— Flags off 2025 NPC delayed Easter pilgrimage By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA —-PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has warned Nigerians going for pilgrimage in Israel and Jordan against aboscondment, saying there is no country like Nigeria. The President gave the warning when he officially flagged off the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission’s, NCPC delayed Easter Pilgrimage exercise to […]

The stock market reversed losses by 0.31 per cent on Thursday, recording N279 billion gain for investors.

Shina Abubakar, Osogbo OSOGBO – The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund TETFund, Architect Sonny Echonno has disclosed that technology, as good as it is, cannot replace great teachers but could be a great transformational tool. Delivering the Lecture at the Osun State University 15th Convocation Lecture, titled, Digital Transformation in Higher Education; Building Skills […]

Manchester United have reached an agreement to sign teenage midfielder Cristian Orozco.

By Shina Abubakar, Osogbo Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has disclosed that no woman in the state would be left behind in his administration’s strive to ensure inclusive economic growth. This is as the Springtime Development Foundation, an initiative of Dr Deji Adeleke trained 500 women from the state on organic poultry home farming. Speaking […]

The national average retail price of refilling a 12.5kg cylinder of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, otherwise known as cooking gas has dropped by 21.42 percent on a month-on-month, MoM basis, to N16,195.07 in August, 2025 from N20,609.48 in July.

Saudi authorities announced on Thursday a five-year freeze on rent for residential and commercial properties in Riyadh, where demand for housing has soared as the kingdom’s ambitious megaprojects draw workers to the city.

Three children play with sand and pebbles among the tombstones in a southern Gaza cemetery, while a teenage boy, barefoot, carries two buckets of water through the graveyard before vanishing into a tent.

The pan-Yoruba sociopolitical organisation, Afenifere, in partnership with the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission, has announced a two-day regional stakeholders’ summit scheduled for October 9–10 in Akure, Ondo State.

By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA: Minister of the Federal Capital Territory FCT, Nyesom Wike, has warned contractors handling Abuja projects against abandoning sites midway, insisting that any company awarded contracts must remain on site until full completion. Speaking on Thursday at the flag-off of the construction of Arterial Road N20 (Solomon Lar Way) linking Obafemi Awolowo […]