The nine-time champion has been drawn against fellow Serb Miomir Kecmanovic. Britain’s US Open champion Emma Raducanu, seeded 17th, faces American world number 68 Sloane Stephens, the 2017 champion at the New York major. The Australian Open is the first Grand Slam of the 2022 season and starts at Melbourne Park on Monday. The draw…
It follows several days of negotiations, in which Villa beat off interest from Chelsea, Newcastle and West Ham for the former Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona defender teven Gerrard brings in his second signing as manager following the arrival of his former Liverpool team-mate Philippe Coutinho, with Brighton’s midfielder Yves Bissouma also a target. “When Lucas became…
Wood says he is “delighted” to have signed a two-and-a-half-year deal with the Magpies and is available to play in Saturday’s Premier League match against relegation rivals Watford at St James’ Park. “I have played at St. James’ Park a few times and it’s an amazing place, so to have the chance to represent this…
Global rights group, Amnesty International, has welcomed the lifting of the ban placed on social media platform, Twitter, by the Federal Government. The lifting of the ban after 222 days was announced in a press statement on Wednesday signed by the Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency and Chairman Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement,…
The United Nations has said it will hold talks in Sudan aimed at salvaging a fragile democratic transition amid a grinding deadlock following an October coup and the prime minister’s resignation last week. Volker Perthes, the UN envoy for Sudan, said in a statement on Saturday that the UN-facilitated political process would seek a “sustainable…
By ADEOLA OGUNLADE The General Overseer, The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG worldwide), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has assured Nigerians that 2022 is a year of progress and joy for as many that will draw closer to God and shun all forms of sin. Adeboye who, yesterday presided over the New Year service at…
BY ADEOLA OGUNLADE No fewer than 500 members recently turned up to celebrate the commissioning of the remodeled Western Nigeria Union conference administrative headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Maryland, Lagos with a musical concert. The Union which is one of three in Nigeria making up the 23 countries of the West Central Africa…
By Adeola Ogunlade An evangelical ministry in Celestial Church of Christ (CCC),The Coordinator of Genesis Team International, Evangelist Davies Ekunola, has urged Nigerians to stop heating up the polity with negative comments, saying no investment will survive in a society without peace. Ekunola made the plea while speaking with journalists at the ministry’s headquarters, Rehoboth…
Gbajabiamila commends Faleke Drums were rolled out last Friday to celebrate Honorable James Abiodun Faleke and wife Mrs Faleke who was conferred with one of the Atunluse-Akorede” and his wife “Yeye Atunluse-Akorede of Ikeja land. Venue was Police College ground, Ikeja Lagos. The chieftaincy title was bestowed upon Faleke and wife by Ikeja Obas-in-council, Oba-Aguda…
