Luka Modric ended Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi’s decade-long domination of football’s individual awards by being crowned FIFA’s best player of the year on Monday. The Real Madrid and Croatia midfielder starred for both club and country as Madrid won a third straight Champions League, and he inspired Croatia to reach the World Cup final […]
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A woman on Thursday, killed three people and wounded two others at a drugstore distribution center in Harford County, Maryland, United States, officials said. Law enforcement officers confirmed that the shooter is female. The incident occurred at a Rite Aid support facility, about 30 miles northeast of Baltimore. A police officer, Jefferey Gahler at a […]
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The World Health Organisation, WHO, has said that a quarter of the world’s population are at risk of developing Tuberculosis, TB, during their lifetime. According to WHO, countries are not doing enough to end tuberculosis (TB) in spite of global efforts that averted about 54 million TB deaths since 2000. WHO, at the release of […]
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The 73rd session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) opened on Wednesday with its President, Ms María Fernanda Espinosa, pledging to use her tenure to bring the world body closer to the people. Espinosa, in her inaugural keynote address to the 73rd session of the 193-member General Assembly, also pledged to use her tenure to […]
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A report by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has revealed that more than 40 percent of “extremely poor people” in the world will be living in Nigeria and DR Congo by 2050. In the 2018 goalkeepers report released Tuesday, the foundation said by 2050, Nigeria will have 152 million people in extreme poverty out of […]
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By 2025, robots will handle 52 percent of current work tasks, almost twice as many as now, a World Economic Forum (WEF) study said Monday.The sharp increase could also see a net gain in “new roles” for humans, who will have to revamp skills to keep pace with the “seismic shift” in how we work […]
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Typhoon Mangkhut killed at least 25 people in the Philippines as it smashed homes and left behind torrents of floodwater, and is now on course to plough into China’s coast. The massive storm, considered this year’s strongest, left key agricultural areas on Luzon island underwater as its fierce winds tore trees from the ground and […]
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The federal government has approved the immediate deportation of 36 Indians and two Democratic People’s Republic of Korea nationals. Mohammed Umar, permanent secretary of the ministry of interior, disclosed this in a statement. Umar said Abdulrahman Dambazau, minister of interior, signed the deportation order in his office in Abuja on Tuesday. He said it was […]
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The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted the weather for Today. There are possibilities of thunderstorms and rainfall activities over most parts of the country. NiMet’s Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office in Abuja on Monday, predicted moderate rains over the Central states of Abuja, Lokoja, Bida, Minna, Ilorin, Yola, Makurdi, Mambilla Plateau, Lafia, Jos […]
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Alibaba co-founder and chairman Jack Ma plans to retire from the Chinese e-commerce giant on Monday to devote his time to philanthropy focused on education. Ma was an English teacher before starting Alibaba in 1999 and built it into a multibillion-dollar internet colossus, becoming one of the world’s richest men and a revered figure in […]
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