•Apex bank affirms lender remains strong, stable FRESH details have emerged regarding the circumstances that led to the regulatory intervention in Union Bank of Nigeria (UBN), with a forensic audit report alleging wide-ranging financial irregularities under the bank’s former owners and directors. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had in January 2024 dissolved the bank’s board […]

The Democratic Republic of Congo has said it will take in foreigners deported from the United States under a deal with Washington, which also wants access to Congolese mineral wealth.

Former Wales captain and Arsenal regular Aaron Ramsey announced his retirement from football at the age of 35 on Tuesday.

Arsenal must find their rhythm again as they travel to Lisbon to face Sporting in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final tonight.

Since its opening in 2010, the Burj Khalifa has remained the undisputed tallest building on Earth.

Organisers of a London music Festival where Kanye West was to perform in July said Tuesday the event had been cancelled after the US rapper was barred from Britain.

Barcelona head coach Hansi Flick has defended teenage sensation Lamine Yamal following a display of anger after Saturday’s La Liga clash against Atletico Madrid, when the 18-year-old reacted angrily after the goalkeeper coach shouted at him for taking a shot instead of passing. 

Israeli military spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin said “air force pilots continue to deepen the damage to the Iranian terror regime”.

The stage is set for a blockbuster Champions League quarterfinal as Real Madrid host Bayern Munich at the iconic Santiago Bernabéu Stadium on Tuesday.

Deborah Mbara, the woman at the centre of the controversy involving social media influencer Blessing Okoro aka Blessing CEO, has alleged that her cancer medical report was altered and used without her permission, describing the experience as traumatic.

The minister of state for foreign affairs, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has presented Letters of Credence to three ambassadors-designate, authorising them to represent Nigeria in their respective postings.

For Nigerian passport holder looking to explore the world without the hassle of extensive visa fees or long application processes, there’s good news.

“What I can do is assure Nigerians … and most of West, ​Central, and East Africa; we have the capacity to supply them”

A couple was publicly flogged in Indonesia’s staunchly Islamic Aceh province on Tuesday for having sex outside of marriage, an AFP reporter witnessed, in the country’s only region to apply a version of Sharia law.

The Kaduna State chapter of the African Democratic Congress has raised alarm over what it described as sustained persecution and harassment of former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, and other opposition figures.