Nigeria’s senior women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, has touched down in Berlin, Germany, to finalize preparations for the 2026 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup commencing on Friday. Upon their arrival, the five-time African champions were received by Nigeria’s Ambassador to Germany, Ita Enang, alongside other diplomatic officials. This leg follows a rigorous training regimen that included a final camp in Zaragoza, Spain—featuring warm-up matches against Mali and Puerto Rico—following prior training blocks in the United States, China, and Tenerife.....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶

Coached by Rena Wakama, the squad enters the global tournament drawn into Group B, where they will face South Korea on Friday, Hungary on Saturday, and France in their concluding group fixture on Monday. D’Tigress arrives riding strong momentum as the reigning African champions, having defeated Mali 78-64 in the 2025 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket final in Abidjan. Building on their historic quarter-final appearance at the 2024 Paris Olympics—which marked a first for any African basketball team—the squad aims to surpass or match their best-ever World Cup performance of an eighth-place finish achieved in 2018.

The campaign organization for Senator Sharafadeen Alli, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Oyo State, has addressed a viral video showing a student from The Polytechnic, Ibadan, sitting on his lap. In a statement released on Wednesday, the campaign clarified that students from the institution’s Department of Banking and Finance had visited Alli’s Mokola campaign office in Ibadan to invite him to an event and conduct an interview. Because there were not enough chairs to accommodate everyone present, Alli cordially invited one of the students to share his seat.....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶

The footage, which also captured Alli briefly touching the student’s lap, sparked varied reactions and online speculation. Strongly condemning attempts by certain platforms to sexualize the interaction, the campaign team dismissed these claims as misleading and politically motivated. They characterized Alli’s actions as a completely innocent, spontaneous, and fatherly gesture born entirely out of a seating shortage. Expressing disappointment that political desperation would twist a simple meeting with students seeking support into something sordid, the organization urged the public to ignore the false narratives and emphasized Alli’s well-known, supportive rapport with young people.

Veteran Nollywood actress Patience Ozokwor has strongly criticized parents who completely insulate their children from labor and adversity, warning that preventing kids from experiencing hardship is the quickest way to ruin their lives. During an interview with media personality Femi Baba, the beloved star—famously known as Mama G—emphasized that parents should not deny their children the valuable lessons of struggle out of a misguided sense of love. Citing her own strict parenting approach, she shared how she once told her son that her house did not belong to him and made him leave to earn his own living, noting that instilling discipline and hard work has ensured her children are doing well today.....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