T he Nigeria Football Federation has let go of the entire Super Falcons coaching team. The decision takes effect immediately. The NFF Executive Committee made the call on Monday. The federation announced it on X :   “The Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation has asked members of the technical crew of the @NGSuper Falcons to step down with immediate effect.” It is a tough moment for Nigeria’s women’s team. The Super Falcons have won the Africa Cup 9 times, but this year things went wrong. At the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, Nigeria had its worst result ever. For the first time, the team did not reach the semi-finals. They were knocked out in the quarter-finals after losing 1-0 to Cameroon. That loss also meant Nigeria missed out on a direct ticket to the 2027 Women’s World Cup in Brazil. The Falcons still had a second chance through the playoffs. First, they had to beat South Africa in the African playoff. Then they would face the inter-continental playo...

L agos State wants to build a new recycling plant in Badagry to help manage the huge waste the state produces every day. State officials met with community leaders in Alausa on Sunday to explain the plan. The meeting, held at the Adeyemi-Bero Auditorium, focused on a proposed material recovery facility in Erekiti, Badagry. News Digest reports that the project will be done in partnership with waste management company, Zoomlion. Lagos generates more than 13,000 tonnes of waste daily. Officials say the old way of just packing and dumping refuse cannot continue. “We can’t keep collecting waste and throwing it away,” said Dr Gaji Tajudeen, Permanent Secretary of the Office of Environmental Services. “We need a system that picks out what can be reused.” Tajudeen told the gathering that the Badagry plant will sort waste, recover recyclables, and process them for reuse. He said the project will also create jobs and training opportunities, especially for women and young people in the area. It i...

G overnor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has told the state Attorney-General to pull back the case against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. He made the announcement on Sunday on Channels Television. It came just hours after he was declared winner of the August 15 governorship election. According to Adeleke, President Bola Tinubu called him directly and asked the EFCC to unfreeze Osun’s allocation account. “I have dropped that issue. I asked my Attorney-General to stop the case. The President handled it well. He reached me himself,” Adeleke said. The state government went to court on August 5, 2026. The case was filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja with the number FHC/ABJ/CS/1762/2026. Osun wanted the court to cancel the EFCC’s order freezing its account and also asked for N2 billion in damages.  The EFCC said it blocked the account because it was looking into claims that public money in the state was not properly managed. After the matter drew criticism, the Preside...

O peratives of the Kebbi State Police Command have picked up a 19-year-old woman accused of snatching a newborn baby in Zuru Local Government Area. According to a statement released by the command and reported by Sahara Reporters , the case started on July 23, 2025. The young woman visited Fatima Muhammad shortly after Fatima gave birth. She told Fatima she wanted to help by getting hot water. Police say she never came back. She reportedly left the house with the baby instead. After a long search, officers tracked her down and arrested her on August 14, 2026. The infant was found alive and safely returned to Fatima. Investigators said the suspect had been facing pressure because she had no child. To hide this, she allegedly told her husband she was pregnant for about nine months. When she saw the opportunity, she took Fatima’s baby and presented it to her husband as their own child. “She made her husband believe she was expecting,” police spokesman SP Bashir Usman said. “When Fatima de...