Encomium has been pouring in for the ex-Algon Chairman of Oyo State, Prince Abbas Aleshinloye, for his appointment as the commissioner representing Oyo on the Federal Character Commission.

A staunch member of the APC, and was the LG Chairman of Oluyole LG during the tenure of Senator Isiaka Ajimobi as the governor of Oyo State.

And was an aspirant to the federal house of assembly in the 2023 general elections.

A fifteen-year-old boy and three others have been arrested for the shooting of a presidential aspirant in Colombia, who died two months after he was shot.  Senator Miguel Uribe was shot two months ago at a political campaign and died two months later on Monday at 39.

Colombia is not only noted for drug trafficking but also for politically related violence.

The president has cut short his foreign engagements and return home. He is offering ransom to unravel the Bogota shooting.

It took the former Sporting Lisbon man thirty five minutes to score a blistering header and put the smoking gunners ahead in their last game before their season's opener against Manchester United.

Odegaard sent the ball across to Saka who cut it back to mercurian midfielder Zubimendi who in turn sent a cross to Gyokorees who headed it to the back of the net.

Within two minutes the gunners were back through Saka with the second goal.

And they held on to the lead until the second half when substitute Harvert made it three to round up what ended as a wonderful performance for the home team.

The gunners travel to Old Trafford next week for their first match of the season.

The two-state solution to Lebanon issues in the Middle East has received a boost when Arab and Muslim nations of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, and Turkey jointly denounced the October 7 Hamas attack and called on them to disarm.

This was at a United Nations meeting in New York attended by delegates from 17 countries, including the 22-member Arab League and the European Union.

The step-by-step plan to put an end to the Israeli-Hamas conflict that has gone on for decades is contained in the document. 

The United States and Israel are, however, opposed to the plan despite widespread acceptance and insist on the release of hostages held by Hamas and Hamas's withdrawal from Gaza with immediate effect. 

      BALLON D'OR 2025  NOMINEES 

Jude Bellingham.
Lamine Yamal

Ousmane Dembele.  

Vitinha

Gianluigi Donnarumma.  

Vinicius Jr.

Desire Doue.        

Florian Wirtz

Denzel Dumfries.

Virgil Van Dyjk

Serhou Guirassy.  

Fabian Ruiz

Viktor Gyokeres  

Declan Rice

Erling Haaland.

Michael Olise    

Harry Kane.

Mohamed Salah

Achraf Halimi  

Cole Palmer

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia.

 Pedri

Robert Lewandoski

Joao Neves

Alexis Macallister

Nuno Mendes

Lautaro Martinez.

 Raphinha
Scott Mctominay

Kylian Mbappe.

These are the thirty nominees for the Ballon d'Or.

Nigeria's D'Tigeresses have won the FIBA Afrobasket competition seven times and have dominated the competition since 2017 to date, but have only won the competition the same number of times next to Senegal.

Senegal practically dominated the competition in its early stages and won it a record 11 times. Here are the number of countries that have been champions.

1. Senegal 11 titles 

2. Nigeria 7 titles 

3. Congo DR. 3 titles 

4.Angola-2 titles.

5. Mali. 1-title.

The Olubadan-in-Council has selected the Controvicial former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, as the next and 44th Olubadan of Ibadanland, on Monday, August 4. 2025.

The announcement was made after formal nominations was made at a meeting in the Olubadan palace at Oke-Aremo in Ibadan.

Ladoja, a Lagos-based businessman, ran for the gubernatorial election of Oyo State in 2003 and won, but fell out with his political mentors who conspired with the then-President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, to remove him from office and install his late deputy. Otunba Christopher Alao Akala.

He was later returned after the court overturned the controversial impeachment, but couldn't serve a second term.

He, however, entered into another controversial altercation with the next governor of Oyo state, Governor Ajimobi over the installation of more kings for Ibadan land.

Ladoja was vehemently against the conversion of the Ibadan high chiefs to kings, and he had to go to court.

The controversy could not be resolved even with the coming in of the next governor, Seyi Makinde, until it was obvious that Ladoja had become the next in line for the Olubadan throne. And his chance of nomination was under threat.

