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Shares of stablecoin issuer Circle surged Monday after the company reported mostly upbeat earnings and disclosed that a major crypto venture capital fund had purchased $222 million worth of its blockchain tokens.Circle’s shares rose almost 16% to close at $131.76, its highest level since March 18, according to Yahoo Finance. CRCL stock gave back some of its gains in initial after-hours activity.The gain extends Circle’s strong run in 2026. Shares are now up 66% year to date, giving the company a market capitalization of roughly $35 billion.Circle (CRCL) stock. Source: Yahoo FinanceMonday’s surge pushed Circle shares closer to Wall Street’s…

The first look at the Summer House season 10 reunion is here — and, as expected, West Wilson is the cast’s biggest target. “The thing that I’m most focused on is West’s ease of lying,” Kyle Cooke told costars Ciara Miller, Carl Radke, Mia Calabrese and Ben Waddell in a clip from the reunion which debuted at the NBC upfronts on Monday, May 11. The clip, which has since been shared via social media, also showed Ciara, 30, claiming that West “had a girlfriend this entire time.” Kyle, 43, seemingly corroborated her claim. “We know that he had a full-blown,…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday screened 24 aspirants seeking to contest for seats in the Enugu State House of Assembly ahead of the 2027 general elections. The Chairman of the APC House of Assembly Screening Committee, Lucky Porki, disclosed this during a press briefing in Enugu on Monday. Mr Porki said the committee was constituted by the national leadership of the party to screen all aspirants contesting on the APC platform for the 24 state constituency seats in Enugu State. “We are here on the directive and authority of the national leadership of our great party to screen…

The National Youth Council of Nigeria has urged the Arewa Youth Assembly to channel its energy toward issues such as unemployment, education, insecurity, among others affecting the welfare of youths, rather than politics. The council stated this on Monday during a press conference held in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. Recall that the Arewa Youth Assembly had on Sunday called for the impeachment of the Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, and his Enugu State counterpart, Peter Mbah, over their alleged involvement in the crisis rocking the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF). According to the group, the actions of the two governors…

Former Kano State governor and chieftain of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has said the party decided to zone its presidential ticket to the South in the interest of fairness, equity, and political stability. Kwankwaso made the remarks on Monday while speaking during an interview on Arise Television’s Prime Time programme. He said he was pleased to have joined the NDC, describing members of the party as “like minds” committed to addressing Nigeria’s political challenges. According to him, the party leadership, including former Bayelsa State governor, Seriake Dickson, and former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, collectively agreed…

Troops of the Nigerian Army’s 12 Brigade, operating under ”Operation Tiger Paw II”, neutralised a suspected terrorist and recovered a significant cache of arms and equipment in a coordinated ambush in the Adankolo Forest Reserve, Lokoja Local Government Area. This is contained in a statement by the Brigade’s spokesperson Lt. Hassan Abdullahi, on Monday in Lokoja. The operation, the army said,  is part of sustained efforts to secure major routes in Kogi State, following similar operations against criminal elements near Obajana and the Agbaja forest. ”Acting on credible intelligence on the movement of suspected terrorists, soldiers from the 12 Brigade…

Benfica manager, Jose Mourinho, has given two conditions if he is to make a return to Real Madrid this summer. Mourinho is being linked with a sensational return to the LaLiga giants, who have gone two seasons without silverware. However, the 63-year-old wants a high level of influence over the club’s recruitment strategy and transfer activity. Mourinho wants to take decisions on the positions that need strengthening rather than just individual names. His current view is that the squad is unbalanced in several key areas. The second condition sees Mourinho insisting that the hierarchy and autonomy of the coaching staff…

Paris Saint-Germain forward Ousmane Dembele was on Monday named the Ligue 1 player of the year for the second year running, after leading the club to the brink of a 14th French title and the Champions League final. The 28-year-old becomes just the fifth player to win back-to-back awards, the last being Zlatan Ibrahimovic in 2014. Dembele last year succeeded Kylian Mbappe who won the prize five times in a row before departing for Real Madrid. “It’s an individual trophy but all the individual trophies I’ve won are thanks to this team,” Dembele said. The forward retained the honour despite…

A fire outbreak allegedly caused by minors playing with a cooking gas cylinder on Monday gutted parts of a residential building in Omu-Aran, Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. The PUNCH gathered that the incident occurred at about 12:57 p.m. at Olayinka House along Ibrahim Taiwo Road, Omu-Aran, destroying two flats before firefighters brought the situation under control. In a statement issued by the agency’s Public Relations Officer, Hassan Adekunle, the fire affected a storey building comprising four three-bedroom flats. Hassan said, “The incident involved a storey building consisting of four flats of three-bedroom apartments each. The fire affected…

A former Kano State Governor and leader of the Kwankwasiyya Movement, Rabiu Kwankwaso, says northern political leaders conducted a deliberate assessment of potential allies before settling on Peter Obi as the most capable partner to prosecute the 2027 presidential campaign. He dismissed concerns about a hidden power struggle between his camp and Obi’s. Kwankwaso made the disclosure in an interview on Arise TV on Monday, offering one of his most detailed accounts yet of how the North-Southeast political alliance within the NDC was formed. “I looked around together with our leadership in the north to say, okay, who do we…