Nigeria has won the hosting right for the 2018 African Wrestling Championship in the Senior, Junior and Cadet categories. Nigeria is having this right 42 years after the competition was instituted. The President, Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF), Daniel Igali, made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos after the […]
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Home-based Super Eagles team have qualified for the Africa Nations Championship, CHAN 2018, set to be staged in Kenya. The B team secured a 2-0 win over the Benin Republic team at the Sani Abacha Stadium in Kano on Saturday. The nervy win means the Nigerians scale through 2-1 on aggregate, after losing the first […]
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The Islamic state has claimed responsibility for the killing of 13 persons, when a van ploughed through a crowd in a busy Barcelona tourist district on Thursday. About 100 people were injured in the incident. ISIS made the claim via Amaq News Agency, as two men were arrested, just as Catalan Police also confirmed the […]
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At least 13 people were killed Thursday when a driver deliberately slammed a van into crowds on Barcelona’s most popular street in what police said was a “terror attack”. The attack, the latest in a wave of vehicle rammings across Europe in recent years, caused panic on the streets of Spain’s largest city and drew […]
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Nigerian born international CEO, Adebayo Ogunlesi has now ceased to be an adviser to embattled US President Donald Trump. Trump sacked him on Wednesday along with other distinguished CEOs counselling him via two councils on how to “Make America Great Again”. Trump sacked Ogunlesi on Twitter, when he announced the dissolution of two business advisory […]
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The Government of Israel said it would revoke the press credentials of a reporter for the Al Jazeera news network on Wednesday. This decision was taken after the reporter claimed his work was part of the “resistance’’ against Israel. The reporter, Elias Karram, 40, is a Palestinian citizen of Israel. In an interview with a […]
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More than 300 people were killed when a mudslide struck the outskirts of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown on Monday, sweeping away homes. The Red Cross said at least 205 bodies had been taken to the central morgue in Freetown. Police and military personnel were at the scene in the mountain town of Regent searching for […]
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In recognition of the growing concerns around human trafficking in Africa, The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), an African founded and funded 21st centuryphilanthropic organization committed to youth empowerment and entrepreneurship development, hosted the Director General of Nigeria’s National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Julie Okah-Donli. According to Okah-Donli, UNESCO ranks human […]
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Men of the Nigerian Army early Friday morning reportedly laid siege to the UN building in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, on the claim that illegal arms were being kept there. The said UN building is known as the Red Roof and believed to be housing humanitarian workers providing relief materials to Internally Displaced […]
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U.S.-backed forces now have Islamic State fighters surrounded in central Raqqa, a Syrian Kurdish commander said, but he predicted that driving the militants out could take up to four months. “We’ve cleared about half of Old Raqqa … and we’re advancing on all axes,” said Haval Gabar, the 25-year-old commander from the Kurdish YPG militia […]
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