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Super Eagles head coach, Éric Chelle has confirmed that Victor Osimhen, and Ademola Lookman won’t feature in his side’s upcoming friendlies against Poland and Portugal, DAILY POST reports. The Super Eagles will be up against Poland in Warsaw on Wednesday, while they will travel to Lieira to face former European champions, Portugal on Wednesday, 10 June. Osimhen, and Lookman were included in the squad for both games by Chelle two weeks ago. Chelle revealed that Atletico Madrid asked for Lookman to be excused from the game, while Osimhen has to sort out his future with Galatasaray. “We miss two players because Victor…
More than 400 people were arrested across France after celebrations following Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League victory over Arsenal erupted into violence, leaving several police officers injured and causing damage to property in Paris and other cities. Thousands of supporters took to the streets after PSG secured the European title, gathering along the Champs-Élysées and around the Parc des Princes stadium. While many fans celebrated peacefully, clashes broke out between some revellers and police as fireworks and flares lit up the night sky. As reported by the BBC on Sunday, French authorities said 416 people were arrested nationwide, including 280 in…
Paris Saint-Germain cemented their place among football’s immortals with a dramatic UEFA Champions League final victory over Arsenal, becoming only the second club in the modern era to successfully defend Europe’s most coveted trophy. On a tense night in Budapest, the French champions were pushed to their limits. After 120 minutes ended in a 1-1 draw, the final was decided by the drama of a penalty shootout. PSG held their nerve, converting four spot-kicks to Arsenal’s three and sparking scenes of jubilation among players and supporters alike. The triumph came exactly one year after PSG’s stunning 5-0 demolition of Inter…
The feeling toward Bitcoin on social media has reached its most bullish level of the year, even as the overall crypto market is down, according to crypto sentiment platform Santiment.“Sentiment on Bitcoin has spiked to 2.23 bullish comments for every bearish one — the most lopsided positive ratio of 2026,” Santiment said in a report published on Saturday.“The previous two biggest positive-ratio days of the year preceded short-term price pullbacks, while severely negative readings marked local bottoms. The current euphoria contrasts sharply with the bearish ETF flow picture and warrants caution,” Santiment said. Spot Bitcoin ETFs logged their tenth consecutive…
Maine’s Senate hopeful Graham Platner’s candidacy has been embroiled in multiple controversies. One recurring attack that his opponent, Republican incumbent Susan Collins, and her allies have seized on is that Platner got a tattoo in 2007 that resembles a Totenkopf, a “skull and bones” symbol adopted by Nazi troops during World War II. Platner maintains that he was not aware of the inflammatory meaning of the tattoo at the time he got it and later had it covered up. Still, debate raged over whether the tattoo was politically disqualifying, with Democratic Representative Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts refusing to endorse Platner’s…
The Labour Party, led by Nenadi Usman, has adopted Chibuzo Okereke as its presidential candidate for the 2027 presidential election. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Ken Asogwa, who made this known in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, said Mr Okereke’s emergence as presidential candidate was through consensus. Mr Asogwa, in the statement, described Mr Okereke as a governance expert, policy strategist and reform advocate. “Okereke has built an impressive reputation as one of Nigeria’s leading voices on public policy, legislative governance and institutional development. “Okereke is the President of ERGAF-AFRICA Legislative Governance Innovation and Policy Hub, a foremost policy…
Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has expressed shock and sadness over the death of the All Progressives Congress (APC) South-West Zonal Woman Leader, Arabinrin Yetunde Shakirat Adesanya, describing her demise as a huge loss to the party and the nation. Adesanya reportedly passed away on Thursday evening at her residence in Lagos after a prolonged illness. In a condolence message, Governor Abiodun said the late APC chieftain was a committed party loyalist, grassroots mobiliser, and passionate advocate for women inclusion in politics and governance. The governor noted that the deceased devoted her life to the growth and stability of the APC,…
The Obidient Movement has described the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, as a talk-and-do leader. National Coordinator of the movement, Yunusa Tanko, made this remark on Sunday in an interview on Arise Television, noting that Obi’s record as Anambra state governor proves it. He was reacting to the emergence of Obi as the NDC presidential candidate ahead of the next year’s general elections. DAILY POST reports that the NDC on Saturday declared Obi as its presidential candidate for the 2027 general elections. Tanko said, “Peter Obi is different because he doesn’t just make promises, he keeps them and wants Nigerians to…
Three suspects allegedly linked to the murder of 21-year-old Christogonus Chinedu Chibuzo, a 100-level student of Federal University of Technology, Owerri, whose death occurred under suspicious circumstances on May 30, have been arrested by the operatives of Imo State Police Command. A press statement from the Command’s spokesperson, Henry Okoye stated that preliminary investigation revealed that the deceased, a student of Cyber Security also member of the Man O’ War organization of the Campus, was allegedly subjected to severe assault by some members of the group following an accusation of theft involving the sum of N13,500. Okoye hinted that the suspects,…
Nigerian music star, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has engaged in a heated exchange on social media after a citizen reacted to a post in which he expressed concern over the state of affairs in Nigeria. The remarks were contained in a post shared on Davido’s official page. According to the singer, entertainers, including himself, have not done enough to speak on issues affecting Nigerians. “I can’t lie, we entertainers… we dey fuck up, I won’t lie, including me. We need to speak up. It’s too much injustice going on. Our country don go,” Davido wrote. The post drew…
