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XRP (XRP) charts are painting multiple bearish patterns this month with a downside target under $1.Key takeaways:XRP is forming head-and-shoulders and bear flag setups on its shorter-time frame chart.An on-chain metric is further signaling weak demand or capitulation sentiment among traders.Head-and-shoulders setup hints at 10% XRP declineSince June 5, the XRP price has formed what appears to be a head-and-shoulders (H&S) pattern.The setup develops when the price forms three peaks atop a common neckline support, where the middle peak, called the “head,” is higher than the other two, the “shoulders.”An H&S pattern typically resolves when the price breaks decisively below…

Life moves pretty fast — and somehow, it’s already been 40 years since Ferris Bueller’s Day Off hit theaters. The John Hughes-helmed teen comedy follows high school senior Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) in one of the most epic fake sick days in history, as he and his best friend Cameron (Alan Ruck) and girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara) skip school to galavant around the city of Chicago. Hughes famously wrote the script in less than a week, coming off the success of films like Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. Keep scrolling for 25 Things You Don’t Know About Ferris Bueller’s…

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Joash Amupitan, on Thursday said the 20 June Ekiti governorship poll would serve as a benchmark for transparency in the 2027 elections. Mr Amupitan also said the commission has no preferred aspirant or political party in the election, but in solitary alignment with the law and the sovereign will of the Nigerian people. The INEC boss stated these at the Ekiti State Governorship Election Stakeholders Forum, organised by the commission and held in Ado Ekiti, the state capital. He explained that the logistics plan has been perfected, just as arrangements with…

Diversification is now vital for our sustainability. Nigeria’s position in the energy transition is not one of passive vulnerability, but a real, underutilised opportunity… The global energy transition is an economic reality already repricing assets and redirecting capital across every major economy. Renewable energy could generate an estimated 14 million jobs across Africa by 2030, with four million in Nigeria. In 1956, the year Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser shook the global order by nationalising the Suez Canal, and Morocco, Tunisia, and Sudan tasted the exhilarating air of independence, something equally historic happened beneath Nigerian soil. At Oloibiri, decades of prospecting…

The Kano State Government says it has implemented about 90 per cent of its healthcare blueprint within three years of Governor Abba Yusuf’s administration. The Commissioner for Health, Abubakar Labaran, disclosed this on Thursday while briefing journalists in Kano on the achievements recorded in the health sector. Mr Labaran said the state had fully implemented the Abuja Declaration on Health, demonstrating its commitment to improving healthcare delivery. He said the administration sanitised admissions into health training institutions through the introduction of a digital process, eliminating fraud that previously cost the state more than N1 billion. “The government had also revived…

Miss University of Jos (UNIJOS) Queen, Promise Dikko, has recounted how bandits killed her fiancé, Ifeanyi, a lieutenant in the Nigerian Army, months before their planned wedding. Ms Dikko, declined to give her fiancé’s full name, citing security reasons, during an exclusive interview with PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday evening, choosing instead to refer to him only as Ifeanyi. Ms Dikko is a Banking and Finance undergraduate at the UNIJOS. The Edo-born lady said she spoke with her fiancé on Monday morning and afternoon before suddenly losing contact with him. Bad news According to her, she initially assumed it was a…

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has warned front-end enrolment partners of the National Identity Management Commission that any involvement in fraudulent National Identification Number registrations, including the enrolment of non-Nigerians as Nigerians, could attract a seven-year prison term upon conviction. The warning was issued on Thursday in Abuja during a security briefing organised by NIMC for its front-end enrolment partners in collaboration with the Office of the National Security Adviser and other security agencies. Speaking at the event, an Assistant Director at the ICPC, Mark Faison, said enrolment agents must strictly comply with the terms of…

The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Joash Amupitan, on Thursday assured Ekiti people that the June 20 governorship election would be credible. Amupitan said that “INEC is logistically, technologically and operationally prepared to deliver an election that will stand as an unassailable baseline of credibility. A credible election is built upon the integrity of its voter registers. The INEC chairman stated this in Ado Ekiti while addressing stakeholders on the commission’s preparedness for the election. He said that there were 1,059,360 registered voters who could exercise their franchise across the 16 local government areas, spanning 117 wards and 2,445…

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency has added 177 new members to the Deep Blue Maritime Security Unit as the country intensifies efforts to dominate West African shipping, writes FELIX OLOYEDE It felt like a scene from an American movie when fresh graduates of the Deep Blue Maritime Security Unit demonstrated a rescue mission involving a pirate attack vessel at Navy Town, Ojo, Lagos, on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. Visitors at the ceremony were in awe as three boats from the Deep Blue Maritime Security Unit surrounded the attacked ship. A helicopter even dropped special squad members onto the…

One hundred and fifty physical and health education teachers, alongside games masters from public primary schools across Lagos State, are participating in a two-day capacity-building programme organised by the Nigeria School Sport Federation and the Nigeria Olympic Committee, with support from Olympic Solidarity and in partnership with the Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board. The programme, which commenced on Wednesday at the LASUBEB Multipurpose Hall in Maryland, is designed to introduce participants to the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Values Education Programme. Sessions are being facilitated by IOC-certified trainers led by Professor Clement Fasan, with Lagos serving as the fifth stop…