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The Super Eagles have soared to the 26th spot in the latest FIFA World Ranking, released on Monday by the football governing body. The ranking, disclosed on FIFA’s website on Monday, marks a remarkable 12-place jump. The Eagles also recorded a +79.09 points gain. READ ALSO: Nwabali’s Heroics Help Nigeria Beat Egypt To Win AFCON […]

Former Super Eagles captain William Troost-Ekong is set to join Qatari club Al Ahli SC from Al Kholood, DAILY POST reports. Transfer expert, Fabrizio Romano confirmed Troost-Ekong’s imminent departure on Monday. “Nigerian defender William Troost-Ekong is signing in Qatar for Al Ahli SC from Saudi club Al Kholood,” Romano wrote on X. The 32-year-old joined

  A minibus carrying students to school collided with a truck south of Johannesburg on Monday, killing 13 pupils, South African police said. It was the latest in a string of deadly crashes in a country whose modern road network is undermined by rampant speeding, reckless driving and poorly maintained vehicles. The crash happened near

The New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has dissociated itself from a planned protest against the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, scheduled for Tuesday, January 20, 2026, in Abuja and across other states of the federation. In a statement issued on Monday from its National Secretariat in Abuja, the party said it had been alerted to

Dangote Group has signed a contract worth over $350 million with India’s state-owned Engineers India Limited (EIL) for the upgrading of its facility from 650, 000 to 1.4 million barrels per day. The development was disclosed in a statement released by EIL. The expansion will be executed through the addition of a second processing train

Gold and silver hit record highs Monday while most equity markets fell after Donald Trump revived trade war fears by threatening several European nations with tariffs over their opposition to the United States buying Greenland. The US president has fanned already-rising geopolitical tensions this month by insisting that Washington would take control of the North

Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Jibril Falgore, has described as barbaric and heartbreaking the killing of a woman and her six children in the state. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Kamaluddeen Shawai, the Speaker welcomed news of the arrest of three suspects by the Nigeria Police Force. He called