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Swedish club AIK do not intend to rush Zadok Yohanna back into their squad, casting a shadow over his availability for the Unity Cup, which will be held from May 26 to 30 in London, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. Yohanna suffered an injury during AIK’s 4-2 defeat to Djurgårdens IF in the Swedish Allsvenskan last Sunday, thereby missing Sunday’s league game against Västerås SK after beginning his rehabilitation. He had initially allayed fears about the extent of the injury, but the club are not willing to risk rushing him back into action, meaning he could miss this year’s Unity Cup…
The National Universities Commission has deployed 26 professionals in eight accreditation panels to assess postgraduate programmes at the Pan African University Life and Earth Sciences Institute, University of Ibadan. A Deputy Director at the NUC, Mrs Uchenna Obidiagbo, disclosed the eight panels constituted for the exercise, when the delegation of the commission visited the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Prof Kayode Adebowale, on Monday. Obidiagbo said the programmes slated for accreditation are Plant Breeding; Medicinal Plant Research and Drug Development; Petroleum Geoscience; Avian Medicine and Vaccine Production and Quality Control; Reproductive Health; Sports Management and Policy Development; Environmental…
Kasi Cloud has commissioned the first phase of its planned 100-megawatt AI-ready hyperscale data centre campus in Lekki, Lagos, marking one of Nigeria’s most ambitious investments yet in digital infrastructure and local compute capacity. The company said the facility is designed to support artificial intelligence workloads, cloud computing, enterprise storage and high-density digital services at a time when global demand for AI infrastructure is accelerating rapidly. The project, estimated to cost about $250m, broke ground in April 2022, while major construction work began in the second quarter of 2023. The commissioning marks the first operational deployment within the broader campus,…
Bitcoin Depot, one of the largest Bitcoin ATM operators in the US, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the company moved to wind down operations and sell its assets.In a Monday announcement, Atlanta-based Bitcoin Depot said it started voluntary Chapter 11 proceedings in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, citing mounting regulatory pressure and financial strain.CEO Alex Holmes said the company strengthened anti-fraud protections in recent years, including stricter identity checks and lower transaction limits, but argued that growing compliance demands and enforcement actions made the business model “unsustainable.”The filing marks one of the biggest…
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President Bola Tinubu is heading to the 2027 presidential election with the advantage of incumbency, a formidable political structure and his party’s control of several states, but the decision of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) to zone its presidential ticket to the South may have introduced a new layer of political uncertainty that could reshape calculations in the region. The South, comprising 17 states, is widely considered Mr Tinubu’s strong political base. For the first time since the 2023 election, a major opposition party in Nigeria appears to be reorganising around a southern candidate capable of directly confronting Mr Tinubu…
The Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, has announced that students are to resume academic activities on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. The announcement of the resumption is coming following the conclusion of a three-week mid-semester break. This was contained in an internal memorandum issued by I. B. Aronkola, the Principal Assistant Registrar, Senate Division, and addressed to all Deans of Faculties after a special Senate meeting held on Thursday, May 14, 2026. According to the memorandum, “Senate reviewed the circumstances surrounding the earlier suspension of academic activities, noting that the break was introduced to allow the university administration address concerns linked…
Ahead of the 2027 presidential election, former President Goodluck Jonathan has failed to show up for the submission of his nomination form as announced by a faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). DAILY POST recalls that a faction of the PDP backed by Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde had announced that Jonathan would be screened as the party’s presidential aspirant on Tuesday. Ahead of the planned screening, Jonathan, who was expected to submit his nomination form on Monday, reportedly failed to appear. A PDP chieftain and member of the second faction, Lere Olayinka, disclosed this in a post on…
Paul Onuachu has finished as the joint top scorer in the Turkish Super Lig, sharing the award with Eldor Shomurodov. The Nigeria international and Shomurodov, who plays for Istanbul Başakşehir, scored 22 goals each. Onuachu made history as the sixth Trabzonspor player to win the individual accolade. Fenerbahçe’s Anderson Talisca took third place with 19 goals. Galatasaray striker Victor Osimhen won the award last season. Osimhen recorded 26 goals in 30 league outings for Galatasaray.
Trinity University has launched the Trinity International Model United Nations aimed at equipping students with diplomacy, negotiation and global leadership skills in what the institution described as a major step toward experiential education. The initiative was formally unveiled on Thursday during an evening of political stage drama titled Summit of Shadows, a production written entirely by a student and staged as part of activities marking the launch of the conference. University officials said the Model United Nations initiative, known as TiMUN, is expected to become an annual flagship conference attracting students from universities across Nigeria and beyond. The project was…
