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AFCON 2025 countdown: Hosts Morocco unveil final squad for home title push

Nigeria, Dec. 11 -- The Atlas Lions of Morocco have released their final 28-man list for the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Morocco 2025, confirming the players who will lead the host nat... Read More


How Nigerian university spent N64 million on unapproved Christmas, Sallah gifts -Audit Report

Nigeria, Dec. 11 -- The Auditor General of the Federation has faulted the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, (MOUAU), Abia State, for spending N64 million on Christmas and Sallah Gifts... Read More


Deputy governor slumps, moved into hospital's ICU

Nigeria, Dec. 11 -- The Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, slumped on Thursday afternoon while he was working in his office, and was immediately rushed to a hospital in Yenagoa, t... Read More


Competency Based Learning at AUN

Nigeria, Dec. 11 -- For the past two and a half decades, I have spent my career working in American-style higher education, in the United States and around the globe. As I currently serve as the Vice ... Read More


Accident: AGN confirms arrest of president-elect Abubakar Yakubu

Nigeria, Dec. 11 -- The Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) has confirmed the arrest of its newly elected president, Abubakar Yakubu. Reports circulated on Wednesday, PREMIUM TIMES learnt, alleging that Mr... Read More


Awujale Stool: Ruling houses reject Kwam 1's lineage claim, declare his form invalid

Nigeria, Dec. 11 -- The controversy surrounding Fuji music icon Wasiu "Kwam 1" Ayinde's bid to ascend the vacant Awujale stool of Ijebuland in Ogun State deepened on Thursday as the Fusengbuwa Ruling ... Read More


Ambassadorial Screening: Oshiohole, Ndume clash over Reno Omokri's suitability for diplomatic role

Nigeria, Dec. 11 -- There was pandemonium on Thursday during the screening of ambassadorial nominees by the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs as Borno South Senator, Ali Ndume, and his Edo North cou... Read More


Nigeria's debt crisis threatens youth, climate goals - Report

Nigeria, Dec. 11 -- Nigeria's rising public debt has pushed the country into a severe and "self-inflicted" fiscal crisis that is undermining human development, climate resilience and long-term growth,... Read More


Nigeria's debt crisis threatens youth climate goals - Report

Nigeria, Dec. 11 -- Nigeria's rising public debt has pushed the country into a severe and "self-inflicted" fiscal crisis that is undermining human development, climate resilience and long-term growth,... Read More


Why I allocated 20% of Abia's 2026 budget to education - Otti

Nigeria, Dec. 11 -- Governor Alex Otti of Abia State says he allocated 20 per cent of the state's N1.016 trillion 2026 budget to the education sector because education remains the "fulcrum" of his adm... Read More