By: Abudu Olalekan PDP convention. This weekend. Supposed to be unity. Feels more like a showdown. Delegates are arriving. Buses pulling in from Lagos, Kano, Enugu. Suitcases, party badges, side-eyes. Over 3,000 of them. Two-thirds of the states already confirmed. Venue? Lekan Salami Stadium. Looks like a rainbow exploded—blue, yellow, PDP flags everywhere. But behind…
By: Abudu Olalekan Ronaldo sent off. Again. And now? The 2026 World Cup might start without him. It happened in Dublin. Cold night. Rain-slicked pitch. Ireland 2, Portugal 0. And in the 61st minute—boom. Elbow. Dara O’Shea stumbles. Referee shows yellow. Then… VAR kicks in. Review. Pause. Tension. Red card. Cristiano Ronaldo, 39 years old,…
By: Akinde S. Oluwaseun Victor Boniface sighs before he speaks. You can tell this season hasn’t gone as planned. The 24-year-old, now wearing Werder Bremen colors after a late loan move from Bayer Leverkusen, just wants one thing — to stay fit. Simple. “Honestly, I just want to play the whole season without injury,” he…
By: Akinde S. Oluwaseun It started with a post. Just one photo. No words, no captions — just Alex Iwobi showing a glimpse of where the Super Eagles were staying in Morocco ahead of their World Cup qualifier against Gabon. And then, boom. The internet ran wild. People thought he was shading the team’s accommodation…
By: Abudu Olalekan Okay, so picture this. You’re Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca. Your team just scraped through a wild, wild Carabao Cup game against Wolves. It ended 4-3, right? Absolute chaos. But instead of celebrating a last-minute winner by Jamie Gittens that sends you to the quarter-finals? You’re fuming. Because one of your players—Liam Delap,…
By: Abudu Olalekan Whoa. Hold up. Wilfred Ndidi—just got the call. Vice captain. Besiktas FC. Turkey’s black eagles. Friday bombshell. Club board drops the news. Statement hits like thunder. Ndidi? Deputy to new skipper Orkun Kökçü. Turkish international phenom. They replace legends Necip Uysal and Mert Günok. Era shift. “With our President Serdal Island’s decision……
