American Ryan Garcia floored Devin Haney three times in a majority points win over his compatriot on a dramatic night in Brooklyn, New York. Garcia exceeded the 140-pound light-welterweight limit by 3.2 pounds (1.45 kilograms), rendering him ineligible to claim the WBC title. However, Ryan Garcia managed to knock down his opponent in the seventh, tenth, and […]
Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo state has extended an olive branch to his 15 co- contestants in the last Saturday’s governorship primary election in the state. Aiyedatiwa in his acceptance speech after the chairman of the governorship primary election committee and Kogi state governor,Ahmed Ododo declared his winner of the primary election, asked them to join hands […]
The Nigeria Athletics Federation has assured adequate preparation for athletes in order to compete favourably at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. In a statement titled ‘Paris 2024 Olympics: Athletes preparation on course’ and signed by the AFN secretary, Rita Mosindi, the federation doused all forms of worries ahead of the Games, adding that the […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Sunday gave a strong indication that it would press for the inclusion of a clause which would prescribe sanctions for governors and local government administrators who failed to implement the new minimum wage. The National Treasurer of the NLC, Hakeem Ambali, who disclosed this in an interview with our correspondent […]
The Kenya Police Service has arrested fleeing Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, as the International Criminal Police Organisation moves to extradite him to Nigeria within the week. Government sources familiar with the case who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak on the matter confirmed the development to our correspondent on […]
The management of an Abuja-based Chinese supermarket has come under fire for denying Nigerians entry into the facility. Our correspondent reports that entry into the supermarket, without any name inscription, is restricted exclusively to individuals of Chinese descent. The supermarket situated at the China General Chamber of Commerce, along Umaru Musa Yar’Adua Road in the […]
Jude Bellingham snatched Real Madrid a dramatic 3-2 Clasico win over champions Barcelona on Sunday to take them 11 points clear at the top of La Liga with six matches remaining. Los Blancos twice came from behind with Vinicius Junior and Lucas Vazquez netting to level Andreas Christensen and Fermin Lopez strikes, before Bellingham rammed […]
World No 1 and defending champion Iga Swiatek progressed to the quarterfinals of the WTA Stuttgart clay-court tournament by beating Elise Mertens in straight sets on Thursday, her ninth win in nine career matches at the French Open warm-up event. Swiatek beat the unseeded Belgian 6-3, 6-4 to maintain her bid to capture a third […]
Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez saved two spot kicks and survived a bizarre red card incident as his side beat French club Lille on penalties to reach the Europa Conference League semifinals on Thursday. A chaotic match ended 3-3 on aggregate after Lille’s 2-1 victory on the night but the real drama was to come […]
The United States received advance notice of Israel’s reported strike on Iran but did not endorse the operation or play any part in its execution, US media quoted officials as saying. NBC and CNN, citing sources familiar with the matter and a US official, respectively, said Israel had provided Washington with pre-notification of the strike. Various networks […]
