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Former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce didn’t hold back when talking about his team’s early exit from the 2025 NFL Playoffs, blasting an offense that he feels underperformed all season, including on the biggest stage. “I know it wasn’t the best performance this year offensively,” he said on the Monday, January 12 broadcast of ESPN’s Monday Night Countdown. “They had the No. 1, highest-paid offense in the league and were mediocre across the board. That’s unacceptable. They had their chances to win that game yesterday, and the players didn’t make the plays! Alright? That’s all I’m going to leave it…
Former lawmaker who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has said Nigerian youths are merely fascinated by the youthfulness and military uniform of Burkina Faso’s junta leader, Ibrahim Traoré. Sani made the remark in a statement posted on his verified X handle on Tuesday. He wrote, “The ideological confusion among many of our young people is their love for Ibrahim Traoré on one hand and their support for imperialism and neocolonialism on the other. “It looks like they don’t know what Traoré stands for or what he is fighting against. They are just fascinated by his uniform and youthfulness.”…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr. George Agbakahi, has thrown more light on why Igbo will support the re-election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2027. Agbakahi declared that the recent adoption of President Tinubu as the sole candidate of Ndigbo by the South East leaders of APC resonated with not only APC members but also non members in the region. Speaking during Arise Television programme on Tuesday, tagged “Newsday” and monitored by our reporter in Abuja on Monday, Agbakahi said that the region has witnessed tremendous development projects under the current administration more than ever before.…
The Adamawa/Taraba Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has seized 1,868 24-litre and 30-litre Jerry cans and one 220-litre drum of contraband petrol. The command, at a press briefing on Tuesday, said it also seized 10 bales and two sacks of secondhand clothes. The seizures, made mostly along Adamawa Taraba international border lines, were effected within the last one month. The items are estimated to have duty paid value of N58,117,550, according to the controller of the command, Comptroller Mohammed Tako. Addressing newsmen at the area command headquarters in Yola, the controller said the seizures are efforts of his…
Wasiu Alalade is poised to make a return to the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL. The midfielder is reportedly close to joining five-time NPFL champions Shooting Stars. Alalade is currently on the books of Angolan side, GD Interclube. He featured for the Oluyole Warriors during the 2021/22 season. Alalade won the 2025 President Federation Cup with Kwara United. The 26-year-old midfielder had also played for Gombe United, Lobi Stars and Enyimba. He netted 26 goals in 128 appearances in the NPFL.
Manchester United have announced the appointment of Michael Carrick as head coach of the men’s first team until the end of the 2025/26 season. This is detailed in a statement released by the club’s Communications Department on Tuesday, January 13, 2026. The club said: “Manchester United is delighted to announce the appointment of Michael Carrick as head coach of the men’s first team until the end of the 2025/26 season.” Carrick, a former midfielder, made 464 appearances for the club and enjoyed an extensive trophy haul. According to the statement, he won, “five Premier League titles, the FA Cup, two…
The Police Command in Gombe State says its operatives have foiled an attempted armed bandits’ attack on the Guda Lamido Village, Kashere, in Akko Local Government Area of the state. The Command’s spokesperson, DSP Buhari Abdullahi, disclosed this in a statement in Gombe on Tuesday. Abdullahi explained that the police received a distress call of the attempted attack on the community in the early hours of Tuesday at about 4 am. He said that on receiving the call, a joint patrol team comprising personnel from the command, local vigilante groups, and hunters swiftly mobilised and responded to the distress. ”The…
The New Nigeria People’s Party has denied reports that its national leader, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, endorsed the rumoured defection of Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, to the All Progressives Congress, describing the claim as false and misleading. The party was reacting to a report by Premium Times which suggested that Kwankwaso had advised his supporters to cooperate with a political movement linked to the APC amid speculations that Governor Yusuf may be preparing to defect from the NNPP. In a statement issued late Tuesday in Abuja, the NNPP National Publicity Secretary, Ladipo Johnson, described the report as “a wicked lie”…
Nikolas Nartey nabbed a late winner and Deniz Undav continued his hot form as Stuttgart beat Eintracht Frankfurt 3-2 at home on Tuesday to climb to third in the Bundesliga. A dipping header from Rasmus Kristensen gave Frankfurt an early lead but Ermedin Demirovic pounced on a goalkeeping error and Undav’s deflected effort helped Stuttgart wrestle back control of the match before half-time. Bundesliga debutant Ayoube Amaimouni-Echghouyab brought Frankfurt level but Nartey’s 87th-minute strike, his first Bundesliga goal, put the hosts back in front. The victory took the German Cup holders to third, a point behind second-placed Borussia Dortmund,…
You might find it kind of sad to put your hard-earned Switch 2 into a protective case. To me, it’s freeing. Sure, it can take away from the slick design. But using a case relieves me of the worry that the console will accumulate tons of little scratches, or worse. I’ve tested several types of cases on the Nintendo Switch 2 since it launched in June, including flimsy shells that snap or slide onto the Switch 2 to provide a simple, aesthetically pleasing barrier from scratches to the console and its Joy-Cons. I’ve also tested carrying cases that protect the…
