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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has playfully criticised his club for being only the seventh-highest net spenders in the Premier League over the past five years. The comments came as City confirmed another busy January transfer window, having signed Antoine Semenyo and Marc Guehi for a combined fee of around £84 million, following a £180m January spend last year. However, figures from Transfermarkt show that City have generated approximately £550m from player sales during the same five-year period, leaving their net spend lower than six other Premier League clubs. According to BBC Sport on Tuesday, when asked about the work…

The body of Abuja-based singer, Ifunanya Nwangene, who died after a snake bite, has been transported to her father in Enugu State, the Abuja Metropolitan Music Society Choir has said. The choir, in a detailed account released on Monday and signed by its director, Sam Ezugwu, provided a timeline of events leading to Nwangene’s death, amid public debate over the availability of antivenom and allegations of medical negligence. According to the statement, the incident began at 10:13am on Saturday when a member of the choir, Stephanie, sent an urgent message to the Amemuso Choir WhatsApp group asking for assistance around…

The Minister of Education, Dr Maruf Alausa, has commissioned a modern library at the Federal University Gusau, Zamfara State, constructed under the Tertiary Education Trust Fund 2025 Annual Intervention. The construction of the library, which began in 2021, was completed under the administration of the outgoing Vice Chancellor, Professor Muazu Abubakar. The facility has a capacity for 1,100 students and is equipped with internet facilities to enhance teaching and learning. Speaking during the commissioning ceremony on Tuesday, the minister, who was represented by the Vice Chancellor, Professor Muazu Abubakar, said the library was constructed to ease teaching and learning in…

As The Verge’s resident robot vacuum reviewer, I don’t have a lot of time (or space) in my life for stick vacs, and frankly, the ones I have used have largely disappointed me. Top-heavy, bulky, always getting clogged or running out of battery — they’re so… manual. But then I met PencilVac Fluffycones, Dyson’s new $599 cordless stick vacuum, and it was love at first lift.The name PencilVac Fluffycones perfectly describes this delightfully overengineered broom. If more vacuums had such whimsical names, my life would be much fuller. It’s very thin and light, like a pencil, and it has fluffy,…

Pedro Sánchez announced that Spain would implement several changes to laws impacting social media platforms starting next week, with potential criminal liability for executives.Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that the country plans to ban access to social media for children under the age of 16 and require platforms to implement age verification systems in a push to impose safety measures on what he called the “digital Wild West.”Speaking at the World Governments Summit in Dubai on Tuesday, Sánchez said Spain would require “real barriers that work” for platforms in an attempt to restrict minors’ access. According to the world…

Melissa Joan Hart has lost nearly 20 pounds and is feeling “better than I have in a really long time.” The Sabrina the Teenage Witch actress, 49, opened up about experiencing perimenopause in an interview with People published on Monday, February 2, noting that she didn’t think she would be able to lose weight because of it. According to the Mayo Clinic, “perimenopause is the time before menopause when your body is getting ready to stop having periods. Women in perimenopause may begin having irregular periods, skip ovulation, experience hot flashes, trouble sleeping and experience fluctuations in the production of…

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has dismissed reports claiming he held a private meeting with former Zamfara State Governor Abdulaziz Yari at his residence in Abuja. In a statement issued on Tuesday by his media adviser, Paul Ibe, Atiku clarified that he had only had a brief encounter with Mr Yari at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. According to the statement, Atiku, a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), was at the airport on Monday, 2 February, en route to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the lesser hajj. “He was accompanied by associates and family members to…

Lasaco Assurance fell into lossmaking position in 2025 as the significant foreign exchange gains that boosted profit the year before faded out, and insurance service result turned negative for the second year running. The life and general insurance provider recorded no FX gains for the year as the dollar-to-naira exchange rate witnessed substantial stability, unlike in 2024, when a much weaker naira enabled the company to earn as much as N3.2 billion in currency gains. That change in circumstance set the underwriter on the path of a N3.1 billion post-tax loss, compared to an after-tax profit of N1.5 billion a…

Former Kaduna Central senator, Shehu Sani, has reacted to the list of criminals the United States is set to deport to Nigeria. In a post on his verified X handle on Tuesday, Sani said none of the prospective deportees is from Kaduna. DAILY POST reports that the United States, through its Department of Homeland Security, DHS, has announced plans to deport at least 79 convicted Nigerians listed on its “worst-of-the-worst” criminal register. It said that those affected have been convicted of serious crimes and are scheduled for removal under ongoing immigration enforcement efforts. Reacting, the former lawmaker said, “I have…

Dipo Olayoku, the National Secretary of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has dismissed reports of the party’s former presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, holding talks over a possible defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Olayoku insisted that there was never a time that Kwankwaso held talks with the APC over possible defection to the ruling party. In an interview on Trust TV, Olayoku said Kwankwaso last met with President Bola Tinubu in January 2024 in company of Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State. He said: “I can say authoritatively and categorically that Rabiu Kwankwaso has never discussed with APC…