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Slot Seeks Liverpool Balance For Premier League Defence
Liverpool boss Arne Slot said his side are conceding too often if they are to defend the Premier League title after losing the Community Shield on penalties to Crystal Palace on Sunday. The new-look Reds, after a £260 million ($350 million) spending spree in the transfer market, looked slick in attack at Wembley with new signings Hugo Ekitike and Jeremie...
Delta Police Apprehends Stolen Car Thief
The Delta State Police Command says it has arrested a suspected armed robber, one Chinedu Eze, and recovered a stolen Mercedes-Benz GLK in Asaba, the state capital. The police spokesperson, Delta State Police Command, SP Bright Edafe, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Asaba, the state capital. He said, “On August 5, 2025, the Divisional Police Officer of B...
Gov Oyebanji Suspend Commissioners In Major Cabinet Shake-up
Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Biodun Oyebanji, has dissolved the State Executive Council effective immediately. Oyebanji, in a statement made available to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, late Sunday evening by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Habibat Adubiaro, directed the affected Commissioners and Special Advisers to hand over to the Permanent Secretary or the most senior civil servant in their respective...
Fayemi Confirms Commitment To APC
Former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, yesterday, refuted the claims making the rounds that he co-founded the African Democratic Party, ADC, with former Rivers State governor, Mr Rotimi Amaechi. Fayemi, who was reacting to a X Spaces conversation on Saturday, where Amaechi claimed that the ADC coalition “started with me and Fayemi in the house of Nasiru Danu...
“Aviation Unions Proposed Strike Suspended” – Keyamo
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has announced the suspension of a planned strike by aviation unions, which was scheduled to commence on Monday. In a statement by the minister through his official X account on Sunday, he said, “We are happy to announce that, after our intervention, the planned strike by the Aviation Unions due to...
“Tax Reforms Act Will Cripple Our Operations In 48hrs” — AON
Domestic airlines, under the aegis of Airline Operators of Nigeria, AON, have raised the alarm over the recently signed Tax Reform Act, warning that its implementation from January 1, 2026, could cripple their operations within 48 hours. On June 26, 2025, President Bola Tinubu signed four Tax Reform Bills into law, including the Nigeria Tax Act, NTA; Nigeria Tax Administration...
OAU Management Raises Concern Over Missing Female Student
Tension has gripped the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, following the disappearance of a female student, Dorcas Oseghale, who has been missing for four days. Dorcas, a Chemistry student with Matriculation Number CHM/2021/165, was last seen on Thursday evening after informing a friend she was going to buy food at the Students’ Village along Ede Road. She never...
2027: “Peter Obi Will Keep His Promise Of A Single Term If Elected” — MBF
The Middle Belt Forum has said former presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, is a man of integrity and can be trusted to keep his promise to do a single term if elected president of the country in 2027. The Forum maintained that as a man of honour, the Middle Belt believed the former Anambra State governor would...
States Foreign Debt Payments Increases By 68%
States collectively spent about N235.58bn on servicing external debt obligations in the first half of 2025, The PUNCH reports. This is according to an analysis of the data from the Federal Account Allocation Committee disbursement released by the National Bureau of Statistics. The amount represents a sharp increase of N95.65bn or 68.4 per cent when compared with the N139.92bn recorded...
India Acquires Nigeria’s Crude As Dangote Imports US Oil
Refineries in India are buying Nigerian crude while the country’s Dangote Petroleum Refinery is largely running on American oil, The PUNCH reports. In a twist that underscores the complexities of global oil trade, India’s state refiners are snapping up Nigerian crude oil while Africa’s largest refinery, located in Nigeria, is increasingly importing crude from the United States, a development that...
