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The Opta SuperComputer has predicted the top five teams that could win the Champions League this season. On Wednesday night, the league phase of the competition came to an end, with all the clubs that qualified for the last 16 and knockout playoffs confirmed. Arsenal finished top of the log after winning eight of their eight fixtures and Opta has given them a 29.8% chance of lifting the trophy for the first time in their history. Bayern Munich, who finished behind the Gunners, have a 14.9% possibility to win the competition. The next three teams are all from the Premier…

A group, the Northern Ethnic Youth Group Assembly, has called for the prosecution of politician and former African Action Congress presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, over the alleged leaking of video footage from an ongoing court proceeding involving the Department of State Services. The group accused Sowore of contempt of court and breaching national security laws by allegedly circulating a video clip showing his lawyer cross-examining a DSS operative in a cyberbullying case instituted against him by the secret police. In a statement signed by its spokesperson, Alhaji Ibrahim Dan-Musa, the group described the leaked footage as “contempt of court, a…

The Lagos State Police Command on Thursday arraigned activist Comrade Hassan Taiwo, popularly known as Soweto, alongside Dele Frank before the Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court over their alleged roles in a protest against illegal demolitions, forcible evictions and land grabbing at the Lagos State House of Assembly. The defendants were charged with five counts bordering on conspiracy, conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace, threats, unlawful assembly, obstruction of traffic, and singing abusive songs against the police and the Lagos State Government. Prosecutor Anthony Ihiehie told the court that the defendants conspired on January 28, 2026, at Allen…

When the Yoruba, in their enduring ingenuity, coined the saying that, “Ọmọ ọsan ni ń ko ponpo bà ìyá ẹ,” (It is the orange fruit that invites stones upon the orange tree), they were cautioning us about (mis)conduct, inheritance, envy, and consequence. The proverb teaches us that greatness attracts not only admiration but scrutiny, reverence and conflict. It is difficult to imagine a more fitting lens through which to view the recent controversy involving Seun Kuti and Wizkid, a dispute that has less to do with ego and more to do with how societies mismanage legacy. Seun Kuti is said…

After the Atijere community of Ondo State laid claim to Eba Island, two neighbouring towns in the Ogun Waterside Local Government of Ogun State, Ode-Omi and Makun Omi, have laid rival claims to the coastal location reportedly approved by the Federal Government for commercial crude oil exploration, deepening the custodianship dispute in the oil-rich village. Ode Omi and Makun Omi are neighbouring communities in the Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of Ogun State. The dispute emerged in the wake of the Federal Government’s approval of oil drilling in Ogun’s coastal belt, announced by the Ogun State Government as part of…

Terem Moffi is set to join Porto on loan after the Portuguese club reached an agreement with Nice for the Nigerian forward, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. The deal, which includes a non-mandatory option to buy worth around €8m, brings an end to a difficult spell in France for the 26-year-old. Moffi is expected to travel to Porto to complete a medical and finalise the move, with transfer insider Fabrice Hawkins confirming the agreement is in place. Porto fought off competition from several clubs, including Turkish side Besiktas, which had offered Moffi a more lucrative salary. There was also interest from…

The University of Lagos and the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Thursday, which will see the UK institution establish a Transnational Education Unit at UNILAG. The MoU will see the two universities collaborate with Nigeria’s Ministry of Education to develop detailed proposals for the Transnational Education Unit in UNILAG, with a target to begin delivering programmes from 2027. The unit, upon its establishment, will consider the delivery of programmes in areas such as Applied Intelligence, Digital Communications and Media, health sciences, and engineering. The signing by the UNILAG Vice-Chancellor, Prof Folasade Ogunsola, and the…

This week, a new generative AI tool from Google let me create bad knockoffs of 3D Nintendo worlds.Check out my version of something like Super Mario 64:I didn’t like Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, but it’s better than my version of a Metroid Prime experience:Or how about my take on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, complete with a paraglider (and, briefly, a second Link):It was all possible thanks to Project Genie, an experimental research prototype that Google gave me access to this week, though I don’t think I’m using it in exactly the way Google intended.Google DeepMind has…

Digital asset infrastructure provider Talos raised a $45 million extension to its Series B funding round, valuing the company at about $1.5 billion.The extension included new strategic investors such as Robinhood Markets, Sony Innovation Fund, IMC, QCP and Karatage, alongside returning investors a16z crypto, BNY and Fidelity Investments, according to the company.”We extended our Series B round to accommodate interest from strategic partners,” said Talos CEO Anton Katz. Talos said proceeds will be used to expand product development across its trading, portfolio management, execution, treasury and settlement tools and to support tokenized traditional assets on its platform. Talos is a…

Unexpected star Mia Quebedeaux and her infant baby are safe after a fire destroyed her family’s property. “I start going down [the stairs], and I see the bottom of the stairs are on fire,” Mia, 16, shared in an interview for Unfiltered With Kiran published on Monday, January 26. “My dad opens our laundry room door that leads to a second pair of stairs on the side of our house, and flames were already all the way up there. So black smoke just came all in our house.” Mia said she lives with her boyfriend, Jessie, and their infant child…