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Barcelona forward Robert Lewandowski has conveyed his eagerness to compete against the Super Eagles once more, prior to the announcement of Poland’s squad for the friendly match against the African team. As reported by Polish media outlets, including Gol24, Poland’s manager, Jan Urban, is anticipated to reveal his squad for the forthcoming friendlies against Ukraine and Nigeria on Tuesday, May 26, just two days ahead of the commencement of the national team’s training camp. Despite Poland’s inability to qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Robert Lewandowski has no intentions of retiring from international football and has assured the coaching staff of…

Ahead of its presidential primaries for the 2027 general election, the African Democratic Congress on Wednesday screened former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Managing Director of FSB International Bank, Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, as consultations over the party’s ticket intensify. The exercise, held behind closed doors at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja, was conducted by a screening panel chaired by former Cross River State governor, Liyel Imoke, with Cyril Maduabum serving as secretary. Hayatu-Deen arrived at the venue at about 10:50 a.m. and spent roughly one hour before the panel, while Atiku arrived later at about 12:06 p.m. Speaking with journalists after…

The Oyo State Police Command on Wednesday arrested two suspects, Shehu and Abubakar, in connection with the abduction of two staff members of the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria at Idi-Ayunre in Oluyole Local Government Area of the state. A statement issued by the state Police Public Relations Officer, Olayinka Ayanlade, in Ibadan, said the incident occurred at about 6 pm on Tuesday, May 20, 2026. He explained that a distress report was received at the Idi-Ayunre Divisional Police Headquarters from the chief security officer of CRIN, reporting the abduction of two staff members of the institution by unidentified armed…

The Kaduna State chapter of the National Democratic Congress on Wednesday declared support for a proposed presidential ticket involving Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso ahead of the 2027 general elections, vowing to unseat the ruling All Progressives Congress at both state and national levels. The party made the declaration during its first expanded joint executive committee meeting with local government and ward chairmen, as well as aspirants, held in Kaduna, the state capital. The meeting had in attendance the party’s governorship, National Assembly and House of Assembly aspirants, zonal executives, and local government and ward chairmen drawn from the 23…

Ghana have been paired with Ivory Coast in a potentially tricky qualifying group for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations finals, with Super Eagles captain William Troost-Ekong looking forward to how the two West African sides will fare, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. The two West African heavyweights will meet in Group C, where they will also face The Gambia, who made the quarter-finals of the 2021 AFCON on their debut, and Somalia. Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda will co-host the next AFCON, which will be held from June 19 to July 17, 2027. The Black Stars were not included in the…

Google announced a new YouTube Shorts Remix feature that lets users restyle clips or even insert themselves into other people’s videos using Gemini Omni. Now, at the bottom of a YouTube Short, when you click the remix icon, you’ll see an option to “reimagine” it. Here, you can prompt Gemini to turn a video into pixel art, an anime, or a found-footage horror film. But, beyond that, you can also alter the contents by, say, inflating heads, inserting background actors, dressing people in pirate costumes, or even putting yourself in the clip.Creators can enable or disable the ability to reimagine…

Nearly 10% of the total Bitcoin supply is considered “structurally unsafe” due to a quantum computing breakthrough, as their output type reveals the public key by design, regardless of address management practices, according to data analytics platform Glassnode.Totaling about 1.92 million Bitcoin (BTC), the group includes BTC from early Satoshi-era Pay-to-Public-Key (P2PK) outputs, legacy multi-sig structures such as Pay-to-Multisig (P2MS) and modern Pay-to-Taproot (P2TR) outputs, which reveal the public key or public key-equivalent by design, wrote Glassnode in a Wednesday X post.Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto’s coins represent about 1.1 million or 5.5% of the vulnerable supply, following another 620,000 Satoshi-era…

Jack Osbourne is firing back at criticism over his weight. “I cannot believe I’m having to actually make this f***ing video. If I see one more article written about me saying how I’m ‘sick,’ I’m ‘grossly underweight’, [that I’m] ‘health crisis Jack’ … It’s f***ing insane,” the former Osbournes star, 40, said in an impassioned Instagram video posted on Tuesday, May 19. “I have lost no weight since I got out of the jungle doing I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! six months ago,” he said, referring to the U.K. reality show, which aired from November to December…

The Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Wednesday described the All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Assembly primary election in Surulere Constituency I as peaceful, fair, and orderly. Mr Gbajabiamila spoke with journalists after participating in the primary election at Ward G2 (Adeniran Ogunsanya Ward 5), situated at Alaka Housing Estate, Surulere, Lagos. The former Speaker of the House of Representatives said he was impressed by the conduct of party members and the peaceful atmosphere that characterised the exercise. “You know, this is my ward, Ward G2, and I have been voting here in Ward G2 for…

Activist and lawyer, Dele Farotimi, has said the last administration of Muhammadu Buhari and the current government of President Bola Tinubu enabled Fulani terrorists to overtake Nigeria. Farotimi stated this on Wednesday in an interview on State Affairs, a podcast hosted by Edmund Obilo. He was reacting to the worsening security situation bedeviling the country. The author of ‘Imperatives of the Nigerian Revolution’ said, “It is Buhari, the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Tinubu’s government that enabled Fulani terrorists to overtake Nigeria. “The Nigerian state is so useless that at one time, an Assistant Commissioner of Police was murdered by a Fulani…