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Full List Of African Countries Affected By 3-Month US Visa Validity

Full List Of African Countries Affected By 3-Month US Visa Validity

In a statement released by the US Embassy in Abuja on Tuesday, the American government announced that “most non-immigrant and non-diplomatic visas issued to citizens of Nigeria will be single-entry visas with a three-month validity period.” The...

Ex-Int’l Football Player, Four Others Intercepted With 22.6kg Cocaine, Meth At MMIA, AIIA

Ex-Int’l Football Player, Four Others Intercepted With 22.6kg Cocaine, Meth At MMIA, AIIA

June 29, (THEWILL) — Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested an ex-international football player, Segun George Hunkarin, along with his businessman partner, Ntoruka Emmanuel Chinedu, over attempt to smuggle a...

Edo Community To Petition EFCC, IGP Over Abandoned Healthcare Centre Despite N35m Payment

Edo Community To Petition EFCC, IGP Over Abandoned Healthcare Centre Despite N35m Payment

1 BENIN – The people of Utoka Community in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State, are currently not happy over an abandoned but completely paid for healthcare centre renovation project in the community. The community have threatened...

Tinubu wins S’South APC support ahead of 2027

Tinubu wins S’South APC support ahead of 2027

Governors and leaders of the All Progressive Congress in the South-South have endorsed President Bola Tinubu for a second term in office. The position was made known during the APC’s stakeholders interactive session held in Benin City, Edo State,...

South South governors, APC leaders endorse Tinubu for 2027

South South governors, APC leaders endorse Tinubu for 2027

From Tony Osauzo, Benin Ahead of the 2027 presidential election, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governors and leaders of the party in the South South have endorsed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for a second term of office. The position of the...

Top Nigerian Newspaper Headlines For Today, Sunday, 29th June, 2025

Top Nigerian Newspaper Headlines For Today, Sunday, 29th June, 2025

Good morning Nigeria. Welcome to the Naija News roundup of top newspaper headlines in Nigeria for today, Sunday, 29th June, 2025. Elder statesman and billionaire businessman, Alhaji Aminu Alhassan Dantata, has been laid to rest in Madina, Saudi...

Transfer Updates: Garnacho, Mbeumo, Gyokeres, Sesko, Mateta, Sancho, Others

Transfer Updates: Garnacho, Mbeumo, Gyokeres, Sesko, Mateta, Sancho, Others

Italian giants Napoli have reportedly reignited their pursuit of Manchester United starlet Alejandro Garnacho, setting their sights on the Argentine winger with a £45 million transfer bid, according to The Mirror. The 21-year-old, known for his...

Douala port expansion project: Gov't begins paying indemnities to affect...

Douala port expansion project: Gov't begins paying indemnities to affect...

Sanaga Maritime SDO, PAD officials addressing first group of those to be compensated The launch of the compensation for the first group of people displaced by the Dibamba Industrial Port Development Project took place on July 3, 2025, at the...

Enrollment for TVET rises to 287.76%, says NABTEB Registrar

Enrollment for TVET rises to 287.76%, says NABTEB Registrar

L – R: The Chairperson, Principals of Federal Technical Colleges in the country, Mrs Offorkansi Ifeoma; the Registrar/Chief Executive Officer, NABTEB, Dr. Mohammed Aminu Mohammed; and the Director, Technology & Science Education, Federal Ministry...

World AFP Morocco's Atlantic gambit: linking restive Sahel to ocean

World AFP Morocco's Atlantic gambit: linking restive Sahel to ocean

A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to tackle regional instability and consolidate its grip on disputed Western Sahara. The "Atlantic Initiative" promises ocean...

Morocco's Atlantic Gambit: Linking Restive Sahel To Ocean

Morocco's Atlantic Gambit: Linking Restive Sahel To Ocean

A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to tackle regional instability and consolidate its grip on disputed Western Sahara. The "Atlantic Initiative" promises ocean...

NDLEA arrests ex-footballer Hunkarin, others for drug smuggling

NDLEA arrests ex-footballer Hunkarin, others for drug smuggling

From Godwin Tsa, Abuja The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested former international footballer Segun George Hunkarin and his businessman partner, Ntoruka Emmanuel Chinedu, for attempting to smuggle cocaine into Nigeria...

Freedom offers cheaper roaming to all Canadians with new travel eSIM

Freedom offers cheaper roaming to all Canadians with new travel eSIM

Freedom Mobile is expanding its roaming options with a new travel eSIM available not just to Freedom customers but to any Canadian who wants one. Freedom’s new roaming option, which it dubs the ‘Roam Beyond Travel Data eSIM,’ offers the carrier’s...

Oredo Acting Chairman Flags Off Week-Long Campaign

The acting Chairman and Head of Service, Oredo Government Council, Mrs. Evbu Amen Oboh, on Friday, flagged off the National Immunisation Plus Day. The flag off was held at Oba market in Benin City. Efosa Uwangue reports. www.itvradiong.com/live...

South-South APC Govs, party leaders endorse Tinubu for second term

South-South APC Govs, party leaders endorse Tinubu for second term

BY BEN OGBEMUDIA Governors and leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the South-South region have endorsed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for a second term in office. The endorsement was declared during an APC stakeholders’ interactive...

The nation of Nigeria as a fact  of nature

The nation of Nigeria as a fact of nature

Nigeria’s ethno-geographic diversity is often cited as a major stumbling block towards its unity, cohesion and oneness of purpose. It is generally believed that a heterogeneous country like Nigeria is more unlikely to evolve a national consensus...

THE PASSAGE OF ‘DODO MAYANA’Peter Rufai, ace Super Eagles goalkeeper, dies at 61

THE PASSAGE OF ‘DODO MAYANA’Peter Rufai, ace Super Eagles goalkeeper, dies at 61

Name them: Christian Chukwu. Obisia Nwankpa. Charles Bassey. Moses Effiong. These are some of Nigeria’s sporting heroes that have passed on in the last four months. Sadly, they all died not on account of old age, but rather due to some health...

APC Govs Reaffirm Commitment To Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda

APC Govs Reaffirm Commitment To Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda

1 BENIN – The Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF), on Satur­day, concluded a two-day strategic regional meeting in Benin City, Edo State capital, during which they engaged in deep re­flection on the nation’s so­cio-economic direction. During the...

“Ready for a new era”: Fans react as Christian Horner’s replacement expresses his feelings on RB promotion

“Ready for a new era”: Fans react as Christian Horner’s replacement expresses his feelings on RB promotion

Laurent Mekies, who replaced Christian Horner at the helm of affairs at the Red Bull Racing team, has detailed his excitement about joining the Milton Keynes outfit. The French engineer, who was previously team boss of sister outfit Racing Bulls,...

Ghana’s Abena Amoakoaa Sintim-Aboagye named among inaugural TIME100 Creators 2025

Ghana’s Abena Amoakoaa Sintim-Aboagye named among inaugural TIME100 Creators 2025

By George Agboklu Accra, July 10, GNA – Miss Abena Amoakoaa Sintim Aboagye, Ghanaian digital content creator, known on TikTok as @Chefabbys, has been named to the prestigious inaugural TIME100 Creators 2025 list released July 9, 2025 TIME...

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