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  Manchester United captain, Bruno Fernandes has been named Premier League player of the season. The Portugal midfielder was also named Football Writers’ Association men’s Player of the Year this month. Fernandes equalled the record for assists in a Premier League season when setting up his 20th goal against Nottingham Forest last weekend. He has also scored eight goals in 37 games to help United secure third place and qualification for the Champions League. Fernandes has created more chances – 132 – than any other player in the Premier League this season. He has 43 more than the second best, Liverpool’s Dominik Szoboszlai. Fernandes is the first United player to win the award since defender Nemanja Vidic in 2011. The winner is decided after public votes are combined with those from a panel of football experts. Arsenal’s David Raya, Gabriel and Declan Rice, Manchester City’ Erling Haaland and Antoine Semenyo, Brentford’s Igor Thiago, and Nottingham Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White were ...

A  gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China has killed at least 90 people, state media reported on Saturday, the country’s biggest mining disaster in 17 years. A  total of 247 workers were underground at the time of the blast, which occurred at 7:29 pm (1129 GMT) on Friday at the Liushenyu coal mine in Shanxi province, according to state news agency Xinhua. Most of them were brought to the surface by Saturday morning, Xinhua said, confirming that at least 90 people had died. A total of 345 emergency personnel were dispatched to the site, with rescuers earlier searching “intensively” for nine people who remained unaccounted for, the news agency added. Friday’s explosion was the worst mining disaster in China since 2009, when 108 people were killed in a mine blast in northeast Heilongjiang province. Helmeted rescuers were carrying stretchers at the site, with ambulances visible in the background, video by state broadcaster CCTV showed. President Xi Jinping urged “all-out e...

By all appearances, 30-year-old Nathaniel Baiyegun lived a life that inspired trust. He was a teacher in a private school in Ogijo, Ogun State. In church, he stood before worshippers as a choir master, leading hymns and praise songs. To parents, he was an educator entrusted with shaping young minds. And to students, he was simply a “teacher.” But behind that image, police alleged, was a darker reality that ended in the tragic death of a 16-year-old girl, his former student, whose dream of rewriting her West African Examinations Council (WAEC) examination was cut short. The unsuspecting teenager, who completed her secondary education last year in a private school where the suspect taught Physics and Further Mathematics, reportedly failed English and Mathematics. In her bid to rewrite WAEC this year, her former teacher, as gathered, invited her to his JAMB and WAEC coaching class on April 8, 2026. Unfortunately, she never returned from that coaching class. Back home, her apprehe...

  Nigerian billionaire businessman and socialite, Obinna Iyiegbu, popularly known as Obi Cubana has reportedly removed all content related to the City Boy Movement from his Instagram page, though no official explanation has been offered for the move. The development comes amid growing public criticism directed at Obi Cubana over his visible support for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's administration. He had been appointed as the South-East Coordinator of the pro-Tinubu organization, a role that drew significant backlash from ordinary Nigerians. As of the time of this report, he had yet to issue any statement addressing the deletion of the posts. It was gathered that the City Boy Movement is a youth-oriented political and civic engagement platform established to promote President Tinubu's Renewed Hope Agenda. The group was created with the aim of building grassroots support, empowering young Nigerians, and closing the gap between the government and local communities. Among its repo...

  Nigerian media  personality, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu has opened up about his struggle with smoking addiction and how he was able to overcome it. Speaking in a recent episode of the ‘MENtality’ along with veteran Nigerian-American singer, Olubankole Wellington, popularly known as Banky W and medical doctor and influencer, Egemba Chinonso Fidelis, popularly known as Aproko Doctor, Ebuka revealed that he started smoking in JSS 3. He explained that he smoked for 13 years and was taking two packs of cigarettes daily. “I  started smoking JSS 3. I smoked for 13 years. By the time I entered university, I was smoking two packs a day. I was a heavy smoker,” he recalled. Ebuka said that he eventually gave up the addiction after making deliberate efforts to overcome it. Similarly, Banky W revealed that he got addicted to pornography while trying to overcome promiscuity. He explained that he thought turning to pornography would make him less promiscuous. “I was trying to battle pornograph...

  Tension has gripped Umuadara community in Umulogho, Obowo Local Government Area of Imo State, following the killing of a female nursing student, identified as Wendy Achumba, reportedly found beheaded in her apartment. The victim, an indigene of Ngwa in Abia State, was a student of the College of Nursing, Umulogho, where she had completed her Midwifery programme and was undertaking Post Basic studies. She was said to have been discovered dead on Thursday in her residence in Umuadara, with her body bearing signs of brutal violence. Residents who found the body raised the alarm, attracting youths and other members of the community to the scene. Eyewitnesses described the incident as shocking, noting that the deceased was calm, peaceful and focused on her studies. “She was a calm person and focused on her studies. Nobody expected something like this to happen,” a resident who requested anonymity said. The killing reportedly sparked outrage among youths in the community, leading to te...