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Four Nigerian athletes, including 150m world record holder Favour Ofili, African 400m hurdles record holder Ezekiel Nathaniel, Rosemary Chukwuma and African indoor 400m record holder Ella Onojuvwevwo, are set to compete at the inaugural Lone Star Grand Prix in Texas on Saturday, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. Part of the inaugural USATF Tour, the Lone Star Grand Prix is one of two World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meetings in the United States this season, alongside the Los Angeles Grand Prix later this month. For Ofili, who recently saw her nationality switch to Turkey turned down, the meeting presents another opportunity to…

A tricycle rider simply identified as IK has allegedly beaten his lover and mother of two to death following a heated argument and reportedly fled, leaving her corpse with their children in Ogbogoro Community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. The incident, said to have occurred along the CPM Street axis of Ogbogoro on Tuesday, sent shock waves through the community as some residents tried to catch a glimpse of the gory scene to confirm the sad news. Though the cause of the argument could not be ascertained as of the time of filing this report, a resident…

The Emir of Gombe, His Royal Highness, Alhaji Abubakar Shehu Abubakar III, surprised everyone recently when he went out of the palace unannounced to check on his people. The specific location is the main market in Gombe, the capital of Gombe State. Not many would have realised the August visitor was the monarch because he wore a trendy babanriga with a modern cut preferred by the younger generation of Nigerians, with a simple cap. Although I recognised the monarch in a video posted online, but in these days of deep fake videos, I took the precaution of getting in touch…

The Federal Government on Thursday presented the prestigious African Quality Mark certification to 131 Nigerian companies for 220 Made-in-Nigeria products, in a move aimed at boosting the competitiveness of local goods across the African continent under the African Continental Free Trade Area. The certification, also known as the ARSO Dual Mark, was conferred on the companies during the African Quality Mark Award Ceremony held in Abuja. A review of the event programme showed that a total of 131 companies successfully met the requirements for certification, with 220 products emerging as eligible for the continental quality seal. Speaking at the event,…

Children under the age of five remain the most affected group in Nigeria’s worsening cholera outbreak, which has infected 5,260 people and claimed 67 lives across 128 local government areas in 33 states and the Federal Capital Territory. This was according to the latest data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, exclusively made available to our correspondent in Abuja. The NCDC data, covering the period up to May 31, 2026, showed that “suspected cholera cases have risen by 73 per cent compared to the same period in 2025, highlighting a significant escalation of the outbreak despite improvements…

The Gombe State Ministry of Education has dismissed allegations of underfeeding students at Government Girls Mega College, Doma, attributing complaints by some final-year students to disruptions caused by the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination timetable. Some Senior Secondary School Three students sitting the ongoing examination had reportedly complained of missing meals and spending long hours without food during the examination period. The students alleged that the examination schedule had prevented them from accessing meals at the usual times, leaving them hungry for extended periods. Reacting to the allegations in a telephone interview with our correspondent, the Special Assistant…

US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) extended their sell-off Wednesday to a record 13 consecutive trading days as Bitcoin demand continued to weaken.Spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $396.6 million in net outflows on Wednesday, bringing cumulative withdrawals to roughly $4.4 billion since the streak began, according to data from SoSoValue.The current run exceeds the previous record of eight consecutive trading days of outflows in February 2025, which saw roughly $3.2 billion exit the funds.Bitcoin price briefly dipped below $63,000 on Thursday. Source: CoinGeckoSince the outflow streak began on May 15, Bitcoin has fallen about 21% from to $63,400 from about $80,000…

Mackenzie Shirilla’s case has surged back into the national conversation following the May 2026 release of Netflix’s true crime documentary The Crash — and with the renewed attention has come fresh curiosity about the convicted murderer’s origins, including the Ohio community she called home before the fatal July 2022 collision that killed her boyfriend and a close friend. Before she became the subject of a viral Netflix documentary, Shirilla lived in Strongsville, Ohio, a suburb located roughly 20 miles southwest of downtown Cleveland. It was there, on July 31, 2022, that she drove her Toyota Camry into a brick building…

Some senators have called on the Presidency and the National Assembly to conduct a comprehensive audit of Nigeria’s defence spending to determine whether funds allocated to security agencies have been properly used. The call was made on Wednesday by the senator representing Edo North, Adams Oshiomhole, and his counterpart from Niger East, Sani Musa, during debate on a motion on the abduction of schoolchildren and teachers in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State. Mr Oshiomhole, a former governor of Edo State, lamented that the Senate had repeatedly debated insecurity and adopted several resolutions aimed at addressing the crisis, but…

On Friday, 15 May, Nigeria witnessed something unprecedented: coordinated school abductions carried out simultaneously in the Southwest and the North-East. It was a dark day that reopened old wounds and stirred new fears, as non‑state actors executed highly organised operations with alarming precision. In Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State, armed terrorists stormed multiple schools, abducting 46 students and teachers and killing one teacher in the process. Even more horrifying were reports that one of the victims was brutally executed to send a chilling message to authorities and the community. Predictably, the incident triggered protests and revived a social…