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The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has congratulated Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State on his reelection victory. The NGF, in a statement by the Chairman of the forum and Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, similarly commended the Osun people for the large voter turnout last Saturday. According to the statement, the NGF said the interest generated by the off-cycle ballot again confirmed the resilience of Nigerian democracy. The forum acknowledged the incredibly important role that opposition parties also played in shaping the nation’s democracy and commended all the candidates for their efforts. The NGF also commended the security agencies…
…there is no economic or development theory that is superior to the balance sheet. The reality of the balance sheet is the moment where underlying assets, actual liabilities, cash flows, and debt obligations are assessed at their true net realisable value. This translates to the fiscal health of the country. And it matters a lot. This is why we need to set aside political considerations in our analysis of the subsidy regime and face our reality. Those that have questioned the removal of subsidy are in denial of basic arithmetic. I watched the recent interview of the Chairman of the…
Investors have shown strong appetite for long-term domestic assets as the Bank of Industry Limited successfully closed its maiden N250bn Series 1 Fixed Rate Bond, with the offer oversubscribed. The bond was issued through BOI Financing SPV Plc under the bank’s $1bn Multi-Currency Instruments Programme and attracted participation from a broad range of institutional investors. Pension fund administrators, banks, development finance institutions, corporates and other institutional investors participated in the transaction. The involvement of major institutional anchors, including the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority and the International Finance Corporation, further reinforced investor confidence in the offering. The successful transaction provides BOI…
Taylor Swift is fully embracing her newlywed era. Swift, 36, stepped out at Oli Jacobs and Laura Sisk’s wedding held just outside Gloucestershire, England, on Saturday, August 15, per photos published by online gossip site DeuxMoi. The pop star donned a chic plunging, navy dress embroidered with lace flowers and wore her newly cut tresses in a wavy bob. Swift, who was joined by pals Sabrina Carpenter, Phoebe Bridgers and Jack Antonoff during the ceremony, accessorized her ensemble with a delicate pearl necklace and bracelet and her ring stack. Swift, who married NFL star Travis Kelce in July, paired her…
Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has congratulated Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State on his election for a second term in office, describing the poll as a testament to democratic maturity. The Returning Officer for the Osun governorship election, Joshua Ogunwole, who announced the results at the INEC Collation Centre in Osogbo early Sunday, said Mr Adeleke of the Accord Party secured 511,067 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Bola Oyebamiji of the All Progressives Congress, who polled 444,815 votes. Najeem Salaam of the African Democratic Congress came a distant third with 17,180 votes. Mr Otti, in a congratulatory…
If effectively implemented, the National Peace Framework can become more than another government policy. It can provide the architecture for a new approach to national security — one in which government retains responsibility, communities acquire greater agency, institutions work from a common framework, and Nigeria progressively moves beyond managing insecurity towards preventing it. Nigeria’s security challenges have changed considerably in scale, character and complexity. From terrorism and violent extremism to banditry, kidnapping, communal conflicts, separatist agitations, organised crime and emerging digital threats, insecurity has become a multidimensional challenge with profound consequences for national development. The new thinking is that insecurity…
It was a historic night for the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon as they won their first-ever Women’s Africa Cup of Nations title in Rabat on Sunday. They defeated Malawi 3-0, courtesy of a brace from Ngah Manga and another goal from 21-year-old midfielder Naomi Eto. Cameroon, who had previously lost four WAFCON finals — 1991, 2004, 2014 and 2016 — now become the fourth nation to win the continental title after Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and South Africa. The Scorchers had relied heavily on sisters Tabitha and Temwa Chawinga throughout their impressive run to the final, but the pair were kept largely…
A close friend of rapper Eminem’s ex wife, Kim Scott, made a frantic call to 911 just three months before she was hospitalized following an alleged suicide attempt. According to dispatch calls and 911 audio exclusively obtained by Us, Scott’s friend called the Chesterfield Township Police Department on April 1, 2026, requesting medical personnel respond to the rapper’s ex-wife’s Michigan residence. “I need an ambulance,” the friend, who Us has chosen not to publicly identify in order to protect her privacy, told dispatch at the time. “I was at work and she just called and she said she had an…
Last Saturday, angry students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (NAU), Awka, attacked and stripped an unidentified lecturer in the Department of Chinese Studies over an allegation of attempted sexual molestation of a female student. NAU, a federal university in Anambra State, is popularly known as UNIZIK. PREMIUM TIMES gathered that the incident happened after the female student came out of the lecturer’s office with his clothes, claiming that the lecturer attempted to sexually assault her in the office. This newspaper cited a video clip, which has gone viral, showing at least six men, believed to be students, hitting and stomping on…
Sheikh Sani Yahaya Jingir There have been calls for the prosecution of both Jingir and Fadahunsi. Unlikely as that eventuality may be, let us at least do what grown-ups do: introspect. The ultimate test of an elder’s relevance is not how much religious divisiveness or political violence he can incite but how he inspires the younger generation — permit me to paraphrase Oscar Hammerstein II — to climb every mountain, ford every stream, and follow every rainbow till they find their dream. Anyone against the universal brotherhood of humankind and the secularism of multicultural Nigeria is an infidel. So is…
