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An Ondo City marathon drew thousands of runners with big prize money. The second edition of the Prince Adewole Adebayo Christmas Marathon saw around five thousand participants from Nigeria and abroad complete a 15-kilometer route through the city. Winners from Plateau State dominated, with Gang...

A Lagos boxing tournament just crowned its best young fighter for the year. Faruk Ajibuwon, an African Youth Games gold medalist, won the top prize and a major cash jackpot after dominating his match in the men's 50kg category. The Lagos Boxing Hall of Fame event, founded by Finance Minister...

The national wrestling trials are happening after a big championship got postponed. The Nigeria Wrestling Federation set the trials for January 6th at the Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba, Delta State. This move replaces the canceled 4th Governor Douye Diri National Wrestling Championship, which...

A former SWAN president just detailed how he saved the association from total collapse. Fan Ndubuoke recounted the turbulent crisis before his 1992 to 1996 term, describing an organization riddled with internal suspicion and loss of credibility. He explained that genuine sports journalists had...

The main Nigerian supporters club has landed in Morocco to back the Super Eagles at AFCON. The Authentic Nigeria Football & Allied Sports Supporters Club arrived with its National President, Prince Abayomi Ogunjimi, along with coordinators and instrumentalists, aiming to provide their...

Algeria booked their AFCON knockout ticket with a tight win over Burkina Faso. Riyad Mahrez sealed the 1-0 Group E victory in Rabat with a first-half penalty, making him the tournament's current top scorer. The decisive spot kick came after a foul on Rayan Ait Nouri, with Mahrez sending the...

A bunch of civil society groups are backing the Speaker over the tax law drama. Over one hundred organizations, including the Parliamentary Support and Advocacy Network, publicly endorsed Speaker Tajudeen Abbas for his handling of the review process for four major new tax statutes. The coalition...

Ondo State just got its deep-sea port project back on track with a federal revalidation. The certificate was formally presented by the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, to Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa in Abuja. Officials position this as a major national infrastructure...

The Super Eagles' goalie might be out for their next AFCON match. Head coach Eric Chelle revealed that first-choice keeper Stanley Nwabali is dealing with both knee and ankle issues ahead of Nigeria's final group game against Uganda. Chelle stated that a decision on who starts in goal will come...

This South Africa versus Zimbabwe match is a straight-up knockout game for the AFCON round of sixteen. The Group B finale in Marrakech has everything on the line for both sides. South Africa's Bafana Bafana control their own destiny with a win, while Zimbabwe's Warriors need a victory to make...

Real estate somehow thrived as Nigeria's third biggest economic sector despite brutal inflation and high interest rates. This resilience came from massive urban growth in cities like Lagos and Abuja, a huge population, and a crushing housing deficit estimated at around 28 million units. The...

Nigeria's downstream oil sector is weirdly stable now, with full stations and falling prices. This follows the chaos after fuel subsidies were removed, with market forces under the Petroleum Industry Act taking over. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Heineken Lokpobiri avoided...

Nigeria's oil sector actually did pretty well this year, for once. The country finally hit its OPEC production quota after years of missing it, with output reaching up to 1.8 million barrels per day. This turnaround was driven by the Petroleum Industry Act reforms, a major drop in oil theft, and...

A baby elephant rescue shows conservation in Nigeria might finally be working. This happened at Okomu National Park in Edo State, a last refuge for critically endangered African forest elephants. The transformation stems from a partnership between the African Nature Investors Foundation and...

SK Hynix wants its own advanced packaging plant in the US. The memory chip maker is looking at building a 2.5D packaging facility in Indiana. This move directly challenges TSMC and aims to fix a big hole in the American supply chain. Right now, the US has no major facility for advanced packaging...

The EU is building its own digital payment system that could wreck Apple Pay. The European Central Bank is pushing forward with a Digital Euro project targeted for 2029. This would let people in the Eurozone use a free, public digital wallet for all payments. Unlike services from Visa...

A new budget laptop listing shows AMD's upcoming chips might be a step back. Walmart listed an HP OmniBook 5 configuration priced at seven hundred seventy-nine dollars. This model uses an unreleased AMD Ryzen AI 5 430 processor from the Gorgon Point series. It is a quad-core, eight-thread chip...

A company stuffed a laptop chip with extra cache onto a tiny desktop board. AOOSTAR revealed a Mini-ITX motherboard featuring the AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D mobile processor. This sixteen-core chip includes 3D V-Cache technology with a total of 144 megabytes. It has a configurable TDP up to 135 watts...

The sequel to that Soulslike game is promising to be less annoying. Lords of the Fallen II from Hexworks is adding a new dismemberment system for more brutal combat. Game director James Lowe explained that the feature makes fights feel more physical and reactive. The Umbral realm will also be...

A monitor company claims it made a screen that switches between high resolution and insane speed. HKC revealed a new 27-inch gaming display featuring dual-mode operation. This monitor can toggle between a 4K resolution at 200 Hertz and a 1080p resolution at 800 Hertz with one click. The Chinese...