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Prediction markets platform Polymarket is reportedly considering measures to verify users in response to pressure from global authorities over sanctions violations and other areas of legal risk to the company.According to a Wednesday report by The Information, Polymarket has considered mandatory user verification requirements more in line with Know Your Customer (KYC) standards. The move comes as multiple countries have blocked or restricted access to the predictions market platform over concerns about illegal gambling.Source: PolymarketAs of Wednesday, Polymarket had “geoblocked” 35 countries, restricting residents from placing orders on the platform. These jurisdictions included Iran, Russia and North Korea, which are…

Andy Cohen shared his two cents on West Wilson’s leaked nudes. “When West sat down and started talking about the nudes, and they’re all like, ‘Is it hard? It is soft?’” Andy, 57, recalled during the Wednesday, May 27, episode of SiriusXM’s Smith Sisters Live. “I don’t know if they showed this, but Jesse [Solomon] then showed him the picture of what he had been sent. I mean, it’s like, reunion first.” Andy added that West, 31, learned of his leaked nudes moments before filming the season 10 Summer House reunion. “We had not started the reunion. Everyone was entering.…

At least 32 African countries now spend more on debt servicing than on healthcare, exposing the growing human cost of the continent’s worsening debt crisis, experts said on Wednesday at the opening of the sixth edition of the AFRODAD Media Initiative (AFROMEDI VI) in Nairobi, Kenya. Participants at the continental media training also heard that 25 African countries currently spend more on debt repayments than on education, while about 57 per cent of Africans live in countries where governments spend more servicing debt than on health and education combined. The three-day programme, organised by African Forum and Network on Debt…

The Umuahia Central Bus Terminal built in Umuahia by the Abia State Government has been commissioned by Governor Alex Otti. Otti, who opened the terminal for operation on Wednesday, named the facility after Professor Nnenna Oti, the former INEC Returning Officer who announced his electoral victory in the 2023 governorship election. He said that Professor Nnenna Oti, other INEC staff and security agencies rejected bribery and stood against intimidation, electoral impunity and result manipulation. “This terminal has been named after Professor Nnenna Nnannaya Oti, an INEC officer, for her courage and sacrifice,” Otti said. He explained that the bus terminal was…

A rights group has called on the opposition against the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in Rivers State, Kingsley Chinda, to back their claims with clear evidence showing he remained active in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, after April 2, 2026. The group said Chinda had already resigned as Minority Leader of the House of Representatives before participating in the APC governorship process and had not taken part in any PDP-related activities since then. The call by the Centre for Constitutional Governance and Electoral Integrity, CCGEI, in Rivers State, follows a case filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja, is…

Wikki Tourists chairman Alhaji Salmanu Abubakar, has assured supporters that the club will bounce back stronger following their relegation at the end of the 2025-26 Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, season. The Bauchi Elephants finished at the bottom of the NPFL table with 40 points from 38 matches. Abubakar described the campaign as one of the toughest in the club’s history. “Wikki Tourists is bigger than one season. The elephant may stumble, but it never forgets how to rise,” Abubakar stated at the end of the NPFL season. Wikki Tourists alongside Remo Stars, Bayelsa United and El-Kanemi Warriors were relegated…

The Federal Government has commended former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), for his sustained investments in education, healthcare and community development. The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Dr Ali Pate, gave the commendation on Tuesday in Ikere-Ekiti during the inauguration of the NewCruse Mother and Child Maternity Complex, built and donated by Olanipekun to the State Specialist Hospital, Ikere-Ekiti. Pate, who was represented by the Chief Medical Director of the Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti, Prof Kolawole Ogundipe, said the facility would help reduce maternal and child mortality in the state. He urged other…

The Plateau State Police Command has arrested two suspected members of the notorious Sara-Suka cult group and recovered dangerous weapons as well as substances suspected to be illicit drugs during separate operations in Jos. The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Alfred Alabo, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday, saying the arrests were part of ongoing efforts by the Commissioner of Police, CP Bassey Ewah, to combat crime and drug abuse across the state. According to the statement, “As part of efforts put in place by the Commissioner of Police, Plateau State Command, CP Bassey Ewah, psc(++), FCAI, MSPSP,…

Goodluck Jonathan is running.  Or he isn’t. Nobody knows. Including, it seems, the Peoples Democratic Party. Since January 2026, party elders have courted him. Waivers signed. Screening done. By May, a PDP faction named him the sole aspirant for 2027. Campaign posters are up. Court cases to stop him are filed. Jonathan’s response: nothing. But in Nigerian politics, nothing is something. Wike’s camp reads it as caution. Turaki’s camp sells it as consent. Markets twitch. PDP stalls. Lawyers ask judges to decide what the man himself won’t say. This isn’t just indecision. It is an impact. Because Jonathan isn’t a…

Moses Itauma will face Filip Hrgović on August 8 in Manchester in what shapes up as the most significant test of the unbeaten British heavyweight’s young professional career, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. The 21-year-old enters the fight at 14-0 with 12 knockouts, having beaten Jermaine Franklin in five rounds as recently as March. Hrgović comes in on the back of a third-round stoppage of Dave Allen on May 16, a result that underlines why he was the opponent of choice for Itauma’s next step. Promoter Frank Warren confirmed both the location and the calibre of opposition, saying, “Moses is fighting…