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By Peter Omopo  Lagos, July 20, 2025 — Lagos State has been confirmed as the first African city to host the prestigious E1 Electric Powerboat Championship, a landmark global sporting event set to take place on October 4 and 5, 2025. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu made the announcement on Sunday via his official X (formerly Twitter) account following his participation at the E1 Racing Championship event in Monaco, where he was joined by notable figures, including Africa’s richest man and Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote. “The E1 Championship is a vivid demonstration of how innovation, determination, and bold ideas…

By Peter Omopo  Ijebu-Ode, July 20, 2025 — Secondary school principals and vice-principals from Oyo and Ogun states have commenced an intensive leadership training programme in digital literacy, cybersecurity, and strategic school management at the Olusegun Obasanjo Leadership Institute (OOLI), founded by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The programme, known as the Advanced Certificate in School Leadership and Management (ACSLM), kicked off with an orientation event at OOLI’s campus in Ijebu-Ode. The training is aimed at equipping school heads with 21st-century skills needed to manage evolving educational challenges and foster innovative learning environments. Speaking at the launch, Chairman of the OOLI…

By Peter Omopo  London, July 20, 2025 — Kemi Badenoch, leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, has expressed frustration over her inability to pass on Nigerian citizenship to her children due to what she described as gender-based limitations in Nigeria’s nationality laws. Speaking during an interview with Fareed Zakaria on CNN, Badenoch cited her personal experience to highlight disparities in global immigration systems, particularly between Nigeria and the UK. “It’s virtually impossible, for example, to get Nigerian citizenship,” she said. “I have that citizenship by virtue of my parents, but I can’t give it to my children because I’m…

By Peter Omopo  Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State – July 21, 2025 — President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Sunday departed Abuja for Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, to attend the eighth-day prayer ceremony held in honour of the late Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona. The development was announced via a post on X (formerly Twitter) by the President’s Special Assistant on Social Media, Dada Olusegun. “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has left Abuja for Ijebu-Ode to attend the eighth-day prayer ceremony for the late Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona,” Olusegun wrote. Oba Adetona, one of Nigeria’s longest-reigning monarchs, passed away on…

By Peter Omopo  Abuja, July 20, 2025 — Nigeria exported crude oil worth $1.34 billion to the United States between January and May 2025, maintaining its status as the largest African oil supplier to the U.S., despite a noticeable decline in both volume and value compared to the same period last year. According to official data from the U.S. Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis, Nigeria shipped 17.39 million barrels of crude oil to the U.S. during the five-month period—down from 20.4 million barrels worth $1.52 billion recorded in the corresponding months of 2024. This represents a 12.7% year-on-year…

By Peter Omopo  Abuja, July 20, 2025 — The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), alongside four Nigerian citizens, has filed a lawsuit against the Federal Government at the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice over its continued refusal to publish the forensic audit report of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). According to SERAP, the audit report, which was commissioned by former President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019, allegedly uncovers the disappearance of over ₦6 trillion from the NDDC between 2001 and 2019, implicating top government officials and politicians. The suit, marked ECW/CCJ/APP/35/25 and filed last Friday, seeks a declaration that…

By Peter Omopo — July 20, 2025 The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) chapter, says it will soon make its official position known regarding the recent decision by President Bola Tinubu to rename the institution after late former President Muhammadu Buhari. The ASUU chapter’s chairman, Dr. Abubakar M’Sheila, disclosed this in a telephone interview on Sunday, stating that the union’s stance will be made public after the next congress meeting. “Our members will be meeting, and we shall make our position known to the public,” M’Sheila said. “The executive committee and veterans have met. We…

By Peter Omopo  Lagos | July 20, 2025 — The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 60-year-old drug kingpin, Okpara Paul Chigozie, who had been on the agency’s wanted list since 2019, in a sweeping nationwide crackdown on drug trafficking and distribution. In a statement released on Sunday by NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, the agency disclosed that Chigozie was apprehended on July 13 at his hideout on Michael Ojo Street, Isheri, in the Ojo area of Lagos, following the interception of his drug consignment earlier that day. The operation began when NDLEA officers stopped a white Toyota…

By Sola Ojewusi  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Prince Al-Waleed bin Khaled bin Talal, widely known as Saudi Arabia’s ‘Sleeping Prince,’ has passed away after spending nearly two decades in a coma. He was 36. The young royal slipped into a coma in 2005 following a severe brain haemorrhage sustained during a car accident while studying at a military college in London. Since then, he had remained in a non-responsive state, receiving continuous medical care at King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh. Despite multiple consultations with medical specialists from around the world and unrelenting efforts by his family, Prince Al-Waleed never…

By Sola Ojewusi Lilongwe, Malawi — In the quiet corners of Malawian society where love and kinship are held sacred, a chilling story has torn through the hearts of many — a tale that redefines betrayal, envy, and the cold-hearted cruelty that can sometimes lurk behind the faces of those we call family. Twenty-six-year-old Agnes Chukwuma was known to her friends and neighbours as a determined young woman — radiant, hard-working, and relentless in her quest to make an honest living. A Nigerian by origin but Malawian by residence, she balanced her main job with a growing side hustle in…