June 2025
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Ex-Ivory Coast midfielder, Yaya Toure, is set to land his first-ever managerial role with Daring Brussels, according to Sport. Toure is currently with the Saudi Arabia national team, where is works as the assistant coach under Herve Renard. The former Manchester City man, in the past, held similar roles at Standard Liège, Akhmat Grozny and…
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Former Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Public Affairs, Aliyu Audu, has vowed to work against the President’s re-election in 2027. The ex-aide, who recently resigned from his position in Tinubu’s administration, revealed that despite being a spokesperson to the President, he had no access to him for almost two years. Audu made…
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Good morning from MEZIESBLOG! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers: 1. A new era in the country’s tax administration commenced on Thursday with the signing of the four tax bills by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The new laws, which are due to go into effect in January, have streamlined taxation, which was uncoordinated before now.…
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Good morning from MEZIESBLOG! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers: 1. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has described members of the coalition as a group of political gangsterism that are out to unseat themselves. President Tinubu stated this on Wednesday in Lafia during his one day working visit to commission legacy projects in Nasarawa State executed…
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As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement stepped up raids across Los Angeles in recent weeks, Julie Ear and her family made a difficult drive to Tijuana International Airport just south of the U.S.-Mexico border. Ear’s mother, Regina Higuera, had lived in the United States for 36 years. But on this particular morning in early June, she left…
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NEED TO KNOW A Brazilian singer, model, and influencer has reportedly died following three cosmetic surgery procedures in Istanbul, Turkey. According to local outlet O Tempo, 31-year-old Ana Bárbara Buhr Buldrini and her husband, Elgar Sueia, 30, travelled from Mozambique to Istanbul, where she underwent liposuction, breast augmentation, and a nose job on Sunday, June 15.…
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday told Senate Republicans to lock themselves in a room if necessary to work out their differences and pass the megabill that will fund his second-term agenda. “To my friends in the Senate, lock yourself in a room if you must, don’t go home, and GET THE DEAL DONE THIS WEEK,”…
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As the dust appears to be settling following the ceasefire announced by President Donald Trump between Israel and Iran, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said to remember that the good guys are the U.S. and “the state of Israel.” Jordan told Newsmax’s “The Chris Salcedo Show” on Tuesday that the military exchanges after the ceasefire was announced don’t…
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Britain’s King Charles will host President Donald Trump for a state visit later this year, Buckingham Palace confirmed on Wednesday. Trump accepted an invitation from Charles for a second state visit in February, making the U.S. president the first elected political leader in modern times to be hosted for two state visits by a British…
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hailed his meeting with President Donald Trump on Wednesday as “long and substantive,” saying the two talked about achieving a ceasefire in the Russian war in Ukraine. Zelenskyy had hoped to use a 50-minute meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit in The Hague to lobby Trump for investment in…
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President Donald Trump’s administration is escalating its battle with the U.S. judiciary over rulings that have stymied his agenda by filing a lawsuit with an unusual set of defendants: The judges themselves. The Justice Department in a lawsuit filed late on Tuesday sued the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland and all 15…
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Immediate past Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has accused President Bola Tinubu of not liking him when he was a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. El-Rufai made the disclosure during an interview on ‘Prime Time’, a programme on Arise Television on Monday. He further stated that he was a boy of immediate…
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A top Iranian military commander, who was declared dead by The New York Times during the 12-day war with Israel, apparently is alive. According to video on social media, Esmail Qaani, a general in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), joined a crowd at a rally Tuesday following a missile attack on the U.S. Al…
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President Donald Trump brokered a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran on Monday in a call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and with Trump’s team in contact with Iranian officials, a senior White House official said. The official, providing details of the ceasefire on condition of anonymity, said Israel agreed to the ceasefire so…
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The management of Galatasaray has urged Victor Osimhen and his representatives not to drag their offer to the player out too long and also make a decision regarding his future in the first week of July. This was disclosed by respected football commentator Serkan Korkmaz. Korkmaz said this while providing an update on Osimhen’s situation…
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Again, the financial transparency of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited is under public scrutiny over missing N210 trillion in its 2017-2023 audited financial statements. On Wednesday last week, at a session of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts chaired by Aliyu Wadada, the Nigerian public was exposed to the missing N210 trillion on NNPCL’s…
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