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Edo Queens Clinch Second NWFL Premiership Title

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  By allcitynews.ng Edo Queens have been crowned champions of the 2025/26 Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) Premiership following a determined 0–0 draw against Bayelsa Queens in the final matchday of the Super Six playoffs at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium on Sunday. Bayelsa Queens entered the decisive fixture needing an outright victory to secure the title, while Edo Queens required only a draw. The Benin-based side executed their game plan with discipline in a tightly contested encounter that saw both teams create chances but ultimately cancel each other out. The result sealed a second NWFL Premiership crown for Edo Queens, reaffirming their status as one of the dominant forces in Nigerian women’s football. It also places them alongside Bayelsa Queens as the only clubs to have won the league twice within the last six seasons. Head coach Moses Aduku further etched his name in the competition’s history, becoming the first manager to win three NWFL Premiership titles in six ...
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CPC, PenCom Recover Over ₦3bn in Unremitted Pension Contributions

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   By allcitynews.ng  The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and the National Pension Commission (PenCom) have recovered more than ₦3 billion in unremitted pension contributions from defaulting employers as part of a joint enforcement initiative to protect workers’ retirement savings. According to PenCom, the recovered funds were obtained from employers in the electricity sector who failed to remit pension contributions as required by law. The money has since been fully credited to the respective Retirement Savings Accounts (RSAs) of affected employees in line with the provisions of the Pension Reform Act (PRA) 2014. The commission said the recovery underscores the effectiveness of its collaboration with the ICPC in enforcing compliance with the PRA 2014 and ensuring employers meet their statutory pension obligations. PenCom recalled that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the ICPC in October 2025 to strengthen colla...
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ASCSN kicks against planned sales of Unity schools

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  By allcitynews.ng  The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has called on well-meaning Nigerians to reject the plan by the Federal government to sell the Unity schools because it will make quality secondary education inaccessible to millions of Nigerian children. Reacting to report that the Federal Government has approved the concessioning of King’s College, Lagos, to Old Boys Association, the ASCSN stated that once that was done, the remaining 119 Federal Government Colleges would be shared by the political elites and their stooges and consequently killed the Unity School System. The President of ASCSN who made this known today, reminding government of the genesis of  unity schools establishment said, "that the Prime Minister in the First Republic, Sir Tafawa Balewa in 1966 conceived the idea of setting up Federal Government Colleges to be models of secondary education where Nigerian children irrespective of ethnic, social and economic backgrounds of...
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Adire Fabric To Replace Khaki As New NYSC Uniform, Minister Confirms

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  By allcitynews.ng  To actualise the developmental plans both for the  participants and the country at large, National Youth Corps (NYSC) is refocusing direction whereby NYSC is made to become skills-oriented, productivity-driven and youth-empowerment institution that aligns with the Federal Government’s goal of building a $1 trillion economy. The Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, has confirmed that one of the reforms approved for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) will see the scheme’s traditional khaki uniform replaced with Adire fabric. Speaking on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Thursday, the minister said the change is aimed at promoting local manufacturing and ensuring government spending benefits the Nigerian economy. Responding to a question on whether the new uniform would be produced locally, Olawande said: “It’s Adire. So, Adire is being produced in Nigeria. We have them in Ogun, we have them in Kwara, we have textile industry. L...
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U.S. Soy Ready to Help Bridge Nigeria’s Protein Gap

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  L-R: Director, U.S. Soybean Export Council and United Soybean Board, North Dakota, USA, Cindy Pulskamp; Executive Director, Global Soy Excellence Centre and Sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC); Brent Babb; and Chair, Soy Excellence Centre Global Advisory Panel, Nebraska, USA, Anne Meis, during the USSEC & U.S. Soy Nigeria: Now Conference 2026 at Lagos Marriot Hotel recently. By allcitynews.ng  As Nigeria grapples with rising food costs and a widening animal-protein gap, U.S. soybean leaders say the solution lies not in competing with local farmers but in collaboration, improved technology, and workforce training. In separate interviews during the USSEC & U.S. Soy Nigeria: Now Conference 2026, three senior executives from the U.S. Soybean Export Council outlined why Nigeria is a strategic market and how U.S. Soy, knowledge transfer, and sustainable practices can help bridge the country’s protein deficit. Why Nigeria? “Population, demand, and energy...
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Real Reasons why Federal Government reformed National Youth Service Corps, replaced military leadership, 53 years after,

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  By allcitynews.ng  The Federal Executive Council has brought a full turnaround change into 53 years old  National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). The reasons for this drastic  change is to make participants economic growing tools after  passing out from the camp. It is now meant to repositioning the NYSC into skills-focused, productivity-driven institution that will aligned with the Federal Government’s economic agenda. To equips NYSC participants with the skills, experience and opportunities they need to thrive in a fast-changing world and make it a redesigned institution that would make the institution more relevant to Nigeria’s contemporary economic and youth development needs. Thus, it has approved a comprehensive turnaround into the NYSC marking the first major restructuring of the scheme since it was established 53 years ago. The reforms, approved at the FEC meeting in Abuja on Monday, are aimed at repositioning the NYSC into a skills-focused, productivity-d...
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