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Rivers United will host CAF Champions League holders Pyramids FC on Sunday, with pride their sole remaining motivation after a difficult continental campaign left them rooted to the bottom of Group A, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. The Nigeria Premier Football League table toppers have endured a bruising return to Africa’s elite club competition and arrive at the fixture having already been eliminated from the group stage. A 1-0 home defeat to Zambia’s Power Dynamos last weekend left Rivers United with just one point from four matches, confirming their exit with two games still to play. Despite their situation, head coach…

Drake Maye’s wife, Ann Michael Maye, is ready to watch his New England Patriots take on the Seattle Seahawks on the Super Bowl LX stage. “Super Bowl weekend off to a good start!” Ann Michael, 22, wrote via Instagram on Friday, February 6, sharing a pic of her all-denim outfit as she sipped on a matcha beverage in San Francisco, California. In other images, Ann Michael hung out with fellow Patriots partner Ashlynn Nussmeier for dinner out on the town. “Love yaaaa!! 💓,” Nussmeier, who is dating Drake’s teammate Will Campbell, wrote in the comments section. Ann Michael later met…

In the borderlands of Katsina State, where the Zamfara forests meet the sands of the Republic of Niger, security is not delivered by the government. It is negotiated – quietly, unevenly, and often at gunpoint. Across local government areas battered by years of banditry – cattle rustling, mass kidnappings, and village massacres – the Nigerian state has gradually neglected its most basic obligation. In its place, communities have entered into fragile bargains with the very armed groups that terrorise them. This reality was laid bare on a dusty Monday evening in the Malamawa district of Jibia. Residents poured into the…

Vice President Kashim Shettima has arrived in Kwara State to conduct an assessment of the tragic attack that claimed over 100 lives in Woro, Kaiama Local Government Area. According to a statement by Stanley Nkwocha, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Communications, Office of the Vice President, VP Shettima is conveying President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s “strong assurances that the Federal Government will not relent until those responsible for the attack are tracked, apprehended, and brought to justice.” The Vice President’s visit is part of the federal government’s ongoing efforts to provide support to victims and coordinate security…

Leaders of the Action Democratic Party have said their meeting with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar was aimed at exploring areas of collaboration to strengthen democracy. The ADP National Chairman, Yabagi Sani, along with another party leader who requested anonymity because he was not authorised to speak publicly on the issue, disclosed that the meeting could be linked to preparations ahead of the 2027 elections. Atiku held a private meeting with the ADP leaders in Abuja on February 1. Following the meeting, there has been growing speculation that Atiku may be positioning the ADP as an alternative platform in case…

Kun Khalifat will return to action in the Nigeria Premier Football League on Sunday (today) when they face Shooting Stars after a brief and dramatic withdrawal from the competition earlier this week, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. The newly promoted side had announced their exit from the league less than 24 hours after failing to honour their matchday 24 fixture against El Kanemi Warriors, a decision that prompted sanctions from the league board. Kun Khalifat described the punishment as unfair and disproportionate, claiming they had informed the Nigeria Premier Football League on several occasions of their inability to play the fixture…

Team USA figure skater Ilia Malinin flipped the script during his 2026 Winter Olympics debut. Malinin, 21, represented the United States in the men’s singles portion of the figure skating team event on Saturday, February 7, where he nailed many of his signature quad jumps before nailing a gravity-defying on-the-ice backflip. “I don’t watch ice skating but I’ve never seen someone hit a backflip on skates,” one X user wrote. “Ilia Malinin is crazy.” Another fan tweeted, “The CHEEEEEEER for ilia malinin’s backflip, imagine how loud it’s about to be when he lands a quad axel. whole buildings [about] to…

The Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has dismissed online claims suggesting that a specific region of the country has been disqualified from obtaining passports. According to a statement issued on Saturday, the agency described the reports as “entirely false and a gross misrepresentation” of ongoing efforts to modernize passport services. NIS explained that it has introduced a phased onboarding system to migrate passport offices, including those in foreign missions, to a centralized production framework. The initiative, which began in 2024, aims to improve efficiency and service delivery, not to exclude any citizens. The agency confirmed that passport offices in the North…

The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has defended the Senate’s ongoing amendment of the Electoral Act, saying critics are misjudging lawmakers based on an incomplete legislative process. Akpabio insisted that the Senate did not remove electronic transmission of election results in the amendment of the Act. According to a statement shared with Sunday PUNCH, the Senate President spoke in Abuja as special guest of honour at the unveiling of a book, The Burden of Legislators in Nigeria, authored by Senator Effiong Bob. He noted that the lawmakers only questioned the requirement for real-time transmission. The clarification follows criticism from key stakeholders…

There is a substance found in nature that contains 94 of the essential vitamins and minerals the human body needs every single day. It is called bee pollen. Bee pollen is a ball of pollen made by young bees when they land on a flower. It is a mixture of pollen, saliva and nectar or honey. Bees carry these balls back to the hive in sacs on their legs and store them in the hive’s honeycomb. The pollen then ferments into “bee bread,” which feeds the bee colony. Bee pollen may be having a moment among people seeking natural remedies…