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Former Super Eagles captain Kanu Nwankwo joined in the celebrations after his former club Arsenal ended their 22-year wait for the English Premier League title on Tuesday, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. Arsenal’s success in the 2025/26 season was confirmed on Tuesday night following Manchester City’s 1-1 draw at Bournemouth. Holding a two-point lead over Manchester City after their penultimate game of the season on Monday, Arsenal were primed to be confirmed champions if the Citizens dropped points in their Matchday 37 fixture against Bournemouth. As a result, Mikel Arteta’s men go into the final game of the season on Sunday…

Jessica Simpson set the record straight on seating her kids in coach while she enjoyed a first class flight to Hawaii. “My mom bought those tickets,” Simpson, 45, told photographers on Wednesday, May 20, per Page Six, noting she didn’t choose the seating arrangement. “It was my mom’s treat for us to go to Hawaii.” Paparazzi then asked the singer if she would have sat with her kids — Maxwell, 14, Ace, 12, and Birdie, 7, whom she shares with estranged husband Eric Johnson — if she bought the tickets herself. “Of course!” she replied. Simpson’s revelation comes after her…

Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX reported holding 18,712 Bitcoin worth $1.45 billion in a recent filing, over 10,000 coins more than blockchain tracking firms had estimated. In the company’s S-1 registration statement, filed as part of its bid to become a public company on June 12, SpaceX revealed it purchased Bitcoin (BTC) at an average of $35,320 per coin. Its reported holdings would make it the seventh-largest among public companies.SpaceX’s Bitcoin holdings as of Dec. 31, 2025. Source: SECSpaceX is poised to become the biggest IPO in capital markets history, aiming to raise around $75 billion with an estimated valuation of…

Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has inaugurated the TechRise Cohort 3 Training Programme, charging participants to acquire practical digital and problem-solving skills needed to thrive in the modern technology-driven economy. Mr Otti gave the charge on Wednesday at the inauguration of the Abia TechRise Cohort 3 Training Programme in Aba. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the programme is a state government initiative aimed at equipping 850 Abia youths with advanced digital skills, and the training will run for 90 days. The governor, represented by the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Uzor Nwachukwu, urged the participants…

Public affairs analyst and businessman, Godfrey Ohuabunwa, has raised an alarm over the planned National Broadcasting Commission’s, NBC, digital switch from analogue ahead of the 2027 general election.  In a statement on Wednesday, Ohuabunwa said the move may result in a national disaster and serious risk. According to him, the current approach being implemented by the NBC appears rushed, unclear, and inconsistent with the existing 2012 Digital Switchover (DSO) White Paper approved by the Federal Executive Council. He noted that the planned transition is a mere aggregation of channels on NigComSat platforms and not a complete Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) migration…

The Shehu Gabam-faction of the Social Democratic Party,  SDP, has expelled the party’s presidential candidate, Adewole Adebayo, and 12 others. The faction announced the expulsion on Wednesday during the party’s National Convention and Presidential Primary held in Abuja, where delegates loyal to Gabam also adopted Lagos businessman, Abimbola Atanda, as the party’s new sole presidential candidate through a voice vote. Among those expelled are factional National Chairman, Sadiq Gombe; National Secretary, Olu Agunloye; National Publicity Secretary, Rufus Aiyenigba. Others include Joseph Abu, Maggie Batubo, Sa’adatu Abdullahi, Abimbola Aderemi, Oguchukwu Uba, Huseesini Bello, Alabi Lekan, Rosemary Effiong and Abubakar Modibo. The…

Former Newcastle United striker, Alan Shearer, has identified three ‘outstanding’ players who helped Arsenal win the Premier League title this season. The three players are David Raya, Declan Rice and Gabriel. Recall that the Gunners were confirmed 2025/26 Premier League winners on Tuesday after Manchester City failed to beat Bournemouth. Speaking on The Rest is Football podcast, Shearer, “They’ve been the best team and the most consistent,” Shearer said. “I think the three outstanding players for Arsenal have been David Raya, Gabriel Magalhaes and Declan Rice. “I just think those three, for me, have been the outstanding players week after…

Lagos State has been ranked the best state in Nigeria for ease of doing business in the 2026 Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council rankings, reinforcing the state government’s push to position Lagos as Africa’s leading commercial and investment hub. The ranking, released in March and based on the 2025 Subnational Ease of Doing Business Report, assessed all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory across key indicators, including infrastructure, land administration, digital service delivery, investor support systems, and regulatory efficiency. Lagos outperformed every other state with the recognition formally presented to the Commissioner for Commerce, Cooperatives, Trade and Investment, Mrs…

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday arraigned a 55-year-old chieftain of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Shamsudeen Oladiti, popularly known as “Shamelon,” before the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja for the involuntary manslaughter of a dispatch motorcycle rider, Ramon Imam. The defendant was arraigned on three counts bordering on involuntary manslaughter, conspiracy, and attempted murder, preferred against him by the state government. The prosecution counsel, Jubril Kareem, told the court that the defendant committed the offences between August 27 and September 17, 2025. Kareem told Justice Olawale Alebiosu that the defendant and others still at large,…

It would have been proper to gloss over the recent political developments in Edo State, particularly the just-concluded APC Edo South Senatorial District primary election, in which Rt. Hon. Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama secured the highest number of votes ahead of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and Senator Neda Imasuen and remained focused on projecting the developmental strides of the administration of Governor Monday Okpebholo. That will not be possible because the governor’s name has been dragged into a matter he knows little or nothing about by supporters and agents of Ize-Iyamu across various social media platforms over his recent political predicament. The fact…