Reigning African Player of the Year, Ademola Lookman, is set to join Inter Milan. Transfer Expert, Fabrizio Romano, announced yesterday that the UEFA Champions League finalists are now ready to submit official €40million bid to Atalanta after agreeing personal terms with the Super Eagles forward. Since the summer transfer window opened, Lookman has been on the radar of top European clubs like Juventus, Barcelona, Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, and Liverpool. The 27-year-old Super Eagles star player, has scored 52 goals and 25 assists in 118 appearances since joining the Italian side from RB Leipzig in 2022. He was largely instrumental to Atalanta…
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92 year old Cameroonian President, Paul Biya, has officially declared his candidacy for the October 12 presidential election, aiming to extend his already 43-year tenure. In a post on X, Sunday, Biya stated, “Rest assured that my determination to serve you matches the urgency of the challenges we face.” His announcement follows what he described as “numerous and insistent” calls from citizens across Cameroon and the diaspora. Biya’s political longevity is unprecedented in modern African politics. Since assuming office in 1982 after the resignation of Ahmadou Ahidjo, Biya has never lost an election. His administration abolished term limits in 2008,…
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has revealed a damning report of admission racketeering in the nation’s tertiary education sector. It said no fewer than 9,469 admissions across 20 tertiary institutions nationwide have been flagged as fake by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board for the 2024 academic session. According to the board, the admissions were conducted outside the popular Central Admission Processing System, popularly known as CAPS. According to the list obtained from JAMB, Kano State University of Science and Technology led the pack with 2,215 fake admissions, with Ladoke Akintola University of Technology following with 1,215. Others…
The tenth season of the popular reality TV show Big Brother Naija is just 10 days away, and organisers are raising the stakes with a record-breaking grand prize. This season’s winner will walk away with a prize worth N150 million, including cash and additional gifts. This season’s prize is the highest in the show’s history. Last year, winner KellyRae received N100 million. However, there is a twist. Unlike previous seasons where the winner took home the entire prize, Busola Tejumola, Executive Head, General Entertainment Channels at MultiChoice Group, hinted during a press briefing today that the ultimate winner this time…
With uncertainties surrounding Governor Ademola Adeleke’s political future, a former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has described the governor as a political orphan and now lobbying for survival. Omisore said Governor Adeleke, who was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is reportedly considering joining the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The former National Secretary of the ACP said this on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday. When asked if the speculation about Adeleke’s move to the APC is good news to him, he said he is not aware of that. “I’m not aware,…
ABUJA – Nigeria has reiterated the need to transform the ECOWAS Standby Force (ESF) into an operational mechanism for regional peace and stability. Maj-Gen. Umar Abubakar, Director, Peacekeeping and Regional Security, Ministry of Defence, stated this on Wednesday in Abuja at a Governmental Experts’ Validation Meeting on the ESF Training Policy for Peace Support Operations. The meeting brought together technical experts and strategic partners to finalise and validate the ESF’s training policy on peace support operations. “This is a pivotal moment for ECOWAS. The policy we are validating today will transform our Standby Force from concept to reality. “It will…
A female passenger lost her life after a private vehicle driver rammed into a motorcycle along the Igan Road in the Ago-Iwoye area of Ogun State. This is just as the motorcyclist sustained varying degrees of injuries in the crash that occurred in the early hours of Wednesday. The spokesperson for the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the incident in a traffic update sent to PUNCH Metro correspondent on Wednesday. According to Akinbiyi, the accident involved a red Toyota Camry with number plate JJJ 168 GY and a red Bajaj motorcycle with number plate KNN…
BUJA The Minister of State for health and Social Welfare, Dr. Iziaq Adekunle Salako, has highlighted the imperatives of Universal Health Coverage for Nigeria and Africa countries, just as he advocated for creativity and innovation if the 2030 timeline set for countries to attain the goal must be achieved. Salako gave the indication at the African Health Business Symposium held in Abuja on Wednesday with the theme, “Leveraging Innovation to Advancing Universal Health Coverage”. In his speech at the event, the minister applauded the meeting for focusing attention on fundamental human right issues that are fundamental to economic development, poverty…
A Federal High Court in Lagos has discharged and acquitted Ayodele Fayose, former Ekiti State governor, of money laundering and fraud charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Delivering judgment on Wednesday, Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke upheld a no-case submission filed by the defence, ruling that the EFCC failed to establish a prima facie case against Fayose that would warrant him entering a defence. “The prosecution failed to establish a prima facie case against him to warrant further defence,” the judge held. Fayose and his company, Spotless Investment Limited, were re-arraigned by the EFCC on an…
Nigeria’s headline inflation rate slowed for the third consecutive month to 22.22 percent in June 2025 from 22.97 percent in May, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) On a month-on-month basis, inflation declined significantly to 1.68 percent in June from 1.53 percent in May, indicating a higher pace of price rise across the economy. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced that the 301st meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), where key interest rate decisions are made, will take place on Monday, July 21, and Tuesday, July 22, 2025. During the May meeting, the MPC had…