Emenike Agu

The Federal Government has cleared a ₦758 billion pension backlog, settling inherited pension liabilities that had accumulated for years under Nigeria’s Contributory Pension Scheme. The National Pension Commission, PenCom, said the intervention has benefited 957,045 Nigerians, including retirees affected by outstanding pension increases and accrued pension rights. PenCom Director-General...

For the first anniversary with no hostages left in Gaza, families gathered on a desert dance floor where 378 were killed — while near-daily strikes, a UK rift and a feared new exodus define the third year. Three years after the deadliest day in Israel's history, the place...

The 82-year-old Belgian-American physicist was honoured for building a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice into a telescope — and for proving cosmic neutrinos can be caught and traced back to the universe's most violent engines. Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for what...