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By Obinna Uballa The organisers of Miss Universe Nigeria 2025 have announced 22 finalists who will compete for the prestigious crown at this year’s edition of the pageant. The contestants, representing various states across the Nigeria were unveiled through the pageant’s official website and social media platforms. The winner will succeed the outgoing queen, Chidinma…
August 26, 2025
By Obinna Uballa Japan has clarified that its newly launched ‘JICA Africa Hometown’ initiative does not include any special visa arrangement for Nigerians or other African nationals, contrary to reports suggesting otherwise. The clarification comes a week after the 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9) in Yokohama, where the Japan International Cooperation Agency…
August 26, 2025
India’s state-controlled and private refiners are expected to trim their near-term purchases of Russian oil as the U.S. is set to double tariffs on Indian goods to 50% as of Wednesday due to India’s imports of Russian crude. The top state-owned refiners and private refiners, including Reliance Industries and Rosneft-linked Nayara Energy, are projected to…
August 26, 2025
• Receives Award at ABU's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences' reunion By Abiola Olawale The African Union (AU) has appointed eminent Scholar-Diplomat and former Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister, Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, to its elite High-Level Panel of Eminent Experts. This announcement was made known in a letter of appointment conveyed through the AU…
August 25, 2025
By Obinna Uballa United States President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated the United States government’s new 10% stake in Intel, framing it as the beginning of a strategy to boost U.S. jobs and wealth. “I will make deals like that for our Country all day long,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. He dismissed critics as…
August 25, 2025
By Obinna Uballa President Bola Tinubu on Monday met with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brasília, pledging to strengthen diplomatic and economic ties between the two nations. In a post on his official X handle, Tinubu described the meeting as a renewal of the “historic relationship” between Nigeria and Brazil and expressed…
August 25, 2025
By Obinna Uballa A storm of reactions has trailed a declaration by the Senior Pastor of House on the Rock Church, Paul Adefarasin, that Nigeria was never God’s creation but a colonial enterprise designed to serve British economic interests. The cleric, during his Sunday sermon, had dismissed the long-held notion that nationalist icons such as…
August 25, 2025
By Obinna Uballa The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has joined the 2025 edition of African Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energies as a Diamond Partner, reinforcing its role as a key driver of energy and infrastructure financing on the continent, a statement from the organisers said on Monday. The move, according to the statement,…
August 25, 2025
By Obinna Uballa Singapore’s consumer inflation slowed sharply in July, easing to 0.6% year-on-year, its lowest level since January 2021, as falling energy prices and subdued demand weighed on costs. The figure came in below the 0.7% median forecast in a Reuters poll and was down from June’s 0.8%, signalling that price pressures in the…
August 25, 2025
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By Obinna Uballa The organisers of Miss Universe Nigeria 2025 have announced 22 finalists who will compete for the prestigious crown at this year’s edition of the pageant. The contestants, representing various states across the Nigeria were unveiled through the pageant’s official website and social media platforms. The winner will succeed the outgoing queen, Chidinma…
August 26, 2025
By Obinna Uballa Japan has clarified that its newly launched ‘JICA Africa Hometown’ initiative does not include any special visa arrangement for Nigerians or other African nationals, contrary to reports suggesting otherwise. The clarification comes a week after the 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9) in Yokohama, where the Japan International Cooperation Agency…
August 26, 2025
India’s state-controlled and private refiners are expected to trim their near-term purchases of Russian oil as the U.S. is set to double tariffs on Indian goods to 50% as of Wednesday due to India’s imports of Russian crude. The top state-owned refiners and private refiners, including Reliance Industries and Rosneft-linked Nayara Energy, are projected to…
August 26, 2025
• Receives Award at ABU's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences' reunion By Abiola Olawale The African Union (AU) has appointed eminent Scholar-Diplomat and former Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister, Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, to its elite High-Level Panel of Eminent Experts. This announcement was made known in a letter of appointment conveyed through the AU…
August 25, 2025
By Obinna Uballa United States President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated the United States government’s new 10% stake in Intel, framing it as the beginning of a strategy to boost U.S. jobs and wealth. “I will make deals like that for our Country all day long,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. He dismissed critics as…
August 25, 2025
By Obinna Uballa President Bola Tinubu on Monday met with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brasília, pledging to strengthen diplomatic and economic ties between the two nations. In a post on his official X handle, Tinubu described the meeting as a renewal of the “historic relationship” between Nigeria and Brazil and expressed…
August 25, 2025
By Obinna Uballa A storm of reactions has trailed a declaration by the Senior Pastor of House on the Rock Church, Paul Adefarasin, that Nigeria was never God’s creation but a colonial enterprise designed to serve British economic interests. The cleric, during his Sunday sermon, had dismissed the long-held notion that nationalist icons such as…
August 25, 2025
By Obinna Uballa The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has joined the 2025 edition of African Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energies as a Diamond Partner, reinforcing its role as a key driver of energy and infrastructure financing on the continent, a statement from the organisers said on Monday. The move, according to the statement,…
August 25, 2025
By Obinna Uballa Singapore’s consumer inflation slowed sharply in July, easing to 0.6% year-on-year, its lowest level since January 2021, as falling energy prices and subdued demand weighed on costs. The figure came in below the 0.7% median forecast in a Reuters poll and was down from June’s 0.8%, signalling that price pressures in the…
August 25, 2025
