Liverpool’s pursuit of Bradley Barcola is entering the stage where the biggest question may no longer be whether the player wants to move, but whether PSG are willing to accept Liverpool’s valuation. Recent reports say Liverpool and Paris Saint-Germain remain in discussions, with Barcola having given the green light to the move on personal terms….
For anyone who grew up watching Disney Channel in the late 2000s, this feels less like a movie premiere and more like somebody opened a time capsule. Demi Lovato is back as Mitchie Torres for Camp Rock 3, reuniting with Joe, Nick and Kevin Jonas at the Los Angeles premiere on Monday. The Jonas Brothers…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared indefinite strikes at Imo State University and Nasarawa State University, Keffi, disrupting academic activities over unpaid salaries, promotion arrears and other outstanding entitlements. At the same time, ASUU has authorized branches in about 20 other universities to issue 14-day strike ultimatums over the failure to implement…
Syria has sentenced former President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia, alongside his brother Maher, while his cousin and former Daraa security chief Atef Najib also received a death sentence. The ruling is a landmark moment for a country still dealing with the consequences of the 2011 uprising and the war that followed. But the…
Air Peace operations were disrupted at the Lagos and Abuja airports on Tuesday after aviation unions, backed by the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), picketed the airline over allegations that it prevented workers from unionizing and failed to remit ticket-related charges owed to aviation authorities. Passengers were left stranded as access…
Chelsea are considering loan options for Mykhailo Mudryk after the winger returned to football following his lengthy anti-doping suspension, with interest reportedly coming from Italian clubs and Chelsea’s sister club Strasbourg. Mudryk, however, is understood to prefer a Premier League destination where he can play regularly. At first glance, another loan might look like Chelsea…
Judy Austin has reportedly taken her long-running dispute with her former husband, Emmanuel Chukwuobasi Obasi, to court, filing a ₦1 billion defamation suit against Obasi and actress Rita Edochie. The case follows allegations made by Obasi during a June appearance on The Honest Bunch podcast, where he spoke about his former marriage to Austin and…
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has dissolved the board of Kaduna Electricity Distribution Plc (KAEDC) after the company accumulated about ₦456.5 billion in market obligations, including ₦415.5 billion owed to Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading and ₦41 billion owed to the Nigerian Independent System Operator. NERC has appointed an interim board and administrator for six…
Reports of a missile attack on a Saudi-linked commercial vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, reportedly killing three crew members, two Pakistanis and one Indonesian, are the latest warning that the Red Sea shipping crisis is becoming harder for commercial operators to ignore. The details of the reported incident are still developing, and there has…
The death of 23-year-old Nigerian Law School student Faith Ajoke Alayande in Lagos has left her colleagues and family grieving, while also raising difficult questions about how educational institutions respond when students may be struggling privately. Alayande, a student at the Nigerian Law School’s Lagos Campus in Victoria Island, was reportedly found dead at the…
