Legendary footballer, Lionel Messi has bagged another Ballon d’Or award at a ceremony in Paris. The Barcelona star moved ahead of his long term competitor, Cristiano Ronaldo to claim this prestigious record, seeing off Liverpool’s Virgil Van Dijk and Juventus’ Ronaldo. The football star hit a record-breaking 54 goals for {Read More..}
American music icon, Lil Wayne has been addicted to hard drugs for more than a decade and now it appears to be taken a toll on him. The rapper was pictured in Saudi Arabia while he was performing at a concert during the weekend, and he looked like a man {Read More..}
Sudan’s pro-democracy movement and the army announced a joint ruling body on Tuesday, formally disbanding the military council that took power after the ouster of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir in April. The new, 11-member body — called the Sovereign Council — is to rule Sudan for a little over three {Read More..}
Cristiano Ronaldo’s lawyers have said for the first time that the footballer did pay a woman who accused him of rape €375,000 to settle the allegations made in 2009. Kathryn Mayorga filed a lawsuit in a state court last year in an effort to have the settlement invalidated on condition {Read More..}
Traders are counting losses after the property of unknown value was destroyed in an early morning fire that started at a furniture shop at Githurai 44 area on Monday morning. According to area residents, the fire whose cause is yet to be established began at around 4 am and spread {Read More..}
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, has expressed optimism that Nigeria is capable of attaining poverty-free status by 2030 in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target. The governor hinted this in Ado-Ekiti while honoring 27 SDGs impact advocates who had distinguished themselves in the area of scholarships and other {Read More..}
A former Zimbabwean vice-president has been declared a fugitive by authorities in the country over issues of corruption. The state-run Herald newspaper said Phelekezela Mphoko had escaped from Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) officials who were set to arrest him on Monday, August 19. The report said the Mugabe-era veep was {Read More..}
The Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has decried the incessant attack on farmers by Fulani herdsmen in the state and country at large and called on the Federal Government to take strident measures to curb the protracted clashes between herdsmen and farmers. Okowa, who made the call on Saturday at the {Read More..}
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