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The Nigerian Premier Football League (NPFL) is set to earn $7.5 million (about ₦10.5 billion) from a new three-year sponsorship deal with Euromatch Group. NPFL Chairman Gbenga Elegbeleye announced the deal in Abuja during the unveiling of Euromatch as the league’s new sponsor. Elegbeleye said the partnership is worth $2.5 million per season, bringing the total value to $7.5 million over three years. He said the deal shows the progress made by the NPFL in recent years, adding that the league has moved beyond the challenge of getting fans into stadiums. According to him, the focus is now on managing…

At least 47 people were killed and 22 wounded in the raid, according to news reports, in one of the deadliest recent attacks on the once relatively peaceful area, which has increasingly become a target for armed groups seeking to expand beyond Port-au-Prince.The massacre offered a grim coda to a new UN report released Tuesday documenting how Haiti’s gang violence is spreading geographically even as the authorities’ anti-gang campaign intensifies in Port-au-Prince.At least 1,408 people were killed and 656 injured from April through June, according to the UN Integrated Office in Haiti, known by its French acronym, BINUH. That was…

The biggest threat to any crewed expedition to Mars is time. NASA’s shortest blueprint for sending people to the Red Planet and back requires spending 620 days in space and 30 days on Mars. Even setting aside the compounding challenges of building life-support systems that can operate without resupply for that long, or the fact that longer journeys leave more time for unlucky accidents, life in microgravity and solar and cosmic radiation will inexorably exact their cumulative toll on human bodies.We want to make it possible to dramatically reduce the length of time crews must spend in space—down to just…

European football has always belonged, at least financially and historically, to the grandest names. Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Barcelona and AC Milan have filled the European Cup’s roll of honour. Yet every generation produces a reminder that the competition was never designed solely for the powerful.Here are four of the European Cup’s most romantic Cinderella triumphs.Celtic, 1967Celtic’s triumph remains one of the purest underdog stories in European football.Jock Stein’s side became the first British club to win the European Cup, defeating two-time champions Inter Milan 2-1 in Lisbon. Inter led through Sandro Mazzola’s seventh-minute penalty, but Tommy Gemmell equalised before…

Sustainable Capital Limited has exited Seplat Energy Plc after selling its remaining 36.7 million shares, bringing its voting rights in the energy company to zero. Seplat Energy disclosed in a regulatory filing that Sustainable Capital’s voting rights fell from 6.18% to 0% after crossing the reporting threshold on August 19, 2026. The company was formally notified of the change on August 23 before the disclosure was released to the market on August 24. The latest transaction completes a gradual withdrawal by Sustainable Capital from what had previously been one of the largest institutional shareholdings in Seplat. Earlier in the year,…

It is the 10th day of the ongoing two-week negotiations at the 17th session of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP17), with the conference entering its final and most critical phase. Wednesday has been designated Land and Indigenous Peoples Day at the conference venue in Ulaanbaatar, placing renewed attention on land restoration, Indigenous Peoples, pastoralists and local communities. With less than 72 hours to the scheduled conclusion of negotiations on Friday, tensions and disagreements have emerged across the plenary and negotiation rooms as parties struggle to reach consensus on some of the key issues on the COP17…

The Kano State House of Assembly has called on Governor Abba Yusuf to take urgent action to contain a severe diphtheria outbreak that has reportedly killed an unspecified number of children in the Rano Local Government Area (LGA). The resolution followed a motion of urgent public importance moved on Monday by the member representing Rano Constituency, Ibrahim Muhammad, during a plenary session presided over by Speaker Ismail Falgore. Moving the motion, Mr Muhammad reported that the outbreak has hit the Ridin and Sabuwar Kaura communities hardest, resulting in several pediatric deaths. He said the scale of the outbreak demanded an…

News » Premier League news » Arsenal newsAugust 25, 2026 21:19 GMT (UK), by Sri Aswin View Arsenal transfer targets Arsenal want Ndiaye? Arsenal could target a move for Everton winger Iliman Ndiaye before the transfer window closes on September 1, according to The Daily Mail. The Gunners are in the process of selling Gabriel Martinelli to Al-Hilal. An agreement is almost done, and his arrival could pave the way for another winger to join the squad before the transfer deadline.The club were interested in Morgan Rogers and Vinicius Junior earlier this summer, but the former joined Chelsea from Aston Villa, while the latter…

As spiralling drone and missile attacks on civilians in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war continue, top UN officials told the Security Council on Monday that every diplomatic effort must work towards a full, immediate and unconditional ceasefire. UN News app users can follow our live coverage here. Source link

More than 76% of consumers in India prefer talking to businesses over a phone call, according to a recent study from Truecaller. Since voice is still consumers’ preferred way to communicate, that leaves a big opportunity to automate support and outreach calls using voice AI in the country. Voice AI startup Ringg, which already processes 20 million call attempts a month, is betting that volume keeps climbing over the coming months, and it just raised more money on that belief. The company said today it has landed $10 million from Peak XV Partners as an extension of its Series A.…