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The defending champion Denver Nuggets outgunned the Minnesota Timberwolves 115-107 to level their NBA playoff series on Sunday as the Indiana Pacers pulled even with the New York Knicks. The Nuggets, fueled by 35 points from NBA Most Valuable Player Nikola Jokic, Aaron Gordon’s 27 points on ruthlessly efficient 11-of-12 shooting and 19 points from […]

San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama won the 2024 NBA Rookie of the Year award, the league announced on Monday, marking the first time a Frenchman has captured the honor. The 20-year-old center, a 7-foot-4 (2.24m) prodigy who was the top pick in last year’s NBA Draft, averaged 21.4 points, 10.6 rebounds, 3.9 assists, a league-high 3.6 blocked […]

PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, weekend, explained why servers belonging to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, failed to work during the 2023 presidential election. According to him, the ‘establishment of criminality’ made the INEC servers not work during the last general elections. Obi stated this while addressing the issues of […]

A new initiative aimed at empowering women in Northern Nigeria through AI education was launched recently. Google, in collaboration with the Kaduna State Government, and Data Science Nigeria, introduced the AI for Beginners Learning Video Series. This series presents Artificial Intelligence concepts in Hausa, making complex technology more accessible and culturally relevant for the region. […]

Wild condemnation is trailing the beating to pulp of a nurse by a group of masquerades in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State on Sunday. DAILY POST reports that the action has attracted outrage, with individuals and groups demanding justice for the nurse who was racing to her duty call. The victim has been […]

Former Super Eagles goalkeeper, Vincent Enyeama, has said he did not apply to be the team’s next head coach because of two reasons. Since Jose Peseiro’s contract elapsed, several former Nigerian players have been linked with the job. Enyeama has admitted he would have also applied if he had secured his coaching certificate and wasn’t […]

A finance expert, Okechukwu Unegbu, has called on the Federal Government to dissipate more effort in arresting and prosecuting politicians accused of looting the treasury. Unegbu, a past president of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, CIBN, gave the advice in an interview with newsmen on Monday in Abuja. He spoke against the backdrop […]

World No 1 and defending champion Iga Swiatek progressed to the quarterfinals of the WTA Stuttgart clay-court tournament by beating Elise Mertens in straight sets on Thursday, her ninth win in nine career matches at the French Open warm-up event. Swiatek beat the unseeded Belgian 6-3, 6-4 to maintain her bid to capture a third […]

The United States received advance notice of Israel’s reported strike on Iran but did not endorse the operation or play any part in its execution, US media quoted officials as saying. NBC and CNN, citing sources familiar with the matter and a US official, respectively, said Israel had provided Washington with pre-notification of the strike. Various networks […]

Afrobeat sensation, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has come out to support renowned chess Master, Tunde Onakoya, as he aims to surpass the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon. Among those who have come out to support Onakoya is Nigerian singer, Adekunle Kosoko, popularly known as Adekunle Gold, Nigeria’s Consul-General in New York City, Ambassador Peter […]