Esther Joseph debuts over 400 meters in 2026 with a win, storming to a new lifetime best of 51.36 seconds to win at the 2026 Bob Pollock Invitational in Clemson.
She becomes the fifth fastest African woman ever to run the 400 meters indoors, beating her teammate Javonya Valcourt who ran 51.73 seconds to finish second.
Joseph is now 3-for-3 in 2026, having set personal bests at every distance she has entered so far:
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Chukwuebuka Enekwechi has won the men’s Shot Put event at the 2026 Orlen Cup Łódź meet in Poland, a World Athletics Indoor Tour – Silver label meet.
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Nigeria’s ransom crisis: Funding the terror we fight By Guardian Editorial Board on January 29, 2026: Recommended Nigerian Newspaper Report 24
The United Nations expressed concern over the spate of indiscriminate abductions in Nigeria recently, with Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, lamenting, “Students, young people, young men, young women continue to be detained by armed groups.” Coming against the backdrop that abductors collected ₦2.57 billion in ransom payments within a single year, the UN’s voice is a sobering wake-up call that, in the absence of demonstrable state capacity to protect citizens, Nigeria might continue to face a vicious cycle of mass abductions propelled by the lucrative business of ransom collection.
Fela and the Legacy of the African Giant By Vanguard Editorial Board on January 27, 2026 – Recommended Nigerian Newspaper Report 24
Few cultural figures have loomed as large over Africa’s political and artistic imagination as Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. Decades after his death, Fela remains less a memory than a presence—felt in protest chants, sampled in global music, and echoed in every fearless confrontation with power. His legacy is not merely about sound; it is about courage, resistance and an uncompromising belief that art must speak truth to authority.
Freedom for bandits: Whither justice for victims? By Vanguard Editorial Board on January 28, 2026 – Recommended Nigerian Newspaper Report 23
Thousands of families have been traumatised. Children have been orphaned, farmers chased off their land, schools shut down, and local economies crippled in the North-West zone of the country in recent times.
But the reported decision of the Katsina State government to release 70 suspected bandits has unsettled Nigerians who have been calling for justice for the victims of the dastardly acts of the bandits.
FG’s ban on admission into SS3: Orderly reform or punitive policy? By Vanguard Editorial Board on January 29, 2026 – Recommended Nigerian Newspaper Report 22
The recent reaffirmation of the blanket ban on admission of students directly into Senior Secondary School Three, SSS3, the final class before the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WAEC, and National Examination Council, NECO, by the Federal Government, has ignited concern across Nigeria’s education sector. Authorities insist the policy is designed to protect academic standards and curb examination malpractice.