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Galatasaray striker, Victor Osimhen, has picked his all-time Super Eagles five-a-side team. In a quick-fire chat with Bleacher Report Football, Osimhen revealed his favourite players in each position. The 27-year-old selected mostly former internationals and only one of his current team-mate. Osimhen picked Vincent Enyeama as goalkeeper, when asked for his ideal Nigerian line-up. Calvin Bassey, who he has played alongside even at the just-concluded AFCON, as his only defensive pick. In midfield, Osimhen went with the duo of Jay-Jay Okocha and Mikel Obi, while his attacking options were Nwankwo Kanu and Odion Ighalo.

Nigerians living in Norwich, United Kingdom, have launched a fundraising campaign to repatriate the remains of Uchenna Okirie, fondly known as “Common Man,” who was stabbed to death in his student apartment in November 2025. Okirie, a Nigerian national, was allegedly murdered under circumstances that shocked both the local and wider Nigerian community. A 27-year-old Congolese national, Benjamin Katabana, has been charged in connection with the killing. To support the repatriation and burial, the Nigerian Community Norwich created a GoFundMe appeal titled: “Rest in Peace, Uche: Help Us Return Him to His Family.” As of Wednesday, the fundraiser had gathered…

Operatives of the Commissioner of Police Special Assignment Team of the Delta State Police Command have dismantled a suspected cult killing network linked to recent violent clashes in Ughelli town, arresting 11 suspects and recovering weapons and other incriminating items. PUNCH Metro gathered that the operation followed renewed cult-related violence and killings in Ughelli and other parts of the state, prompting CP Aina Adesola, the state Commissioner of Police, to order an intensified, intelligence-driven manhunt for cultists and other violent criminals. Acting on the directive, CP-SAT operatives, led by ASP Julius Robinson, arrested two suspects—Warri Ochuko (40) of Orogun Community…

When the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, speaks about affordable housing for police officers, he is not advancing a welfare argument. He is identifying a structural vulnerability in Nigeria’s internal security architecture. Across modern security systems, police welfare is not treated as a social benefit but as an operational necessity. In Nigeria, however, the persistent neglect of police housing has produced consequences that extend far beyond discomfort. It has weakened morale, increased vulnerability to corruption, exposed officers’ families to insecurity, and created systemic risks within the policing ecosystem itself. The recent engagement between the Nigeria Police Force and the Federal…

Former Kano State governor and national leader of the New Nigeria People’s Party, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, has said Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, will not win the 2027 governorship election following his defection to the All Progressives Congress. But the APC, in a swift reaction, dismissed Kwankwaso’s prediction as mere rhetoric, saying Yusuf will win. L-R: Kwankwaso and Abba Kabir Yusuf. File Photo Kwankwaso made the remark during an interview with BBC Hausa, where he described Yusuf’s move as a betrayal of the Kwankwasiyya movement and warned that joining the APC-led political bloc known as “Gandujiyya” would only weaken the…

Sahara Group has reinforced its push for sustainable development and human capital growth in Africa with the award of a total of $36,000 under its Making A Difference Grant initiative to three academics of the University of Lagos. The beneficiaries, Prof. Sunday Adebisi, Dr Victor Odumuyiwa and Prof. Abdul-Hameed Sulaimon, were selected in the second edition of the grant, which focuses on addressing youth unemployment, digital inclusion and institutional governance. According to a statement by Sahara Group’s Head of Corporate Communications, Bethel Obioma, each awardee received $12,000 to scale projects that Sahara Group said have demonstrated measurable impact and strong…

Chairman of the Nigeria Premier Football League, Gbenga Elegbeleye, has defended the standard of officiating in the Nigerian top flight, insisting it is improving due to stricter measures against erring referees and the return of the league to television, The PUNCH reports. Officiating issues in the NPFL have been thrust into the spotlight in recent weeks, with the Nigeria Football Federation also expressing strong dissatisfaction with refereeing performances across all tiers of Nigerian club football. While the NFF Refereeing Development Committee has, in recent times, indefinitely suspended eight referees from the NPFL, Nigeria Women Football League and Nigeria National League,…

Tesla will discontinue the Model S and Model X in the second quarter of 2026, Elon Musk said in an earnings call with investors today. No advance word was given about the cancellations, making it an abrupt ending for Tesla’s two original flagship EVs.Musk said the reasons for cancelling the vehicle programs was to make room at Tesla’s Fremont factory for production of its Optimus humanoid robot. It was the starkest example yet of Musk’s quest to transform Tesla from an automaker into an AI and robotics leader.“It’s time to basically bring the Model S and X programs to an…

Sony Group Corp. made a follow-on investment in Startale Group, deepening its involvement in the Soneium blockchain about a year after the network’s mainnet launch.In a Thursday announcement sent to Cointelegraph, Startale disclosed an additional investment of $13 million from the Sony Innovation Fund. The funding round came after Soneium moved from testnet experimentation into live operation, allowing Sony to observe how the network performed under real-world conditions. Data from Soneium’s public block explorer shows the network has processed about 524 million transactions since its mainnet launch in January 2025. Over the same period, Nansen data shows Avalanche and Algorand recorded…

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