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Former Newcastle striker Alan Shearer has given his predictions for some of the Premier League games to be played this weekend. The big game will see table-toppers Arsenal travel to Aston Villa, in what could be a tricky affair. Chelsea are away at Bournemouth, while Manchester United take on Wolves in the final fixture of this game week. Shearer told Metro UK: “Aston Villa vs Arsenal – It will be interesting to see who is fit for them too. So that’s why I’m going… Read the full article here

The Federal Government says no fewer than 10,326 gender-based violence cases were reported between January and September 2025, with 2,444 survivors receiving care in recovery centres. The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Imam Suleiman-Ibrahim, disclosed this at the National Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue on Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence. The event, organised by ActionAid and other development partners, was held on… Read the full article here

Four people, including two children, have died in three separate tragedies recorded across Kano State within a single day. The Kano State Fire Service has confirmed this in a statement by the agency’s Public Relations Officer, ACFO Saminu Yusif Abdullahi, on Friday. Abdullahi disclosed that the incidents occurred on Thursday in Nassarawa, Bichi and Danbatta local government areas. According to him, the first incident involved a fire outbreak at Badawa Layin Day by Day in Nassarawa LGA,… Read the full article here

Organisers of the Firewood Jollof Festival 2025 have pushed a message of cultural unity and collaboration across Africa following its recently held event, which drew thousands of food lovers, creatives and tourists to Muri Okunola Park, Victoria Island, Lagos. The event, themed ‘Unifying African Jollof’, brought together chefs from Ghana, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, offering guests an immersive culinary tour of West Africa…. Read the full article here

Scotland manager, Steve Clarke, welcomed the “special occasion” of facing Brazil at next year’s World Cup after also being drawn with Morocco and Haiti on Friday. In their last World Cup appearance in 1998, Scotland also faced Brazil and Morocco, but will begin their quest to reach the knockout stage for the first time against tournament debutants, Haiti. After ending a nearly three-decade wait to return to the global stage, Clarke was… Read the full article here

Despite Nintendo’s claims that the Switch 2 works with most USB webcams, our own testing confirmed that Pixel smartphones could not be used as webcams at launch, even with the device’s settings switched to the USB webcam mode that Google introduced with Android 14. Switch 2 users eventually found that Android phones and iPhones could be used as a webcam for the console, but with the help of additional USB-C to HDMI adapters, and HDMI capture cables.But extra hardware is no longer needed… Read the full article here

Concerns about stablecoin issuer Tether’s financial stability resurfaced this week after BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes warned the company could face serious trouble if the value of its reserve assets were to fall. But CoinShares’ head of research, James Butterfill, pushed back on those claims.In a Dec. 5 market update, Butterfill said fears over Tether’s solvency “look misplaced.”He pointed to Tether’s latest attestation, which reports $181 billion in reserves against roughly… Read the full article here

 Kaitlyn Bristowe and her ex-fiancé Shawn Booth previously entrusted fellow Bachelor Nation alum Whitney Bischoff to freeze their respective eggs and sperm. “I heard Shawn Booth [once] was talking about how you still have his frozen sperm,” Bristowe, 40, told Bischoff, also 40, during the Thursday, December 4, episode of her “Off the Vine” podcast. Bischoff, a fertility nurse who now runs her own concierge clinic, acknowledged that Booth, 38, is… Read the full article here

Chidozie Ajah, a senior aide to the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ben Kalu, has disclosed that the Senate is proposing a drastic alteration to the Reserved Seats for Women Bill, seeking to limit the number of the additional women-only seats in the upper chamber to six, one per geopolitical zone, instead of one per state as initially designed. Mr Ajah, the special adviser (Legislative) to the deputy speaker, revealed this on Friday during a media training for… Read the full article here

Nigeria’s Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) has named Lagos State and the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) as the country’s strongest performers in its 2025 Subnational Ease of Doing Business Report. Lagos topped the list with (85.6 per cent), well ahead of Kaduna (65.1 per cent) and Oyo (62.7 per cent). Abuja (FCT), Ogun, Enugu, Plateau, Ekiti, Kano and Nasarawa rounded out the top 10, with scores ranging from 44.5 /… Read the full article here