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The Oshimili North Legislative Arm in Delta State was thrown into crisis on Friday as its leader, Mr Chris Nwamgbor, and his deputy, Augustina Odogwu, were impeached for alleged gross misconduct. Following the impeachment, the Chief Whip, Jeffery Mordi, was appointed as the new leader of the legislative arm. The impeachment followed a motion moved by Mordi, with the House invoking Section 92, Subsection 2C of the 1999 Constitution in its resolution. Reacting to the development, Nwamgbor described the impeachment as an act of desperation, alleging procedural irregularities. “You want to impeach a leader, you came with thugs. I was…

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has expressed concern over the political relationship between former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi as parties intensify early positioning ahead of the 2027 general election. Speaking during an The post 2027: ADC worried Atiku, Obi may not team up appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.

Nigeria will enter the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations without their first-choice right-back after Ola Aina was left out of Eric Chelle’s 28-man squad, Soccernet.ng reports. The omission, confirmed late Thursday night, is one of the biggest selection blows to the Super Eagles’ preparations for Morocco. Chelle had retained quiet optimism that Aina would recover in time. Teboho Mokoena and Ola Aina. Photo Credit IMAGO The defender, who underwent hamstring surgery after suffering an injury in September’s World Cup qualifier against South Africa, had been included in the original 54-man provisional list, with the manager hopeful the additional weeks would…

The Federal Executive Council has approved three major Public-Private Partnership projects valued at over N6.43tn, signaling another significant wave of private-sector investment into Nigeria’s infrastructure landscape. The projects — two deep seaports and a 460-megawatt hydropower plant — form the second batch of PPP initiatives cleared by the Council within one month, underscoring President Bola Tinubu’s push for private capital as a driver of growth under the Renewed Hope Agenda. The approvals were announced in a statement released by the Director-General of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission, Jobson Ewalefoh, on Friday. He said the deals represent one of the strongest…

Nigeria’s 28-man squad for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations has finally dropped and as always, it has triggered debate, suspicion, and no shortage of raised eyebrows. Eric Chelle released the list quietly, without a press conference or even a passing explanation, leaving fans and analysts to pore through every name like detectives at a crime scene. On paper, the squad mixes familiar pillars, new hopefuls, returning veterans, and a handful of eyebrow-lifting inclusions. In reality, it reveals a picture of Chelle’s priorities: stability at the back, controlled evolution in midfield, and a willingness to gamble in attack. Photo by…

Collins Agwam The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, on Thursday, destroyed unwholesome and substandard products worth over N5bn in Nasarawa State. Our correspondent gathered that the unwholesome and substandard products, which were seized from Nasarawa, Benue, Kogi, Niger, and Plateau states of the North-Central region, were destroyed at the Angwan Rere dumpsite in Lafia, Nasarawa State. Speaking at the event, the Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, stated that the fake products were confiscated by the agency’s personnel during outine monitoring exercises. The DG, who was represented at the event by the North-Central Zonal Director of…

The Lagos State Police Command has refuted media reports suggesting that a death and injuries were recorded when hoodlums invaded Ajebo community, near Agbowa in the Ikosi-Ejirin Local Council Development Area (LCDA). In a statement on Friday, the Lagos police spokesperson, SP Abimbola Adebisi, said the reports were not only untrue and misleading but highly mischievous. “The Lagos State Police Command wishes to categorically set the record straight and correct the mischievous, untrue, and misleading report by ‘Newtelegraphng’ alleging that Ajebo community was invaded by armed hoodlums who destroyed properties, injured residents, and fired gunshots indiscriminately,” Adebisi said. She explained…

The Oasis Protocol Foundation, which governs the Oasis Layer 1 blockchain, has launched a new investment arm to advance scalable real-world asset (RWA) infrastructure.The foundation announced its first strategic investment in credit infrastructure firm – SemiLiquid, an official statement shared exclusively with Cryptonews, read.The investment initiative will back teams that build innovative, privacy-sensitive, and compute-intensive products. Additionally, it will prioritize ventures that have a strong market execution, scalable and capital-efficient business models.Mark Kalin, Director of Operations at the Oasis Protocol Foundation, will spearhead the investment venture.From Grants to Growth: Strategic Evolution of OasisWhat began as a grants program has matured…

Photo Credit: Shakira/Instagram Shakira surprised fans in Buenos Aires when her sons, Milan, 12, and Sasha, 10, joined her on stage for a live performance of “Acróstico,” a song she wrote as an open letter to them. The appearance marked the boys’ first time performing with their mother in public, and the audience responded with warm applause. The little guys were totally adorable, dressed in powder-blue suits with white shirts and sneakers, perfectly matching their mom’s baby blue Gaurav Gupta dress with a metallic corset and pleated skirt. Milan even planted a kiss on Shakira’s cheek, while Sasha waved at…

Nigeria’s national electricity metering rate has risen to 56.07 per cent as of October 2025, reflecting continued progress in bridging the country’s longstanding metering gap. This is according to the latest Metering Factsheet released by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission on Thursday and cited by PUNCH Online on Friday, covering the performance of all 11 electricity distribution companies (DisCos) for September and October 2025. “The data shows that in September 2025, Nigeria had 12.03 million active electricity customers, of which 6.66 million were metered. A total of 80,943 additional meters were installed that month, bringing the national metering rate to…