Ediri Oyibo

That long history explains why the inauguration of the Ministerial Advisory Committee by the Federal Ministry of Finance could easily have been dismissed as another bureaucratic ritual.

Argentina arrived at the 2026 FIFA World Cup final carrying the confidence of defending champions and the hope of giving Lionel Messi a fairytale farewell.

Spain's unforgettable triumph at the 2026 FIFA World Cup was crowned with an equally remarkable haul of individual honours on Sunday night as FIFA recognised the tournament's finest performers following the newly crowned champions' dramatic 1-0 extra-time victory over Argentina in the final.

Barely seven hours after Spain defeated Argentina to lift the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Nigerians had already begun shifting their attention from football to a new mix of entertainment, politics, governance, business and security concerns, according to Google's latest trending searches.

The final whistle of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico did more than crown Spain as world champions. It also reignited football's most enduring argument: who is the Greatest of All Time (GOAT) – Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo?

President Bola Tinubu has announced 26 new appointments into 10 Federal Government agencies and commissions, with former governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, emerging as chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), and Major General Junaid Bindawa as chairman of the National Salary and Wages Commission.

As the football world turns attention from the 2026 FIFA World Cup to the race for the Ballon d'Or, history suggests that lifting the World Cup trophy alone may not be enough to secure the game's most prestigious individual honour.

The controversy surrounding the purported Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC) has deepened, with the Presidency, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and the House of Representatives all taking separate actions to unravel the circumstances behind the agency's existence, operations and inclusion in the 2026 budget.

Management of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU) has clarified that the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ursula Akanwa, had no involvement in the institution's last recruitment exercise.

The Federal Government has inaugurated an inter-ministerial committee to develop the 2026 Value Added Tax (VAT) Modification Order, setting a six-week deadline for the team to produce a new framework aimed at strengthening the implementation of Nigeria's recently enacted tax laws and providing greater certainty for businesses, investors and tax administrators.