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Garcia puts his welterweight title on the line this weekend against a worthy opponent If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Boxing superstar Ryan Garcia is back in the ring this weekend to defend his WBC welterweight title against Conor Benn. It’ll be Garcia’s first welterweight title defense since beating Rolando Romero in May to nab the vacant belt. At a Glance: How to Watch Garcia vs. Benn Fight Online Date, start time: Saturday, Sept. 12 at 8 p.m. ET Stream: Paramount+ This will be…

Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar. Former Labour Party vice-presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, has explained his recent statement that Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar lack the capacity to fix Nigeria if elected president in 2027. Baba-Ahmed said his comments were made in the interest of fairness, arguing that he did not want to give any of President Bola Tinubu’s major challengers an undue advantage by asking the president to step down. He made the clarification while speaking on the Naija Unfiltered Podcast, following criticism over his recent interview with Seun Okinbaloye. In the earlier interview, Baba-Ahmed had said Tinubu should step…

An Afghan woman living in Texas with legal US permanent residency has been deported from the country in the first-ever use of a secretive court.Nazira Haji Zada, 47, chose to leave the US rather than continue to argue her case before the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, according to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and her lawyers.The Alien Terrorist Removal Court was created in 1996, but had never heard a case before the proceedings in July. It is meant for non-US citizens facing terrorism-related charges when the evidence is confidential and related to national security.Lawyers for Haji Zada argued that…

By six o’clock on a typical Saturday morning in Lagos, the city is already bustling. Makeup artists head to clients’ homes and hotels, gele specialists set up, and caterers have been cooking for hours. Tailors are making last-minute deliveries, while photographers, decorators, musicians, drivers, and security personnel prepare for the day ahead. Although the wedding itself may start at 10 a.m., the economic activity surrounding it begins much earlier. We call it Owambe. It is commonly seen as a celebration, but it also operates as a major economic system. This system relies on commercial properties, infrastructure, and an extensive business…

Apple has just launched a range of new iPhones, including a foldable handset, just as you decide it is time to replace your own ageing mobile. But you balk at the £1,199 price tag for the cheapest of the new options.Searching online for a better price with the words “cheap”, “iPhone” and “deal”, you come across a website which offers an iPhone 18 Pro for a couple of hundred pounds less than the Apple site. You pay for the new phone via a bank transfer and wait for it to arrive.But the website is a fraud – one of hundreds…

The recent disruption of the visit of the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, Peter Obi, to Benue State after Governor Hyacinth Alia had earlier cautioned him against visiting the state without his knowledge, was a direct assault on Nigeria’s democracy, and the 1999 Constitution as amended, Ejiofor Alike writes Last Tuesday, thugs suspected to be loyalists of one of the political parties mounted roadblocks on the two-lane Makurdi-Gboko Federal Highway in Benue State, preventing the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, Mr. Peter Obi, from proceeding to Yelewata where he was billed to meet and commiserate with the victims…

Key eventsPreambleIt’s Manchester derby day!Hello, good morning and welcome to another Matchday live. We have two Premier League fixtures to look forward to this afternoon, including the small matter of City v United. Enzo Maresca’s new side make the short journey across the City of Manchester to Old Trafford, where they will go head-to-head with Michael Carrick’s men. The Sky Blues need a win to maintain their 100% record in the Prem this term and keep pace with Arsenal, who earned a 2-0 victory against Sunderland last night. Elsewhere, Coventry host Brighton as they look to get their first points…

Nigerian dancer and hypeman Iweh Odinaka, popularly known as Poco Lee, has made his first public appearance following reports that he has been released from custody in the United Kingdom. The entertainer appeared alongside Afrobeats star Burna Boy in a video shared on social media by activist and content creator Martins Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, on Saturday. Mr Otse described the footage as “proof of life” and Poco Lee’s first video since his reported release. “Proof of life, Poco Lee’s first video since he came out. Big up @burnaboygram. Welcome back @poco_lee,” he wrote. Poco Lee links up with…

Morakinyo Animasaun For decades, the public discourse surrounding national infrastructure in Nigeria has been trapped in a tragic binary: government inadequacy or outright privatisation. When a public asset deteriorates, we either watch it crumble under bureaucratic inertia or contemplate transferring it into commercial hands, often at the risk of pricing it out of the reach of ordinary Nigerians. It is precisely within this false choice that much of the resistance to the Federal Government’s approved concession of King’s College, Lagos, to the King’s College Old Boys’ Association has emerged. To anxious parents, sceptical trade unions and well-meaning commentators, the word…

Tesco has alerted City of London police after it became the latest in a string of companies and sports stars, including Barclays bank and Lewis Hamilton, to have its image hijacked in a “scam” by unlicensed casinos advertising via Facebook and Instagram.The supermarket chain is among several household-name businesses to have been targeted in an apparent effort by casinos that cannot legally operate in Britain to capitalise on their brand recognition.Their branding has featured in ads and websites, promoted via the US social media company Meta, that gave the false impression that the businesses had launched their own casinos.Sports stars…