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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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The Nigerian Bar Association, through its Anti-Corruption Committee (NBAA-CC), on Wednesday, signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoU)with the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and the Anti-Corruption Academy of Nigeria (ACAN) to formalise collaboration on anti-corruption initiatives. The signing took place on Wednesday at the ICPC headquarters in Abuja. Chairperson of the NBA Anti-Corruption Committee, Babafemi Badejo, a professor, said in a statement that the first MoU signed with the ICPC established a framework for joint action to “promote professional integrity, enhance capacity building, raise public awareness, and advocate policy reforms.” “It is a pact to align…
The Borno State Government has commenced the return of refugees from Gwoza Local Government Area who fled to neighbouring Cameroon, with the first batch arriving in the state after more than a decade in displacement. The development was disclosed in a statement by the governor’s spokesperson, Dauda Iliya. The returnees, numbering about 300, were received in Pulka as part of the state’s ongoing efforts to resettle residents displaced by insurgency. According to the statement, the exercise follows earlier assurances by Governor Babagana Umara Zulum during his visit to a Cameroonian refugee camp on December 8, 2025, where he pledged to…
Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has said Governor Sim Fubara is weak if the Minister is controlling the state House of Assembly. Olayinka said Fubara is showing weakness if he allows Wike to control the political structure in the state. He spoke while featuring on Channels Television’s Morning Brief. According to Olayinka: “There are things that I will not come to this station to say. I know this political game very well, I have been around for a very long time. “I…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Zamfara State has arrested a suspected child trafficker and 16 others over alleged illegal fuel dealings in the state. The spokesperson of the command, Umar Mohammad, disclosed this while parading the suspects at the NSCDC headquarters in Gusau. Mohammad said a 31-year-old suspect, Jerry Peter, from Kebbi State, was arrested on January 24, 2026, in the Lalan area of Gusau while allegedly attempting to traffic five underage children. He explained that the suspect was intercepted while travelling with the minors at night, adding that preliminary investigations indicated he intended to transport…
Victor Osimhen will be looking to set another record when Galatasaray face Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday (today). Osimhen has scored 12 goals in European competitions for the Turkish Super Lig champions. The Nigeria international shared the record with Milan Baros, and Shabani Nonda. The Nigeria international will emerge as Galatasaray’s most prolific scorer in Europe should he hit target against Pep Guardiola’s side. Osimhen has already registered six goals in five outings for Okan Buruk’s side in the Champions League this season. Manchester City will the host the Yellow and Reds at RAMS Park.
A yet-to-be-identified male roadside trader was injured on Wednesday after a railing attached to a bridge under construction collapsed on him in the Ojuore area of Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State. PUNCH Metro learnt from a statement issued by the spokesperson of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, Babatunde Akinbiyi, that the incident occurred at about 4pm. Akinbiyi said the trader was trapped beneath the fallen railing before being rescued by sympathisers, TRACE officials, and site engineers. He said, “A serious accident occurred today at the Ojuore road construction site when a section of the railing…
