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Super Eagles star Paul Onuachu has ended months of transfer speculation by confirming he has no intention of leaving Trabzonspor, Soccernet.ng reports. Onuachu’s decision comes despite receiving lucrative offers from Turkish rivals, Saudi Arabia and interest from Germany.The Nigeria international has been a darling of several top clubs in the transfer market after enjoying the best season of his career last term. The 32-year-old scored 22 goals in 30 Süper Lig matches to finish as the league’s joint-top scorer and inspired Trabzonspor to Turkish Cup glory.His incredible form attracted some of the biggest clubs in Türkiye. Fenerbahçe reportedly tabled an…

Nine abducted persons have been rescued, while three suspected bandits were killed during a joint security operation in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State. The operation was carried out by Kwara State-recruited Forest Guards alongside operatives of the Department of State Services, local hunters and vigilantes in the Obbo-Aiyegunle, Ejiu-Ora and Osi axis of the local government, which borders Ekiti and Kogi states. The Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman of Ekiti Local Government Council, Dada Sunday, confirmed the development in a statement made available to The PUNCH in Ilorin on Wednesday. According to the statement, the victims were…

ADA price is trading at $0.163, and the bigger question is whether Cardano design philosophy is quietly winning a debate the market once dismissed in this bearish prediction environment. Our analysis at Cryptonews suggests that formal verification, selective privacy, proof of stake, and broad token distribution are increasingly gaining traction across major blockchain networks. With ADA holding above $0.16, long-term price forecasts have once again caught retail attention.The argument is not a victory lap. Instead, we see it as evidence of a structural shift across the industry. More than $2.5 billion has been lost to bridge hacks over the past…

By Gilbert Ekugbe The Lagos State Waste Management Authority has assured residents that the growing waste backlog across the state will soon be cleared, following new measures aimed at improving waste disposal operations. LAWMA Managing Director, Dr Muyiwa Gbadegesin, gave the assurance during the commissioning of the rehabilitated Road E and newly constructed disposal platforms at the Olusosun Disposal Facility in the Ojota area of Lagos on Tuesday. Gbadegesin said the project was a strategic intervention designed to remove operational challenges, improve access within the facility and boost the efficiency of waste evacuation across the state. According to him, the…

Super Eagles defender Chidozie Awaziem has completed his transfer to Turkish Super Lig club Konyaspor, Soccernet.ng reports. ​Awaziem’s future had been the subject of speculation since the conclusion of the previous season. He originally joined Nantes the prior summer, but following the club’s relegation, he made it clear that he would seek a departure. ​Over the past week, Turkey emerged as his most likely destination amid strong links to Konyaspor. Then, On Wednesday night, the club confirmed the deal after he put pen to paper on a two-year contract that will keep him in Turkey until the summer of 2028.…

The Governor of Enugu State, Peter Mbah, has approved the recruitment of 6,580 qualified candidates into various academic, technical, and administrative roles across public primary and junior secondary schools in the state, with a strong focus on the state’s 267 Smart Green Schools. Although most of the schools are still under construction, the government approved the measure in a job vacancy advertisement issued by the Executive Chairman of the Enugu State Universal Basic Education Board, Hyginus Banko. A breakdown of the positions shows that the board seeks 4,698 core subject teachers across fields such as Mathematics, English Language, Basic Science,…

Nigeria’s consumer credit declined for the first time in six years, falling by 19.89 per cent to N3.78tn in 2025 from N4.72tn a year earlier, as elevated interest rates dampened household borrowing, according to the Central Bank of Nigeria. The decline, disclosed in the CBN’s 2025 Annual Report and Statement of Accounts, ended a growth streak that had persisted since December 2019. The apex bank linked the contraction to the prevailing interest rate environment, which reshaped borrowing patterns across the banking industry. A breakdown of the figures showed that the overall decline was largely driven by a reduction in personal…

1inch has moved its Aqua liquidity protocol from developer preview to full public release, covering 13 EVM-compatible networks simultaneously, a scope that puts it in direct contact with most of the chains where professional market makers and retail liquidity providers already operate. The launch addresses one of DeFi’s most persistent structural problems: capital that sits idle across fragmented pools on separate chains, earning suboptimal yields and forcing providers to manage positions across incompatible interfaces.Discover: The Best Crypto to Diversify Your PortfolioHow Aqua’s Registry Model Differs from Standard AMMsAqua does not use conventional pool deposits. Instead, it operates on a registry-based…

By Iyanuoluwa Abiola Health experts have cautioned that declining malaria cases in Nigeria may not reflect the true risk the disease poses, urging authorities to look beyond prevalence figures. They said focusing mainly on malaria prevalence, the number of people infected, could overlook how severe infections are and how actively the disease is spreading. The warning was given on Tuesday during the 2026 Online Research Seminar organised by the Centre for Transdisciplinary Research in Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, University of Lagos, with participation from researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Presenting findings from a sub-analysis…

Dangote Refinery is expected to consume about 2.5 per cent of globally traded crude oil at full capacity, its President and Chief Executive Officer, Aliko Dangote, has disclosed. Dangote made the disclosure while receiving the Minister of State for Industry, Senator John Owan Enoh, who led a high-level delegation from the Federal Ministry of Industry on a tour of the 700,000 barrels-per-day Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Dangote Petrochemicals complex and Dangote Fertiliser Limited in Lagos, according to a statement issued on Wednesday by the Dangote Group. Reflecting on the refinery project, Dangote described it as the biggest business risk of his…