No doubt, the most powerful Olubadan in terms of influence, wealth, age, and political power. Always insisting on a principled lifestyle.

He, however, condescended to be crowned as a small royalty before his impending coronation despite his avowed resentment of the new tradition. 

D'Tigress, Nigeria's female basketball team, has become champions again for the fifth consecutive time.

They did this when they beat the Malian female national team at the 2025 FIBA Women's basketball final in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

The D'Tigress, who are unbeaten for a decade in the tournament, also made history as the only team to win five consecutive Afrobasket championships.

And this time around, they have been duly rewarded by the presidency just like their football-playing counterparts.

After defeating the Senegal female team in the semifinals, D'Tigress started the final on a slow footing and were chasing the game for most of the first half, but managed to level at the break and went on to win the second half.

Coach Wakama has now led the d'tigress to two consecutive titles in a row.

They have now all been rewarded with $100,000 cash each, and they also get a reward of a new apartment each, and in addition, they also get the title of OON.

Quota system is a principle that was developed and made popular during the military regime in Nigeria when the resources and benefits of the nation were shared on the basis of population and geographical area, with the number of states and local governments which were based on falsified information. 

That was what led to the inflation of the population figures of Nigerian states and local governments.

The government decided to share resources and benefits according to the population of the states of the country, and because the military rulers were always from the north, they had the population of the northern states inflated because resources and benefits were going to be shared according to population, number of states, and local governments. 

That's how you have more states and local governments in the north than in the south till today. 

A typical example of the loop-sidedness of the issue is Lagos state, which was created in 1967 with 20 local governments and now with a population of 15.9 million has a small population compared to Kano state, which is in the north, founded about the same time as Lagos state, and has Jigawa state created out of it in 1991. Now Jigawa has 27 local governments with less than 7.5 million population and Kano state also has 15.5million population and 44 local governments. 

This scenario has been created many times over to the extent that today, no northern state except for Kaduna state can sustain itself because they were created to enrich the individuals.

 The quota system entails that all government activities are under the exclusive list of the federal government. 

And national resources thereof are shared every month to the three tiers of government, which has been planned to favour the north in terms of number, just like the example we gave in respect of Lagos state and Kano state. 

Quota system also promotes public investments above private investments, and all the power is concentrated in the center or in the federal government to dictate policies 

So appointments to public parastatals and businesses were done quotally according to the population of each state. Whereas the states in the north were very poorly educated, they have the highest number of spaces allocated by the Quota system. Not by merit. 

University admissions were made based on a quota system. So many qualified students from the south could not get admission, though they were qualified, and their positions had to go to unqualified northern candidates. 

As it was for admission to higher institutions in Nigeria, so it was for appointments into parastatals. 

It also goes for managerial positions. So parastatals were plundered instead of being managed, and these have become the culture till today, to the extent that those who become heads of state and presidents are mostly illiterates or semi-illiterates. When we have qualified candidates. 

Many times, a northerner not qualified has three appointments or admissions where a qualified southerner has none. When people like this manage a country, the result is what we have in Nigeria today: mindless embezzlement of public funds and senseless wastage of resources. 

Of course, we have accomplices among people of southern extraction, but the story of how Nigeria has become what we have today is the Qouta system created by northerners to hide their obnoxious desires to plunder the nation. 

The story of people like Atiku Tambuwal or El Rufai is like this. There are exceptions, but they are very minimal. 

If power goes back to a northerner, then it is surely a return to nepotism, megalomania. The solution is for the system to be abolished immediately and for the government to be sustained by the resources generated under that regime or within the jurisdiction of that government. Every state has to be made to support itself. This likely eliminates funds mismanagement or limits it.

The government must also be weakened at the center and all its activities removed from the exclusive list. 

England came from behind to beat Spain and win the women's Euros for the third consecutive time.

Mariona headed Spain in front in the 25th minute, and Spain found their usual dominance, but England's resilience paid off when Russo also headed home an equalizer in the 58th minute and went through extra time before beating Spain on penalties.

It's a big congratulations to England for avenging their World Cup loss to Spain.