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Nigeria’s representatives endured contrasting fortunes in the CAF inter-club competitions on Sunday as Rivers United and Shooting Stars crashed out. At the same time, El-Kanemi Warriors progressed to the second preliminary round of the Confederation Cup. El-Kanemi survived a scare in Bissau, losing 1-0 to UDIB but advancing 3-1 on aggregate after winning the first leg 3-0 last weekend. The Maiduguri-based club will now face Moroccan giants Raja Casablanca in the second preliminary round. The first leg is scheduled for the Remo Stars Sports Complex in Ikenne between 16 and 18, with the return fixture in Casablanca between 23 and…

For the last couple weeks, Karol G’s smooth club track “BbY WOW” has been gliding up the global charts, taking the number one spot on Spotify and the Billboard Global 200. The song is a streaming juggernaut, collecting 78 million Spotify listens and 37 million views on YouTube, and it just keeps getting bigger. But Karol didn’t do it alone. When she was making the track, she enlisted the dreamy-eyed Spanish producer-artist Rusowsky and the enchanting Spanish singer-songwriter Judeline to sing with her. Judeline was an especially important addition since she was one of Karol’s most trusted collaborators when she…

Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has formulated six issues for determination before the Election Petition Tribunal hearing the petitions arising from the 20 June governorship election in the state. The papers outlining the issues were signed by his team of lawyers, led by Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Mr Oyebanji, candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner of the election after polling 319,224 votes. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Oluwole Oluyede, garnered 40,543 votes to come second, while the African Democratic Congress (ADC) candidate, Dare Bejide, came third with…

The Nigeria Taekwondo Federation (NTF), the organisers of the forthcoming first edition of the Michael Opeyemi Bamidele National Taekwondo championship, has concluded arrangements to train the officials of the two-day event ahead of the competition. September 16 is the date fixed for the training which will be just two days ahead of the taekwondo championship scheduled to start on September 18 at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium, Lagos. The President of the NTF, Tayo Popoola, at the weekend explained that the training was important because everything about the forthcoming competition would be organized in accordance with the…

US President Donald Trump announced he will lift all tariffs on Irish whiskey at the end of his two-day visit to Ireland.He made the announcement before handing over the winner’s trophy at the Trump International golf resort in Doonbeg, Co Clare, to Irish Open winner Shane Lowry.Whiskey distilled in the Republic of Ireland faces the standard 15% tariff which applies to EU goods entering the US, while whiskey made in Northern Ireland or elsewhere in the UK has no tariff.It comes after Trump doubled down on his support for a united Ireland and said joining Northern Ireland and the Republic…

(L-R) U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) depart the annual Friends of Ireland Luncheon in National Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol on March 17, 2026 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty ImagesWashington is scrambling to address renewed fears over artificial intelligence, as leading U.S. companies sound the alarm over technology they say is advancing beyond their control.”Dr. Frankenstein is telling us the monster is escaping; help us stop this,” said Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “The method that we’re answering [with] is not meeting…

Welcome back to Power Play! Each week, senior writer Molly Taft tackles a topic around this midterm season’s biggest issue: data centers. If you’ve got a question or thought for the column, feel free to shoot Molly an email at [email protected] or reach them securely on Signal at mollytaft.76.“What on earth are they building all of these data centers for?” an exasperated friend asked me recently.They’re not the only one asking: We got several similar questions on our recent data center livestream. It’s a really reasonable thing to wonder about. After all, if AI is already making all these breakthroughs,…

“The prime minister wants us to make sure we’re building council houses. He’s made that absolutely, fundamentally clear,” she said.”We’re seeing home starts up by 15% last year, so we are making a difference.”Prime Minister Andy Burnham has promised “the biggest council house building programme since the post-war period” – although he has not provided details on exactly what this will entail.BBC Verify analysis showed a decline in the number of new houses being built during Labour’s first year in power – continuing a fall that began under the Conservatives.Rayner’s predecessor in the role, Steve Reed, last year admitted a…

The largest global survey of physicists ever conducted has revealed just how unsettled some of the biggest questions in modern physics remain. Researchers found surprisingly little agreement on topics ranging from black holes and dark matter to the long-running effort to reconcile Einstein’s theory of gravity with quantum mechanics. Even the standard model of cosmology, known as ΛCDM (Lambda Cold Dark Matter), failed to win support from a majority of respondents. That result may reflect recent findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which suggested that dark energy could change over time. Such a possibility would conflict with the…

Key eventsAlexander Zverev is 85-3 after winning the first two sets at majors. He is 17-1 at the US Open, with the lone loss coming in the 2020 final against Dominic Thiem.Ben Shelton is 0-9 at grand slams after losing the first two sets.ShareZverev wins the second set in a tiebreakSecond set tiebreak: Zverev 7-2 *SheltonZverev 6-3, 7-6 (2) SheltonShelton sends a backhand into the doubles alley to give Zverev set point, and then he nets the 139mph serve to end the set. Shelton showed some of his best fight yet to force the tiebreak, but the unforced errors (29)…