The African Union (AU) and the International Executive Committee of the All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) have unveiled the global calendar for the landmark 10th edition, with the main events scheduled for May 18–23, 2027, in Lagos, Nigeria, culminating in the grand awards ceremony on May 23. The calendar was unveiled at the 10th AFRIMA Creative Industry Roundtable and Global Calendar Unveiling held at Sofitel in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States. AFRIMA President/Executive Producer, Mike Dada, announced that the Call for Entries will open worldwide on October 11, 2026, and close on January 10, 2027. According to Dada,…
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By Felix Mordi How could hugging of a minor be considered a punishable offence by death. This was not a judgment passed by any court of law but a reported case of criminal dispensation of jungle justice that took place at Mowe in Ogun State. The victim, a 38-year-old university degree holder in Guidance and Counselling, Mike Oje, met his untimely death just for playing and hugging his neighbour’s three-year-old child. Termed as ‘rough play’, the enraged minor’s father, identified as Edebiri Temitope, 43, threw caution to the wind, picked a bamboo stick, and repeatedly struck the victim until he…
The Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (OSSAP-SDGs) has reaffirmed Nigeria’s commitment to accelerating progress on the Goals as the world marks 11 years since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Adopted by United Nations Member States on September 25, 2015, the Agenda sets out 17 Goals covering poverty, health, education, gender equality, economic opportunity, climate action and other priorities. Its central pledge is to leave no one behind. Over the past 11 years, Nigeria has built structures to bring the Goals into national and state development planning. Through OSSAP-SDGs,…
Following the death of Mr. Unity Adedah, a deputy director in the state Ministry of Secondary Education, the Delta State chapter of the Nigeria of Labour Congress, (NLC) on Friday, 25 September, 2026 declared an indefinite strike in the state, reports thegazellenews.com. The deceased civil servant reportedly died after he was tied up and beaten mercilessly by thugs allegedly on the orders of the state Commissioner for Secondary Education, Dr Kingsley Ashibogwu. The State NLC chairman, Goodluck Oforbruku, declared the strike on Friday, 25 September, 2026 while addressing protesting civil servants at the Chike Edozien secretariat in Asaba. It was…
Daily Mails reported on Friday, 25 September, 2026 the English Premier League(EPL) giants, Manchester City have been found guilty of all but one of their 115 charges as it relates to the Premier League’s financial regulations. The Etihad club was accused of failing to report accurate financial information for nine seasons stretching from 2009-10 to 2017-18. An independent panel hearing had been concluded in 2024. Since then, there has been a lengthy wait for a verdict, amid speculation that the club had been informed already. A verdict could lead to punishments which include huge points deductions, financial penalties, and even…
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has honoured four senior officers who retired after 35 years of what it described as meritorious, patriotic and exemplary service to the nation. The retirees, comprising three Deputy Comptrollers-General and an Assistant Comptroller-General, were celebrated at a grand valedictory session organised by the Service at its headquarters in Abuja. Those honoured were Deputy Comptroller-General, Planning, Research and Statistics, Dauda Bagari; Deputy Comptroller-General, ICT and Cybersecurity, Augustina Obianime; Deputy Comptroller-General, Border Management, Rano Sabo; and Assistant Comptroller-General in charge of the Migration Directorate, Azuka Halliday. The valedictory ceremony brought together top management officials, senior officers, family…
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has dismissed reports that it issued a fresh Nigerian passport to Mrs Rebecca Omokamo Godwin-Isaac while she was facing criminal proceedings or in defiance of a Federal High Court order restricting her movement. The Service, in a statement issued on Friday by its Public Relations Officer, DCI Akinsola Akinlabi, said its records showed that the passport at the centre of the controversy, No. B51450551, was issued to Godwin-Isaac on February 15, 2025—about four months before her arraignment before the Federal High Court, Abuja. According to the NIS, Godwin-Isaac had previously been issued Passport No. B00485650…
Nigeria and Mali have moved to strengthen political engagement and bilateral cooperation, with the worsening security situation in the Sahel emerging as a major focus of high-level talks between the two countries on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York. The development came as Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, held bilateral discussions with her Malian counterpart, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Abdoulaye Diop, in an effort to deepen direct political consultations between Abuja and Bamako. The meeting is significant against the backdrop of profound political and security realignments in West…
By Michael Olugbode in Abuja The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has uncovered an alleged multi-billion-naira financial network behind a 184.5-kilogramme cocaine shipment valued at about ₦39 billion, as the agency arraigned luxury lifestyle influencer Afolabi Kazeem Michael, popularly known as KC Luxury, and two alleged accomplices before the Federal High Court in Lagos. The development has opened a new dimension in the investigation of the massive cocaine haul, with the prosecution filing 22 counts against the defendants — six relating to alleged cocaine trafficking and illegal export and 16 bordering on alleged money laundering. KC Luxury, Boniface Freeman…
West Africa is facing a widening climate-driven crisis in which shrinking water resources, degraded farmland and changing weather patterns are increasingly fuelling competition for land, aggravating farmer-herder conflicts, displacing communities and deepening poverty, parliamentarians from the region have warned. The warning came as lawmakers at the Second 2026 Parliamentary Seminar of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Accra, Ghana, examined the increasingly dangerous intersection between climate change, environmental degradation, livelihoods, migration and regional security. The discussions marked a significant shift from treating climate change principally as an environmental problem to recognising it as an emerging governance, humanitarian…