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The Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, has directed Shooting Stars to choose a new ground for the home matches. The NPFL gave the Oluyole Warriors options to relocate to either the Mobolaji Johnson Arena, Onikan, Lagos or the MKO Abiola Sports Arena, Abeokuta. The directive followed concerns over the deteriorating condition of the pitch at the Lekan Salami Stadium, in Ibadan, which they described as not suitable for television broadcast. The decision was communicated to the Ibadan-based club in a letter signed by the NPFL Chief Operating Officer, Davidson Owumi on Friday. The NPFL emphasized that the move became necessary…

The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has described the entertainment industry as a major driver of creativity, employment, and economic growth, noting its expanding influence both locally and globally. Speaking during a meeting with leaders of the Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria on Thursday, the minister praised the sector’s “vibrancy and economic relevance.” TAMPAN, led by its President, Bolaji Amusan, popularly known as Mr Latin, had honoured Tunji-Ojo as the association’s Man of the Year during its last summit in December 2025. The minister, in a post on his X handle on Friday, said his engagement…

A neighbour was rushed to the hospital some months back. When we visited him, his son told us how they took him to three hospitals (including a teaching hospital) and were told “no space” before they were eventually directed to the private clinic where he was admitted. According to the son, when they got to the teaching hospital and were told “no space”, he pleaded with the nurses at the emergency unit to create a bed space for his father, whose condition was deteriorating. The nurse’s response was, “No space, but you people can wait until someone dies to free…

Anthony Joshua has posted a video thanking fans for their support following the deaths of his two close friends in a car crash while acknowledging that death does not frighten him, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. The former world heavyweight champion, 36, sustained minor injuries in the incident in Nigeria on December 29, which killed Sina Ghami and Latif ‘Latz’ Ayodele. Joshua, along with Ghami and Ayodele, was a passenger in the vehicle when it collided with a stationary truck on a major road near Lagos. Ghami and Ayodele were both pronounced dead at the scene, while Joshua was pictured being…

Actor and filmmaker, Ibrahim Yekini, popularly known as Itele d’Icon, has said the strong emotional connection viewers formed with his hit YouTube series, ‘Koleoso’, came as a surprise to him. The Yoruba supernatural series, released on YouTube, ranked as Nigeria’s highest-searched local series on Google in 2025. The production, which stars Kemity, Ogboluke, Yetunde Barnabas, and Fatai Odua, among others, has amassed millions of views on the platform. Speaking with Saturday Beats, the role interpreter said the depth of audience engagement exceeded his expectations. “What surprised me the most was the emotional connection. People didn’t just watch ‘Koleoso’; they owned…

The stock prices of some major video game companies, including Take-Two Interactive, Roblox, and Unity, had notable declines on Friday, just a day after Google announced its Project Genie tool that lets users prompt AI to generate interactive experiences, Reuters reports. Take-Two’s stock price closed at $220.30 (down 7.93 percent from yesterday), Roblox’s closed at $65.76 (down 13.17 percent), and Unity’s closed at $29.10 (down 24.22 percent).Other AI tools have received significant pushback from artists and creators over allegations of theft of their work to train the underlying AI models, AI’s water and electricity usage, and what this means for…

The European Commission said it will send formal notices to 12 countries for failing to fully implement the EU’s tax reporting rules for digital assets.In its January infringements package released on Friday, the commission, which serves as the European Union body responsible for proposing legislation and ensuring member states follow certain laws and regulations, said Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal would face letters of formal notice “to fully implement the new tax transparency and information exchange rules on crypto-assets.” Citing EU directives, the commission said it would give the member states…

Only a handful of movies have reached 90 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and even Taxi Driver has fallen short of that mark. Taxi Driver is one of the new films on HBO Max this month, but it’s not one of the few that hit that fabled score on RT. Truthfully, HBO Max only has three this month because two of them are critically acclaimed A24 films, both of which feature Oscar Isaac. You can find those films among Watch With Us‘ roundup of three new HBO Max movies with at least 90 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. ‘A Most Violent Year’…

A Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Friday, nullified the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national convention held in the city between15 and 16 November, 2025. The judge, Uche Agomoh, also held that the Caretaker Committee led by Mohammed Abdulrahman and Samuel Anyanwu remained the only recognised National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP, pending the conduct of a valid national convention. It would be recalled that the Kabiru Turaki faction of the PDP had filed the suit No. FHC/IB/CS/121/2025, seeking recognition of the convention held in Ibadan in November ladt year and validation of the NWC that…

President Bola Tinubu  and President Recep Erdogan of the Republic of Türkiye Nigeria is Türkiye’s largest trading partner in sub-Saharan Africa, with over 50 Turkish companies operating in the country and with investments totalling over $400 million. Nigeria’s exports to Türkiye were $504.67 million during 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade… The visit is not a jaunt or a leisure run, but a historically, economically, diplomatically, and security-wise consequential visit. On Monday, President Bola Tinubu arrived in Ankara, the state capital of Türkiye, to commence a historic state visit. On Tuesday, before a grand reception…