The Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, on Monday raised concerns over excessive electricity billing, disclosing that the monthly bill for his official residence skyrocketed from N2.7 million in March to an alarming N29 million in April. Hamzat made the revelation during a roundtable held in Victoria Island between the Lagos State Government…
The Nigeria Football Federation has challenged former Super Eagles coaches to come out and speak if they are being owed by the country’s football governing body. This is coming in the wake of the accusations that the NFF owed the late 1980 AFCON-winning captain, Christian Chukwu, the sum of $128,000. Chukwu died on Saturday, April…
Photograph Source: ArmyInform – CC BY 4.0 Two years into his prison term for a 2020 murder, Ivan Rossomakhin was recruited into a Russian private military company (PMC) in exchange for freedom. He returned home from Ukraine in 2023and, within days, killed an 85-year-old woman in a nearby town. One week after beginning his new sentence…
Preparations are in top gear for the 2025 MASA Isonyin Half Marathon (MIHM) edition. According to a press statement issued on Monday, the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has officially recognised and certified the route for the 23 August race. In a significant cultural boost also, the Saderiren of Isonyin, HRH Àlaiyeluwa Oba Abdulrasheed Omotayo…
Pennsylvania Gov Josh Shapiro angrily called for an end to rising political violence just hours after a man broke into the governor’s mansion and set it on fire, forcing Shapiro and his family to flee into the night. It was the latest in a string of partisan political attacks in the United States. “This kind…
