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Former Turkish referee, Ahmed Çakar, has advised Galatasaray to sell their top striker, Victor Osimhen, if they receive an offer of 130 million Euros for his signature. Çakar believes the Turkish Super Lig champion would make a profit because they bought the Nigerian international for 75 million Euros from Napoli. Osimhen has been heavily linked with a move away from Galatasaray this summer. The 27-year-old recently this summer amid links from Chelsea, Man United, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid. Speaking about Osimhen’s future on the Libero TV YouTube channel, as per Habersarikirmizi, Çakar said, “There is no football player…

The International Organisation for Migration, a United Nations agency, on Tuesday in Lagos received 180 Nigerian migrants, including women and children, from Libya. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the returnees arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, through the Pilgrims and Cargo Terminal aboard a chartered Buraq Airline flight at about 8:15 p.m. The migrants, who mainly consisted of women and children, are voluntary returnees from Libya. Speaking to newsmen at the airport, the IOM Subhead in Lagos, Mr Ali Ibrahim, said the majority of the migrants were from detention camps in Benghazi, Libya. “We are here…

Just over a week after losing the Nigeria Premier Football League title to Rangers International on the final day of the season, Rivers United exacted revenge on the champions with a dramatic 3-2 victory in the Round of 32 of the President Federation Cup, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. The keenly contested encounter at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium in Uyo saw Rivers United race into a two-goal lead in the first half before Rangers fought back to level the scores. However, the Pride of Rivers had the final say, with Handsome Surveyor heading home a late winner to seal their place…

Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled its own cutting-edge artificial intelligence models in San Francisco — a crucial step toward reducing its dependence on OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. Microsoft, the first company to have invested massively in OpenAI, has for several years been seeking to reduce its reliance on its Sam Altman-led partner. It renegotiated its alliance last year and retains only a non-exclusive license on its technology until 2032. But Microsoft chief Satya Nadella has been saying it for years: he refuses to end up like IBM, the computing giant that backed the rise of Microsoft before being supplanted by…

Microsoft claimed last year that it had made a key breakthrough in quantum computing with Majorana 1, the company’s first quantum processor. While physicists were immediately skeptical of Microsoft’s claims, the software giant is announcing Majorana 2 today, the next generation of its topological quantum chip.Majorana 2 contains qubits, a unit of information in quantum computing much like the binary bits that computers use today, that are 1,000 times more reliable, according to Microsoft. It’s a milestone that helps make quantum computing more reliable, thanks to the use of a new material stack and some help from Microsoft Discovery’s agentic…

Crypto exchange Coinbase has invested in ProShares’ stablecoin-focused money market fund, betting that demand for stablecoin reserve-management products will grow as the recently enacted GENIUS Act formalizes the types of assets that can back US dollar-pegged tokens.Coinbase (COIN) announced Tuesday that it made an undisclosed investment in the ProShares GENIUS Money Market ETF (IQMM), which is designed to hold assets that qualify as reserves for payment stablecoins under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act.The GENIUS Act requires stablecoin issuers to back their tokens with highly liquid assets, including cash, bank deposits and short-term US Treasury…

After Mackenzie Shirilla was arrested in connection to the fatal car crash that killed her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, and friend Davion Flanagan, her dad went down to the police station to yell at the officers for arresting the “dumb 18-year-old.” The Strongsville Police Department arrested Mackenzie, now 21, around 2:45 p.m. on November 4, 2022. Less than an hour later, her father, Steven Shirilla, arrived at the police station to find out what was happening and to make sure his daughter didn’t speak to police. According to body camera footage obtained by People, Steven arrived at the station and spent…

The Lagos State government has said it is implementing community-based sensitisation programmes to address barriers to contraceptive access and improve family planning uptake across the state. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Health, Kemi Ogunyemi, disclosed this while speaking with journalists during the unveiling of the Avibela Hormonal Intrauterine Device (IUD) in Ikeja, Lagos, on Tuesday According to her, the state’s family planning initiatives deliberately engage men, traditional rulers, religious leaders and other key community stakeholders to address misconceptions and improve acceptance of contraceptive services. “We believe that no matter how you look at it, men still have this…

The House of Representatives on Tuesday called on the federal government to immediately provide adequate funding to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to strengthen the country’s preparedness and response capacity against Ebola and other epidemic-prone diseases. The resolution followed the adoption of a motion of urgent national importance sponsored by Amobi Ogah (LP, Abia), who warned that Nigeria’s disease surveillance and emergency response systems were under severe strain due to prolonged funding shortfalls at the NCDC. The motion, titled “Seeking the Federal Government to Immediately Provide Adequate Funding Requirements to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to…

Abia State Government has suspended the Clerk of the State House of Assembly, Mr John Pedro Irokansi, over allegations of misconduct. Irokansi was suspended through a letter dated May 20, 2026, and signed by the Abia State Head of Service, Mr Benson Ojeikere. The state government appointed Mr Promise Onwukwe, a Deputy Director in the Legislative Department of the Abia State House of Assembly, as Acting Clerk with immediate effect. Though it did not disclose the nature of the alleged misconduct by Irokansi, the Abia State Government directed the Acting Clerk, Onwukwe, to take full charge of the administration of…