Ex-president says he drove himself to police station after security men surrounded his farm F ormer President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the late military ruler, General Sani Abacha, wanted him eliminated so he could rule without any challenge. Obasanjo spoke in a video shared by the BBC. In the video, he looked back at his arrest under Abacha and the life he was living before it happened. He said he left the army far earlier than he had planned. He was only 42 when he stepped down as military Head of State, and that did not sit well with him. He had not joined the army to retire at that age. By then, he had already risen to a four-star general and had also led the country. In his words, there was nothing left for the army to give him. So he turned to farming, and the business was doing well until his arrest. Obasanjo said he had no idea Abacha had marked him for elimination. He was outside the country when the American ambassador in Nigeria contacted him. The ambassador told him the U...

I t started as a private confession. It has turned into a crisis that now touches the White House, Congress, and Wall Street. On Sunday, November 8, Jensen Huang, the boss of Nvidia, wrote to his workers and said the thing no chief executive wants to write. He told them he had cheated on his wife. He said he had hurt her and their children. He said there was no excuse. He said he was deeply sorry. He left one name out of that note. The press had already filled it in. Alice Huang, a former senior figure at Megaspeed, a Singapore firm that buys large volumes of Nvidia chips. She shares his surname, but the two are not family. How a private failing turned into a security story The New York Times first reported in October that American intelligence officials had come to view Alice Huang also called Huang Le as an asset for China. The report said officials believed she had been brought in by China’s Ministry of State Security to learn more about Jensen Huang and his company. The same report...

T he Confederation of African Football (CAF) has moved the 2026 CAF Awards forward to Wednesday, 2 December 2026, with Lagos confirmed as the host city. CAF announced the change in a statement published on its official website on Tuesday, 10 November 2026. The ceremony will be held at the Professor Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and the Arts, also known as the National Theatre, in Lagos. It will start at 7pm Lagos time, 8pm in Cairo and 6pm GMT. The event will return to Lagos for the first time since 2014. CAF said Nigeria's largest city will host a celebration that combines football with culture, music and entertainment. The Awards will cover 18 categories. The main prizes are the Men's Player of the Year and the Women's Player of the Year. Other categories will recognise coaches, goalkeepers, emerging talents, clubs and national teams for their performances during the year. Voting is already underway. It started on 5 November and will end on 20 November across the men...