The head coach of Nigeria’s women’s national basketball team, D’Tigress, Rena Wakama, has been appointed head coach of Hive BC in the Unrivaled Basketball League 2025–26 season.

Unrivaled is an eight-team women’s basketball league in the United States, co-founded by WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier in 2023, and made its debut in January 2025 with six teams.

The league announced its head coaching lineup for the second season on its website, confirming Wakama’s appointment alongside seven others across the league’s eight clubs.

Wakama led D’Tigress to back-to-back FIBA Women’s AfroBasket titles in 2023 and 2025 and guided the team to a historic quarter-final berth at the Paris Olympic Games.

Protests have escalated in major cities across Tanzania as opposition supporters denounce the presidential and parliamentary elections as a sham.

Hundreds of demonstrators also crossed into Kenyan territory, barricading roads, lighting bonfires, and tearing down posters of President Samia Hassan along the way.

Two people died after fleeing running battles with Tanzanian police.

Protesters have accused the government of undermining democracy, as the main opposition leader is in jail and another opposition figure was disqualified from the election, bolstering Samia’s chances of winning.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has passed eight of the fourteen associations seeking registration as political parties.

The commission’s National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, announced this in a statement in Abuja.

The commission said they have met the criteria to proceed to the next stage of the registration.

They are: All Democratic Alliance, Citizens Democratic Alliance, Abundance Social Party, African Alliance Party, Democratic Leadership Alliance, Green Future Party, National Democratic Party, and Peoples Freedom Party.

The Federal Government has commenced the disbursement of funds under the Tertiary Institution Staff Support Fund designed to strengthen staff welfare, institutional productivity, and innovation across Nigeria’s tertiary education system.

This was contained in a statement by the Director, Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Education, Folasade Boriowo.

Boriowo, while quoting the Minister of Education, Doctor Tunji Alausa, said the programme had transitioned from planning to full implementation, with more than nine thousand staff of tertiary institutions receiving payments in the first year.

This, he said represented twenty-eight percent of the thirty-three thousand verified applicants drawn from two hundred and nineteen Federal and State tertiary institutions across the federation.

United States President Donald Trump has said that the US can sign a trade deal with China following talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea.

The talks will be seen as a breakthrough after trade tensions had ramped up again between the world’s two biggest economies.

Trump also announced lower tariffs effective immediately on Chinese imports, stating that Beijing will give the US better access to rare earths