Lagos State Deputy Governor Obafemi Hamzat has announced a crackdown on car spotters, saying the activity will no longer be tolerated on Lagos roads, particularly around the Lekki-Epe corridor. Speaking during a live interview on Nigeria Info FM, Hamzat described car spotting as a menace and said surveillance cameras are already being used to identify…
Liverpool’s interest in Paris Saint-Germain forwards Bradley Barcola and Ibrahim Mbaye is beginning to look less like a simple search for another winger and more like a potential reshaping of the club’s entire forward line. Fabrizio Romano reports that Liverpool remain in discussions with PSG over Barcola while also exploring Mbaye. However, PSG’s combined asking…
Peter Okoye’s latest music video, centered on his marriage to Lola Omotayo, is being received as more than a romantic release. Coming as Peter continues to publicly revisit the history of the P-Square family conflict, the video has effectively become another chapter in a dispute that refuses to stay in the past. The timing matters….
President Bola Tinubu has signed a new Deep Offshore Oil and Gas Projects Incentives (Tax Remission) Order aimed at unlocking up to $50 billion in investment in Nigeria’s deepwater oil sector, beginning with the approximately $10 billion Bonga South West project. But the bigger question is not whether the incentives will attract investors. It is…
The latest US-Iran confrontation over the Strait of Hormuz is becoming a battle not only over a strategic waterway, but over who gets to define what “control” actually means. President Donald Trump says the United States has “total control” of the Strait, declaring that the American naval presence is a “wall of steel” and suggesting…
A bullet-riddled campaign vehicle belonging to the Osun APC governorship campaign has become the latest flashpoint in an increasingly tense election, with claims that the vehicle was targeted in an assassination attempt against APC candidate Bola Oyebamiji’s convoy. Videos circulating online show several apparent bullet impacts concentrated along one side of the vehicle. However, the…
The Federal Reserve has purchased up to $5.179 billion in short-term US Treasury bills, but the headline figure is creating more excitement in financial markets than the operation itself may warrant. The New York Fed’s operation on August 11 targeted Treasury bills maturing in roughly one to four months. It is part of the Fed’s…
Hull City are closing in on a deal to sign Lucas Gourna-Douath from RB Salzburg for around €4 million, with the 23-year-old defensive midfielder undergoing his medical and personal terms reportedly agreed on a contract running until June 2031. At first glance, it looks like another newly promoted Premier League club making a relatively inexpensive…
For Rihanna, returning to her childhood neighbourhood in Barbados was already a full-circle moment. Bringing all three of her children there made it something even more personal. The singer recently took RZA, Riot and baby Rocki back to the Bridgetown neighborhood where she grew up, visiting the street now known as Rihanna Drive. She shared…
Europe is waking up to one of those rare moments when astronomy becomes a mass event — and the scramble for eclipse glasses is showing just how badly people want to experience it. A total solar eclipse is crossing parts of Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, Spain and a small part of Portugal today, while much…
