It was a special Independence Day celebration for Agege people on Thursday, 1 October, 2026, as the Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Dr Kayode Opeifa; former member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Dr Oluyinka Ogundimu led stakeholders in the Agege All Progressives Congress (APC) to commence massive grassroots mobilisation ahead the 2027 general elections The occasion also served as the official campaign flag-off for the APC candidate for Agege State Constituency II in the House of Assembly, Honourable Shakiru Sule Enimakure. On hand to show solidarity with his colleague was the Agege APC State Constituency…
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Nigeria’s Hubpharm Africa and Services has emerged the winner of the second edition of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Startup Awards, beating other emerging businesses from across the sub-region to claim the $30,000 top prize. The victory came as ECOWAS moved to deepen its intervention in the region’s growing startup ecosystem, unveiling a Private Sector Academy to provide entrepreneurs with business knowledge and practical training while announcing plans to increase the competition’s first prize to $50,000. Hubpharm, led by its Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Tope Kareem, emerged ahead of Senegal’s Gaynako and Côte d’Ivoire’s myOpinion, in…
Professional footballers are increasingly looking beyond the pitch, with current and former players turning to education to prepare for careers in football management, coaching and sporting direction. That was evident at the 2026 graduation ceremony of the PFA Business School, held at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium, where a group of footballers and former players celebrated completing qualifications alongside their playing careers. As reported by BBC Sport on Wednesday, among the graduates were Everton midfielder Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Coventry City striker Taiwo Awoniyi. At the same time, former Chelsea and Spain captain César Azpilicueta was also present. Dewsbury-Hall, 28, travelled from Merseyside…
Football Planet on Wednesday, 30 September, 2026 reported that former Man City coach Pep Guardiola has consistently defended Manchester City throughout the Premier League’s long-running investigation into the club’s alleged financial breaches, repeatedly insisting that he trusted the club’s leadership and would accept the outcome of the legal process. The Premier League charged City with 115 alleged breaches of its financial rules in February 2023, following a lengthy investigation. Throughout the process, Guardiola maintained that the club had acted properly and repeatedly called for the case to be resolved as quickly as possible. The football news medium said in May…
Anambra State Police Command on Wednesday, 30 September, 2026 confirmed that a 25-year-old man has died on Tuesday, 29 September, 2026 after a building collapsed in Otolo-Nnewi, Nnewi North Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the deceased, identified as Bakeru Iwal, one of the workers in the structure, was inside the building when it collapsed during demolitions on Tuesday, 29 september, 2026. According to an eyewitnesses and residents near the scene, the building was being demolished when a section suddenly collapsed, trapping the deceased. Anambra State Police Command Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, who confirmed…
As more Africans buy shares in the Dangote Group, Africa’s richest man and President of Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote has disclosed that he is willing to reduce his ownership of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery to 25 per cent. The billionaire business man stated this during a fireside chat at the Nairobi Securities Exchange in Kenya, also disclosed his company’s planned investments in Africa, the Lamu refinery and its proposed public ownership structure in Kenya and other African countries. The billionaire also said the planned ownership structure of his businesses would increasingly involve ordinary Africans, stressing that the group was…
Africa’s richest man and President of Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote, has said he is prepared to confront legal challenges to his businesses. The Dangote Group had earlier said a Kenyan court ruling over a land rights dispute would not stop the groundbreaking ceremony for its planned 700,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Lamu on Wednesday, 30 September, 2026, although the order might affect some activities at the project site. The billionaire business man stated this during a fireside chat at the Nairobi Securities Exchange in Kenya, also disclosed his company’s planned investments in Africa, the Lamu refinery and its proposed public ownership…
Popular British news medium, BBC on has reported that the United States Supreme Court has rejected a last-minute bid by death row inmate Christa Pike to halt her execution in Tennessee, clearing the way for her lethal injection on Wednesday, 30 September, 2026. Pike, 50, is scheduled to be executed at 11:00 EDT at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee, for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. According to the news medium, If the execution proceeds, Pike would become the first woman to be executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years. Pike’s lawyers had petitioned the US…
By Daniel Oluwatobiloba Popoola The Federal Government has begun a nationwide ranking of universities, polytechnics and colleges of education, with the exercise expected to provide a domestic benchmark for measuring institutional performance and identifying gaps across Nigeria’s tertiary education system. The Nigerian Tertiary Education Ranking Advisory Committee, under the Federal Ministry of Education, is coordinating the exercise, which will assess universities using 22 indicators and rank the three major categories of tertiary institutions before Tuesday, 15 December, 2026. Chairman of NiTERAC, Prof. Peter Okebukola, disclosed this in a presentation on Nigeria’s performance in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University…
By Daniel Oluwatobiloba Popoola The petition seeking the suspension of the Rector of Federal Polytechnic Bauchi, Alhaji Sani Usman, and a forensic audit of the institution should be subjected to a transparent investigation rather than treated as proof of wrongdoing, an analyst has said. In a response to the petition, the analyst said allegations relating to the institution’s finances, procurement, recruitment, promotions and administrative conduct should be examined by competent authorities through due process, with the management and other relevant stakeholders given the opportunity to respond and present verifiable evidence. The analyst stressed that the focus should be on protecting…