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Charles Godfred produced a standout sprint performance as the University of Minnesota track and field team dominated the Minnesota Open with 16 event victories on Saturday, which signals a strong start to their 2026 indoor season, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. Godfred, a two-time Nigeria national long jump champion, won the men’s 60m after clocking lifetime-best times of 6.65s in the heats and 6.62s in the final, improving on his previous personal best of 6.70s. The mark places him among the top two sprinters nationally this season behind only Farooque Aman’s 6.58s at the Aspire Dome, Doha and underlined his growing…

Rising memory chip costs driven by AI data centre demand are set to push up Android smartphone prices in 2026, while low- and mid-range brands face the greatest margin pressure, and global shipments are expected to decline, JUSTICE OKAMGBA reports Smartphone prices are expected to rise in 2026 as device manufacturers, especially Android brands, face sharply higher costs for critical components, industry analysts warn. The surge is being driven by a tightening of memory chip supplies, a key ingredient in smartphones, as production shifts to support high-demand AI data centres. According to research from the International Data Corporation, demand for…

Bachelor Nation star Kaity Biggar might be ready to part with her breast implants. “For those who don’t know, the girls, they aren’t real,” Biggar, 31, said in a TikTok video shared on Friday, January 9, revealing that she was en route to a consultation to potentially have her implants removed. “We’re gonna think about getting them taken out, so an explant.” She continued, “We’re gonna see what the process is going to be like getting them taken out and how much that would potentially cost.” Biggar previously underwent a breast augmentation, a process she had started researching when she…

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has replied to people calling for his sack, saying it is within the right of President Bola Tinubu to do so if he so wishes. Mr Wike stated this on Sunday, during a “thank you” visit to his Local Government Area, Obio-Akpor, in Rivers, stressing that since 1999, the people had not disappointed him. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some politicians and other interest groups have been calling on Mr Tinubu to sack Mr Wike over the protracted political crisis in Rivers. According to him, there is no…

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, has said that the case if the former Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, Abubakar Malami, is not personal. Olukoyede made this clarification when he appeared as a guest in an interview on ‘Sunday Politics’, a programme on Channels Television. He said that Malami’s investigation predated him in the office, adding that he inherited the AGF’s investigation file. “I’m yet to understand and see the facts he would bring out to back that claim of he actually said that. “All I did was ensure the investigation was carried out in…

Lebanese forward, Arkan Chafii is targeting a move to Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, side Kwara United. Chafii is currently undergoing trials with the Harmony Boys. The 23-year-old striker said the intensity and competitiveness of the NPFL inspired his decision to pursue a football career in Nigeria. “I’m here to add value and bring my experience to bear if Kwara United avail me the opportunity,” Chafii told Justeventsonline. Kwara United are currently preparing for the league restart. DAILY POST recalls that Brazilian footballer Lucas Alves (Ribeiro Alves Lucas) represented Kwara United during the 2020/21 league season.

Zinedine Zidane’s son, Luca, has come under scrutiny following his involvement in a post-match brawl after Algeria’s 2-0 defeat to Nigeria in the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals on Saturday, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. The 27-year-old Granada goalkeeper was at the centre of unsavoury scenes at full-time, clashing with Nigeria midfielder Fisayo Dele-Bashiru as tensions boiled over following Algeria’s elimination. What began as a heated verbal exchange quickly escalated into a shoving match, drawing in players and staff from both teams and bringing a sour end to the contest. Luca Zidane was seen confronting Dele-Bashiru before Nigeria players intervened to…

A mob on Sunday killed a suspected motorcycle thief opposite the Prime Power filling station in Makurdi, PUNCH Metro reports. It was gathered that the suspect allegedly snatched a motorcycle from an okada rider around Ahmadu Commisi Road in the Demekpe area of the town. The motorcycle rider reportedly mobilised youths in the area, who gave the suspect a hot chase before catching him at the Prime Power fuel station. One of the youths, who identified himself as Tony, said, “After snatching the motorcycle from the owner, the thief sped off, and the youths who witnessed the incident decided to…

Since President Donald Trump started his second coming on January 20, 2025, the world economy has never enjoyed peaceful growth, and it is not likely to know peace for some time to come. The period started “like play, like play” with a puncture on free trade doctrine. The long-held view that the world was better off with free trade was interrupted by the imposition of a series of trade tariffs on many countries by the American government, the champion of free trade itself. That action actually significantly changed the theoretical validity of trade relations in literature. Trump enacted some overarching…

If the Green Bay Packers are the cheese heads, the Chicago Bears are the cheese graters. After the Bears’ epic 31-27 win over the Packers at Soldier Field in the first round of the NFL playoffs on Saturday January, 10, quarterback Caleb Williams, wide receiver DJ Moore and tight end Colston Loveland joined the Amazon Prime postgame crew TV to celebrate — cheese graters and all. The three Bears players rocked special cheese grater headgear — trolling their rival Packers, whose fans are known for being “cheese heads” — while Williams even brought out a real cheese grater and shredded…