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Logan Paul has broken his silence after Tom Brady appeared to slap him during a Fanatics Fest appearance. “I’m suing @tombrady,” Paul, 33, wrote via Instagram on Friday, July 17, alongside footage showing the aforementioned fight. In now-viral footage, Brady, 48, can be seen hitting Paul across his face as they appeared on a joint panel during the New York City convention. “Bro, you’re the goat, so you should be doing dope s***,” Paul quipped at the time. “You weren’t. I’m a YouTuber … so what?” Paul then threatened that if Brady returned to Fanatics Fest next year, he would…

Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and the only female candidate in the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) presidential election, has widened her lead in the race. When PREMIUM TIMES checked the live election results portal at 10:00 p.m. on Saturday, Mrs Badejo-Okusanya had polled 11,352 votes, representing 46.69 per cent of the 24,314 votes cast in the presidential election. She is followed by Lateef Omoyemi Akangbe, also a SAN, who had secured 7,415 votes (30.50 per cent), while Olumuyiwa Akinboro, also a SAN, polled 5,547 votes (22.81 per cent). The live results portal also showed that 24,384 of…

The Nigerian Bar Association has urged eligible lawyers across the country to continue voting in its 2026 national election, reminding members that the exercise will remain open until 7:35am on Sunday, July 19. In a statement released on Saturday on its official X handle, the association said voting, which commenced at 7:35am on Saturday, would run for 24 hours. “Voting in the 2026 Nigerian Bar Association National Elections commenced at 7:35 a.m. today, Saturday, 18 July 2026, and will remain open until 7:35 a.m. tomorrow, Sunday, 19 July 2026,” the statement read. The NBA encouraged members not to wait until…

Adam Sandler officiating Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s star-studded wedding felt a bit unbelievable to the lucky 1,000 in attendance. “Adam Sandler … came down [the aisle], everybody laughed and thought it was a joke at first,” American Century Investments CEO Jonathan Thomas said on the Thursday, July 17, episode of “The Compound” podcast. “He probably spoke for 20 or 30 minutes, vacillated between funny, very sincere [and] sang a few things.” Swift and Kelce, both 36, said “I do” on July 3 inside New York City’s famed Madison Square Garden arena surrounded by some of the biggest names in…

Government leaders, researchers, media professionals, child protection experts, academics, civil society organisations and community stakeholders have called for greater investment in evidence-based parenting programmes as a critical strategy for protecting children, strengthening families and improving child wellbeing in Akwa Ibom State. The call was made during a stakeholder dissemination workshop titled “From the Airwaves to Stronger Families: Evaluating Parenting 101 with Isang and Shaping the Future of Parenting Support in Akwa Ibom State,” organised by Parenting for Lifelong Health and the Global Parenting Initiative at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, with funding from the John…

The Anambra State First Lady, Dr Nonye Soludo, has expressed immense joy and excitement over the full recovery and discharge from the hospital of the 10-year-old boy allegedly brutalised by his guardians in Awada, Obosi, Idemili North Local Government Area of the state. Recall that the boy, identified as Chiziterem, has been receiving treatment under state protection after a viral video showed severe injuries and burns allegedly inflicted on him by his guardians, a woman and her husband, in June. The victim, whose video showed extensive injuries across his body, went viral on social media and sparked widespread outrage, thereby…

The Bear star Abby Elliott has filed for divorce from her husband, Bill Kennedy, after 10 years of marriage. According to court documents filed in Los Angeles on Friday, July 17, and obtained by Us Weekly, Elliott, 39, cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the couple’s split. The official date of the former pair’s separation was listed as July 8. TMZ was the first to report the news. Elliott — who plays Natalie in the hit Hulu series — is also seeking joint legal and physical custody of the pair’s two children, Edith, 5, and William, 3, in addition…

A state high court in Enugu State has convicted and sentenced a self-acclaimed prophet, Godwin Ajuluchukwucheya, to one-year imprisonment for defrauding his church members of N136.4 million. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) prosecuted Mr Ajuluchukwucheya, according to a statement by the commission’s spokesman, Dele Oyewale, on Friday. Mr Oyewale said Mr Ajuluchukwucheya, popularly known as Prophet Sunday Koboko, was prosecuted on a two-count charge of obtaining by false pretence and stealing to the tune of N136.4 million. He said the self-acclaimed prophet was convicted when he was arraigned before the trial judge Justice H. O. Eya, but did…

“Democracy dies in darkness.” I thought about those words this week as I walked past The Washington Post headquarters on K Street in northwest, downtown Washington D.C. Some phrases become so familiar that they risk fading into the background. Then a particular moment restores their weight, reminding us that they were never merely a newspaper’s motto — they were a warning. Nigeria’s democracy is eroding. It is eroding quietly and gradually. Almost imperceptibly. Our democracy is eroding one frivolous lawsuit at a time.  Democracies rarely collapse in a single dramatic moment. It starts with obstructions to the execution of the…

Organisers of the 1xCup grassroots football tournament have unveiled an expanded talent development programme for the 2026 edition, saying the competition is increasingly serving as a pathway to professional football after several former participants secured careers in Nigeria and abroad. At the launch of the fourth edition in Lagos on Friday, organisers announced that 100 grassroots clubs will compete for a ₦20 million prize package, while introducing new initiatives including digital player profiling, enhanced scouting, performance analysis and live streaming to improve players’ visibility to professional clubs. Since its launch in 2023, the tournament has grown into one of Lagos’…