Mighty Media Plus Network Limited, publishers of the online newspaper QEDNG, has announced Udeme Ufot as Chairman of the inaugural QEDNG Creative Powerhouse Summit. Ufot is the Group Managing Director of SO&U, one of Africa’s foremost marketing communications groups. The announcement was made in a statement on Friday, 4 July, 2025, It follows the recent confirmation that the summit will take place on Tuesday, 12 August, 2025, at Radisson Blu Hotel, Isaac John Street, Ikeja, Lagos. Themed “Financing as Catalysts for a Thriving Creative Economy,” the summit will bring together key figures in the creative space—including industry leaders, investors, policymakers, and emerging talents—to…
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The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has disclosed the reason the National Assembly embarked on reviewing of the 1999 Constitution, saying it will guarantee the evolution of a more just, united, and forward-looking federation, reports gazellenews.com Akpabio made this disclosure on Friday, 4 July, 2025 while declaring open the South-South Zonal Public Hearing on the review of the 1999 Constitution in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State. The exercise is expected to be held simultaneously in five geopolitical zones across the country. A statement by the Special Assistant on Media/Communication to the President of the Senate, Anietie Ekong, quoted Senator Akpabio as saying,…
A Federal High Court in Abuja on presided over by Justice Binta Nyako, on Friday, 4 July 2025, ruled that the Nigerian Senate acted beyond its powers by suspending Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan for six months, just as she subsequently ordered her immediate recall to the Red Chamber, reports thegazellenews.com. Justice Nyako, who delivered the judgment, described the duration of the suspension as “excessive” and without a clear legal foundation. According to her, both Chapter 8 of the Senate Standing Orders and Section 14 of the Legislative Houses (Powers and Privileges) Act, which the upper chamber relied upon, do not stipulate a maximum suspension…
The funeral ceremony for the late Liverpool forward, Diogo Jota and his brother, Andre Silva, will be conducted at 10am in Gondomar on Saturday, 5 July, 2025. A local priest, Father Jose Manuel Macedo, had initially announced that it would take place at 4pm on Friday, 4 July, 2025 Father Macedo eventually made a U-turn and said the event had been put back to Saturday morning. According to The UK Mirror reports , the delay is due to minor paperwork issues, which have to be sorted out before the player’s family can repatriate the bodies. A wake-keep would hold at the…
Captain of the Black Stars of Ghana, Thomas Partey has been charged with five counts of rape and one count of sexual assault, reports BBC football. The offences are reported to have taken place between 2021-2022, the Metropolitan Police said. The charges involve three women, with two counts of rape relating to one woman, three counts of rape in connection to a second woman and one count of sexual assault linked to a third woman. The Ghanaian international denies the charges and “welcomes the opportunity to finally clear his name”, his lawyer said. The charges follow an investigation by detectives,…
WITH total submission to the will of Almighty God, it is with a heavy heart that we announce the transition to glory of our father and brother, the legendary former Super Eagles goalkeeper, PRINCE PETER “DODO MANYANA” RUFAI. He died at Six O’Clock in the morning of Thursday, 3rd of July, 2025 after a brief illness. He was 61 years old. Despite our shock and sadness at his rather sudden demise, we are indeed extremely grateful to God Almighty for the impactful life that he granted Prince Peter Rufai through a very successful football career that made him to become…
Nine-time champions Nigeria loom larger than any other participant as the 13th Women Africa Cup of Nations finals begin in the Kingdom of Morocco on Saturday, 5 July, 2025. Winners of the inaugural edition that their country hosted in 1998, the Super Falcons also took home the diadem in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2016 and 2018, and look forward to the thirteenth edition with confidence but without being sardonic. Home-boy Coach Justine Madugu has taken the option of the good-old-wine-and-fresh-fruits-from-the-vineyard selection approach, and is satisfied that he has a team that can hold its own right from the…
Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc (GTCO Plc), Africa’s leading and most profitable Financial Services Group, has recorded a significant milestone in its growth and expansion journey with the successful admission of its Ordinary Shares to the Equity Shares (International Commercial Companies Secondary Listing) category of the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and to trading on the main market for listed securities of the London Stock Exchange. This historic achievement makes GTCO Plc, the 1st Financial Services Institution in West Africa to dual list its Ordinary Shares on both the Nigerian and London stock exchanges, and subject to certain…
By Wole Olujobi As Nigeria races towards another election cycle in her democratic journey, and also as gladiators brace to have a field day over opponents in political contests, it is time for a harvest of blackmail by combatants, to have an edge in the ensuing political battles for the soul of the nation. It is indeed time for breathtaking blackmail stunts that humble the hardest of the hearts and amaze the toughest of the faces in the game of malice to ruin fellow human beings. But beyond the waggish stratagem in political contests, interpersonal hostilities also fuel acrimonious squabbles,…
As the push for cleaner energy grows stronger, President Bola Tinubu has urged a fair energy transition that will not jeopardise developing economies. Discussing the theme of the 17thSummit of the Economic Cooperation Organisation, “New ECO Vision for a Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Future,” which commenced in Khankhendi, Azerbaijan on Thursday, Tinubu stated that, given the adverse effects of climate change—including devastating droughts, floods, desertification, and extreme heat waves—a climate-resilient future is essential. “Nigeria, endowed with both fossil and renewable energy, also supports a just energy transition,” he said in a speech read on his behalf on Friday by the Minister…