Author: Vincent Osuwo

The execution of Tennessee inmate Christa Pike by lethal injection is set to go ahead after the US Supreme Court refused to halt it on the eve of the scheduled date. Pike, now 50, has been on death row since 1996, when she was convicted and sentenced to death for killing a teenage classmate. Her lawyers, hoping for a last-minute reprieve, submitted a petition to the high court before her execution, which was set for Wednesday morning. Yet with the high court having turned down that request, Pike is set to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in over…

Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, has stated that President Bola Tinubu should dismiss him if he does not deliver the FCT to the President in the 2027 general elections. Wike made this remark on Wednesday while engaging with the leadership and members of the Apo Mechanics and Traders Association in Abuja. The former governor of Rivers State said political appointees ought to be ready to take responsibility for how elections turn out in the areas where they hold influence. “If I cannot deliver where I work, I am not worthy to be here. It means that…

Fulham manager Álvaro Arbeloa has been charged with misconduct by the Football Association over remarks he made following his team’s 1-1 draw with Manchester United. ESPN reports that after the Premier League fixture, Arbeloa asserted officials would “not let Manchester United lose,” which led the FA to claim his comments suggested bias and cast doubt on the integrity of a match official. Manchester United rescued a point at Craven Cottage on September 20, when Matheus Cunha’s 89th-minute strike took a deflection and ended up in the net. Arbeloa, who was appointed Fulham manager in the summer, voiced criticism of the…

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has set October 8, 2026, as the date for hearing the dispute between Senegal and Morocco regarding the result of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final. The hearing is set to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland, at 9:30am, and representatives from the Senegalese Football Federation, the Royal Moroccan Football Federation, and the Confederation of African Football are expected to appear before the CAS panel. Following an agreement among the parties, the proceedings will be carried out in French, while the hearing will take place behind closed doors. The dispute arises from the…

At least 47 people, the majority of them women, were kidnapped by terrorists as they harvested groundnuts on farms in the Mariga Local Government Area of Niger State. The event took place on Saturday at Tungan Rimi, located in Ma’undu-Beri Ward of the council area. Reports indicate that the victims were tending to their farms when the armed men stormed the area and led them away into the forest. Alhaji Aliyu Bagga Muhamadu, Chairman of Mariga Local Government Area, verified the incident and noted that most of those taken were women, along with a few men. He revealed that one…

No fewer than five youths were feared killed on Tuesday following a stampede at the Niger State Government House, Minna, during a gathering convened by Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago over a planned Independence Day protest. It was gathered that more than 5,000 youths had reportedly thronged the Government House for the meeting when a rush for money allegedly being shared by the governor triggered the stampede. Reports indicated that a number of young people were injured during the chaos that followed, and ambulances took some of the victims to the General Hospital in Minna. It was also reported that the…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has extended the deadline for candidates with outstanding admission offers from 2021 to 2025 to accept or reject the offers on its Central Admissions Processing System, CAPS. In a statement shared on its X handle on Wednesday, the board announced the extension, giving affected candidates until November 30, 2026, to take action. JAMB called on candidates with pending offers to sign into their CAPS accounts and state whether they wanted to accept or reject the admissions. The board said, “JAMB has extended the deadline for affected candidates to 30 November 2026 to accept…

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has challenged the Confederation of African Football’s ruling to overturn Edo Queens’ win against Ghanaian champions Ampem Darkoa Ladies in the WAFU-B final and to have the match restart from extra time. Filed on Tuesday on Edo Queens’ behalf, the appeal contests CAF’s decision to void the Nigerian team’s 4-1 penalty shoot-out triumph, which followed a September 5 final in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, that finished 2-2 after regulation time. After prevailing in the shoot-out, Edo Queens had been named WAFU-B champions and handed the zone’s spot in the CAF Women’s Champions League. Yet after a…

The Federal Government has started talks with electricity distribution companies to set up proposed Energy Zones designed to provide round-the-clock power supply to homes, businesses, and industries in key demand centers nationwide. The Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, met behind closed doors with the leadership of selected distribution companies to deliberate on the proposed initiative, which focuses on the Lagos axis, the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano corridor, and the Enugu-Port Harcourt corridor. The meeting was made public in a statement released on Wednesday by the minister’s media aide, Adeola Adelabu. The statement read, “In furtherance of the Federal Government’s commitment to deliver reliable…

Covenant University, the University of Ibadan, and the University of Lagos have together become Nigeria’s top-ranked universities in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. In the leading university rankings released on THE’s website on Wednesday, the three institutions were ranked between 801 and 1000 worldwide. Nigeria likewise had 29 universities ranked in the 2027 edition, an increase from 24 in the 2026 rankings. Five universities were newly included, among them Osun State University, the University of Maiduguri, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Kwara State University, and Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike. Covenant University reclaimed the top spot among Nigerian…