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Nafeesat, the actress best known for her role as Maimuna in the popular Hausa television drama Kaddara, has become the centre of an online controversy after sharing views on marriage that divided social media users. The actress drew criticism after a video surfaced in which she questioned the value many women place on marriage, arguing that she does not understand why a woman would spend years building a career and achieving financial independence only to submit to another person’s authority after getting married. According to her, marriage is not something she personally desires because she cannot imagine being under the…

New Tunisia coach Herve Renard said on Friday only hard work and unity will save their World Cup, adding, “I am no wizard.” The 57-year-old Frenchman was parachuted in this week after Sabri Lamouchi was fired following the 5-1 hammering by Sweden on Sunday. Lamouchi is the first coach in World Cup history to be sacked after just one game. The well-travelled Renard has had only three days with his new team and on Saturday they have a tough task against a talented Japan side in Monterrey, Mexico. Renard has been nicknamed a “wizard” or “magician” because of his long…

Nearly three months after armed bandits abducted a hearing-impaired widow and mother of seven during a church service in Kwara State, her family, community members, disability advocates and human rights stakeholders have appealed to the Federal Government and security agencies to intensify efforts to secure her release. The victim, Mosunmola Adekunle, was among eight worshippers kidnapped on March 22, 2026, when gunmen invaded an Evangelical Church Winning All church in Omugo community, Oro-Ago District of Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. Speaking to PUNCH Online in Ilorin on Friday, the Executive Director of Jibore Foundation, Mrs Joy Bolarin, described…

African Democratic Congress chieftain, Dele Momodu, has predicted that the 2027 presidential election will be a tough contest for President Bola Tinubu. Momodu made the remark during an interview on Nevon Media with journalist Oseni Rufai on Friday, expressing optimism that the ADC’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, would emerge victorious. According to him, Atiku could defeat both Tinubu and Nigeria Democratic Congress candidate, Peter Obi, if he secures strong support in the North while remaining competitive in the South. “As I predicted, Atiku will win the majority of the North, and if he is able to compete favourably in the…

The United States powered into the last 32 of the World Cup on Friday with a 2-0 victory over Australia as Brazil prepared to kickstart their campaign against Haiti. A day after Mexico sealed their place in the knockout rounds, the USA emulated their fellow World Cup co-hosts with a clinical Group D win over Australia in Seattle. A Cameron Burgess own goal in the 11th minute and a headed effort from Alex Freeman two minutes before half-time sealed a comfortable win for Mauricio Pochettino’s side, who have advanced to the second phase of the tournament with a game to…

Nothing’s next budget phone is the latest victim of RAMageddon. As 9to5Google reports, Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis announced in a post on X that a follow-up to the CMF Phone 2 Pro won’t be coming this year:We were working on a successor but with memory prices where they are right now, we can’t build a phone that feels like a genuine step forward at a price that makes sense for CMF. As a result, we’ve decided not to launch a new CMF phone this year.Last week, Nothing CEO and co-founder Carl Pei also said the RAM shortage has impacted the…

Financial services giant Charles Schwab will reportedly enter the prediction markets business by offering customers wagers on the S&P 500.According to a Friday Wall Street Journal report, Charles Schwab is planning to launch options contracts allowing users to place yes-or-no wagers on the performance of the S&P 500 stock market index. The move, expected to roll out in a matter of months as part of a partnership with Cboe Global Market, could mark the company’s first into prediction markets.Source: KalshiWhile prediction market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket offer a variety of event contracts based on the outcome of events, including…

Anne Hathaway met husband Adam Shulman and it was love at first sight — but their real-life fairy tale almost didn’t come true. “You know when you don’t know someone very well, you just meet them and you’re like, ‘Wow, you really have it going on?’… We hit it off immediately, but it took us a pretty long time to get together,” Hathaway told Vogue in October 2010, noting that despite the terrible timing, she was convinced she had found The One. The pair first crossed paths through mutual friends while attending the Palm Springs Film Festival in April 2008. While the Ella Enchanted actress told Harper’s Bazaar…

The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, sentenced a 37-year-old man, Zakaria Garba, to death by hanging over his involvement in the 2014 bombing at the major motor park in Nyanya, one of the bustling, highly populated communities on the border between Abuja, the Nigerian capital city, and the neighbouring Nasarawa State. No fewer than 70 people were killed, while several others sustained varying degrees of injuries in the devastating bombing. Trial judge James Omotsoho, in his judgement delivered during the just-concluded Abuja mass trial of suspected terrorists, also imposed a life imprisonment on Mr Garba one of the…

It’s glaring that Tinubu cannot protect citizens, and he shows neither anger nor remorse. He has to allow people to protect themselves. He withdrew policemen from politicians, yet Minister Wike still moves around in a Rolls Royce with a battalion of policemen. Since Tinubu is a pathetic commander-in-chief, he should outsource security to the people. He must allow ordinary Nigerians to protect themselves. It was probably good law to prohibit citizens from keeping rifles all those years. But times have changed radically. Poor Nigerians. These days, ordinary people are one wrong journey away from a brutal death. General Rabe is…