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The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has criticised the Nigeria Democratic Congress, saying the party has yet to present a clear vision or manifesto for Nigeria ahead of the 2027 general elections. Onanuga, in a statement posted on his X handle on Friday, said he had twice searched the party’s website out of curiosity to review its manifesto and governance plans. According to him, the party, which he said recently became a platform for former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi and former Kano State Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso, had no accessible manifesto on…
Sporting Lagos have emerged champions of the Nigeria National League, finishing top of the four-team Super 4 standings on goal difference. The Lagos-based club secured their first NNL title despite suffering a 1-0 defeat to city rivals Inter Lagos in the decisive Lagos Derby played at the Remo Stars Stadium in Ikene on Friday. Heading into the final round of the NNL Super 4 playoffs, Sporting Lagos led the table with six points after victories in their opening two matches and needed only a draw to seal the title outright. Inter Lagos, however, still had a slim chance of clinching…
The management of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has warned students and members of the public to disregard a purported resumption notice currently circulating on social media, describing it as fake and unauthorised. In a statement issued on Friday, the institution’s Public Relations Officer, Abiodun Olarewaju, said the university was still observing the three-week mid-semester break approved by the Senate. According to the statement, the fake letter was falsely presented as having been issued and signed by the Registrar of the university. Olarewaju stated that the document did not emanate from the Office of the Registrar or any authorised organ of…
Asus’s latest gaming monitor is a little smaller than usual. The ROG Strix XG129C, announced on Friday, is a 12.3-inch touchscreen IPS display that’s intended to be a sidekick for a larger main monitor, similar to the 14.1-inch secondary display in the 2020 Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15. It’s a slightly smaller competitor to Corsair’s Xeneon Edge, which has a 14.5-inch display, but the same 720p resolution.Asus says the XG129C covers 125 percent of the sRGB color gamut and 90 percent of the DCI-P3 color gamut. It also comes with a one-year subscription for the hardware monitoring tool AIDA64 Extreme,…
Crypto wallet provider Exodus has launched XO Cash, a Solana-based stablecoin and software toolkit designed to let AI agents make payments and access services without directly controlling private keys.According to Friday’s announcement, the system, developed with MoonPay, allows developers to create agent-linked wallets, assign spending limits and issue virtual debit cards tied to Visa payment rails.XO Cash integrates with Exodus Pay and includes a software development kit that allows users to fund AI agent wallets using their Exodus Pay balances while maintaining custody of their private keys. Users can set transaction caps, merchant restrictions and daily spending limits for each…
ABC is preparing for summer TV by releasing premiere dates for highly anticipated shows including Dancing With the Stars: The Next Pro. The network announced on Friday, May 8, the return of several game shows and the new DWTS spinoff hosted by Robert Irwin. “Dancing With the Stars: The Next Pro features 12 exceptional up-and-coming dancers who move into one house and compete in a grueling audition process,” the official logline for the show reads. “[They are] all vying for a coveted spot as a pro dancer on season 35 of Dancing With the Stars.” After winning season 34 with…
Twenty state governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have passed a vote of no confidence in Hope Uzodimma, the Imo State governor and chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), accusing him of financial impropriety and loss of confidence in his leadership, PREMIUM TIMES can confirm. Arise News first reported the governors’ meeting and its outcome on Thursday night, but the Nigeria Governors Forum issued a statement on Friday denying that such a meeting had taken place. However, this newspaper can confirm that the meeting was indeed held. The governors, at the extraordinary meeting held Thursday night in Abuja,…
Mr Tunde Ayeni. Whether history ultimately judges Ayeni as a principal architect of the crisis or merely one of its most visible casualties may depend on facts yet to emerge fully in the public domain, as the documents seen in the current charges clearly indicated the then managing Director/CEO on whose desk the buck stops, as the person in charge of operations of the bank is now the star prosecution witness against the man who was just a board chairman and had no office in the bank during his tenure, like all chairmen of the bank before him. This is…
A Kano-based legal practitioner, Abba Hikima, has petitioned the Nigeria Police Force Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Olatunji Rilwan Disu, demanding an immediate, independent and transparent investigation into allegations surrounding the disappearance and alleged killing of missing activist, Abubakar Idris. Hikima disclosed this in a petition dated May 8, 2026, which he shared on his Facebook page alongside copies of the document addressed to the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters in Abuja. In the petition, the lawyer referenced allegations reportedly made by Muhammad Musa Kamarawa, a former Senior Special Assistant to former Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle. According to the petition, Kamarawa allegedly…
The Governor of Abia State, Alex Chioma Otti, on Friday received his Labour Party nomination forms free of charge from the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party. Leading other members of the NWC to the Abia State Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja, where the brief presentation ceremony took place, was the party’s National Chairman, Senator Nenadi Usman, who spoke on behalf of the delegation. Senator Usman commended Governor Otti for serving as the poster boy of the Labour Party and for faithfully implementing the party’s ideals of equal opportunities and social justice in the governance of Abia State. She stated…
