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News » Premier League news » Manchester United newsJuly 3, 2026 19:52 GMT (UK), by Sri Aswin View Man Utd summer 2026 transfer targets Tchouameni to Man Utd is off Manchester United are poised to miss out on signing another midfielder during the ongoing summer transfer window. The Red Devils have had a quiet summer thus far, and they have already missed out on three high-profile midfield signings.The club were first interested in landing Elliot Anderson from Nottingham Forest, but Manchester City won the race for him.West Ham United’s Mateus Fernandes and Newcastle United’s Sandro Tonali were targets, but they have both joined Tottenham…

By Deborah Musa The United Nations World Food Programme has warned that escalating conflict and dwindling humanitarian funding are pushing northern Nigeria into its worst hunger crisis in nearly a decade, with millions of people facing severe food insecurity. The agency, in a statement released on Thursday, said the food security situation had deteriorated faster than previously projected as renewed attacks across northern Nigeria continued to displace communities, restrict humanitarian access and cut people off from food assistance. According to the recently completed Cadre Harmonisé analysis, more than 17 million people across nine conflict-affected states in northern Nigeria are experiencing…

Data Entry Academy, a Lagos-based edtech platform, has won first place in the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Get Ready 4 timbuktoo EdTech accelerator, taking home a $10,000 prize after topping a field of 1,429 applicants from across Africa. The startup, founded by Chioma Ifeanyi-Eze, beat finalists from Egypt and Senegal during a July 1 pitch event in Dakar, Senegal. Another Nigerian startup, Varsity Scape, placed sixth among the top 10 winners. The award underscores the growing prominence of Nigeria’s edtech ecosystem, particularly startups building digital skills and workforce development solutions, at a time when development finance institutions and ecosystem…

The National Association of Nigerian Students has cautioned President Bola Tinubu against taking any action against the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, over allegations linked to the controversy surrounding Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, insisting that no public official should be sanctioned on the basis of claims that have yet to be proven. The student body said while it remained committed to accountability and the fight against corruption, justice must be guided by due process, fairness and the rule of law rather than public pressure. In a statement issued on Friday and signed by its President, Akinteye Babatunde, NANS…

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…task CP to flush out suspected political thugs …Accord, APC trade blame By Shina Abubakar Osogbo The Inspector General of Police, Tunji Disu, has given express approval to the Osun State Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Gotan, to go after any criminal irrespective of their hideouts across the state. Speaking at a stakeholders meeting with political parties, traditional rulers, student groups and others at the police command in Osogbo, he frowned at the shielding of suspected political thugs and criminals by political gladiators in the state. He said the state is preparing for a governorship election, not war; hence, police will…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Adamawa for the 2027 election, Maurice Vonobolki, has said the era of political godfathers in the state is over. Speaking to journalists at Yola International Airport after returning from Abuja with his certificate of return, Vonobolki said the influence of political godfathers ended when Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri came to power in 2019. He said, “The cancer called ‘godfatherism’ was eradicated since the emergence of Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri in the 2019 election. Fintiri was elected without any godfather behind his emergence, except for the support of the Adamawa voters.” He added,…

News » Premier League news » Chelsea newsJuly 3, 2026 20:00 GMT (UK), by Sri Aswin View Chelsea summer 2026 transfer targets Xhaka to stay at Sunderland Sunderland midfielder Granit Xhaka has decided to stay put with the Black Cats amid the transfer interest from Chelsea, according to Sky Sports. The Swiss international was the subject of an £8m bid from the Blues last week. The proposal was rejected by Sunderland, who insisted that he was not for sale at any price.Chelsea were planning to make a fresh proposal for him recently, but Xhaka has now made the decision to commit his immediate future to…

According to the UN Development Programme (UNDP), developing economies are being forced to spend hundreds of billions of dollars shielding households from soaring energy costs, leaving less money for schools, hospitals and climate action.Their new report, Military Escalation in the Middle East: Cushioning the Global Shock, finds that governments have relied on fossil fuel subsidies, price caps and tax rebates to protect families from higher oil prices triggered by instability in the Middle East.While these measures provide short-term relief, they come at a steep long-term cost, the agency reports.UNDP projects global fossil fuel subsidies will climb to $1.1 trillion in 2026, around…

Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has told employees that the company’s restructuring has not delivered the faster progress in artificial intelligence (AI) agents that executives had expected, months after thousands of workers were laid off and reassigned to AI-focused teams. Speaking during an internal town hall on Thursday, Zuckerberg admitted that development had slowed despite the company’s major investment in AI infrastructure. Looking back at the past four months, he said the “trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected,” adding that the company’s bets on its…