Today’s Headlines: Nnamdi Kanu tried like someone already marked for prison – Defence team, Obasanjo’s Threat Made Me Run To Ghana-Amaechi

The defence team of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has alleged that the Abuja Federal High Court presided over by Justice James Omotosho treated him as someone already marked for prison.

The Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Defence Consortium made the claim through a lawyer, Onyedikachi Ifedi, while speaking on the delay in the hearing of the appeal filed by the IPOB leader to challenge his conviction.

Kanu’s lawyers and family members have cried out that the appeal is yet to be listed for hearing at the Court of Appeal. The development had prompted IPOB to order its members to boycott the activities of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, ahead of the 2027 elections.

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential running mate, Rotimi Amaechi, has disclosed how former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s threat made him run from Nigeria to Ghana.

Amaechi disclosed that Obasanjo threatened him while attempting to stop him from becoming the governor of Rivers State.

In a video on X, Amaechi revealed that he escaped to Ghana from where he fought to become the governor of Rivers State.

The ADC presidential running mate made the remarks while urging youths to take up leadership roles in Nigeria.

Cristiano Ronaldo was absent as Al-Nassr defeated Uzbekistan’s Pakhtakor 6-2 in their AFC Champions League Elite fixture on Monday, with the Portuguese forward left out of the squad amid wider security concerns surrounding the competition in Saudi Arabia.

The 41-year-old was among three key players rested by Al-Nassr coach Ange Postecoglou for the trip to Tashkent, with Kingsley Coman and Mohamed Simakan also missing from the squad.

According to The Independent on Monday, Postecoglou said the decision was taken “given the pressure of matches and the amount of travel involved”.

Dangote Group is exploring opportunities to expand its industrial investments into Egypt, a move that could mark a significant milestone in its pan-African growth strategy and deepen economic ties between Africa’s two largest economies.

The development follows a visit by a high-level Egyptian delegation led by the country’s Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade, Dr. Mohamed Saleh, to the Dangote Industries complex in Lagos. The delegation engaged with senior executives of the Dangote Group to identify areas for industrial collaboration, investment partnerships, and capacity expansion across key sectors.

Accompanied by officials from Egypt’s Ministry of Petroleum and senior executives from the country’s oil and petrochemical industry, the delegation explored opportunities for Nigerian and Egyptian businesses to establish mutually beneficial ventures, leveraging the strengths of both economies.

The visit underscores growing interest in extending Nigeria’s industrial expertise across the continent, with Egypt emerging as a potential destination for future Dangote investments as the Group advances its Vision 2030 expansion agenda.

The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr Jide Idris, has said that the controversial N10bn emergency intervention fund approved by President Bola Tinubu was not meant for Ebola Virus Disease alone but for strengthening Nigeria’s preparedness against multiple epidemic-prone diseases.

Idris, who clarified amid growing public debate over the allocation, said the fund was designed to strengthen prevention, preparedness, early detection and rapid response to public health threats, including Lassa fever, cholera, cerebrospinal meningitis, diphtheria, measles, monkeypox and antimicrobial resistance.

He explained that the N10bn was released directly to the NCDC and not to the Presidential Task Force on Ebola Virus Disease, contrary to some narratives surrounding the intervention.

The NCDC boss who had during a press conference on Sunday, October 25, 2026, told journalists that the N10bn has not been released to the agency, did not specify when the fund was eventually released.

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