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Fuji music maestro, Wasiu Ayinde Marshal aka K1, has tendered an unreserved apology over the ugly incident at the airport on Tuesday, August 5, 2025. In a statement signed by the singer, he tendered apologies to all concerned but firmly insists that he didn’t have alcohol in his flask but water. He also tendered an apology to the Presidency, Aviation ministry, FAAN as well as Valuejet. The statement in full below, “The incident that occurred at the local wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport on August 5, 2025, involving my humble self and ValueJet Airline, was to say the…

President Bola Tinubu has approved a one-year extension of the tenure of the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi. Adeniyi, whose tenure was initially set to expire on August 31, 2025, will now remain in office until August 2026. According to a statement signed by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the extension is aimed at allowing Adeniyi to consolidate ongoing reforms and complete key initiatives of the Tinubu administration. These include the modernisation of the Customs Service, implementation of the National Single Window Project, and Nigeria’s obligations under the African Continental Free…

The Court of Appeal, Akure Judicial Division, on Thursday, affirmed the victory of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State in the 16 November 2024 election. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Ondo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on 4 June upheld the victory of Mr Aiyedatiwa, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and declared the petitions challenging his victory as “speculative.” The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the African Democratic Congress (ADC), the Allied People’s Movement (APM) and the Social Development Party (SDP) had appealed against the tribunal’s decision, alleging that the lower court did not…

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says Nigeria has the second highest cases of cholera outbreak in West and Central Africa. UNICEF Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Gilles Fagninou, said on Wednesday that cholera outbreak in Nigeria had become endemic. “Cholera remains endemic in Nigeria, with the country experiencing recurrent major outbreaks in recent years.” “As of end of June, Nigeria recorded 3,109 suspected cholera cases and 86 deaths across 34 states,” Mr Fagninou said. The UN official added that the figure made Nigeria the second most affected country in the West and Central Africa region. He noted that cholera…

Shares of Microsoft spiked Thursday following blowout quarterly results, lifting the tech giant into the previously unprecedented $4 trillion club along with Nvidia, another artificial intelligence standout. The landmark valuation is the latest sign of growing bullishness about an AI investment boom that market watchers believe is still in the early stages — even as companies like Microsoft plan $100 billion or more in annual capital spending to add new capacity. Microsoft reported a profit of $27.2 billion on revenue of $76.4 billion in its fiscal fourth quarter, capping another year of growth amid massive customer interest in the company’s…

Nigeria Pitch Awards Congratulates Super Falcons On WAFCON Triumph Organisers of the prestigious Nigeria Pitch Awards have congratulated the Nigerian Super Falcons who emerged winners of the 2025 Women’s African Cup of Nations for the 10th time, on Saturday 26 July 2025 after defeating the Atlas Lionesses of Morocco in a dramatic and pulsating final. In a statement released in the nation’s capital Abuja, Dr Shina Philips, the President of the Nigeria Pitch Awards, praised the team for their exceptional courage and fighting spirit. He said: “Our girls demonstrated the never-say-never approach that the average Nigerian is known for. Their eventual victory, especially…

  Nigeria swept to a 10th Women Africa Cup of Nations title on Saturday night after a come-from-behind 3-2 defeat of hosts Morocco in a drama-filled Final in Rabat. Morocco’s Atlas Lionesses had the full-capacity Stade Olympique de Rabat breathing heavily after a superlative opening performance that saw them take a two-goal lead after 24 minutes of the explosive encounter. Captain Ghizlane Chebbak rifled home a well-placed shot from the edge of the box in the 13th minute, capitalizing on an inadvertent pass by midfielder Halimatu Ayinde. The Lionesses were smelling the trophy 11 minutes later, when Saana Mssoudy, receiving the ball from a cross on…

A passenger plane carrying nearly 50 people crashed in a remote spot in Russia’s far eastern region of Amur on Thursday, with no immediate signs of survivors, authorities said. The aircraft, a twin-propeller Antonov-24 operated by Angara Airlines, was headed to the town of Tynda from the city of Blagoveshchensk when it disappeared from radar at around 1:00 pm local time (0400 GMT). A rescue helicopter later spotted the burning fuselage of the plane on a forested mountain slope about 16 kilometres (10 miles) from Tynda.Videos published by Russian investigators showed what appeared to be columns of smoke billowing from…

A 52-year-old bank manager has committed suicide in Pune district in India. Shiv Shankar Mitra, the chief manager of Bank of Baroda in Baramati town was found hanging from a ceiling hook in his cabin. The Baramati City police recovered a note purportedly written by him from one of the pockets of his trousers. “It stated that high work pressure drove him to take the extreme step. We have registered a case of accidental d3ath in this regard,” senior inspector Vishal Nale said in a statement on Friday, July 18, 2025. The deceased branch manager hailed from Prayagraj in Uttar…

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a man identified as Amos Daniel for allegedly k!lling a woman believed to be his girlfriend in a hotel located in the Ayobo Ipaja area of the state.  The incident occurred on Thursday, July 17, 2025. It was gathered that Daniel, a notorious cultist also known as Gambit, checked into the hotel around 5 pm with some friends, while a female joined them later. A strange noise was, however, heard from their room at about 10 pm, drawing the attention of others in the hotel. Speaking to Punch on Saturday, one of the guests who…