Author: News Room
The FIFA World Cup remains the pinnacle of international football, attracting billions of viewers and showcasing the world’s best teams every four years. Yet, despite their huge populations and passionate fan bases, some nations are still waiting to make their debut on football’s biggest stage. From Asia to Africa, several countries with millions of football enthusiasts have struggled to translate their potential into success on the international stage. Factors such as limited investment, inadequate football infrastructure, competition from other sports, and inconsistent development programmes have all contributed to their absence from the World Cup. According to Planet Football on Tuesday,…
On Tuesday, the Seattle City Council will vote on whether to enact a one-year moratorium on new data centers — just two months after several companies proposed building five large-scale centers in the city. Among the moratorium’s fiercest supporters are current employees from the city’s biggest tech giant, Amazon, who joined others to testify in support of the policy last week.Data centers have sparked protests across the country over concerns about water consumption, local electricity prices, and noise. In Seattle and the surrounding King County, the issue is coming to a head. If the city council votes in favor of…
Joshua Jackson stepped out with model Olivia Burgess for the first time in June 2026. The two were photographed on a romantic visit to New York City, where they held hands and smiled. Jackson was in the Big Apple at the time to attend a screening of his and Dawson’s Creek costar Katie Holmes’ new movie Happy Hours at the Tribeca Film Festival. A possible new relationship for Jackson comes on the heels of a difficult few years, as he split from ex-wife Jodie Turner-Smith in 2023 and he later lost his childhood home in the 2025 California wildfires. (Jackson…
Some residents of Calabar, the Cross River State capital, have decried the rise in the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, otherwise known as cooking gas. The price of cooking gas in Calabar recently rose from N1,300 to between N1,750 and N1,900 per kilogramme as sold by gas stations and roadside vendors. The residents who spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday, described the price increase as “alarming and frustrating”. Uduak Edem, a pump attendant in a popular gas station in Calabar metropolis, said she did not know the real cause of the increase. “I am…
Mid-tier lender FCMB Group reported on Monday a 147.7 per cent lead in net profit to the highest level on record, supported by a remarkable improvement in interest income, its primary source of revenue. After-tax profit accelerated to N177.3 billion from N73.3 billion a year ago, according to its audited earnings report filed at the Nigerian Exchange. Shares in the financial services group had jumped by 7.6 per cent on Lagos’ Customs Street as of 11:30 WAT, following the release of the results. FCMB Group has operations in asset management, pensions, trusteeship and microfinance in addition to its core commercial…
The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has announced the second edition of its Mega Music Festival, describing the event as a national gathering of worship, prayer and prophetic declarations aimed at ushering in “a new season” for Nigeria. Several gospel ministers will lead worship during the festival, including Nathaniel Bassey, Dunsin Oyekan, Yinka Alaseyori, Bidemi Olaoba, and Gospel Force, as well as other worship leaders. Speaking at a press briefing on Monday, the Special Assistant to the General Overseer on Youth Affairs, Sola Olukoya, said the programme will hold on Friday, 12 June, at 8:00 p.m. at the Tafawa…
The Canadian High Commission has called for stronger collaboration among governments, communities, civil society groups, security actors and the media to protect children affected by conflict and prevent their recruitment into armed groups. Omar Alihashi, Counsellor Political at the Commission in Nigeria, urged support for global efforts to protect children affected by armed conflict, warning that such children face profound challenges that go beyond the immediate dangers of violence. At a media workshop on preventing the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict and violence, Alihashi said the media has a unique responsibility to raise awareness about the challenges…
Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, has insisted that as bad as President Bola Tinubu’s administration is, it is a better choice than Atiku Abubakar. Lawal made this remark on Monday during a live appearance in an interview on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television. He said Tinubu would be an excellent President compared to what Atiku would plunge Nigeria into. “I said it that if it must be, therefore, a choice between Atiku and Tinubu, I believe that Bola Tinubu’s presidency, as bad as it is now on a comparative level, Tinubu would be an excellent…
Suspected Kidnappers abducted one resident and shot another when they stormed a residential area, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, the Quarry area of Arab Road in Kubwa.The attack took place between 11pm on Saturday and midnight on Sunday, and the victim who was shot by the bandits later died in the hospital on Sunday. The secretary of the community, identified only as Dairo, told DAILY POST that residents were made to understand the incident by the sound of gunfire as the assailants reportedly entered the community through a nearby hill and carried out their devilish act. He explained…
The British police have arrested three suspects in connection with the fatal stabbing of British-Nigerian musician Mark Orabiyi, whose death has sparked an ongoing murder investigation in London. Orabiyi, 35, reportedly sustained multiple stab wounds during an incident at a residential property on Rayleigh Road on Friday. Emergency responders rushed to the scene after receiving distress reports, but efforts to save him proved unsuccessful. According to the Metropolitan Police, officers arrived alongside paramedics and discovered the victim critically injured in the garden of the property. He was later pronounced dead at the scene. While formal identification procedures are yet to…
