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CAIRO (AP) — U.S. forces struck three Iranian oil tankers after Navy warships were targeted with ballistic missiles, the American military said Saturday, warning that it would “if necessary, destroy Iran’s limited and exposed oil fleet.” Experts called it a dangerous escalation after Iran’s previous attacks at sea targeted commercial shipping. The strikes — a day after U.S. President Donald …

The report raised eight audit queries involving billions of naira and identified major weaknesses in the office’s financial controls. The President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government has failed to provide sufficient evidence that N33.75 billion in cash transfers made to more than 3,290,000 vulnerable households in 2023 actually reached genuine beneficiaries, the Auditor-General for the Federation has disclosed. The revelation was …

  While cancer can result from several factors, including genetic changes, age and environmental exposures, some established risks are linked to infections, substances and behaviours that can be prevented. Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, but health experts say many cancer cases are linked to preventable risk factors. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that cancer …

The leaders of Russia and Ukraine on Saturday agreed to pause strikes on each other’s capitals while U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner hold talks to try to revive a stalled push to end Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. “(Russian President Vladimir) Putin has ordered that no strikes be carried out against Kyiv for three days, starting at midnight …

Professor Tunji Ogunyemi of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, in Ile-Ife, has explained how 15 states in the northern part of Nigeria will collapse if petroleum subsidy is returned as some politicians have been advocating. He added the African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate’s position on subsidy was, “with due respect”, politics and playing to the gallery. The don, a prominent …

The Controller of Corrections, Edo State Command, CCS Julius Osemwegie, led a delegation of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) on an official visit to the Edo State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development in Benin City. Receiving the delegation on behalf of the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hon. Eugenia Abdallah, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, …

The UN General Assembly has voted to replace the traditional world map with one that more accurately reflects the size of Africa. The “Correct the Map” resolution, sponsored by Togo and backed by African Union (AU) members, passed with the support of 164 nations, including France and the UK. The United States was the only nation to vote against it …

Nigeria’s push to build a national digital infrastructure for education records and quality assurance in higher institutions has recorded a major milestone, with the Nigeria Education Repository and Databank (NERD) surpassing 400,000 digitised theses and dissertations. Officials and education stakeholders see the achievement as an important step towards preserving the country’s intellectual output and building a national database for the …

An expert, Benjamin Ekeyi, has described Nigeria’s 4.43 per cent Q2 2026 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth as encouraging, but cautioned against declaring the economy firmly on a sustainable recovery path. Ekeyi, a Public Finance Management and Governance expert, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday, while reacting to Nigeria’s latest …

The Federal Government has said that it is working to safeguard critical transport infrastructure and strengthen Nigeria’s intermodal system to ensure safer, seamless and efficient movement of people and goods. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transportation, Olufunso Adebiyi, disclosed this at the just concluded 19th National Council on Transportation (NCT) in Abuja. A text of Adebiyi’s presentation at the event …