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Victor Boniface announced his arrival at Werder Bremen in fine style on Sunday, coming off the bench to register an assist in the club’s emphatic 4-0 Bundesliga victory away to Borussia Mönchengladbach, Soccernet.ng reports. The 24-year-old Nigerian striker endured a turbulent summer, with Bayer Leverkusen placing him on the transfer list after a season disrupted by injuries. AC Milan appeared his most likely destination, but the move collapsed despite Boniface undergoing multiple medicals. Werder Bremen star Victor Boniface. Photo by IMAGO Instead, Werder Bremen swooped late in the window to secure him on loan, a deal many felt was a…

Burnley’s brave resistance ended in heartbreak on Saturday as Mohamed Salah’s stoppage-time penalty gave Liverpool a 1-0 win at Turf Moor, Soccernet.ng reports. The Clarets, back in the Premier League this season, looked on course for a precious point against the champions until an 84th-minute red card for Lesley Ugochukwu tilted the game in Liverpool’s favour. The French youth international, nephew of ex-Super Eagles defender Onyekachi Apam, had been impressive throughout but was dismissed for a second bookable offence after a clumsy challenge on Florian Wirtz. Photo by IMAGO It was the turning point. Burnley had held firm despite Liverpool’s…

The man arrested over conservative influencer Charlie Kirk’s assassination was romantically involved with a transgender roommate and described by family as leftist, Utah’s governor said Sunday, confirming details likely to inflame the contentious national debate over the killing.“Yes I can confirm that,” Governor Spencer Cox told CNN’s “State of the Union” talk show when asked about suspect Tyler Robinson’s reported relationship with a trans partner.“The roommate was a romantic partner, a male transitioning to a female,” Cox said.“This partner has been incredibly cooperative, had no idea that this was happening, and is working with investigators right now,” he added.Cox went…

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed comments by former Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, that the African Democratic Congress (ADC) would take over power at the federal and state levels in 2027. Aregbesola, who served as governor and later as Minister of Interior under the APC, had on Saturday declared that his new party, ADC, would unseat President Bola Tinubu and win the Lagos governorship in the next general elections. He made the statement while unveiling a grassroots mobilisation strategy and welcoming members of the Conscience Forum, led by Moshood Salvador, into the ADC.…

The Ethereum Foundation’s Privacy & Scaling Explorations team rebranded as Privacy Stewards for Ethereum (PSE), unveiling an ambitious roadmap to make privacy the default rather than exception across Ethereum’s technical stack. The transformation shifts focus from cryptography exploration to problem-first solutions addressing Ethereum’s surveillance vulnerabilities.PSE’s new mission centers on three core tracks: private writes to make on-chain actions as cheap and seamless as public ones, private reads enabling surveillance-free blockchain queries, and private proving for accessible data verification. The initiative follows Vitalik Buterin’s April advocacy for privacy as essential to Ethereum’s survival as a global settlement infrastructure.The roadmap warns that…

Prominent leaders from Kwara South have endorsed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s second term in office. They argued that his administration has turned the district and Nigeria at large around. Speaking at the Kwara South Leaders’ Roundtable in Oro, Irepodun Local Government, on Sunday, the Deputy Senate Leader, Oyelola Ashiru, said the recognition and appointments secured by indigenes of the district under Tinubu’s government are clear signs that Kwara South had found its place at the federal level. “There will be a new Kwara South. You will be inspired, you will be taught a new lesson, and you will see the…

Super Eagles attacker Christantus Uche joined Crystal Palace from Getafe CF during the 2025 summer transfer window…  Crystal Palace’s new signing, Christantus Uche, has revealed the source of his motivation after making his long-awaited Premier League debut in the goalless draw against Sunderland at Selhurst Park, Soccernet.ng reports. The 22-year-old forward, who joined Palace in the summer, came off the bench in the 84th minute and immediately injected energy into the Eagles’ attack. In his short cameo, Uche almost stole the headlines, forcing Sunderland goalkeeper Robin Roefs into two late saves and sparking a penalty appeal when he went down…

The African Democratic Congress has refuted a report that the Independent National Electoral Commission has validated and released a list of the party’s state chairmen across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. In a statement released on Sunday by the party’s spokesperson, Bolaji Abdullahi, via his official X account, the ADC national leadership clarified that INEC has issued no such confirmation, either officially or unofficially. The report, in some sections of the media, listed what they claimed were ADC State Chairmen, as confirmed by INEC. Abdullahi described the report as “fake news” engineered to create confusion within the…

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has clarified that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has neither confirmed any of the party’s state chairmen nor released any list in that regard. There has been trending news of INEC’s purported confirmation of chairmen of state chapters of the African Democratic Congress. In a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary of ADC, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, in Abuja on Sunday, the party described the news item as fake and untrue. Mallam Bolaji explained that INEC is only duty-bound to recognise what has been sent to it by the legitimate leadership of the ADC…

When Nigeria international striker Victor Boniface signed for Werder Bremen on transfer deadline day, he brought attention to what is fast becoming a very Nigerian-influenced Bundesliga side that was under the radar.   Boniface made a loan move from Bayer Leverkusen to Bremen, where he is assured of a starting spot after falling off the pecking order at the Werks Elf. Boniface will certainly get a good Nigerian welcome in the locker room from the other Nigerian boys who are in the Bremen team.   And it offers Nigerian fans of the Bundesliga something to look forward to as the…