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Italian Serie A club Venezia have agreed to a deal with Sevilla for the transfer of Super Eagles striker Akor Adams, Soccernet.ng reports. ​Adams has been linked with several clubs this summer, but Venezia are the ones who have made concrete moves to sign him. ​They initially made a €10 million bid for the 26-year-old marksman, but that was rejected, with Los Nervionenses demanding up to €25 million. Nonetheless, they proceeded to agree on personal terms. There was also a conviction that the former Europa League champions would sell due to their need to raise money this summer. Akor Adams…

English Championship club Wrexham have shared an important update regarding Super Eagles goalkeeper Arthur Okonkwo, Soccernet.ng reports. ​This summer, the future of the 24-year-old shot-stopper has been one of the primary talking points at Wrexham. ​He joined the club as a free agent two years ago and played a key role in their promotion from the League One to the Championship, keeping 19 clean sheets in 33 games. Wrexham Arthur Okonkwo collects the ball above Marc Guiu of Chelsea. Picture credit: ImagoxAndrew YatesxSportimage ​Last season, he was not originally intended to be the first-choice goalkeeper. However, following an injury to…

SWIFT is taking its biggest step into crypto after confirming its blockchain-based shared ledger is ready for initial use. Built on Hyperledger Besu over nine months, the network will let 17 major banks, including HSBC, Citi, UBS, BNP Paribas, DBS, ANZ, and Standard Chartered, pilot live cross-border payments using tokenized deposits.The rollout moves beyond closed sandbox testing into real banking operations. Rather than replacing existing payment rails, the ledger coordinates tokenized deposits between participating banks while final settlement stays on the current infrastructure. That could help banks process payments during nights, weekends, and across time zones, where delays have long…

Nigeria’s Super Falcons have been issued a fierce warning by their toughest group stage opponents at the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations later this month, Soccernet.ng reports. Zambia defender Margaret Belemu has sent a strong message ahead of her country’s meeting with Nigeria at the continental championships. Belemu says the Copper Queens are ready to give the Super Falcons a much tougher battle this time. The two African heavyweights have been drawn together in Group C alongside Egypt and Malawi, setting up easily the biggest match of the group stage. Nigeria and Zambia will meet on Saturday, August 1,…

Paris FC winger Moses Simon has welcomed the Nigeria Football Federation’s decision to hand Super Eagles head coach Eric Chelle a new long-term contract, Soccernet.ng reports. First vice-captain Simon says the Super Eagles players are united behind the Malian coach and believe he can take the national team to greater heights. The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), working together with the National Sports Commission (NSC), recently agreed a contract extension that will keep Chelle in charge of the Super Eagles until 2030 after an impressive start to his reign. The extension follows a successful first spell in which Chelle guided Nigeria…

Elon Musk Grok AI just cataloged every major institutional development in the XRP ecosystem and arrived at one of the cleaner year-end XRP price predictions in this series. The model predicts $4.50 to $6.00 or more by December 31, 2026, roughly 4 to 5.5 times current levels.The bull case opens with the legal foundation that everything else now builds on. XRP trades near $1.11 today, and the SEC lawsuit being fully resolved in 2025, with a formal confirmation that XRP is not a security on secondary markets, has removed the single most important institutional barrier that existed anywhere in crypto.That…

Nigeria’s under-17 team, the Golden Eaglets, settled for a 1-1 draw against China in their final match of a four-nation invitational tournament, Soccernet.ng reports. ​Expectations were high for the squad, managed by former Sporting Lagos Academy boss, Eboboritse Uwejamomere, but the team failed to meet them. After a 3-2 loss to Tanzania and a 4-2 defeat to Australia, the Eaglets managed only a stalemate against China to close out their campaign. ​This result has left many fans anxious, particularly given Nigeria’s struggles in age-grade competitions over the past five years. Moving forward, the team will remain under intense scrutiny. Uwejamomere…

Nigeria’s Flamingos have booked their place at the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup after defeating Benin Republic 8-5 on aggregate in the final round of the African qualifiers, Soccernet.ng reports. The qualification was confirmed on Saturday, July 11, following an exciting 5-3 victory over Benin Republic in the second leg at the Stade de Kégué in Lomé, Togo. The result completed an impressive qualifying campaign for the Nigerian youngsters, who will now represent the country at the global tournament scheduled to take place in Morocco from October 17 to November 7, 2026. Nigeria went into the return leg with…

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said cities often compared with Lagos have become world-class because their residents respect public infrastructure and obey the law. The governor stated this on Saturday while announcing the commencement of the removal of illegal shanties and market stalls erected on the median of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway. According to him, the ongoing reconstruction of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway into a 10-lane highway cannot coexist with illegal markets, settlements and makeshift structures on the road’s median. “We have begun clearing the illegal shanties and market stalls built along the median of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway. “As we rebuild…

Mark Zuckerberg Meta AI just framed gold and silver price prediction as the 2 sides of the same macro trade heading into year end. The model predicts gold pushing toward $4,800 to $5,200 and silver breaking out to $78 to $90 by the close of 2026.The bull case treats both metals as beneficiaries of the same set of conditions rather than separate stories. With real rates staying negative as central banks pivot to cuts amid persistent fiscal deficits, the opportunity cost of holding non yielding assets like gold and silver disappears entirely. De-dollarization continues accelerating emerging market central bank buying,…