Mamba sport foundation to partner with 6 basketball college programs.
With Vanessa Bryant closing in on a Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) relationship with Nike, it has just been announced that 6 schools including, LSU, Kentucky, Duke, Oregon, UConn and USC will partner the Mamba and Mambacita sports foundation for the coming season. As a result, the players from these six schools will be wearing the Kobe and Gigi Bryant signature shoes for the 2023-2024 season. This move definitely honors the legacy and memories of the Basketball legend and his daughter, who tragically passed away in 2020.
Vanessa Bryant announces Mamba and Mambacita sports foundation will partner with 6 different college basketball programs this season.
LSU
Kentucky
Duke
Oregon
UConn
USC“So excited to see their players wearing Kobe and Gigi’s NIKE shoes this upcoming season!!” 💜 pic.twitter.com/ScP7nVBcNb
— Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) September 6, 2023
Latest Jonzing World signed, GODZILLA, previewing new music.
The Nigerian entertainment industry is witnessing a huge influx of talents now like never before. Recently, the D’Prince’s record label, Jonzing World announced the signature of a new artiste, GODZILLA. Ahead of his debut release, he has just previewed new music and fans are quickly speculating if this would potentially be his debut single. Regardless, there is no doubt about the talent of the new artiste, as Jonzing World has shown over and over again with the discovery of Rema and Rugar that they can discover and groom the biggest music talents in the country.
Latest signee of Jonzing World GDZILLA, previews his forthcoming debut single.
— TXT (@txt_mag) September 6, 2023
Tribunal throws out Atiku and Obi’s petitions, upholds Pres. Tinubu’s victory.
Nigerian election was allegedly plagued by numerous electoral irregularities and despite APC led Bola Ahmed Tinubu being announced as the country’s president. PDP’s Abubakar Atiku and LP’s Peter Obi decided to contest this result at the tribunal. However, after months of debating, the cases have finally come to an end, with the tribunal throwing out the case against Tinubu’s legality to contest. Also, the tribunal insisted that LP and Peter Obi failed to ascertain the number of voters suppression. It is unclear yet, maybe the case will be appealed in the Supreme Court.
Tribunal upholds Pres. Bola Tinubu’s victory as it throws out Peter Obi’s petition in its entirety
The presidential election tribunal on on Wednesday, September 6, upheld president Bola Tinubu’s victory at the February 25 presidential election. pic.twitter.com/e7y6dAW5Ub
— Instablog9ja (@instablog9ja) September 6, 2023
Los Angeles Lakers has now added Christian Wood to its roster.
After an impressive Western conference run, L.A. Lakers are seemingly working on building a more efficient and competitive team around Lebron James and Anthony Davies. Recall they lost the Western conference finals against Nuggets after a rather shaky regular season. The addition of Christian Wood to the roster now brings the number of new additions to nine. The former Dallas Maverick Forward/Center has agreed a two years contract in NBA free agency with L.A. lakers.
Over the last 6+ months, the Lakers added:
D’Angelo Russell
Jarred Vanderbilt
Rui Hachimura
Jalen Hood-Schifino
Gabe Vincent
Taurean Prince
Cam Reddish
Jaxson Hayes
Christian WoodThe only rotation player LA gave up was Russ Westbrook and LA traded away just 1 first-round pick
— Tommy Beer (@TommyBeer) September 6, 2023
University of Lagos allegedly teargases students amidst protest.
Amidst the hard economic circumstances, federal tertiary institutions have taken a move to massively increase their school fees, in a bid to curb the recurring ASUU strike. Weeks ago, news about a hundred percent tuition fee hike for the University of Lagos’ students made rounds and despite the school denying this report, the students decided to carry on with a peaceful protest against the huge increment. The peaceful protest, which held around the school area, was however met with great violence as security forces allegedly tear-gassed protesting students. The school is yet to release any statement on this incident.
There's a heavy presence of security operatives at the main gate of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) where students are billed to protest the hike in tuition fees.
Men of the Department of State Security (DSS), police, and the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency (LASTMA) are… pic.twitter.com/EC51hfkCBy
— THE BANTER ROOM🎙️ (@thebanterroom) September 6, 2023
