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Remo Stars President Honourable Kunle Soname, has celebrated the club’s successful 2022/23 season which culminated in qualification for the CAF Champions League. The Ikenne- based team came second in the regular NPFL season with 33 points from 18 games in Group A. They also came second in the Championship playoffs with nine points from five matches. Soname gifted the players a sum of 20 million naira, announced 5 million naira […]
The US State Department has called for an "orderly and responsible" drawdown of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, known as Minusma, following Bamako's call for its departure "without delay". "We are concerned about the effects this decision will have on the security and humanitarian crises impacting the Malian people. We will continue to work with our partners in West Africa to help them tackle the urgent security and governance […]
Two nine-year-olds were among the 25,000 people forcibly sterilised in Japan under its post-World War Two eugenics law, a parliament report has revealed. The law, in place for 48 years, forced people to undergo operations to prevent them having children deemed "inferior". Many of them had physical or cognitive disabilities, or mental illness. The law is widely recognised as a dark chapter in Japan's post-war recovery and was repealed in […]
Paris has requested to attend a Brics summit scheduled to take place in South Africa in August, France's Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said on Monday. "We are thinking aloud - but this is obviously a decision that only the countries concerned can take - about the possibility of continuing this dialogue, why not at the Brics summit or in another format," she said following talks with her South African counterpart […]
Venus Williams defy her physical problems to beat Italy's Camila Giorgi in an emotional first-round thriller at the Birmingham Classic. American Williams appeared to be in tears after taking a medical timeout just five games into the match. However, with her right knee heavily strapped, the 43-year-old battled to a 7-6 (7-5) 4-6 7-6 (8-6) win. It was only Williams' second singles victory in almost two years after lengthy injury […]
Former world number two Anett Kontaveit, has announced her retirement from tennis due to a condition in her back. The Estonian said the problem "does not allow for full-scale training or continued competition" and explained Wimbledon will be her last tournament. The 27-year-old's best result in a grand slam tournament was reaching the Australian Open quarter-finals in 2020. "Tennis has given and taught me a lot," Kontaveit said. She added in a statement on Instagram: "It has been important for […]
Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas have called for an Amendment to the Petroleum Industry Act, 2021 for a review of the Thirteen Percent derivation for the Communities to domesticate the Pipeline Surveillance in the care of the Host Communities as articulated in the United Nations Environment Programme report. Speaking at a News Conference on behalf of the Communities in Abuja, the Chairman, Mr. Mike Emuh who expressed […]
Wales' hopes of reaching Euro 2024 took another huge blow as Turkey left it late before sealing a 2-0 win against the 10-man visitors in Samsun. The Wales defence came under heavy criticism after its performance against Armenia on Friday, and it looked like they had been caught out once more when Chris Mepham turned the ball into his own net after nine minutes - only for VAR to rule […]
Bukayo Saka has scored the first hat-trick of his career as England made it four wins out of four Euro 2024 qualifiers by thrashing North Macedonia at Old Trafford. Gareth Southgate's side are well on course to qualify for the tournament in Germany next summer and, even though North Macedonia provided meagre opposition, England still demonstrated the dazzling array of attacking options they have at their disposal. And at the […]
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Tajudeen Abbas, has condemned the killings of a Fulani leader, Alhaji Shuaibu Mohammed, and his four children by suspected bandits in Dorayi community in Zaria Local Government of Kaduna State. Mr. Abbas, in a statement by his adviser on media and publicity Musa Abdullahi Kirshi, describes the killings as most unfortunate, barbaric and gruesome, saying the killers must not go unpunished. The […]
