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The most romantic signing of the summer came early. Raul Jimenez is back at Wolves. And for the club’s supporters, they are not so much welcoming back a former favourite but revisiting a chapter of their own lives. For a generation, Jimenez is the Wolves No 9.He was the striker who arrived just when Wolves were rediscovering themselves. Promotion became Europe. The best came to Molineux and were beaten. Now, he is returning with Wolves at a low ebb. But this second coming has rejuvenated the club. The evidence has been overwhelming since Jimenez’s signing was confirmed after three seasons…

Matt Damon may play a great hero in The Odyssey, but one of the star’s own heroes is also set for his time in the spotlight. In Massachusetts in the 1970s and 80s, Damon grew up close to Howard Zinn, now the subject of The People’s Historian, a biography by Dave Zirin.“Frankly,” Zirin said, “the fact that he’s Matt Damon and oh by the way is now in the biggest movie perhaps since Titanic, it makes it a nice little bauble for the book that I got to interview him.“But honestly, I would have interviewed anybody who had Matt Damon’s…

Nigerian Marketing Awards (NMA), Nigeria’s premier platform for recognising excellence, innovation and impact in marketing, has announced its landmark fifth edition, scheduled to take place on Saturday, November 22, 2026, at The Jewel Aeida, Lekki, Lagos. Entries for the 2026 Awards will open on August 15, 2026 and close onSeptember 22, 2026, giving brands, agencies, organisations and marketing professionals an opportunity to submit their most outstanding work for consideration The fifth edition will be held under the theme ‘Reimagine Marketing’—a bold invitation to the industry to rethink established conventions, embrace new possibilities and redefine the role of marketing in business and…

Wale Igbintade The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has revoked the operating licence of Nigeria Reinsurance Corporation for failing to meet the statutory Minimum Capital Requirement (MCR) and appointed Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dr. Muiz Banire, SAN, as Receiver/Provisional Liquidator to wind up the company’s affairs. The appointment took effect on August 3, 2026, following the cancellation of the company’s certificate of registration by the insurance regulator. In a public notice dated August 4, 2026, Banire said NAICOM appointed him, in exercise of its statutory powers, to oversee the receivership and liquidation of Nigeria Reinsurance Corporation (RR-002). According to the notice,…

Chinedu Eze The Chairman and CEO Air Peace Limited, Dr Allen Onyema, has cautioned aviation unions not to embark on action that will lead to prolonged disruption of the aviation industry. Reacting to the threat of aviation unions to picket the operations of the airlines over debts owed NCAA, Onyema warned that mounting fiscal pressures, high borrowing rates, and illegal union interference are threatening the survival of domestic carriers, declaring that operators will not succumb to intimidation. He wondered why after NCAA and the airlines had agreed on payment arrangement to liquidate the debts, which accumulated during the US-Iran war;…

People queue to refuel their cars at a Gazpromneft petrol station in Yaroslavl on July 15, 2026. Russia — one of the world’s largest oil producers — has introduced a swath of restrictions on petrol sales across the country, as Ukrainian strikes on its refineries, depots and logistics crimp domestic supply.Igor Ivanko | Afp | Getty ImagesUkraine’s military on Thursday struck two Russian oil refineries hundreds of miles from its border, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as Kyiv continues to target the country’s energy infrastructure. Ukraine’s armed forces struck the Bashneft-Novoil refinery in Bashkortostan and the Slavneft-Yanos refinery in the Yaroslavl…

As tributes poured in for Rod Liddle, the Sunday Times and Sun columnist who has died at the age of 66, they were markedly coy and sanitised. Paradoxically, those were the exact deficiencies obituaries praised Liddle for avoiding – they said he shot from the hip and ruffled feathers, remorselessly attacked the liberal establishment and was ebullient. Michael Gove called him “special and brave”. But brave in the face of what? Attacked the liberal establishment how?This delicacy was particularly noticeable in a segment on Radio 4’s Today programme, of which Liddle was editor in the 90s, between Justin Webb and…

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Lagos State government and GoMed Nigeria, a digital health platform, have launched a digital self-care initiative to improve access to reproductive health services for students. According to a press release on Wednesday, the initiative will initially serve students of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), providing access to free contraceptives and other sexual and reproductive health commodities. The partners noted that the platform is aimed at addressing barriers such as cost, distance, stigma, misinformation and concerns about confidentiality, which often prevent young people from accessing reproductive health services. According to them, these barriers contribute…

The Commissioner of Police for Osun governorship election, Samuel Etaifo, says 15,000 police officers would be deployed for the 15 August governorship election. Mr Etaifo said this at a news conference in Osogbo, the state capital, on Wednesday. He said a Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) and an Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of election operations were also expected in the state for the election. He also said that he was deployed to Osun State two weeks before the election because he was the most junior of the senior election officers assigned to oversee the poll. He revealed…