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  The Social Democratic Party (SDP) Presidential candidate, Mr Adewole Adebayo, has pledged to reduce the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria to zero if elected, promising increased investment in basic education and measures to address insecurity. Adebayo made the pledge in a statement issued by Mr Mark Adebayo, Chief Media and Communications Adviser to the Adebayo-Bugaje Presidential Campaign Council, on Thursday. He said his administration would declare a state of emergency in basic education and dismantle systemic barriers preventing millions of Nigerian children from accessing classrooms. The candidate expressed concern over Nigeria’s out-of-school children crisis, calling for urgent interventions to improve enrolment, school attendance and the quality of basic education across the country. According to the campaign group, available estimates put Nigeria’s out-of-school children population at about 18.3 million, comprising approximately 10.2 million primary school-age c...

   Products of the Headwaters Squash Academy have recorded impressive performances at the recently concluded West African University Games (WAUG), winning a total of eight medals across different categories. The outstanding athletes include Desmond Iguodala, Anthony Monday, Friday Daniel and Happiness Daniel, who represented their respective institutions at the games. Desmond Iguodala of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) won gold in the mixed doubles and silver in the singles event, while his schoolmate, Anthony Monday, also of OAU, claimed silver in the doubles category. Friday Daniel of Benson Idahosa University (BIU) clinched gold in the doubles, silver in the mixed doubles and bronze in the singles event. In the female category, Happiness Daniel of OAU won silver medals in both the singles and doubles events. Reacting to the development, the Founder of Headwaters Squash Academy, Mr Seun Peters, described the performance of the players as a source of pride and fulfilment. Pe...

  By LANRE ADEWOLE.  Last Monday, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu finally emptied his chest about his now late, latter-day political partner and presidential predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari. He called him a ruinous fellow, who handed him a decrepit Nigeria. Tinubu was justifying petrol subsidy removal to a band of youths herded and sheltered under the City Boy Movement umbrella by his son; Seyi and rationalizing, using a popular biblical story as an anecdote, why the policy of government helping the citizenry lift the affordability burden a bit, should never return. Recalling the Nigeria handed to him, the President alleged; “We owed money to airlines. They were almost cutting their flights to Nigeria. Our foreign reserve was nothing. We printed currencies as if there were no tomorrow” He however said he chose not to dwell on the comatose country given to him to run, deciding to embrace the responsibility and liability of his predecessor.  You may want to say at this point, wha...

Sen. Musiliu Obanikoro the DG PBAT-KOH Campaign Council at the Press Conference on Sunday. 2027: APC unveils Hamzat’s manifesto Oct. 30—Obanikoro Manifesto By Aderonke Ojediran Lagos, Oct. 25, 2026 (NAN) The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State says it will unveil the 2027 governorship election manifesto of its candidate, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, on Oct. 30. Sen. Musiliu Obanikoro, Director-General of the President Bola Tinubu-Kadri Hamzat Campaign Council, announced this at a news conference at the campaign office in Ikeja, on Sunday. Obanikoro said the manifesto launch, scheduled to hold at the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and Creative Arts, formerly the National Arts Theatre, Iganmu, would present Hamzat’s vision and development priorities for Lagos. He said the campaign’s central message was continuity, shared progress and inclusive development, with emphasis on improving residents’ quality of life. According to him, the manifesto will address critical sectors, including ...

  By Aderonke Ojediran  A customer, Aisha Janel, has allegedly been debited N2 million in two transactions for Dangote Petroleum Refinery initial public offering (IPO) shares through FirstBank, without receiving email confirmation of successful subscriptions. The case is among complaints about unsuccessful transactions and unresolved refunds involving customers who attempted to subscribe for the refinery’s shares through the bank. Another customer Francisca Aderonke said FirstBank debited her account N267,750 following three unsuccessful attempts to purchase 170 units of the shares on Sept. 17, 2026. She said N89,250 was deducted for each attempt, adding that nearly one month after the transactions, she had received neither a refund nor an email confirming that the subscriptions had been processed. The customer said she had received no acknowledgement or further information from the bank regarding the status of the transactions. The initial public offering of Dangote Petroleum...

 Arewa and 2027 sucker theory.  By LANRE ADEWOLE  Even before President Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced on Wednesday during the inauguration of his armada-esque campaign council for his reelection that he would be making just a cameo appearance on the soap box this election circle, Nigerians were already chewing on the rumour his surrogates (mostly governors), would largely be asking for votes from the electorate on his behalf.  So it is either there are leakers in his inner circle, or the decision was deliberately planted in the public space by his own to gauge public mood to it before making it official.  Playing and gaming the Nigerian public isn’t new with the presidency.  It’s like throwing bone to a salivating dog to excuse it from the meat of the matter.  At least a former presidential spokesperson, journalism elder, Alhaji Garba Shehu recently confirmed the act of “planting” reports to divert public attention from very important state matters with ...