P resident Bola Tinubu has ordered the immediate arrest of George Buchi Nwabueze and suspended three permanent secretaries after the ICPC exposed another bogus agency operating inside the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. The suspended officials are M.S. Danjuma, Nadungu Gagare, and Richard P. Pheelangwah. ICPC Chairman, Dr. Musa Aliyu, SAN, broke the news to State House correspondents on Friday following his second briefing of the President in two days. He said the Commission discovered an office bearing the name “National Brands Development and Made-in-Nigeria Special Project Office” that was allocated space within the OSGF without presidential approval and in breach of government rules. The discovery came in the course of a wider probe into the earlier exposed fake “Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council” and other gaps in public service procedures.  According to Aliyu, Nwabueze promoted the fake office and had suspected collaborators with...

T he Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has dropped cybercrime charges against Maryam Isah Shehu and Abubakar Shuraim Abdulhamad following appeals for mercy and public apologies. The two young Nigerians were arraigned on Thursday, August 20, 2026, before Justice Joyce Abdulmalik at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The EFCC had accused them of cyberstalking and spreading false information about the agency online, an offence under Section 24(2)(c) of the Cybercrimes Act as amended in 2024. According to the Commission, the case came from two different social media posts made earlier this year. On June 21, 2026, Maryam posted on Instagram that EFCC officers had assaulted a man named Ahmed Uthman. She claimed the action was ordered by a zonal director who allegedly collected N20 million from another person. The EFCC said the post was meant to damage the agency’s reputation. In May 2026, Abubakar was accused of sharing a fake EFCC arrest notice on X, formerly Twitter. The post carried ...

F IFA has released the full match schedule for the 2027 Women’s World Cup, with 64 games set to be played across Brazil next year. The schedule was announced on Thursday at FIFA’s headquarters in Zurich during the live draw for the early round of the 2027 Women’s World Cup Play-Offs. Eight cities in Brazil will host matches. Each city will stage at least seven games, and every host city will also have at least one knockout match. Tournament hosts Brazil will kick off the competition on Thursday, June 24 at the famous Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. Their other group games will be played at Arena Itaquera in São Paulo on Tuesday, June 29, and at the National Stadium in Brasília on Sunday, July 4. Brasília, Porto Alegre, Recife and Salvador will host matches up to the Round of 16. Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Fortaleza will host quarter-final matches. São Paulo will also host one semi-final and the third-place match. The second semi-final and the final will both take...

A ustralia has just approved a new law that forces the world’s biggest tech companies to pay local newsrooms, or hand over part of their ad money instead. Parliament passed the News Bargaining Incentive on Thursday. The idea is simple: if platforms like Facebook, YouTube and Google Search profit from Australian news, they should pay the people who produce it. The law targets companies that run major social media or search services in Australia and pull in more than A$250 million, about $178 million, in local advertising each year. According to Reuters, the firms in line include Meta, Google’s parent Alphabet, TikTok and LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft. To escape the new charge, these companies must sign paid deals with at least eight Australian publishers before their financial year ends. If they don’t, they will be hit with a levy of 2.5 per cent on all their Australian ad revenue. The government built in a twist to help smaller papers survive. Money spent on agreements with big...