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Shooting Stars SC have parted ways with head coach Nurudeen Aweroro just days before the start of the new Nigeria Premier Football League season, bringing an abrupt end to his time in charge of the Oluyole Warriors. The Ibadan club confirmed the development in an official statement, announcing that Aweroro, Team Manager Tammy Tamuno and Assistant Coach Shakiru Lawal have all left their respective positions with immediate effect. Shooting Stars did not disclose the specific reasons behind the decision, describing the departure as a mutual agreement following discussions between the club and members of the technical team. However, sources indicate…

The expanded College Football Playoff has changed the math, but regular-season perfection still carries value in postseason seeding. Unbeaten Power Four teams don’t have to worry about résumé comparisons or strength-of-schedule arguments.Pulling off an undefeated regular season, however, has never been more difficult. Championship hopefuls must overcome unexpected injuries, and even the nation’s heavyweights face dangerous road trips capable of derailing title dreams.Talent alone is no longer enough. Since 2020, only 10 teams have reached conference championship weekend with undefeated regular seasons, and no season has produced more than two such teams. Last year featured the rare unbeaten No. 1…

As Larry David‘s comedic trip through U.S. history comes to an end, he took credit for one of the nation’s more recent presidential scandals. On Friday’s season finale of the HBO sketch comedy miniseries Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness, President Barack Obama made a surprise appearance as himself in a sketch set in 2014, as David advised him to wear the now-infamous, outrage-inducing tan suit during his live press conference on military response to ISIS. Following some banter on how the POTUS avoids stains, David accidentally spills juice on Obama’s suit jacket when he leaves the room. When…

Nigerian singer Innocent “2Baba” Idibia and his estranged wife, actress Annie Macaulay, have followed each other again on Instagram, fuelling reactions amid reports of tension between the singer and his partner, Natasha Osawaru, a member of the Edo State House of Assembly. PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that 2Baba and Annie unfollowed each other on social media days after the “African Queen” hitmaker announced their separation in January 2025. In July, rumours that the former couple had reconciled trended on social media after a video purportedly showing them together surfaced online. They, however, dismissed the speculation, saying the footage was old.…

Netanyahu rejects US Gaza plan, vows no pullout until Hamas disarmsIsraeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a Gaza plan hailed by US president Donald Trump, vowing no military pullout of Gaza until Hamas is “genuinely” disarmed.“Israel rejects the 15-point document,” Netanyahu said, referring to a plan endorsed in late July by Hamas.The Israeli military “will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is genuinely disarmed and will continue to thwart threats against our forces and our citizens,” Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting, Reuters reports.The document, the latest stage in a US-led ceasefire announced in October that has reduced…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has resolved more than 5,000 pending candidate complaints within five days, following an intervention by Segun Aina, the registrar. Fabian Benjamin, the acting director of public affairs and protocol at JAMB, made this known in a statement, explaining that the newly appointed registrar had to relocate his seat to the board’s SERVICOM unit to oversee the process directly. Besides, Benjamin emphasised that the registrar directed the Service Compact with all Nigerians (SERVICOM) unit to treat candidates’ grievances comprehensively and without delay. The statement explained that the initiative forms part of Aina’s broader effort…

What every U.K. AI startup wants to know these days is, how can I get office space in King’s Cross?   The area is so hot that a VC firm allegedly recently won a deal by promising a founder office space in the neighborhood. “We stop at nothing to win deals [for] and to support” founders, “including helping them source office space when needed,” the firm told me when asked about the rumor, declining to confirm or deny any details.  The neighborhood’s popularity began back in 2016 when DeepMind — then newly acquired by Google — moved in. Soon after,…

The Keminaissance will be delayed. For nearly a year, Conservative optimists and a clutch of supportive pundits have been forecasting an upturn in the fortunes of Kemi Badenoch, confident that her party will emerge from the crater it fell into in 2024, overtake Reform UK to become once again the main party of the right and, who knows, maybe, with a following wind, even push Labour aside and return to government. Every sign of strength from the Tory leader – a robust conference speech here, a viral clip on social media there – has been hailed as evidence of the…

As someone born on the cusp of the gen X-millennial divide, I am the perfect target for today’s 90s nostalgia. I played my modest, teenage part in the Battle of Britpop (verbal skirmisher, Blur division); I fervently sang – and, God help me, believed – that Things Can Only Get Better. Super Furry Animals were a band I knew only distantly, via the transgressive thrill of that song they had with all the swearing in. And yet the news they’ll be shirt sponsor for a Welsh football club this season has managed to whisk me straight back to a time…

James Gray continued his festival tour with Paper Tiger this weekend setting down in the Locarno Film Festival to receive an honorary award ahead of the film’s Swiss premiere on its landmark Piazza Grande. Meeting the press ahead of the screening on Sunday evening, Gray gave an insight into his vision for cinema and how that in turn shapes his filmmaking. “To me, movies are the most beautiful art form because it’s the closest thing we have to a dream… ? Your REM sleep is one and a half to two hours per night, if you’re lucky,” he said. He…