By Olalekan Okusan After edging out some of the best fighters in the world at the just concluded Poland Open Ranking Series in Warsaw, Nigeria’s Odunayo Adekuoroye has been tipped as a potential gold medalist at Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Japan. From her first-round fight against European runner-up Tetyana Kit of Belarus, Odunayo known…
Amina Garba has been farming groundnut and yam in Tayi B in the Bosso Local Government Area of Niger State for over 20 years. But in all these years, she has not gotten any form of fertilizer, either free or at a subsidized rate from the Niger state government. Her yearly yield is thus very…
Israel’s parliament has voted to end Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year tenure as prime minister, approving in his stead a coalition government. Al Jazeera reports that Naphtali Bennett, the head of an ultra nationalist party that controls six seats in the 120-seat Knesset, was sworn in as Prime Minister after the parliament backed the new coalition government by…
Ends of thousands of people have joined protests in the Spanish capital Madrid against controversial plans to pardon jailed Catalan separatists. Leaders of Spain’s right-wing parties joined the demonstration against the pardoning of 12 separatists behind a failed independence attempt in 2017. Protesters accuse the Socialist-led Spanish government of using the plan to shore up…
Australian city Brisbane has moved a step closer to being named the host for the 2032 Olympic Games. Brisbane was and has now been proposed as host by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive board. Several cities and countries had expressed an interest in hosting the Games, including Indonesia, Budapest, China, Doha and Germany’s Ruhr Valley….
Olamide Francis and Peter Dada The late founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Pastor Temitope Joshua may be buried on July 9, 2021 on the premises of his church in Lagos S Joshua died last week in Lagos State at the age of 57. A member of the family, who spoke on condition…
Cardiff’s airport was hardest hit by the Covid pandemic in the UK last year, seeing an 87% decline in passengers, figures show. Traveller numbers there dropped from 1,656,085 in 2019 to 219,984 in 2020. In Britain and Northern Ireland as a whole, 223 million passengers were lost in 2020 because of coronaviru Some 74 million…
England boss Gareth Southgate says his side’s opening European Championship win over Croatia will “relieve some tension” in his squad. It is the first time England have won their opening game at the tournament. Raheem Sterling scored the only goal in front of 22,500 fans at Wembley after being set up by Leeds midfielder Kalvin…
hair had previously met, when Adesanya claimed a split-decision victory over Vettori igerian-born Kiwi’s second Uaturday night’s rematch Adesanya, 31, showed his class with a virtuoso performance as he ped apahe Italian over the full five-round championship duration at the Gila Vettori started the bout in aggressive fashion and landed an early takedown, but Adesanya…
