Author: News Room

Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola has emerged as the highest-spending football manager in the world since joining the club in 2016, according to transfer data compiled by Capology and Transfermarkt. Since taking charge of City, Guardiola has spent an estimated €2.05 billion on player recruitment, a figure that places him comfortably ahead of every other manager during the same period. The Spaniard arrived at the Etihad Stadium in the 2016–17 season and immediately began a major rebuild of an ageing squad. In his first season alone, City spent more than €190 million, bringing in players such as Ilkay Gundogan, Leroy…

No fewer than two persons have been confirmed dead, while six others sustained serious injuries following a fatal road traffic incident involving a heavy-duty truck along the Gombe–Yola Road in Gombe State. PUNCH Metro gathered on Wednesday that the incident, which occurred at about 10:20pm on Tuesday at New Mile 3, near the entrance to the main dual carriageway along the Gombe axis, was caused by improper use of a handbrake. According to reports, the accident involved a long open-body truck loaded with bags of rice, which was allegedly improperly parked at the location.  Confirming the incident, the Senior Special…

Guinea’s presidential inauguration on January 17, 2026, marked a formal return to constitutional rule following the September 2021 military coup that dismantled the country’s democratic order. That ceremony did not conclude Guinea’s transition. Instead, it inaugurated a broader regional test: whether the Economic Community of West African States, with the leadership of Nigeria and commitment of President Bola Tinubu, can still enforce its democratic norms, and whether Nigeria, as the bloc’s most influential member, can translate diplomatic weight into principled leadership The presidential election held on December 28, 2025, Guinea’s first since the 2021 coup, has assumed significance beyond national…

The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise has urged the government and policymakers to prioritise health interventions over imposing additional taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages. It warned that a sugar tax would undermine Nigeria’s manufacturing and employment base. In a statement on Wednesday, Chief Executive Officer of Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise, Dr Muda Yusuf, argued that evidence showed sugar taxes delivered “limited benefits” unless combined with broader lifestyle and behavioural interventions. The CPPE identified poor diet quality, physical inactivity, sedentary lifestyles, urban design, and genetic factors as the primary drivers of diabetes and related diseases in Nigeria.…

The uncle of British-Nigerian boxer Anthony Joshua has said his nephew would not want the driver involved in the fatal accident that killed two of his friends to be jailed, The PUNCH reports. Adeniyi Kayode, 46, appeared before a magistrate’s court in Sagamu, Ogun State, on Tuesday over the December 29 crash that claimed the lives of Joshua’s friends, Latif Ayodele, and Sina Ghami, who were also his trainers. The magistrate, Olajumoke Somefu, adjourned the case until February 25 after the prosecution applied for a delay to enable the transmission of the case file to the Ogun State Attorney-General’s Office…

The fourth quarter of 2025 potentially marked the end of the crypto bear market, according to a new report from crypto asset manager Bitwise.In the report shared on Wednesday, Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan said that Q4 was full of mixed signals, with the crypto market performing poorly despite strong underlying fundamentals. He argued that a similar setup had occurred in the first quarter of 2023, which saw the prices of crypto assets like Bitcoin (BTC) rebound from the FTX collapse, climbing from around $16,000 in 2023 to $98,000 by the start of 2025. “At the time, we were starting to…

The four surviving members of One Direction are ringing in 2026 with new music — all within the same week. Simon Cowell famously formed 1D on The X Factor UK in 2010, bringing together Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne to front a boy band. The group, however, fractured in 2015 when Malik left the group to pursue a solo career. The rest of the boys announced an indefinite hiatus the next year. Nearly a decade later, Payne tragically died after suffering a fatal fall in Argentina at the age of 31. Styles, Horan, Malik…

Mohammed Bashir Saleh, one of the defendants standing terrorism trial over the 2011 United Nations House bombing, told the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday how he joined the Ansaru terrorist group led by Khalid Al-Barnawi. Mr Saleh, in a video recording played before the trial judge, Emeka Nwite, said he joined the terrorist organisation in Bauchi, Bauchi State, North-east Nigeria, shortly before the attack on the United Nations (UN) Building in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Abuja UN Building was bombed on 26 August 2011 by the group, leaving over 20 persons dead…

Force Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, has said that the Police Commissioner in Kaduna State never said there was no attack. Hundeyin made this statement on Wednesday while responding to questions in an interview on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television monitored by DAILY POST. He was speaking on Kaduna attack, where over 100 worshippers were whisked away from three churches in Kaduna by bandits. The police earlier reportedly denied the attack but later made a U-turn and confirmed the abduction. “Let’s be very specific about what the Commissioner of Police said. At no point did the Commissioner of…

The Federal Government has declared an end to corruption and impunity in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions, warning that transparency, accountability and ethical leadership will now be strictly enforced across the sector. The Minister of Education, Dr Maruf Alausa, made this known on Wednesday in Abuja while delivering an address at a retreat organised by the Conference of Heads of Polytechnics, Colleges of Education and similar institutions for council chairmen, commissioners of education, rectors, registrars and bursars. Speaking on the theme, “Transforming Polytechnic Education in Nigeria: Innovation, Good Governance and Sustainability for National Development,” Alausa said the government would no longer tolerate…