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Manchester United interim manager, Michael Carrick, on Sunday set a record following his side’s Premier League 3-2 victory against Liverpool. Carrick watched as the Red Devils defeated Liverpool at Old Trafford on Sunday evening. Three goals from Matheus Cunha, Kobbie Mainoo and Benjamin Sesko gave the hosts all three points against Arne Slot’s side. However, according to OptaJoe, Carrick is now the only sixth manager and first English manager to win eight plus of his opening nine home games in the Premier League. The 44-year-old is also the first since Antonio Conte in the 2016-17 season (also 8 wins out…
A former Minister of Communications and Digital Economy and governorship aspirant in Gombe State, Professor Isa Pantami, has rejected the purported consensus arrangement of the All Progressives Congress in the state, describing it as lacking inclusivity and contrary to the law. Pantami’s position was conveyed in a statement issued on Sunday by Professor Suleiman Mohammed on behalf of supporters and members of the Pantamiyya Movement. According to the statement, the former minister was in Abuja when news of what it described as a “coronation” presented as a consensus for elective positions in the state emerged. “While Professor Isa Ali Pantami…
When the Central Bank of Nigeria unveiled its revised minimum capital requirements in March 2024, the country’s financial community was confronted with more than a compliance deadline. It was a summons — a demand that the Nigerian capital market prove, once and for all, that the infrastructure built over two decades of reform, the investors cultivated in that time, and the regulatory architecture constructed around them were equal to the demands of national transformation. Two years on, the verdict is unambiguous. The Nigerian capital market mobilised N4.65 trillion in fresh equity capital in twenty-four months, brought thirty-three banks into full…
Former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, has urged members of the Nigeria Democratic Congress to shun litigation and internal disputes, warning that court battles could undermine efforts to build a viable political alternative ahead of the 2027 general elections. Obi made the appeal in remarks captured in a video circulating on Sunday, shortly after he and former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, were seen receiving membership cards of the party, signalling what appears to be their formal entry into the platform. Addressing party members, Obi stressed the need for unity and discipline, noting that internal legal conflicts have historically weakened…
Kun Khalifat will host Kano Pillars in a crucial Nigeria Premier Football League clash on Sunday, with both sides still fighting to secure their top-flight status, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. The matchday 36 fixture at the Dan Anyiam Stadium in Owerri comes at a decisive stage of the season, with the battle for survival tightening as the campaign enters its final stretch. Kano Pillars, who sit 12th with 45 points, have insisted they are fully focused and motivated ahead of the trip, as they look to steady their season with a crucial away result. “The team is in high spirits…
Mrs Evelyn Ukong has nine mouths to feed apart from hers. After losing her son, his wife remarried and left five of their kids with Evelyn to cater to. “She (son’s ex-wife) occasionally sends money to me though, but I shoulder most of the responsibility and it is not easy at all,” Ukong told our correspondent in an interview. Her elder sister’s three kids are also with her after she passed away in 2021. She also has a child whom she adopted in 2014, who is only 12 years old as well living with her and also under her cover…
BritBox’s The Other Bennet Sister is already taking the internet but storm but who makes up the Regency show’s steamy love triangle? Based on the novel by Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister follows the events from Pride and Prejudice from Mary Bennet’s (Ella Bruccoleri) point of view. The story then departs from that to follow Mary as she travels to London and the Lake District and the overlooked sister from the big Bennet family has a romantic adventure in Regency England. In addition to Bruccoleri, The Other Bennet Sister stars Ruth Jones, Richard E. Grant, Indira Varma, Richard Coyle,…
Team Nigeria wrapped up its campaign at the World Athletics Relays in Gaborone on Sunday with a sixth-place finish in the mixed 4x100m final, sealing qualification for the inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championship scheduled for Budapest in September. Nigeria clocked 42.03 seconds in the final, finishing among the top six teams to secure a place at the high-profile, prize-rich global event. The race was won by Jamaica, whose quartet of Ackeem Blake, Tina Clayton, Kadrian Goldson and Tia Clayton set a new world record of 39.62 seconds. Canada finished second in 40.23 seconds, while the United States placed third in…
The Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Chris Najomo, has said flight delays and cancellations will persist in Nigeria’s aviation sector, reflecting a global trend, but stressed that airlines must improve how they manage and communicate disruptions to passengers. Mr Najomo disclosed this during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise programme on Saturday. “As far as I am concerned… delays, cancellations will continue because it is the same that is done everywhere in the world,” he said. His comments come amid growing frustration among Nigerian passengers over frequent delays, last-minute rescheduling and inadequate communication by some domestic airlines.…
The Trinity of State Decay is grounded in a layered theoretical architecture that explains the formation, operation, and persistence of the Institutional Mirage, the Shadow Order, and the Insecurity Triad. At the level of structural formation, Claude Ake and Franz Fanon clarify the inherited constitution of the Institutional Mirage: a postcolonial state that operates primarily as a performative and extractive apparatus, whose authority is unevenly inscribed across territorial space and sustained through symbolic rather than fully enforceable sovereignty. Nigeria’s decoupling is not random; it is engineered. The state wears the mask of authority, while its rivals wield the substance of…
