The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) achieved significant recognition at the 2024 Service Compact (SERVICOM) Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs)’ Awards held in Abuja on Tuesday. The commission secured the Overall Best Performing Parastatal SERVICOM Unit (PSU) Award, along with the 2024 Best Performing PSU, Team B Award. Its Chief Executive, Engr. Gbenga Komolafe was honored with a Recognition …

Nigerian powerlifter, Folashade Oluwafemiayo, on Sunday, won a gold medal in the women’s over 86kg at the ongoing 2024 Paralympics Games in Paris, France. Oluwafemiayo, who is Team Nigeria’s captain, achieved a world record of becoming the first para-powerlifter to lift 167kg at the Games. China’s Deng Xuemei lifted 155kg, winning the silver medal, while Egypt’s Nadia Ali, who lifted …

Former Big Brother Naija star and two-time Nigerian high jump champion, Mike Edwards, has secured a victory in his debut professional boxing match against Jake Cornish. The bout, held at the Dublin Arena on Saturday, went all rounds, with Edwards emerging victorious by unanimous decision from the judges. Edwards, who announced his unexpected turn from athletics to professional boxing in …

Mauritania’s incumbent President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has comfortably won re-election with 56.12 per cent of the vote, the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) said Monday. The victory gives the former army chief a second term as head of the vast desert country, seen as a rock of relative stability in Africa’s volatile Sahel region and set to become …

Nigerian Afrobeats powerhouse, Rema, was pictured dazzling at the Louis Vuitton’s Men’s Spring-Summer Show during Fashion Week in Paris on Tuesday. While at the fashion show, his global hit ‘Calm Down’ was generating a buzz as it won awards  at the 2024 ASCAP London Music Awards. ‘Calm Down’ won the coveted Song of the Year and Top Streaming Song awards. …

A student of Bowen University, Gifty Nnaji has won Amnesty International Nigeria’s 2024 Intervarsity Human Rights Debate. The winner of the second position is Abdul Korede of the University of Ibadan while a student of Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enebechi Obumneme Joel won the third position. The final debate held at Baze University Abuja is the second …

Donald Trump was thrown a huge lifeline Monday when an appeals court slashed what could have been a crippling demand for a nearly half-billion-dollar bond payment and also gave him 10 more days to pay. The Republican presidential candidate got the unexpectedly positive news about his New York civil fraud case while he was sitting in court for another case …