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The Peoples Democratic Party has declared that it is repositioned and ready to reclaim power nationwide, following a high-level meeting between party leaders and former Vice President Namadi Sambo. Addressing journalists after the meeting in Abuja on Tuesday evening, the PDP National Chairman, Tanimu Turaki (SAN), said the former VP reaffirmed his continued membership of, and support for, the party and offered strategic guidance on strengthening unity, legality and electoral competitiveness ahead of forthcoming elections. Those present at the meeting included members of the Board of Trustees and the National Working Committee, founding fathers and mothers of the party, members…

Former Nigeria international basketball star Olumide Oyedeji has been elected secretary general of the World Olympians Association, becoming the first African to hold the position, The PUNCH reports. Oyedeji polled 55 votes out of 106 valid votes cast at the association’s annual general meeting on Sunday, securing 51.89 per cent to defeat Salvador Salguero of El Salvador and Liston Bochette of Puerto Rico. The current president of the Nigeria Olympians Association and third vice president of the Nigeria Olympic Committee will serve on the board for the next four years alongside President Pernilla Wiberg of Sweden and Treasurer Wei-Tsu Thomas…

Last year, Nova Launcher founder and sole developer Kevin Barry announced he had left Branch Metrics, Nova’s parent company at the time — which followed an announcement from 2024 that nearly everyone working on the project had been laid off. But the launcher is getting new life: in a blog post on Tuesday, the Swedish company Instabridge, which makes an app that helps people connect to Wi-FI hotspots, announced it has acquired Nova Launcher.“Nova is not shutting down,” according to Instabridge. “Our immediate focus is simple: keep Nova stable, compatible with modern Android, and actively maintained.” However, Instabridge says it’s…

Hong Kong Finance Secretary Paul Chan defended the city’s “same activity, same risk, same regulation” framework for digital assets while speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, according to the South China Morning Post.Speaking at a closed-door workshop in Switzerland on Tuesday, Chan said finance and technology were increasingly intertwined but required a balanced regulatory approach. He said:Digital assets should serve the real economy. But we must also build strong guardrails to address risks to financial stability, market integrity and investor protection.Chan pointed to the city’s “same activity, same risk, same regulation” principle for digital assets, which he said…

Timothy Busfield‘s role in Penn Badgley and Meghann Fahy‘s upcoming rom-com has been affected following his arrest on charges of child sex abuse. Multiple outlets confirmed that Busfield, 68, is being edited out of the movie You Deserve Each Other in the wake of his legal troubles. This comes after NBC shelved an episode of Law & Order: SVU, which featured Busfield in a guest star role as a judge. News broke earlier this month that an arrest warrant was issued for Busfield with charges including two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and child abuse. The warrant,…

No fewer than seven persons escaped death on Tuesday when a two-storey building under construction collapsed in Akure, the Ondo State capital. They, however, sustained various degrees of injury and are currently receiving medical attention at a hospital where they were rushed. No death was recorded, as those trapped in the rubble were quickly rescued. Witnesses said the victims were working at different parts of the building site when it suddenly caved in. The building site, located along the busy Oyemekun Road at the Cathedral area, near the former APC Secretariat, was said to have collapsed at about 3.30 p.m.…

Seplat Energy Plc has announced that its ANOH gas project, a 300 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd) midstream gas processing plant located in Imo State, has commenced gas supply. “Following completion of the 11km Indorama gas export pipeline and receipt of regulatory approval from the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), on Friday, 16th January 2026, ANOH Gas Processing Company (AGPC) commenced gas supply to Indorama,” the company said in a regulatory statement on Tuesday. Seplat noted that it achieved the feat “under a firm and interruptible Gas Sales Agreements,” adding that four upstream wells that had been…

Award-winning Afrobeats singer Ayodeji “Wizkid” Balogun has reacted to his colleague, Seun Kuti, over the latter’s criticism of his fan base, popularly known as Wizkid FC. PREMIUM TIMES reported that the online dispute between Wizkid and Seun began after members of Wizkid FC described the singer as a “modern-day Fela”. The comparison drew sharp criticism from Seun, the son of late Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. Seun, 43, described the remark as disrespectful and repeatedly called out both Wizkid and his fan base for likening his late father to the “Ojuelegba” hitmaker. He argued that such comparisons undermined Fela’s historical and…

The former Minister of Education, Professor Rukayya Ahmed Rufa’i, has said that Northern Nigeria is experiencing regression in education due to weak community participation, poor funding, and a shortage of qualified teachers across the region. She disclosed this while presenting a paper titled “Delivering Equitable Access to Quality Basic Education in Northern Nigeria: A Time for Real Action” at the 12th Annual Lecture of the Sir Ahmadu Bello Sardauna Memorial Foundation, held in Dutse. She explained that, according to available data, Nigeria has over 18 million out-of-school children, with Northern Nigeria accounting for more than 70 per cent of the…

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ebonyi State has ignited widespread controversy after announcing that the nomination form for local government chairmanship positions will cost aspirants a staggering N30 million. The decision, revealed by the state party chairman, Chief Stanley Okoro Emegha, has sparked outrage among political observers, civil society groups and ordinary citizens, who argue that the exorbitant fee effectively excludes grassroots politicians and ordinary Ebonyi indigenes from contesting, turning local elections into an exclusive affair for the wealthy or well-connected. The announcement came after a closed-door meeting with party officials from the state’s 13 local government areas and…