on Arise TV on Monday, offering one of his most detailed accounts yet of how the North-Southeast political alliance within the NDC was formed. “I looked around together with our leadership in the north to say, okay,…
LeBron James said he will take time to consider his future after the Los Angeles Lakers were swept out of the NBA playoffs by Oklahoma City on Monday in what could turn out to be the final game of his career. James, 41, delivered a typically defiant performance with 24 points and 12 rebounds, but it was not enough to prevent the Lakers from falling 115-110 as the Thunder completed a 4-0 sweep in the Western Conference semi-finals series. The four-time NBA champion is now out of contract with the Lakers and will head into the offseason as a free…
Crypto exchange Binance says its artificial intelligence-based security tools have helped prevent the loss of more than $10 billion worth of user funds from scams and fraud between 2025 to March 2026.Binance said in a blog post on Monday that it had protected more than 5.4 million users from fraud between the first quarter of 2025 and the first quarter of 2026 after rolling out over 24 AI-driven initiatives and more than 100 models.“AI-powered scams and exploits are accelerating,” Binance said. “The barrier to entry for scam perpetrators is falling fast, with AI accelerating the drop. What once required technical…
