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Nigeria’s U20 women’s national team, the Falconets, held China to a hard-fought 0-0 draw in their second Group F match of the ongoing 2026 FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup in Poland on Thursday. The match at Arena Sosnowiec saw both sides create chances, but neither could find the breakthrough as Nigeria remained in contention for a place in the knockout rounds. Coach Moses Aduku’s side started brightly and created the first clear opportunity through Janet Akekoromowei in the 17th minute. Read Also: Falconets suffer 2-0 defeat to Spain in U20 Women’s World Cup opener Nigeria continued to threaten, with Kafayat…

Howell, Ganan’s lawyer, also serves as counsel for Fairlinked in the US. In a June court filing, Howell wrote that “my investigative work with Fairlinked e.V. and Browsergate occurred before my office filed the Ganan complaint.” LinkedIn said in a motion to dismiss that it uses detection systems to identify the type of automated scraping and bot activity that Teamfluence was deploying. LinkedIn told the court: Teamfluence, an Estonian platform, is one of those groups that traffics in scraping. It markets a Google Chrome browser plug-in designed to “[i]dentify 100% of your LinkedIn traffic.” LinkedIn caught it and banned its…

Badenoch said the government should cut housing benefit to fund defence spending now, adding she would exempt pensioners and existing tenants from the plans.Speaking on the Today programme, she said: “What we’re doing is making sure that people are protected, but capping the amount that people get on benefits because we need to look after our national security.”Without national security, there aren’t going to be any benefits. We’re all going to be in danger, far more people will be homeless, and the government’s first duty is defence of the realm.”But Karen Buck, chairwoman of Generation Rent and a former Labour…

President Bola Tinubu has fulfilled his promise to reward each member of Nigeria’s senior women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, with the naira equivalent of $100,000 following their historic 2025 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket triumph. The payment completes the package of presidential rewards promised to the team, which includes three-bedroom homes in Abuja, national honours and the cash component. President Tinubu, in a statement, said the rewards had now been fully redeemed. “Today, the rewards I promised our D’Tigress have been fully redeemed. Each player has received the naira equivalent of $100,000, while each official has received the equivalent of $50,000, completing their…

Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe will continue their ⁠quest to become the first American men’s Grand Slam champion ⁠since Andy Roddick’s 2003 triumph at Flushing Meadows as the US Open reaches its semi-final stage.Shelton sent defending champion Carlos Alcaraz packing in the early ‌hours of Wednesday with the pair slugging it out in the latest-finishing match in tournament history as he reached his third major semi-final, having made the final four in the 2023 US Open and 2025 Australian Open. “That was a war,” said Shelton. “The most enjoyable match that I’ve had in my career.” When are the US…

Jimmy Kimmel is interviewing James Talarico today but his interview will only stream on YouTube after the late-night host said pressure from the FCC has prevented Disney from airing it on ABC. The Texas Democrat, who is running for Senate, responded to the news and called the move the “most dangerous form of cancel culture”. “Government censorship should be a concern to all of us, regardless of our political party,” Talarico told MS NOW’s Symone Sanders Townsend on The Weeknight. “People at the top, powerful politicians, powerful media executives, censoring what we watch, what we read, what we say. And that,…

The police in Cross River State have arrested six suspects in separate operations over alleged robbery and burglary, including four suspects linked to the theft of property valued at about N49.15 million from a technology company in Calabar. The arrests were made by operatives of the Violence Crime Response Unit, according to a statement posted on Facebook on Wednesday by the police spokesperson in the state, Sunday Eitokpah. Four arrested over alleged N49m robbery The police said four suspects were arrested in connection with the 3 June burglary at Royaline Technologies on Etta-Agbor Road, Calabar. Mr Eitokpah identified the suspects…

.Promises to pay outstanding cash rewards to Super Falcons too Deji Elumoye in Abuja President Bola Tinubu on Thursday made good the pledge of the Federal Government to compensate D’Tigress, Nigeria’s Female Basketball team that won the African tournament in 2025.Tinubu had on August 4, 2025 hosted D’Tigress players and officials at the State House, Abuja after the fifth consecutive win of the 2025 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire on Sunday, August 3, 2025, during which he pledged cash award of $100,000, three-bedroom apartment and national honour of the Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) to…

Alex Enumah in Abuja The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has engaged leading stakeholders in the private and public sectors of the nation’s economy towards the design of a new framework for financial intelligence sharing. The move is considered as a significant step towards enhancing the integrity and resilience of the country’s financial system. According to a statement, the high-level engagement, which was organised with the support of the British High Commission in Nigeria, and the Convention for Business Integrity (CBi), brought together regulators, banks, insurance companies, fintechs, Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs), technology firms and other stakeholders to co-design…

Mariska Hargitay at the 78th Emmy Press Preview held at Peacock Theater on September 10, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Deadline via Getty Images)Deadline via Getty ImagesWith the 78th Emmy Awards just next week, Mariska Hargitay is preparing to step into a role she has never held before: host and executive producer of television’s biggest night. On September 10, the Television Academy hosted its 2026 Emmys Press Preview, at Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, offering a first look at what viewers can expect when the ceremony airs live on September 14. Among the evening’s biggest storylines is…