October 2025 – Page 6

Oborevwori Bags Outstanding PGF Leadership Award

31.10.2025

Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, has been honoured with the Outstanding Leadership Award for Excellence in Governance by the Progressives Governors’ Forum (PGF), in recognition of his humility, visionary leadership, and transformative strides in Delta State. The award was presented yesterday at the PGF Quarterly Strategy Meeting of Secretaries to the Governments (SGSs) of APC-Governed...

Barca Targets Osimhen As Lewandowski’s Replacement

31.10.2025

Barcelona FC have identified Victor Osimhen as a potential successor to the ageing Robert Lewandowski, who is expected to leave the reigning La Liga champions at the end of the season. According to a report from Catalan outlet Mundo Deportivo, Barcelona have set their sights on Osimhen and are considering signing the former Napoli frontman...

FG Begins Disbursement Of Tertiary Institution Staff Support Fund

31.10.2025

The Federal government has announced commencement of disbursement under the Tertiary Institution Staff Support Fund (TISSF), designed to strengthen staff welfare, institutional productivity, and innovation across Nigeria’s tertiary education system. The Fund which was launched in August 2025, would have over 9,000 staff beneficiaries receiving disbursements in the first year. This figure according to the...

Rivers: One Killed, Monarch’s Palace Burnt Over Youth Leadership Crisis

31.10.2025

One person has been declared dead in Rumuji Community in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State after a youth leadership dispute turned violent among the two factions contending for positions. The victim, Mr. Paul Oduveh, a supporter of one of the leading youth leaders at the centre of the crisis, was stabbed by one...

Soludo Has No Rival In Anambra Guber Poll –Ezeajughi

31.10.2025

Chief Ernest Ezeajughi is the Chief of Staff to the governor of Anambra State, Charles Soludo. In this interview with OKEY MADUFORO, he speaks on the forthcoming gubernatorial election in the state and why his principal would be reelected The atmosphere appears tensed ahead of the governorship election. What informed that? Well, I don’t know...

2027: S’West Govs, Afenifere, Others Back Tinubu’s Economic Reforms

31.10.2025

South West governors, the pan-Yoruba socialpolitical group Afenifere, traditional rulers, religious leaders, ministers, and the academia from the region yesterday backed President Bola Tinubu’s re-election in 2027. In a communiqué issued after a two-day summit organised by Afenifere, DAWN Commission, and South West governors in Akure, the group expressed support for the Federal Government’s economic...

Lancelot Imaseun To Launch Memoir On His Life Behind The Camera

31.10.2025

Veteran filmmaker, Lancelot Oduwa Imaseun will launch a memoir documenting his thirty years behind the camera on November 27, 2025. The event scheduled to hold at the Mike Adenuga Centre, Alliance Francais, Ikoyi, Lagos, will cap a series of activities – beginning with an open street casting in various Benin City’s major streets to his...

Family Reports Traditional Ruler To Adeleke Over Chiefaincy Title Crisis

31.10.2025

Members of the Oladunwo Compound of Ileogbo in Ayedire Local Government Area of Osun State have called on Governor Ademola Adeleke to, as a matter of urgency, intervene in the chieftaincy crisis rocking the Ileogbo community following the installation of a new Odofin by the Olu of Ileogbo, Oba Abeeb Adetoyese Agbaje, Bamofin III. The...

Adebayo Faults Tinubu’s 15% Import Duty On Petrol

31.10.2025

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Adewole Adebayo, on Thursday slammed President Bola Tinubu’s approval of a 15 per cent import duty on refined petroleum products. Adebayo, who spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today program, accused President Tinubu of excessive taxation, saying the administration’s approach was exploitative. He described the import...

Army Redeploys 56 Major-Generals, 11 Brigadier-Generals In Major Shake-Up

31.10.2025

Just hours after taking command of the Nigerian Army as Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-Gen Waidi Shaibu, has approved the posting and appointment of senior officers to key command, staff and instructional positions across formations, units and training institutions of the Nigerian Army. Affected in the shake-up are 56 major generals and 11 brigadier...