Super Eagles and Napoli star Victor Osimhen has been nominated for the Serie A Best Striker of the Season award. This was announced on Serie A’s Twitter handle on Wednesday. Osimhen will contest the award with Inter Milan’s Lautaro Martinez and Rafael Leao of AC Milan. The Nigerian striker currently lead in the Serie A […]
Read MoreChinese payment system UnionPay has overtaken rival Visa on the global debit card market, research by analytical company Nilson Report has found. According to the study, UnionPay’s share of debit card transactions reached 40.03% in 2022, while the share of Visa transactions was around 38.8%. The volume of settlements made through UnionPay cards was also bigger, […]
Read MoreThe Russian military has destroyed Ukraine’s “last warship,” the Yury Olefirenko, in a high-precision airstrike, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said on Wednesday. “On May 29, as a result of a strike by a high-precision weapon of the Russian Aerospace Forces on a warship mooring in the port of Odessa, the last warship of the Naval Forces […]
Read MorePopular Nollywood actor, Mofe Duncan has reacted after being called out by a movie producer who accused him of failing to show up on set after being paid for an acting gig. The producer, identified as BDaniels, had taken to social media to air his displeasure with the movie star on Tuesday, May 30, and demanded […]
Read MoreBola Tinubu, the former Lagos governor who is credited with helping the city-state increase its revenue base, has been sworn in as Nigeria’s new president. He took the oath of office from Chief Justice Olukayode Ariwoola in a colourful ceremony attended by local and foreign dignitaries on Monday in Abuja, the capital. Tinubu, 71, succeeds […]
Read MoreFormer Rwandan police officer Fulgence Kayishema, a long-time fugitive arrested this week for his alleged role in the killing of some 2,000 Tutsis during the 1994 genocide, was arraigned before the Cape Town Magistrates’ Court on Friday. Kayishema is facing five charges in South Africa, including two counts of fraud for breaching the Immigration Act […]
Read MoreTina Turner, the pioneering rock’n’roll star who became a pop behemoth in the 1980s, has died aged 83 after a long illness. She had suffered ill health in recent years, being diagnosed with intestinal cancer in 2016 and having a kidney transplant in 2017. Turner affirmed and amplified Black women’s formative stake in rock’n’roll, defining […]
Read MoreThe founder of FCMB, Subomi Balogun, has died. He died in London Friday morning. Mr Balogun celebrated his 89th birthday in March. He was an alumnus of Igbobi College and studied law at the London School of Economics. The deceased practised as a lawyer in the regional justice ministry and then at the federal ministry […]
Read MoreGhana has given regulatory clearance to a new malaria vaccine developed by Oxford University scientists. The West African country is the first in the world to approve the use of the R21/Matrix-MTM serum, the university said on Thursday. The vaccine has been endorsed by Ghana’s drug regulator, the Food and Drugs Authority, “for use in […]
Read MoreThe Democratic Republic of the Congo may start using the Mir payment system, Russia’s alternative to Visa and Mastercard, to facilitate transactions with Russian partners, Congolese ambassador to Moscow, Ivan Vangu Ngimbi, told RIA Novosti news agency on Friday. According to the envoy, the idea of using Mir was pitched by a Russian private […]
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