Author: David Great

There was never a doubt in Tyrese Haliburton’s mind. The Indiana Pacers star has done it too often — especially in the 2025 playoffs — to not have confidence in the closing seconds. Haliburton hit a 21-foot pull-up jumper in the final second on Thursday as the Pacers completed a stunning comeback for a 111-110 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. It was Haliburton’s fourth big-time shot in the closing seconds during this year’s playoffs. The Pacers hadn’t led in the Thursday game until Halliburton drained his latest clutch hoop with 0.3 seconds…

Arsenal have added Aston Villa’s English winger Morgan Rogers, 22, and 24-year-old Brazilian forward Igor Paixao, who plays for Feyenoord, to their list of targets this summer. (Times – subscription required) Arsenal are interested in signing Real Madrid’s 24-year-old Brazil winger Rodrygo. (Sky Sports) Sporting Lisbon’s 27-year-old Sweden forward Viktor Gyokeres is open to reuniting with former manager Ruben Amorim at Manchester United. (Talksport) Brentford have rejected Manchester United’s first bid for Cameroon forward Bryan Mbeumo. The Old Trafford club are believed to have offered £45m plus £10m in add-ons but the Bees want more than £60m for the 25-year-old.…

Dangote Group founder, Aliko Dangote has named the road leading to Dangote Refinery after President Bola Tinubu, the president’s spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga said on social media. Dangote announced the honour when he spoke about the various roads his group was building nationwide with tax credit. He road would now be known as Bola Ahmed Tinubu Road. Dangote, Africa’s richest man said the group is committed to spending N900 billion on roads, despite paying N450 billion in taxes last year. Dangote refinery ends Nigeria’s era as Africa’s largest fuel importer Tinubu visited the refinery for the first time on Thursday before commissioning…

President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to cut off government contracts with Elon Musk’s companies, as the relationship between the world’s most powerful man and its richest unraveled publicly on their rival social media platforms. Here’s how it happened: – JUNE 3: Musk attacks Trump’s top legislative priority: a sweeping tax-cut and spending bill. “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it,” he wrote on his X platform. – JUNE 5, around noon…

Traffic along the Osogbo-Gbongan road was severely disrupted on Thursday as multiple accidents caused a major gridlock, leaving travellers stranded for several hours. The congestion, which stretched between Akoda and Sekona communities, kept some motorists stuck for nearly four hours, with only a limited number of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) officials and security personnel on the ground to manage the situation. While details of the accidents remained unclear as of press time, the Public Enlightenment Officer of the FRSC in Osun State, Agnes Ogungbemi, confirmed that some victims sustained injuries and were taken to a private hospital in Ede.…

The Federal Government has kick-started preparations for the 2025 Democracy Day with the inauguration of an inter-ministerial committee. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, has been named chairman of the committee. A statement released on Thursday by the Director of Information in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Segun Imohiosen, revealed that Akume was represented at the inauguration event by the Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Atiku Bagudu. In his remarks, Bagudu emphasized the significance of the celebration, noting that Democracy Day is more than a symbolic occasion. “Democracy…

The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP), the umbrella body of all registered political parties and political associations in Nigeria, has issued a strongly worded statement condemning recent calls for the declaration of a state of emergency in Benue state. The group warned that any such move would be unconstitutional, undemocratic, and a dangerous precedent for governance in Nigeria. In a press release signed by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Comrade James Ezema, CNPP stated that while it acknowledges the gravity of the security challenges in Benue and other parts of the country, “you cannot use illegality to fight criminality.”…

Former President of Zambia, Edgar Lungu, has died at the age of 68. His party, the Patriotic Front, announced his death in a statement released on Thursday. According to the party, Lungu passed away in Pretoria, South Africa, where he had been receiving medical treatment for an undisclosed illness. The statement read that Lungu was “receiving specialized treatment in South Africa for an undisclosed illness.” Lungu served as Zambia’s president from 2015 to 2021. He lost his re-election bid to the current president, Hakainde Hichilema, and subsequently stepped away from politics. However, he later returned to the political scene with…

President Donald Trump of the United States on Wednesday suspended for an initial six months the entry into the United States of foreign nationals seeking to study or participate in exchange programs at Harvard University, amid an escalating dispute with the Ivy League school. Trump’s proclamation cited national security concerns as a justification for barring international students from entering the United States to pursue studies at the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based university. Harvard in a statement called Trump’s proclamation “yet another illegal retaliatory step taken by the Administration in violation of Harvard’s First Amendment rights.” “Harvard will continue to protect its international…

In a bid to ensure road safety during the Sallah season, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has carried out a special enforcement operation in Nyanya, Abuja, leading to the arrest of multiple traffic offenders and the impoundment of vehicles. According to a statement shared on the Corps’ official X (formerly Twitter) account on Thursday, the operation was aimed at curbing traffic violations among commercial tricycle operators in the area. The statement read in part: “As part of efforts to ensure the safety of road users during the Sallah festivities, Officers and Men of RS7.13 Nyanya Unit Command, led by…