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Super Eagles winger Nathan Tella is a doubt for Bayer Leverkusen’s final Bundesliga fixture against Hamburg on Saturday after picking up a muscle injury, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. It has been a difficult season for the 26-year-old, who has battled a string of knee, foot and muscular problems that forced him to miss 17 matches. However, Tella appeared to have turned a corner after returning to fitness in late March, contributing two assists and a goal in his last two outings against RB Leipzig and FC Köln before his latest setback. His absence was felt sharply in Leverkusen’s 3-1 defeat…
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 128, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, sorry this one’s so Mac-heavy, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)This week, I’ve been reading about David Attenborough and screenwriters-turned-AI-trainers and the Subway Takes guy, listening to a lot of Productivity FM’s mixes while I work, finally writing my vibe-coding opus, testing the Poppy AI assistant (and giving it more of my data than I frankly should have), tracking my pathetic step counts with the new Fitbit Air, buying more…
Duck Dynasty star Alan “Al” Robertson is looking back on how he and wife Lisa Robertson overcame their marriage woes following her affair. “When unfaithfulness happens in a marriage, so many times, that’s the end of it, but it doesn’t have to be,” Al, 61, said in an interview with Fox News Digital published on Friday, May 15. “Everything can be worked through.” Al, who is the eldest son of Phil and Kay Robertson, shared that he was “willing to fight” for his and Lisa’s marriage because he “made a lot of mistakes” of his own. “When I first met…
The family of former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Friday accused the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) of denying him access to food and medical care in detention. The allegation was contained in a statement issued by his son, Mohammed El-Rufai, who described the development as “an outright assault on the rule of law” and a violation of the former governor’s constitutional rights. Mohammed is a member of the House of Representatives. According to the lawmaker, two incidents occurred on Thursday at the ICPC headquarters involving El-Rufai’s doctor and wife. He said the former governor’s…
Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, has cautioned intending pilgrims from the state against engaging in any form of misconduct during their stay in the Holy Land, urging them to serve as good ambassadors of Kano State and Nigeria. The governor gave the warning while addressing the first batch of 560 intending pilgrims scheduled for airlift to Saudi Arabia for the 2026 Hajj exercise. In a statement issued on Saturday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mustapha Muhammad, Yusuf urged the pilgrims to fear God and maintain exemplary conduct throughout the pilgrimage. He expressed confidence that the pilgrims would uphold good behaviour,…
The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has confirmed that former Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Okey Chinda, is indeed a member of the party amid growing speculation over his alleged defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and his participation in the party’s governorship screening process. The Publicity Secretary of the APC in Rivers State, Chibuike Ikenga, disclosed this while responding to questions surrounding Chinda’s entry into the Rivers governorship race under the APC platform. Chinda’s emergence as an aspirant of the APC had sparked widespread reactions, especially as he was until recently a…
The Zamfara State Police Command has recorded a breakthrough in a case involving alleged human trafficking, baby factory activities, and the theft of a 10-day-old infant from the General Hospital, Kaura Namoda. The Command’s spokesperson, DSP Yazid Abubakar, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday, noting that the incident was reported at the Kaura Namoda Division three days before the recovery of the child. According to the statement, hospital staff who were on duty at the time of the incident were invited and questioned to help ongoing investigations. Subsequently, on May 15, 2026, at about 08:35hrs, the stolen infant was…
Toyosi Etim Effiong, wife of Nigerian actor and filmmaker Daniel Etim Effiong, has revealed that her marriage to the movie star influenced her decision to become a talent manager. In her recent podcast outing, Mrs Etim Effiong explained that after she got married, she noticed that her husband’s career and Nollywood in general lack structures and legal frameworks. She said banking on her experience as a show organiser in New York, she decided to introduce some of the structures in the American showbiz into Nollywood, starting with her husband as her first client. She said after some months of managing her…
The Premier League match-day 37 kicked off on Friday night as Aston Villa United defeated Liverpool 4-2 at home. The outstanding fixture for match-day 37 is the clash between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, taking place on Tuesday. The match between Chelsea and Spurs is not taking place this weekend because of the Blues’ FA Cup final with Manchester City on Saturday night at Wembley Stadium. Here are other fixtures that fans and pundits are likely to see shock results in match-day 37 games. 1. Bournemouth vs Man City This match will take place on Tuesday night at Vitality Stadium at 7.30 pm. Both teams won their last matches against…
The Imo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has said it has deployed over 1,000 electoral officials across the state’s 305 wards as it conducts its primary elections to produce candidates for the upcoming polls. The party also confirmed the arrival of its monitoring and appeal committees in the state to oversee the process and handle complaints arising from the exercise. Spokesperson of the Imo APC, Dr Jones Onwuasoanya, said on Saturday that the primaries were already underway across ward collation centres in the state. “The primary election for the election of ten standard bearers of our great Party…
