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Hossam Hassan, head coach of the Egyptian national football team, has pointed out that Nigeria had the capability to advance to the AFCON final. However, he recognized that unforeseen circumstances contributed to their semi-final loss against Morocco. Speaking at a press conference on Friday before Egypt’s AFCON third-place final match against Nigeria on Saturday, Hassan also reflected on both teams’ journey. Recall that the Super Eagles lost 4-2 on penalties against Morocco, while the Pharaohs lost 1-0 against Senegal during normal time. “We will be facing a formidable opponent, Nigeria. We played a friendly match with them before leaving Cairo…

Google is appealing a federal court’s decision ruling it an illegal online search monopolist. The company filed a notice to appeal on Friday, requesting a pause on the court-ordered remedies meant to restore competition to the online search market.“As we have long said, the Court’s August 2024 ruling ignored the reality that people use Google because they want to, not because they’re forced to,” Google’s vice president of regulatory affairs Lee-Anne Mulholland said in a blog post. “The decision failed to account for the rapid pace of innovation and intense competition we face from established players and well-funded start-ups. And…

With a markup of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY) in the US Senate Banking Committee postponed indefinitely, leaders in decentralized finance are using the delay to press lawmakers on concerns with the bill.Before Republican leaders on the Banking Committee moved late Wednesday to postpone the markup, crypto industry groups had raised concerns about provisions related to tokenized equities, stablecoin rewards and their potential impact on DeFi platforms. The DeFi Education Fund said on Wednesday that some proposed amendments could “seriously harm DeFi technology and/or make market structure legislation worse for software developers.”Crypto venture capital companies said the legislation…

Tired of popular shows like The Pitt and Stranger Things overloading the public hive mind? If you’re looking for something a little more lowkey this weekend, we understand the feeling completely. The fact is that Netflix isn’t just the home of stuff like Is It Cake? and Emily in Paris. You can find plenty of hidden gems, too. Watch With Us is spotlighting three of the best, most underrated shows you can watch on the streamer right now. Our picks include a sports dramedy, a crime show and an obscure French horror series. Related: 12 Best Crime and Mystery Shows on Netflix (January…

The Nigeria Youth in Parliament Forum (NYPF) has announced plans to train no fewer than 1.1 million young Nigerians in information and communications technology (ICT) as well as electric vehicle (EV) technology and maintenance under its Take Action Campaign (TAC). It said the training programme will be offered at no cost to participants, but called on state governments to support its implementation by mobilising youth through their respective ministries of youth affairs to ensure wide and effective participation. The Director-General of the Forum, Tony Nwulu, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja during a media briefing, where he described the initiative…

Barely 24 hours after the sacking of Ms Tinyan Otuomagie as the Managing Director/CEO of New Edo Line Transport Services Limited, the  State Governor, Monday Okpebhoľo, has again sacked his Special Adviser on Youth Mobilisation, Hon Collins Aigbogun. DAILY POST reports that as the Governor announced the immediate appointment of Mr Smart Aigbodion, the General Manager, Maintenance, as the Acting Managing Director/CEO of the transport company, pending the appointment of a substantive Managing Director, he also appointed Christopher Udobor Iyase to take over from the sacked  Special Adviser on Youth Mobilisation. The Secretary to the State Government, Barrister Umar Musa…

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, says the people of Nigeria have all agreed that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC-led government has woefully failed. The National spokesman of the party said this on Friday while fielding questions in an interview on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television. Abdullahi said the opposition has it as a responsibility to convince Nigerians that it can do better He reiterated, ”Nigerians have agreed that this government has failed. It is a consensus. “We in the opposition know that the responsibility that we have is to convince Nigerians that we can do better, that…

Nigerian troops have neutralised an unspecified number of terrorists following a bloody attack on Forward Operating Base (FOB) Azir in Borno State. DAILY POST gathered that the attack was carried out on Friday morning when daredevil terrorists invaded the area with dangerous weapons, including rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), machine guns, among others. The Acting Media Information Officer, Joint Task Force, North East Operation Hadin Kai, Lieutenant A.S. Atokolo, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. He said the terrorists, who launched a large-scale, multi-directional attack on the base, “initially attempted to breach part of the defensive perimeter but were met with…

Shooting Stars technical adviser, Nurudeen Aweroro, has expressed dissatisfaction with the performance of new signing Lucky Emmanuel in the 3-0 win over Enyimba. Emmanuel grabbed one of the goals in the encounter at the Lekan Salami Stadium in Ibadan on Wednesday. Qamar Adegoke and Sodiq Ibrahim also netted for Shooting Stars in the thrilling encounter. Aweroro stated that the forward still have a lot to improve on in his game. “Lucky didn’t do well to my own satisfaction,” Aweroro told 3SCfanstv. “He too noticed that a we will keep working with him to get better ahead of the next game.”…

As spotted by 9to5Google, a message sent to Visible customers explains: “Yesterday we let you down and for that we are sorry. We are giving you a $5 credit towards your next month of service that can be redeemed after Jan 16 when paying with a credit card online.”The same message was shared by a user on the Visible subreddit on Thursday, although the user mentioned that they didn’t have issues related to the Verizon outage. Some users replied to the post commenting that they also received the $5 credit, but only after reaching out to customer support.