The striker scored three times in 17 minutes to take his side to the quarter-final Real Madrid hero Karim Benzema has become the oldest player to ever score a Champions League hat-trick, doing so in the 3-2 aggregate last-16 victory over Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday.The 34-year-old pounced on a Gianluigi Donnarumma mistake in the 61st…
Kylian Mbappe was running riot at the Santiago Bernabeu but his fellow Frenchman struck three times in 17 minutes to propel the hosts to victory Almost exactly five years later, it happened again! On Wednesday night, Paris Saint-Germain suffered another mind-blowing ‘remontada’, once again dumped out of the Champions League last 16 by a Spanish…
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to tighten sanctions and “impose the maximum economic cost on Russia” during a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday, According to a Downing Street spokesperson, Johnson told Zelensky of “the work the UK is doing to provide the military equipment Ukraine needed to defend itself.” Zelensky…
US Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power tweeted Wednesday that a worker at one of USAID’s partner organizations “was killed by the Russian military just shy of her 32nd birthday.” “I’m enormously sad to share the death of Valeriia ‘Lera’ Maksetska — proud Ukrainian, beloved @USAID implementing partner & brilliant, compassionate leader on…
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said Wednesday that she is “horrified, outraged, and heartbroken by credible reports that a Russian airstrike destroyed a maternity and children’s hospital in Mariupol.” How much more devastation will Putin’s senseless war of choice bring to the people of Ukraine? He must stop these heinous acts now,” Sherman tweeted.Although…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the bombing of a maternity hospital in Mariupol is “proof of a genocide of Ukrainians taking place” in a video message posted to Telegram late Wednesday night. “The hospitals are ruined, the schools are ruined, the churches are ruined, ordinary buildings and all the dead people, dead children, he said,…
…Gov: We’ll Ensure Justice Is Served On The Matter …We Will Apply Heavy Hammer Against Offenders – Judges Trust Africa News, By Ayomid Otitoju Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has warned persons with evil intentions to desist from spreading dangerous narratives, inciting statements and evil machinations, by using the unfortunate death of 22 year…
Six local carriers : Air Peace, Azman Air, United Nigeria Airline, Arik Air, Aero Contractors and Max Air have announced an alliance called the ‘Spring Alliance’, to mutually support each other’s operations and surpass the expectations of the flying public. The carriers signed the alliance on Tuesday, March 8, 2022, in Lagos. Speaking, the Chairman…
Domestic carriers have embarked on continuous delay and cancellation of flights due to disruption triggered by unavailability and high cost of aviation fuel.Experts familiar with the matter say flight operations will be further disrupted because it is unclear when aviation fuel and this current situation may abate.An oil marketer who spoke on conditions of anonymity…
