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    Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen has opened up about the challenges that come with fame, describing it as a restriction on his personal life and freedom.   In an interview posted on Monday via X by Instagblog, the Napoli forward shared a personal moment about missing out on ...

    A former media aide to the late President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, has said that Buhari’s frequent medical trips abroad were a matter of personal preference and not a dismissal of Nigeria’s healthcare system.   Shehu made this clarification during an appearance on Channels Television’s “Inside Sources” program ...

    Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom on Saturday commended President Bola Tinubu for extending the Renewed Hope Conditional Cash Transfer initiative to over 27,000 vulnerable residents of the state.   A statement issued by the governor’s aide on entrepreneurship development, Meflyn Anwana in Abuja disclosed that each beneficiary ...

    The Naira closed the week on a positive note, gaining 4.52 kobo against the U.S. dollar at the official market on Friday.   According to the latest figures from the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Naira traded at N1,534.72 per dollar.   The figure represents a modest gain ...

  Russia struck several regions of Ukraine overnight, officials said Saturday, reporting one person killed in Dnipro, while Moscow said two people died after a Ukrainian drone attack in the Rostov region.   Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov said one person was killed in a high-rise apartment complex.   Across the ...

  The President of the Republic of The Gambia, Adama Barrow, on Friday paid a condolence visit to the family of the late former Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, at his hometown in Daura, Katsina State.   Barrow, who arrived in Katsina for the visit, was received by the Secretary to ...

  President Bola Tinubu, on Friday, hosted members of the 1999 class of governors at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.   The former governors were led to the State House by a former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori.   Details of the meeting were not disclosed as of the ...

    France defended its decision to recognise Palestinian statehood amid domestic and international criticism on Friday, including against the charge that the move plays into the hands of militant group Hamas.   President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that his country would formally recognise a Palestinian state during a UN ...

    The Mediation Training Institute has called on Nigerians to make mediation a daily practice to resolve disputes peacefully and build stronger relationships at all levels of society.   In a statement to mark the International Day of Mediation on Thursday, the MTI President, Segun Ogunyannwo, said mediation should ...

  Thousands of UK doctors launched a five-day strike early Friday after talks with the Labour government for a new pay increase failed to reach a deal.   Doctors were out on picket lines outside hospitals after negotiations with the government went down the wire late Thursday, without reaching an ...