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Nigerian record holder Temitope Adeshina capped an undefeated season by claiming her first NCAA outdoor title on Sunday at the NCAA Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. Adeshina secured her third NCAA crown after clearing 1.96m on her first attempt. She had previously won the indoor high jump titles in 2025 and 2026. The Nigerian became the second Texas Tech athlete to win at least three national titles, joining Sally Kipyego. She is also the first Red Raider to win the women’s high jump at the outdoor championships since Zarriea Willis triumphed in Austin in 2019.…

Singer-songwriter Oliver Tree has reportedly died. He was 32. Two helicopters crashed into one another in southwest Rio de Janeiro on the morning of Sunday, June 14, according to a same-day report from CNN Brazil. According to the outlet, Tree was one of six fatalities from the reported crash. Further details about the reported collision have not been revealed. Us Weekly has reached out to a representative for Tree for comment. Tree, known for songs “Life Goes On” and “Miss You” and amassing more than 2 million social media followers, recently traveled to Brazil for his world tour. He recently…

The Federal Government spent N57.78bn on security-related projects and operations in the first four months of 2026, despite worsening insecurity across the country, with no fewer than 98 criminal incidents including 51 attacks and abductions recorded nationwide in just one week. Data obtained from the Open Treasury Portal showed that the spending, which covered defence equipment procurement, security infrastructure, military barracks, police facilities and other security-related projects, represented a 127.97 per cent increase from the N25.35bn spent during the corresponding period of 2025. The expenditure comes amid persistent attacks by terrorists, bandits, kidnappers and armed criminals across several states, raising…

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a Brazil-based businessman, Abugu Ikechukwu, for allegedly importing shirts and towels laced with 6.10 kilograms of liquid cocaine into Nigeria from Brazil. The agency disclosed that the 41-year-old suspect was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, upon his arrival from São Paulo, Brazil, via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight on June 11. According to a statement released on Sunday by the NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, a thorough search of the suspect’s luggage led to the discovery of 14 towels and…

Nigeria’s macroeconomic landscape is shifting as the Central Bank aggressively tightens liquidity, reshaping local fixed-income and currency markets. While high-yield OMO auctions anchor the financial system, broader indicators reveal deep sectoral contrasts, marked by expanding industrial foreign exchange capacity alongside mounting pressures in agriculture and regional funding, writes JIDE AJIA Fixed-income analysts are strongly advising institutional investors and fund managers to realign their portfolios towards short-dated sovereign instruments, following an aggressive liquidity mop-up by the CBN that has pushed Open Market Operations yields to highly competitive levels. The calls for tactical reallocation come on the heels of the latest primary…

In Fowowawo, Ajerogun and Magbon-Etido communities, the gunfire had stopped, but fear remained. Hours after a failed kidnap attempt at a dredging site reportedly left six people dead, a visit to the communities revealed not only the scars of violence but also the challenges of poor roads, weak security access and years of neglect, write Idowu Johnson and Iyanuoluwa Abiola The journey to Fowowawo, Ajerogun and Magbon-Etido communities in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State offered an early glimpse into the challenges residents face. At about 8:55 a.m., a colleague and I boarded a commercial motorcycle from Ofada, the…

Bridget Moynahan gave her ex Tom Brady a subtle shoutout after the pair reunited to celebrate their son John “Jack” Edward Thomas Moynahan’s high school graduation. “So proud of our boy Jack,” Moynahan, 55, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, June 14, alongside a slew of photos from her son’s high school graduation. “We are all excited to see what you do next!” Moynahan tagged her ex Brad, 48, in the post, giving another subtle nod with the hashtags #wedidit and #proudparents. One of the photos shared in honor of her son’s academic achievement featured the exes standing on either side…

The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has defended the Federal Government’s investment in road infrastructure, describing President Bola Tinubu’s four legacy highway projects as strategic economic corridors designed to transform agriculture, trade and industrial development across the country. Umahi also disclosed that the government is constructing what he described as the “longest flyover in Africa” near the Dangote Refinery axis of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway to address anticipated traffic congestion arising from industrial activities around the Lekki Deep Sea Port and the refinery. The minister spoke on Saturday during the Renewed Hope Media Tour at the site of the ongoing…

Suspected Boko Haram terrorists have set ablaze a block containing five classrooms and a staff office at Government Day Secondary School, Kautikari Village, in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State.PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident occurred around 6:45 p.m. on Saturday.Confirming the incident exclusively to PUNCH Metro on Sunday, the Education Secretary of Chibok Local Government Area, Malah Kyari, said the affected section of the school was the junior secondary school.“I can confirm that the insurgents attacked the Kautikari community yesterday, killed one person, and set ablaze one block containing five classrooms and an office at Kautikari JSS,” he…

Lagos, Africa’s commercial capital and one of the world’s fastest-growing megacities, is facing a familiar but worsening crisis: waste management failure. Across the state, mountains of refuse are reappearing, collection timelines are becoming increasingly unreliable, illegal dumpsites are multiplying, and residents are slowly adapting to unacceptable realities. This is no longer a temporary inconvenience. It is becoming a structural threat to public health, urban sustainability, and social stability. Many solutions are currently being proposed: rehabilitation of dumpsites, waste-to-energy projects, recycling initiatives, new technologies, and fresh private-sector participation. These proposals sound attractive on paper and may indeed have long-term value. However,…