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Eight-time Nigerian champions Enugu Rangers have launched an ambitious “Mission-9” campaign as they prepare for a potentially title-deciding clash against Ikorodu City in the final game of the 2025/26 Nigeria Premier Football League season at the Onikan Stadium in Lagos on Sunday, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. Rangers general manager and chief executive officer, Amobi Ezeaku, said the club was fully focused on reclaiming domestic glory and believed the occasion represented one of the most important moments in the history of the Enugu side. The Rangers boss expressed appreciation to the club’s supporters and the Enugu State Government for their backing…
Off Campus author Elle Kennedy revealed her favorite book change from the show — so far. Kennedy took to TikTok on Saturday, May 23, to answer a question, which read, “From all of the changes that happened in the TV show, which one was your favorite and why?” In response, Kennedy said she loved that “Justin is a musician” instead of an athlete. “I think it makes a lot of sense,” she replied. “Loved loved loved Allie and Dean’s JLo/maverick dance and them having this wild tension even before their hookup (in the book the hookup happens right off the…
President Bola Tinubu has secured a landslide victory in the presidential primary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), overwhelmingly defeating his sole challenger, businessman Stanley Osifo, in the nationwide direct primary conducted across the country’s 8,809 wards. The results, announced on Sunday by the returning officer of the APC Presidential Primary Election, Pius Anyim, during the collation exercise at the Bola Tinubu International Conference Centre, Abuja, showed the incumbent president dominating the contest across virtually all states of the federation. Mr Tinubu polled a total of 10,999, 162 votes, while Mr Osifo secured only 16,503 votes nationwide, recording zero…
Nigeria has become the proverbial forest of the heartless, the Igbó Òdájú. It is where mothers must take extreme care to double-strap their sucklings to their backs. Even when they do, these Òdájú, the heartless, violently yank suckling infants off their mothers’ back. It is difficult to say we have a government. Or a country. Thomas Hobbes must be smiling in his grave now. His famous 1651-propounded theoretical state of the life of nature, wicked as a brute, solitary as oyster, nasty and as short as brevity, has found practical fit in today’s Nigeria. It was Tandi we quarreled with for embarrassing us with the incongruity of his dancing steps. Tandi Tandi,…
Cast: Toyin Abraham, Wole Ojo, Temitope Aremu Director: Titi Jeje Writer: Kenny George, Toyin Abraham Producer: Toyin Abraham Nigerian society is fixated on weddings and marriage. There could be an asteroid falling on earth, about to obliterate us all, and we would keep selling asoebi and cooking party rice because it’s not over till it’s over, not for my family and me, and other such platitudes that define us. Our over-the-top celebrations have gained notoriety to the extent that “Nigerian wedding” has become a cultural phenomenon, and foreigners express how much they want to attend one. With this backdrop, it…
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has appealed to Nigerians to pray fervently for the safe return of the students and teachers who were recently abducted in Oyo State. The organisation made the call in a statement issued by its Oyo State chapter. The statement jointly signed by the President of the chapter, Okechukwu Nwabunike, and Executive Secretary, Promise Aja, was made available to DAILY POST on Sunday. DAILY POST reports that in some communities in Oriire local government area in Oyo State. Nwabunike, in the statement, condemned the abduction in totality. A statement issued on behalf of other members of the organisation described…
President Bola Tinubu has emerged the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate after defeating Stanley Osifo The president polled 10.99 million votes to defeat his only rival, who scored 16,504 in the APC presidential primaries held in 8,809 wards across the country. This emerged from the ongoing national collation of the presidential primaries results at the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre in Abuja. APC governors in 31 states and other top brass of APC who are coordinators and collation officers in their states presented the results of the direct primaries to the presidential Primary Election Committee, chaired by…
Operatives of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, otherwise known as the Amotekun Corps, have apprehended some persons disguising as lunatics to perpetrate crimes in some parts of the state. The arrested fake lunatics were alleged to be involved in kidnapping and drug trafficking as well as robbery operations. While disclosing the development, the Amotekun commander in the state, Adetunji Adeleye, disclosed that the new tactics adopted by criminals were uncovered following intelligence received on the modus operandi of the suspects. According to Adeleye, the fake lunatics were among the 98 suspected criminals arrested across the state during the corps’…
17 players are now in the Super Eagles camp for the Unity Cup in London, DAILY POST reports. Goalkeeper Francis Uzoho, Chibuike Nwaiwu, and Rafiu Durosinmi are the latest arrivals in camp. 14 players arrived at the team’s camp on Saturday, as they gear up for their semi-final clash against the Warriors of Zimbabwe. Éric Chelle’s side held their first training session at the Cray Valley FC, Middle Park Avenue, London on Saturday. The team will have their second session at the same venue later tonight. The Super Eagles will face Zimbabwe at the Valley, London on Tuesday.
Mohamed Salah was in the starting line-up in his Liverpool farewell against Brentford on Sunday, days after making explosive comments about the team’s playing style under manager Arne Slot. The “Egyptian King” leaves Anfield after a glittering nine-year spell at the club, bidding farewell alongside Scotland defender Andy Robertson, who also joined in 2017. Salah, 33, was last to emerge from the tunnel into bright sunshine at Anfield, accompanied by his two daughters. Robertson, 32, was accompanied by his three children. Both names were met with a deafening roar when introduced by the stadium announcer in a party atmosphere. Banners…
