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The fourth quarter of 2025 potentially marked the end of the crypto bear market, according to a new report from crypto asset manager Bitwise.In the report shared on Wednesday, Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan said that Q4 was full of mixed signals, with the crypto market performing poorly despite strong underlying fundamentals. He argued that a similar setup had occurred in the first quarter of 2023, which saw the prices of crypto assets like Bitcoin (BTC) rebound from the FTX collapse, climbing from around $16,000 in 2023 to $98,000 by the start of 2025. “At the time, we were starting to…

The four surviving members of One Direction are ringing in 2026 with new music — all within the same week. Simon Cowell famously formed 1D on The X Factor UK in 2010, bringing together Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne to front a boy band. The group, however, fractured in 2015 when Malik left the group to pursue a solo career. The rest of the boys announced an indefinite hiatus the next year. Nearly a decade later, Payne tragically died after suffering a fatal fall in Argentina at the age of 31. Styles, Horan, Malik…

Mohammed Bashir Saleh, one of the defendants standing terrorism trial over the 2011 United Nations House bombing, told the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday how he joined the Ansaru terrorist group led by Khalid Al-Barnawi. Mr Saleh, in a video recording played before the trial judge, Emeka Nwite, said he joined the terrorist organisation in Bauchi, Bauchi State, North-east Nigeria, shortly before the attack on the United Nations (UN) Building in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Abuja UN Building was bombed on 26 August 2011 by the group, leaving over 20 persons dead…

Force Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, has said that the Police Commissioner in Kaduna State never said there was no attack. Hundeyin made this statement on Wednesday while responding to questions in an interview on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television monitored by DAILY POST. He was speaking on Kaduna attack, where over 100 worshippers were whisked away from three churches in Kaduna by bandits. The police earlier reportedly denied the attack but later made a U-turn and confirmed the abduction. “Let’s be very specific about what the Commissioner of Police said. At no point did the Commissioner of…

The Federal Government has declared an end to corruption and impunity in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions, warning that transparency, accountability and ethical leadership will now be strictly enforced across the sector. The Minister of Education, Dr Maruf Alausa, made this known on Wednesday in Abuja while delivering an address at a retreat organised by the Conference of Heads of Polytechnics, Colleges of Education and similar institutions for council chairmen, commissioners of education, rectors, registrars and bursars. Speaking on the theme, “Transforming Polytechnic Education in Nigeria: Innovation, Good Governance and Sustainability for National Development,” Alausa said the government would no longer tolerate…

The Lagos State Branch of the Nigerian Red Cross Society has commenced the training of officers and supervisors ahead of the forthcoming measles-rubella vaccination campaign in the state. The Branch Secretary of the organisation, Olakunle Lasisi, said the exercise was part of the yearly efforts to create awareness about measles and rubella and to encourage parents to present their children for vaccination. Speaking at the training held in Yaba last Friday, Lasisi said the campaign was designed to tackle ignorance and misconceptions about immunisation among some residents. Speaking to PUNCH Metro, he said, “This event has been scheduled because it…

International Day of Education is celebrated every year globally, on January 24 since 2019. The day focuses on the importance of inclusive, quality and lifelong learning for all, to address barriers of poverty, gender inequality, and conflict. Nigerians know well the barrier to education faced by millions of young people living in poverty and conflict and experiencing gender inequality. The Nigerian government’s leadership in bringing down poverty barriers to education is unquestionable. Also unquestionable is the tight fiscal space Nigeria is currently facing. This no doubt explains the measured allocation of 6.15 per cent to the education sector in Nigeria’s…

The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said Nigeria must deliberately target global investors and supply chain relocations to drive job creation, deepen manufacturing, and reduce import dependence. She made the remarks on Wednesday in a short clip posted by GLAZIA on its X handle from a discussion titled “From Scale to Capital: Financing Nigeria’s Role as Africa’s Digital Trade and Infrastructure Anchor,” held at Nigeria House during the ongoing World Economic Forum in Davos. The PUNCH reports that rising geopolitical tensions, particularly between the United States and China, have accelerated supply chain diversification. Firms are…

Maryam Usman has become the first Nigerian athlete confirmed to compete at the inaugural Enhanced Games, the controversial multi-sport event that permits the use of performance-enhancing substances, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. The competition, founded by Australian businessman Aron D’Souza, is scheduled to take place on May 24, 2026 at Resorts World in Las Vegas. The 35-year-old weightlifter, is a three-time Olympian who won a bronze medal at the 2008 Games. She is also a four-time African Champion, Commonwealth Games gold medalist, and has previously won a bronze medal at the 2011 World Weightlifting Championships. Competing in the women’s +75kg class,…

ARK Invest’s latest analysis affirms it still sees Bitcoin reaching close to a $1 million price tag in 2030 on growing adoption.Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest predicts digital assets could grow into a $28 trillion market by 2030, with growth primarily linked to increasing Bitcoin adoption and its potential price appreciation.ARK estimated in its “Big Ideas 2026” report on Wednesday that the crypto market would expand at a 61% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to meet the $28 trillion target by 2030, adding that Bitcoin could account for 70% of that figure. Source: CointelegraphGiven that about 20.5 million Bitcoin (BTC) are…