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  Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola said his side can ill afford a repeat of the “under-14s” defending that saw them thrashed 5-1 by Arsenal in February. Guardiola’s men travel to the Emirates again on Sunday, already trailing the Gunners and defending champions Liverpool in the Premier League title race. City lost two of their […]

Femke Bol retained her world 400 metre hurdles title on Friday in an event that two-time Olympic champion and world record holder Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone opted to skip. Dutchwoman Bol blazed home in a time of 51.54 sec in Tokyo, ahead of American Jasmine Jones and Slovakia’s Emma Zapletalova. It marked the end of another successful […]

  Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, will address residents on Friday in a statewide broadcast. Fubara disclosed this while addressing journalists at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the state capital. He said he would speak to Rivers residents at 6 p.m. “We are going to the state by 6 p.m.,” Fubara stated. READ ALSO: Rivers […]

  The Israeli military on Friday said around 480,000 Palestinians have fled southwards from Gaza City since late August, as it presses its ground offensive in a bid to seize the territory’s largest urban centre. When asked by AFP for a figure since the end of August, the military said: “The estimate is approximately 480,000.” […]

  An elderly British couple detained in Afghanistan for almost eight months were released on Friday, the Taliban authorities said, after pressure built to free the pair due to fears over their health. Taliban officials have refused to detail why Peter Reynolds, 80, and his wife Barbara, 76, were arrested in February as they were […]

  The Federal Capital Territory chapter of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its indefinite strike. The President of the chapter, George Ebong, who disclosed this to Channels Television, said that members were expected to resume work on Monday, September 22, 2025, at 8 a.m. Ebong explained that the suspension followed the […]

  Hollywood director Tim Burton and Italian actress and model Monica Bellucci are separating, they announced Friday in a statement to AFP. “It is with much respect and deep care for each other that Monica Bellucci and Tim Burton have decided to part ways,” they said in a joint statement. Bellucci confirmed her romance with […]

  The frustrating thing about being in opposition is that you have to fight so many battles with various institutions, like the judiciary and the law enforcement agencies, that are supposed to protect you. One also struggles with those who are supposed to regulate the political parties, like INEC. And ultimately, the media.   Now, […]

Fuel scarcity in Nigeria is no mere inconvenience; it is a national ritual of dread. For the average Nigerian, the words “fuel strike” summon images of serpentine queues, swollen prices, and the paralysis of daily life. Fuel scarcity is to Nigerians what winter is to Europeans: inevitable, dreaded, and socially disruptive. That spectre looms again, […]

    Marieme Ndiaye emerged from her igloo-shaped home in Senegal’s capital, its 1950s space-age aesthetic in sharp contrast with the boxy, multi-storey apartments being built nearby. The little concrete house is a head-turner, seemingly better suited for a sci-fi movie than the average Dakar residential block where it is located. In the 1950s, around […]

  Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, says the Nigerian Immigration Service can now deliver 4,000 to 5,000 passports in five hours for the first time in 62 years. He disclosed this in a statement on Thursday after inspecting the newly built Centralised Passport Personalisation Centre at the NIS Headquarters in Abuja. With the infrastructure, Tunji-Ojo […]

  The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) over allegations of assault and murder. The police said the suspect they identified as Shamsideen Adio, popularly known as Shameleon, is currently being held at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti-Yaba, where discreet investigations into […]