Nigerian-born rugby youngster Immanuel Feyi-Waboso has been tipped to excel with England’s national team in days to come, especially during next year’s global showpiece, Sports247 reports.

The verdict came from the winger’s coach at Exeter RC, Rob Baxter, who believes 23-year-old Feyi-Waboso will be a revelation at next year’s Rugby World Cup if he can keep fit throughout this season.

Baxter’s verdict came while recollecting that Feyi-Waboso helped The Chiefs reach last season’s English Rugby Premiership final but later on missed the Six Nations series after suffering a hamstring injury in February.

Feyi-Waboso also missed the final game of the season and Exeter’s play-off semi-final win at Bath, after fracturing his jaw in a game away to Leicester at the end of May, all of which Baxter noted slowed down his progress.

However, with the lad having returned to action with Exeter at Twickenham and then starred for England in their Nations Championship matches, Baxter is optimistic that his protégé can reach greater heights next year.

“I think if he can really put a run of games together, he could be quite a force come World Cup time because he is an exceptional player. There are areas of his game where time improves some of those elements.
“If he can put a good run together, I think it’d be quite exciting what England might see from him both in the autumn and during the World Cup later in the year,” Baxter reasoned glowingly in favour of Feyi-Waboso.

Sports247 gathered further that Feyi-Waboso played 28 games for club and country in 2024, the most since his breakthrough the year before, but the following season was blighted by a shoulder injury he suffered just before Christmas.

That injury kept him out until the summer of 2025, but he returned last season to score 13 tries in all competitions, as Exeter made the play-offs for the first time since 2021 and reached the semi-finals of the European Challenge Cup.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has criticised the recently passed Osun State Integrated Transport, Traffic and Park Management System Bill, describing it as unconstitutional and calling for its immediate withdrawal.

The party made its position known in a statement issued on Thursday and signed by its Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi.

The Osun Assembly passed the bill on Wednesday after consideration and adoption of the relevant committee report and third reading. 

The proposed legislation seeks to establish an integrated framework for the registration, regulation, management and digital administration of commercial transport, traffic, motor parks, terminals, garages and loading points. 

A major provision of the bill is the introduction of a digitalised ticketing system intended to eliminate multiple ticketing in motor parks, while improving transparency and efficiency in transport-related revenue collection. 

However, the APC argued that the state lacks the constitutional authority to directly regulate and manage motor parks, insisting that such responsibilities fall within the functions of local government councils.

The party said, “Your Bill on Integrated Transport, Traffic and Park Management is a legislative harakiri, unenforceable and a recipe for crisis. We urge the lawmakers to withdraw the legislation.”

The APC also argued that Section 7(1) of the 1999 Constitution, read alongside the Fourth Schedule, assigns local government councils functions including the establishment, maintenance and regulation of motor parks. 

The Fourth Schedule expressly lists motor parks among facilities within local government functions. 

According to the party, “the proposed legislation could therefore conflict with constitutional provisions if it seeks to transfer direct control and revenue collection relating to motor parks to the state government.”

The APC referred to Governor Ademola Adeleke’s earlier efforts concerning motor park management, alleging that the proposed legislation could provide another route for the state government to achieve what it described as an unconstitutional takeover.

“We won’t fail to impress it on Governor Ademola Adeleke that his administration could not now access or achieve the illegality through his obnoxious and repugnant Motor Parks Management Bill,” the statement said.

The opposition party also urged the House of Assembly to concentrate on legislation that would support governance without creating what it described as avoidable conflict, saying, “The duty of the state House of Assembly is to embark on making productive and legal laws.”

The APC called for the immediate withdrawal of the bill, describing such action as being in the interest of peace in Osun State. 

It also maintained that where a state law conflicts with the Constitution, constitutional provisions take precedence, while urging lawmakers to reconsider the legislation before it proceeds further through the assent process.