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Israel Adesanya, the former UFC title holder, suffered another back-to-back  defeat as he was knocked out by Nassourdine Imavov during the main event of UFC Fight Night in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, February 1. The 30-year-old Frenchman lived up to his nickname, “The Sniper,” landing a lightning-fast precision right hand early in the second round, signalling the beginning of the end for Adesanya. The decisive moment came just 30 seconds into the second round when Imavov landed a powerful right cross followed by a clean left uppercut and a flurry of ground strikes, leaving Adesanya unable to recover.  The first…

Fire has sent 30 passengers to their early graves in an auto crash that occurred in the Odigbo Local Government Area of Nigeria’s Ondo State. The incident occurred on Saturday, when two commercial buses had a head-on collision and burst into flames at the Onipetesi axis along the Ore/Lagos Expressway. With 32 passengers involved in the accident, 28 were burnt beyond recognition while two survivors rescued with serious injuries died before getting to the hospital. Also read: Auto crash Spares Corpse, Consumes four in Akwa Ibom  Two other passengers are still receiving treatment. According to sources, the accident was caused…

An Akwa Ibom-born legal practitioner has taken swipe at the way the state financial resources are spent by past and present elected office holders to the detriment of the poor masses. Inibehe Effiong who in his X on Sunday was unhappy with the manner of spending of the financial resources by the past and present Governors in the state. Effiong wrote ‘‘I find it upsetting when some people complain about my acerbic choice of words whenever I respond to the stealing of public resources by evil politicians. ‘‘You want me to be nice and diplomatic with savages and arrogant thieves…

The Commissioners for Sports and Chairmen of Sports Commissions in the nine mandate states of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, have hailed the leadership of the commission for establishing the Niger Delta Sports Festival, saying it will greatly impact sports and human capital development across the region. At a stakeholders meeting of the NDDC with the head of sports in the states, held at the NDDC Headquarters on Friday, January 31, the delegates unanimously expressed their excitement at the intervention of the NDDC in the region’s sports sector, especially with the initiative of the competition, which they described as…

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) began nationwide enforcement of third-party vehicle insurance that kicked off February 1, 2025, mounting roadblocks and impounding defaulting vehicles. In Akwa Ibom, the State Police Command mounted road blocks at various points and impounded defaulting ones over non-compliance with the Third Party Vehicle Insurance scheme on Saturday Led by the state Commissioner of Police, CP Baba Mohammed Azare, the enforcement team stopped and checked vehicles of different makes plying major routes in the state. Also read Recall that the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, directed all the police commands in the country to…

Reigning Champions league champions, Real Madrid will lock horns with the 2023 winners Manchester City in the biggest tie of the play-off round of this season’s Champions League, following Friday’s draw. It is the fourth year in which the sides have been drawn against each other in a knockout tie, with Real emerging victorious in a penalty shoot-out in the quarter-finals last season. City, who scraped through after finishing 22nd in the league phase in this first season of the new format for Europe’s elite club competition, will be at home in the first leg before going to Spain for…

By Our reporters The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Yushau Ahmed, has announced that corps members will be collecting a new monthly allowance of N77,000 from February 2025. Speaking to the 2024 Batch ‘C’ Stream II corps members in Katsina State, Ahmed stated that the increment has been included in the 2025 Federal Government budget and will take effect once the budget is passed. “This month (January) has already ended, but once the budget is passed, by next month (February), you will start receiving N77,000 instead of the usual N33,000,” he said. Also read Open Forum…

South African Model, Tshego Gaelae, has made history as the first Black Mrs. World at the 40th Mrs. World Pageant in Las Vegas, USA.  The 40th Mrs. World pageant took place on January 29–30, 2025. Sri Lanka’s Ishadi Amanda was named the first runner-up, while Thailand’s Ploy Panperm secured the second runner-up position. Celebrating her win, Gaelae expressed her gratitude in an Instagram post, writing, “To God Be The Glory. Thank you so much for the love and support, I am beyond grateful and elated! My beautiful South Africa, the crown is coming Home.” The organisation that supported her journey, Mrs…

President Donald Trump faulted federal diversity efforts on Thursday after a regional jet crashed into a U.S. Army helicopter at a Washington airport, killing 67 people in the deadliest U.S. air disaster in more than 20 years. The investigation into the crash, opens new tab in the nation’s capital has just begun and it was not yet clear why the American Airlines Bombardier carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with the Army Black Hawk helicopter as it prepared to land at Reagan Washington National Airport. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said both aircraft had been flying standard flight patterns and there had…

By Press Release Operatives of Akwa Ibom Police Command have busted theft syndicate and recovered stolen tricycle from suspects. Briefing the press at the State Police Headquarters, Ikot Akpan Abia in Uyo Local Government Area on Wednesday, DSP Timfon John ‘‘On 20th January 2025, at about 16:59hrs, acting on credible intelligence, operatives of the Command apprehended the following suspects: Ubong Dominic Ekong, ‘M’, Salisu Musa, ‘m’, Baba Tella ‘m’, Robert Ezekiel James, ‘M’, Eze Joseph Chibuike, ‘M’ and Abubakar Sadiq ‘m’. The operation led to the recovery of a stolen tricycle with registration number A/T/09230 UYY. Investigations revealed that Ubong…