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Binance has launched US equities trading for eligible users and plans to add tokenized stocks as part of a broader push to expand beyond crypto.Users will be able to trade more than 7,000 stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with zero commission, buy fractional shares from $5 and access select equities on a 24/5 basis, according to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph.The exchange said it is also planning to introduce tokenized stocks as part of its vision for a “multi-asset financial super app.” The move puts Binance more directly in competition with Coinbase and other platforms trying to bring stocks, ETFs,…

Former IndyCar driver Ricky Treadway has died following a motorcycle accident. He was 56. According to multiple reports, Treadway was involved in a motorcycle accident prior to his death. Further information regarding the accident was not made available at the time of publication. Treadway, who raced in the 2001 and 2002 seasons, was the son of 1997 Indianapolis 500-winning team owner Fred Treadway. He competed in but did not finish the 2002 Indianapolis 500 after being involved in a crash with fellow driver Tony Kanaan on the track. “The Indy 500 start was the highlight of Treadway’s INDYCAR SERIES career,…

Veteran actress Idowu “Iya Rainbow” Phillips and the Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria (TAMPAN) have joined growing calls for the release of abducted teachers and pupils in Oyo State. PREMIUM TIMES reported that entertainers had, in recent days, demanded the immediate release of the victims and condemned the worsening insecurity across the country under President Bola Tinubu’s administration. Gunmen abducted about 32 people from Community High School, Ahoro-Esiele; Primary School, Esiele; and Yawota Baptist Nursery and Primary School, all located in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State. One of the victims, a mathematics teacher, Michael…

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has accused former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, of peddling substance-induced fabricated lies. Atiku said Lawal’s verbal vituperation and the “utter rubbish churned out” would have been better ignored as the ranting of a “man high on substance,” but for the overriding need to set the record straight. In a statement by his media office, Atiku explained that while Lawal has the right to resign from the ADC and is free to do so because political parties are voluntary associations of people, he is not entitled…

National Chairman of the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, and Chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, Yusuf Dantalle, has advised Nigerians to elect who they want and reject what he described as “peanut or that evil called vote buying. According to him, vote buying has become one of Nigeria’s greatest threats to democracy, warning against the exchange of their future for immediate financial inducement. Dantalle spoke on Monday during an interview on Frontline, a current affairs programme on Eagle 102.5 FM, Ilese Ijebu, monitored by our correspondent in Abeokuta. He said, “Elect who you want. Reject peanuts or that evil…

Super Eagles head coach, Éric Chelle has handed late invitations to Genk full-back Christian Akpan,and Banik Ostrava ace Abdullahi Bewene for his team’s upcoming friendlies against Poland, and Portugal. Akpan recently featured for Genk in a UEFA Europa League playoffs. The 21-year-old was a regular for Genk’s second team this season. Bewene earned his invitation after an impressive season with Baník Ostrava in Czech Fortuna Chance Liga. A number of first team players, including Ademola Lookman, Victor Osimhen, and Alhassan Yusuf have pulled out of the friendlies. The Super Eagles will face Poland on Wednesday, before facing Portugal a week…

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and ex-Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, on Monday exchanged verbal missiles over the conduct of the African Democratic Congress presidential primaries, which produced Atiku as the winner. Atiku had last week polled a total of 1,846,370 votes to beat former Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi and businessman-politician Mohammed Hayatu-Deen to the ADC presidential ticket, with the duo garnering 504,117 and 177,120 votes respectively. Lawal, until recently, was a chieftain of the ADC and a key opposition figure in the broad coalition against President Bola Tinubu in 2027. While announcing his resignation…

The Kaduna State Police Command, in collaboration with local vigilantes, has foiled two separate cattle-rustling and kidnapping attempts in the Igabi and Kudan Local Government Areas of the state, recovering a total of 245 stolen cattle. The command disclosed that the operations were carried out on May 31 following coordinated interventions by police operatives, local vigilantes, and community members. According to a statement issued on Monday by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Mansir Hassan, bandits in the early hours of Sunday invaded a Fulani settlement on the outskirts of Rubu Village in Igabi LGA, where they tied up three…

Recently, the Federal Civil Service Commission began the preparation for the implementation of the FCSC Strategic Plan (2026-2030). When the 10th Commission was inaugurated by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in December 2023, it was with a marching order that was specific and straightforward. The FCSC was charged by the president to “…competently facilitate the transformation, reorientation and digitisation of the federal bureaucracy to enable, and not stifle, growth and enhance private sector participation in the development of the Nigerian economy, in full adherence to the Renewed Hope agenda.” The FCSC took this marching order seriously because it connects not only…

After 31 years, after countless near-misses and close calls, the record that Super Eagles legend Nwankwo Kanu set as a teenage boy in Vienna still stands — and it will stand for at least another year. PETER AKINBO writes Former Nigerian attacker Nwankwo Kanu remains the youngest player in history to win the UEFA Champions League after Arsenal’s bid to produce the player who would finally dethrone him ended in the most painful of fashions on Saturday night in Budapest. Paris Saint-Germain beat the Gunners 4-3 on penalties following a 1-1 draw at the Puskás Aréna, with Gabriel Magalhães missing…