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Kun Khalifat will return to action in the Nigeria Premier Football League on Sunday (today) when they face Shooting Stars after a brief and dramatic withdrawal from the competition earlier this week, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. The newly promoted side had announced their exit from the league less than 24 hours after failing to honour their matchday 24 fixture against El Kanemi Warriors, a decision that prompted sanctions from the league board. Kun Khalifat described the punishment as unfair and disproportionate, claiming they had informed the Nigeria Premier Football League on several occasions of their inability to play the fixture…
Team USA figure skater Ilia Malinin flipped the script during his 2026 Winter Olympics debut. Malinin, 21, represented the United States in the men’s singles portion of the figure skating team event on Saturday, February 7, where he nailed many of his signature quad jumps before nailing a gravity-defying on-the-ice backflip. “I don’t watch ice skating but I’ve never seen someone hit a backflip on skates,” one X user wrote. “Ilia Malinin is crazy.” Another fan tweeted, “The CHEEEEEEER for ilia malinin’s backflip, imagine how loud it’s about to be when he lands a quad axel. whole buildings [about] to…
The Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has dismissed online claims suggesting that a specific region of the country has been disqualified from obtaining passports. According to a statement issued on Saturday, the agency described the reports as “entirely false and a gross misrepresentation” of ongoing efforts to modernize passport services. NIS explained that it has introduced a phased onboarding system to migrate passport offices, including those in foreign missions, to a centralized production framework. The initiative, which began in 2024, aims to improve efficiency and service delivery, not to exclude any citizens. The agency confirmed that passport offices in the North…
The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has defended the Senate’s ongoing amendment of the Electoral Act, saying critics are misjudging lawmakers based on an incomplete legislative process. Akpabio insisted that the Senate did not remove electronic transmission of election results in the amendment of the Act. According to a statement shared with Sunday PUNCH, the Senate President spoke in Abuja as special guest of honour at the unveiling of a book, The Burden of Legislators in Nigeria, authored by Senator Effiong Bob. He noted that the lawmakers only questioned the requirement for real-time transmission. The clarification follows criticism from key stakeholders…
There is a substance found in nature that contains 94 of the essential vitamins and minerals the human body needs every single day. It is called bee pollen. Bee pollen is a ball of pollen made by young bees when they land on a flower. It is a mixture of pollen, saliva and nectar or honey. Bees carry these balls back to the hive in sacs on their legs and store them in the hive’s honeycomb. The pollen then ferments into “bee bread,” which feeds the bee colony. Bee pollen may be having a moment among people seeking natural remedies…
Vice President (Oil & Gas) of Dangote Industries Limited, Devakumar Edwin, has been honoured with the prestigious Person of the Year award at the 9th Annual Award and Lecture of the Daily Asset Newspapers, in recognition of his contributions to Nigeria’s oil and gas sector and his role in advancing the operations and strategic communication of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals. A statement from Dangote Group on Saturday stated that the award was presented at a well-attended ceremony in Abuja that brought together government officials, industry leaders, media executives, and other key stakeholders. Speaking at the event on Thursday,…
Kano Pillars and defending Nigeria Premier Football League champions Remo Stars will meet in a high-stakes relegation battle on Sunday as both sides attempt to halt alarming slides in form, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. The match will be played at the Sani Abacha Stadium in Kano, with kick-off scheduled for 3:30 pm and live coverage on NPFL Live and Propel Sports. Alhassan Mustapha will referee the encounter, assisted by Jerry Jimmy Pam and Peter Bwamba, while Abdulganiyu Abdulmalik will serve as the fourth official. Remo Stars will be without Fabian Nworie, who is suspended. Both clubs are entrenched in unfamiliar…
A former agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is sharing his theories on the troubling disappearance of Today anchor Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mom, Nancy. “I think this is a personal grievance related to the family,” retired FBI agent Scott Curtis exclusively told Us Weekly on Friday, February 6, of the case. “If this was about Savannah, I think there would have been some kind of direct or indirect message in these ransom notes about Savannah. And we don’t see that at all. Or something Savannah said, right? And we don’t see that either, based on what we’ve been…
United States Senator, Riley Moore has cleared the air on reports alleging that the US is planning to divide Nigeria. In a statement on Saturday, the lawmaker said though he was in Nigeria and engaged in multiple high-level meetings with government officials, the discussion of dividing the country never came up. He stated that in all the discussions, the idea of “dividing the country has not come up in any serious way”. Moore noted that “efforts to embolden separatists hurt Christians in Nigeria, especially in the North and Middle Belt. “A destabilized Nigeria would embolden terrorists and make Christians less…
Bendel Insurance deepened Enyimba’s troubles with a deserved 2-0 victory at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin, compounding a difficult period for the nine-time Nigerian champions, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. The hosts began brightly and should have taken an early lead inside the opening ten minutes. Musa Sudes fired wide in the fifth minute before Udom Emmanuel also missed the target moments later as Insurance pressed with intent. Enyimba survived another scare in the 17th minute when a well-taken free kick was kept out by a resolute defensive wall. The breakthrough came in the 26th minute when Oweilayefa Alex finished…
