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The struggle for the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State ahead of Saturday’s primary election took a new dimension, yesterday, as seven aspirants on the platform of the party stepped down for Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji, who is the immediate past Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Agency (NIWA). The development followed a closed-door meeting the aspirants held with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. However, findings by The Guardian indicate that the immediate past National Secretary of the APC, Senator Iyiola Omisore, who is also an aspirant vying for the party’s…

President Bola Tinubu has re-appointed Dr. Olugbenga Owoeye as the substantive Medical Director of the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, for another four-year term.  According to a statement by the Director of Administration of the hospital, Dr. Adeyinka Antwi, the appointment takes effect from June 1, 2025.  Owoeye’s first four-year term ended on May 31, 2025, and he served in an acting capacity while awaiting approval for renewal from the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.  Owoeye, who is currently the most senior consultant in the hospital with over two decades of service, graduated from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, as…

Galatasaray coach Okan Buruk has admitted that the signing of Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen this summer has significantly impacted their finances, Soccernet.ng reports. ​Osimhen joined Galatasaray from Napoli during the last summer transfer window, following a long-drawn transfer tussle. ​The transfer was the biggest in the history of Turkish football, as no club had ever paid more than €30 million for a player. Victor Osimhen officially signs for Galatasaray (Photo credit/ Galatasaray X) They also placed him on the biggest salary package in the history of Turkish football. In total, the deal (transfer fee plus salary) is expected to…

Manchester City came from behind to beat Real Madrid 2-1 on Wednesday in the Champions League and leave Xabi Alonso’s position as coach of the Spanish giants in grave danger. Without injured superstar Kylian Mbappe, Madrid took the lead through Rodrygo Goes, but Nico O’Reilly and an Erling Haaland penalty sent City ahead at the break and ultimately secured Pep Guardiola’s City the three points. Spanish media reported in the lead-up to the game that a defeat would seal Alonso’s fate as Madrid coach, although his team’s performance was creditable, despite the eventual outcome at a frustrated Bernabeu stadium. The…

The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has moved to reassure the public that national team head coach Eric Chelle will receive his outstanding wages ahead of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, Soccernet.ng reports. The development comes after several days of scrutiny surrounding the coach’s remuneration, with reports indicating he is owed three months’ salary and unpaid bonuses. Chelle, appointed in January following the exit of Augustine Eguavoen, has overseen a period of renewed optimism around the Super Eagles. Photo by Nsidibe Akpan Copyright: xxIMAGO Despite a turbulent World Cup qualification campaign before his arrival, the Malian has yet to lose…

Janet Ogundepo Child health experts have attributed the approximately 162,000 pneumonia deaths Nigeria records annually amongst children under five to low immunisation coverage and vaccine hesitancy. The experts stated that malnutrition, air pollution, poor immunisation coverage and vaccine hesitancy are major drivers of pneumonia cases and pneumonia-related deaths amongst under-fives in the country, adding that undernutrition and late hospital presentation are factors further fuelling the rising cases and deaths. Last month, the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof Ali Pate said about 850,000 newborns and under-fives die from preventable illnesses. He further noted that while 280,000 newborns die…

Residents of Katampe Extension in Abuja have been sent into panic as a group of thugs, in the company of some gun-toting policemen, raided the district. The thugs and armed men went on a rampage, indiscriminately catching and bundling gatekeepers manning residential gates into their truck and driving off, for no offence, leaving the residences unsecured with some gates left wide open. The residents are sounding the alarm over what they described as the unlawful and dangerous campaign by the Bwari Area Council to extort money from them under the guise of enforcing payment for radio and television licences, calling…

Prediction markets tied to crypto rails now function like shadow polls that update in real time, with prices that embed money-backed views on elections, technology milestones, and macro data. Traders who once scanned polling averages and pundit columns increasingly check market odds first, because order flow reacts within minutes to new information and compresses competing narratives into a single number that moves with conviction.Media desks and professional bettors have folded these indicators into their workflow precisely because liquidity concentrates attention, while order books reveal when conviction is thin. Prices that shift before poll releases or commentary give forewarning that sentiment…

A French mother whose teenage son took his own life is fighting to hold social media platforms accountable, saying their algorithms pushed suicide-related content that sent the 15-year-old into a “downward spiral”. Emmanuelle Pouedras told AFP her story as France mulls scaling back social media access for teens, including through a possible ban for children under 15 similar to the one in Australia. Clement had only just started his second year of secondary school when he jumped off a bridge in the northwestern region of Brittany in 2024. His mother, a 55-year-old shopkeeper, and her husband, Sebastien, are now seeking…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, on Wednesday, faulted the claims that President Bola Tinubu was behind the myriad of crises currently rocking the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), saying that Governor Seyi Makinde and a few others within the opposition party should be held responsible “as a result of their naivety, pride and insincerity”. The PDP, which once dominated the political space in the country, is now becoming a shadow of itself. It continues to lose more members, including serving governors and lawmakers at both federal and state levels, to other political parties, especially the APC. In a…