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The 2025/2026 Nigeria Women Football League champions of the Edo Queens FC, have set their eyes on another continental adventure as they departed Benin on Wednesday for the WAFU-B qualifying tournament in Burkina Faso. The Edo side will be aiming to repeat their 2024 WAFU-B success and go one step further by securing the sole ticket to the CAF Women’s …

The All Progressives Congress has fixed Saturday, August 22, 2026, for its primary elections to select candidates for four restored State House of Assembly constituencies in Delta and Kogi states and legislative bye-elections in Gombe, Bauchi, Delta and Kano states. The party announced this in its timetable and schedule of activities signed by its National Organising Secretary, Sulaiman Argungu, and …

  According to him, the Director of Joint Services had informed the retirees that the relevant authorities had reached out to the Military Pensions Board and were awaiting feedback on the matter. Retired military personnel have suspended their protest over the exclusion of pensioners from the consequential adjustment arising from the implementation of the new minimum wage, following assurances from …

A 52-year-old home lesson teacher, Daniel Erumudonmoh Okhuilegbe, has been remanded at Oko Correctional Centre, Benin City, over the alleged defilement of his 13-year-old pupil in Edo State. Okhuilegbe was arrested on August 5 after allegedly abusing the trust placed in him as the child’s home lesson teacher. He was charged before the Benin High Court on August 14 and …

A 42-year-old married man, Oji Okoro, has been arrested by operatives of the Edo State Police Command for allegedly defiling a 12-year-old boy. Oji Okoro was among 15 suspects paraded before journalists by the Command’s spokesperson, ASP Eno Ikoedem, during the maiden press briefing of the Commissioner of Police, CP Patrick Daaor, in Benin City on Tuesday, August 18, 2026. …

Former Ukrainian defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov has called for wartime elections, in what many see as the biggest challenge to Volodymyr Zelensky’s presidency since war broke out with Russia in February 2022. “Democracy cannot be held hostage by Russia,” said Fedorov, 35, in a video posted to YouTube on Tuesday, adding that Ukraine is fighting “precisely because we want to …

Presidential candidates and leadership of political parties contesting the 2027 general elections had on Tuesday in Abuja signed a Peace Accord . They all committed to peaceful, issue-based campaigns and the non-involvement in electoral violence before, during and after the 2027 polls. Some of the presidential candidates that signed were President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, represented by …

President Bola Tinubu has pledged his commitment and that of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to peaceful, transparent and issue-based campaigns. Tinubu also warned political stakeholders against violence, hate speech, misinformation and artificial intelligence-generated content during the 2027 electioneering. The President spoke on Tuesday in Abuja while signing the National Peace Accord alongside political parties and candidates ahead of the …

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) says its investigation into the high cost of cement in the country shows possible manipulation of prices in the market. A statement signed by Mr Ondaje Ijagwu, FCCPC’s Director, Corporate Affairs in Abuja on Tuesday, said the Commission had issued notices of commencement of further investigation and ‘summons to produce’ to key …

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says a new batch of 83 Nigerian returnees from South Africa will arrive in the country on Wednesday. The Ministry’s Spokesman, Kimiebi Ebienfa, disclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja. According to him, the returnees were expected to depart Johannesburg at 3.35pm local time and to arrive in the Murtala Mohammed International …