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Aston Villa boss, Unai Emery, has opened up about the pre-match talk that motivated his side’s commanding 3-0 Europa League final victory against Freiburg on Wednesday. Goals from Youri Tielemans, Emiliano Buendia, and Morgan Rogers sealed the win for the Premier League side against the Bundesliga outfit in Turkey. Speaking to TNT Sports post-match, the Spanish coach revealed he told his players that they needed desire and to show it on the field before they triumphed over Freiburg. “We played in a very serious way this year, so focused, and of course, the players – they showed their desire,” Emery said.…
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has announced his withdrawal from the All Progressives Congress governorship primary election in the state. Fubara made this known in a statement personally signed on Wednesday, saying he would support whoever emerges as the party’s candidate. Meanwhile, in other news, the second accused person in the charges brought against 36 persons accused of alleged mutiny and plot to overthrow the government of President Bola Tinubu, Col Mohammed Ma’aji, has challenged the jurisdiction of the Defence Headquarters Garrison General Court Martial sitting in Asokoro, Abuja, to hear the case. PUNCH Online highlights top stories making today’s…
A woman, Amarachi Promise Esomonu, has demanded justice after losing her three children in a tragic accident in the Ogbunabali area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. It was gathered that a yet-to-be-identified man was allegedly teaching his girlfriend how to drive when the woman, who was behind the wheel, rammed into the family’s residence, killing the three children, all of whom were toddlers. A resident of the area, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the incident occurred on May 15. “The children were aged 10, four and three years respectively,” the source said. “They were at home in Ogbunabali…
The history of Nigerian football pre- and post-colonial is very well documented. In the colonial era, our affiliation was with the English FA, and their records and archives are intact. The Nigerian takeover of football post-colonial era was via the Nigerian Olympic movement led by Sir Justice Adetokunbo Ademola, supported by Israel Adebajo. They financed the process and got the English FA to back Nigeria’s application for FIFA affiliation as a requirement for Nigeria’s planned Football participation in the 1960 Rome Olympics. The FIFA Affiliation Application went in through CAF in 1959 and was ratified in the FIFA Congress in…
May 20, 2026 2:12 pm Isuikwuato State Constituency in Abia State aspirant, Lilian Agbazue. Photo: Ogbonnaya Ikokwu Ahead of the All Progressives Congress State House of Assembly primaries in Isuikwuato State Constituency in Abia State aspirant, Lilian Agbazue, has dismissed allegations linking her to the Labour Party and the administration of Alex Otti. Agbazue insisted that her relationship with the Abia state government is strictly business-related. Speaking through a recorded message on Wednesday amid growing political tension surrounding her recent interactions with the state government, Agbazue described claims that she is loyal to the Labour Party as false, misleading and…
Femi Otedola has disclosed that he sold his stake in Geregu Power Plc to position himself for investment in the proposed initial public offering of Dangote Petroleum Refinery, describing the facility as a transformative industrial project capable of reducing Africa’s dependence on imported petroleum products. Otedola made the disclosure during a visit by the board and management of FirstHoldCo to the 650,000-barrel-per-day refinery and Dangote Fertiliser Limited in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos. During a tour of the refinery, the Chairman of FirstHoldCo appealed to the President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, to allocate $100m worth of shares to him in the proposed…
Only six managers in modern football have ever finished a league season above a team coached by Pep Guardiola, a striking statistic given his dominance across spells with FC Barcelona, Bayern Munich, and Manchester City F.C. Across 17 seasons as a senior manager, Guardiola has won 12 league titles, finished second three times, and placed third twice. Yet on the rare occasions he has been beaten over a full campaign, it has taken elite managerial performances to do so. According to Planet Football on Thursday, these are the six managers who beat the Spaniard to the league race. 1. Jose…
The National Assembly primary election conducted by the ruling APC in Benue State has left the party more divided, with allegations of electoral manipulation, candidate imposition and internal betrayal threatening ongoing reconciliation efforts ahead of the general elections. JOHN CHARLES examines the controversy surrounding the exercise and its implications for the party’s future in the state The National Assembly primary election conducted by the ruling All Progressives Congress in Benue State may have come and gone, but its outcome has further deepened divisions within the party. There had been indications that peace was still elusive in the party despite the…
The SpaceX IPO is here, and it’s more than just an historic public offering that could make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. It also reveals more ways in which Elon Musk’s companies interact and overlap with each other, shuffling money around in ways that are often difficult to keep track of.This is evident in ways that are both obvious and less so. A CTRL-F search for “Tesla” yields 87 results, xAI is mentioned 356 times, and X 267 times. Even the Boring Company (7 times) and Neuralink (3) get a few mentions. Throughout its 330 pages of rocket launches…
US-based exchange-traded funds tied to HYPE recorded a 50% trading volume jump on Wednesday, in a rare move for newly debuted ETFs, according to analysts. Two Hyperliquid (HYPE) ETFs from issuers Bitwise and 21Shares have recorded nearly $41 million in total value traded since their launches earlier this month, with trading volumes increasing since their debuts, according to SoSoValue.Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said in an X post Wednesday that such trading increases for ETFs are “very rare,” and many normally record a “big splash [on] day one then drop off OR oblivion for months until [people] notice it. Rare to…
