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President of Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), Gianni Infantino has been re-elected as until 2027 after standing unopposed at the congress of world football’s governing body on Thursday. Infantino, a Swiss lawyer, who succeeded Sepp Blatter in 2016, was waved in for a third term by acclamation, just as he was four years ago, by […]
Continue ReadingA terrifying video captures the moment a 10-foot-long alligator lunges at an 85-year-old woman and then drags her to her death as she tries to protect her dog in Florida. The footage obtained by Inside Edition shows Gloria Serge standing with her leashed dog Monday along a lake outside Spanish Lakes Fairways, a retirement community in Fort […]
Continue ReadingUS President, Joe Biden made a surprise and historic visit to war-torn Ukraine on Monday, Februry 20, in a show of support and solidarity with a democratic nation battling a Russian invasion that started nearly a year ago. The visit, including a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was kept under tight secrecy until Biden’s arrival. “Unchecked aggression […]
Continue ReadingMega social media, Facebook and Instagram owner, Meta, will launch a paid subscription service starting at $11.99 a month allowing users to verify their accounts, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Sunday, following a similar move by Elon Musk at Twitter. Meta Verified, which reports say will roll out first in Australia and New Zealand this week, […]
Continue ReadingValentine’s Day, also called Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Christian feast day honouring a martyr named Valentine. Through later folk traditions, it has become a significant cultural and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world. The eighth-century Gelasian Sacramentary recorded the celebration of the Feast of Saint […]
Continue ReadingAward winning South African rapper, Kiernan Forbes, popularly known by his stage name, AKA, has been shot dead in Durban, South Africa on Friday, February 10. The rapper who was based in Johannesburg flew into Durban earlier Friday, February 10, for his birthday party which was scheduled to hold at Yugo Nightclub which he had […]
Continue ReadingRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday accused the West of wanting to inflict a lasting defeat against Moscow and lashed out against European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen who earlier arrived in Kyiv. “Ursula von der Leyen… said that the outcome of the war should be the defeat of Russia, the kind of […]
Continue ReadingGoogle’s parent company Alphabet announced, on Friday, it will cut about 12,000 jobs globally, citing a changing economic reality as it became the latest US tech giant to enact large-scale restructuring. The layoffs come a day after Microsoft said it would reduce staff numbers by 10,000 in the coming months, following similar cuts by Facebook […]
Continue ReadingOfficial figures show China’s population shrank by 850,000 people in 2022 — the first such decline since 1961. The tipping point comes a decade earlier than the government and the United Nations predicted. Yi Fuxian, an expert on Chinese population, said the “real demographic crisis is beyond imagination and that all of China’s past economic, […]
Continue ReadingNigerian passport has gone down by 38 places in a global passport ranking in the last 17 years. This is according to the Henley Passport Index reports between 2006 and 2022 collated by Punch The Henley Passport Index ranks passports according to the number of countries their holders can access visa-free or with a visa-on-arrival […]
Continue ReadingFollowing tradition, the new congressional Democrats minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries was to pass the gavel to the congressional Republican majority leader, Kelvin McCarthy who had just got the votes, and he spoke. Watch and listen to Hakeem in the video below: Mark my words, last night will be better remembered not for the chaos, rather […]
Continue ReadingBrazilian football legend and three-time World Cup winner, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, popularly known as Pele, was buried in his final resting place Tuesday as millions of fans in Brazil and around the world mourned the sports legend. Newly inaugurated President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva paid his respects at Vila Belmiro, the stadium where […]
Continue ReadingFormer Pope Benedict XVI has passed away. He died at the aged of 95. The former Catholic church leader, who was named Joseph Ratzinger at birth, succeeded Pope John Paul II in 2005. However, due to ailing health, he abdicated the papacy in 2013, having led the Catholic Church for fewer than eight years. He […]
Continue ReadingBrazil football legend and three-time World Cup winner, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, popularly known as Pele, has passed away. He died at the age of 82. Pele had been treated for colon cancer, following surgery to remove a tumour in September 2021, and had required regular medical treatment. After being admitted back into the hospital […]
Continue ReadingJesus meek and gentle, son of God most high, pitying, loving savior, as we celebrate your birth, may we begin to see the world in the light of the understanding you give us. As you chose the lowly, the outcasts, and the poor to receive the greatest news the world had ever known, so may we worship […]
Continue ReadingMoroccan Football Association (MFA) has filed an official complaint to FIFA over the performance of referee Cesar Ramos after Wednesday’s World Cup semi-final defeat to France. The Atlas Lions were defeated 2-0 by Didier Deschamps’s side who ended their historic run at the tournament, with Morocco becoming the first-ever African side to reach the final […]
Continue ReadingElon Musk has lost his title as the world’s richest person after selling Tesla stocks to fund the $44 billion purchase of Twitter. Bernard Arnault, the chief executive of luxury brand Louis Vuitton’s parent company LVMH, and his family took the ‘world richest’ title with a personal wealth of $185.4 billion, according to Forbes. Musk, who […]
Continue ReadingJack Dorsey, the founder and former CEO of the microblogging website Twitter, has launched a new social media platform called “Bluesky.” This happened just a week after business tycoon and owner of Tesla cars, Elon Musk bought and took over ownership of Twitter. Dorsey’s new app, which is in its testing stage, already has over […]
Continue ReadingBritish finance minister, Rishi Sunak, will be Britain’s next prime minister after his rivals quit the race, which analysts said had relieved some of the nervousness around the outlook for the UK economy, boosting domestic markets. The 42-year old will become the country’s third prime minister in less than two months, after his predecessor, Liz Truss, […]
Continue ReadingBarely six weeks of coming into office, the United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister, Liz Truss, on Thursday, stepped down from government business. Truss, who has just spent 45 days in office, said she would step down after a week-long emergency contest to find her successor She announced her decision to step down on Thursday outside […]
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