President/Founder, Amateur Basketball Academies, ABA, Aliyu Lucky Abubakar has called for a scientific and pragmatic approach to rediscovering the game of basketball in the North East. The former player of many teams in Nigeria made the call during training of coaches in Yola, Adamawa State. Aliyu said the training is aimed to arm Coaches so they can, in turn, reach the children, especially those that ABA may not. The Deputy Comptroller in Nigeria Customs Service decried non-challant attitudes of the stakeholders in the development of basketball in the North East. ” Basketball is fading in the North East, and we…
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By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau Confederation of African Football (CAF) Head of Safety and Security, Dr. Christian Iheanyichukwu Emeruwa has described as outright falsehood, a story suggesting that he is interested in the vacant position of the General Secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). A furious Emeruwa in a statement made available to Prompt News on Thursday said that he has never been interested in becoming the General Secretary of the NFF and still has no interest whatsoever in occupying that position, stating clearly that he once contested for the Presidency of the NFF but when it did…
Nigeria owes a great deal to the aid agencies working across the country. They step in where the state has struggled. They keep health facilities open in fragile areas. They support communities caught in conflict. They run programmes that would not exist without them. And beyond service delivery, they create thousands of jobs – Nigerian jobs – across health, agriculture, education, logistics, research, finance, HR, and community mobilisation. Their presence is not trivial. It is part of the country’s social and economic fabric. This contribution deserves respect. It deserves acknowledgment. Aid agencies are not the problem. The problem is the…
By Isaac Megbolugbe IntroductionThe intellectual journey of any society is often anchored by a few titanic figures whose insights outlive their physical context. Professor Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje, widely revered as the father of African geography, remains one such anchor. In the poignant postscript of his scholarly reflections, he asked a question that reverberates through the corridors of Nigeria’s policy ecosystem: “What singular haven of experience has the intellectual voyage of my life led me to?”This lamentation is not merely an academic afterthought. It is a prophetic and prescient warning regarding the foundational mechanics of national development. When analyzed closely, Mabogunje’s…
The Weight of a Life Well Lived By Lanre Ogundipe There are birthdays that merely add another year to a man’s life. There are others that compel society to pause, not to count the years, but to measure the influence those years have deposited upon humanity. Such occasions are less about age than about legacy; less about longevity than about significance. The eighty-seventh birthday of Aremo Olusegun Osoba belongs unmistakably to that latter category. Some lives are biographies. Others become reference books.Osoba’s life has become one of those enduring texts from which successive generations continue to draw lessons on journalism,…
By Tony Obiechina, Abuja The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) convened its 2026 Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, to review the activities and financial performance of the organisation for the financial year ended December 31, 2025. The hybrid meeting, held at the NESG Summit House in Lagos and virtually, brought together members of the Board of Directors, members of the Group, auditors, company secretaries, and key stakeholders. In his address at the meeting, Mr. Niyi Yusuf, Chairman of the NESG Board of Directors, extended his sincere appreciation to the board, management, and members of the think tank for…
By Arabinrin Aderonke Abuja, Nigeria — The City Boy Movement (CBM) on Monday commenced its maiden three-day National Retreat in Abuja, bringing together members of its Governing Board, National Working Committee (NWC), National Directors, State Directors and other stakeholders from the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The retreat, which runs from Monday, July 13 to Wednesday, July 15, 2026, is aimed at strengthening the movement’s structures, reviewing its progress and preparing members for intensified grassroots mobilisation in support of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda. A major highlight of the opening ceremony was the formal swearing-in of…
Ever wondered why many people are still hooked onto the habit of alcohol addiction even when it is apparent that they are aware of the imminent danger associated with frequent consumption of alcoholic beverages? The truth is that most people who drink know that alcohol can damage their liver and make their lives miserable. They know it can destroy marriages, drain finances, and lead people down paths they never intended to take.But what many people don’t know is that alcohol can also damage the brain. Recently, I came across a condition called Wernicke’s Encephalopathy, and the more I learned about…
By Ayodeji Aransiola Every Nigerian has an opinion about the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Bring it up in a barber’s shop in Kano, a restaurant in Enugu, or a WhatsApp group of old classmates in Lagos, and the conversation almost always turns passionate. Some would insist the scheme has outlived its usefulness and should be scrapped. Others would defend it fiercely as one of the few institutions still binding the country together. In between would be quieter, more persistent worries: about security, about welfare, about deployment, about whether a compulsory year of service still equips young graduates for the…
Governor Ademola Adeleke has raised alarm over an ongoing coordinated, illegal operation by the Osun APC to buy up voters’ voting cards and extract pin numbers from the cards to disenfranchise voters on August 15. In a statement on Thursday morning, the governor warned against what he called illegal and anti-democratic activities that are targeted at compromising the voters registers, electronically disenfranchising voters and manipulating the outcome of August 15 polls, calling the attention of the electoral commission to the untoward development. Citing multiple reports from across the 30 local governments and Area Office, the governor accused the Osun APC…