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With Halloween right around the corner, Wales and Belgium were given an early fright when their World Cup qualifier was temporarily suspended when a rat ran onto the pitch. After disrupting proceedings shortly after the hour mark on Monday, the rat, after a short tour of the Cardiff City Stadium’s pristine surface, was eventually shooed […]
Israeli gymnasts, including defending world floor champion Artem Dolgopyat, will not compete at next week’s World Artistic Gymnastics Championships after hosts Indonesia denied them entry to the country. Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, stated it would not grant visas to the Israeli team due to the country’s military offensive in Gaza. On Tuesday, […]
Arsenal captain Martin Ødegaard is not expected to return from a knee injury until after the November international break. The midfielder suffered a medial collateral ligament injury in the Gunners’ victory over West Ham on 4 October and had to be replaced during the first half. Arsenal released a statement the following day, confirming Ødegaard […]
Manager Michael O’Neill felt that had Northern Ireland beaten Germany at Windsor Park in World Cup qualifying on Monday night, they would have been in a “strong position to achieve something amazing”. It was not to be, with Nick Woltemade’s somewhat fortuitous goal the difference between the two sides in Belfast. When the dust settles […]
Tamarapreye Myanita Dimaro has emerged as one of Covenant University’s brightest minds, graduating with First Class Honours in Management Information System (MIS) and earning the title of Best Graduating Student in her Course. Dimaro envisions the need to close Africa’s digital gaps with the use of technology as a tool for Africa’s transformative purpose while […]
FAST Microfinance Bank, a leading micro credit and innovative services provider, in collaboration with Water.org and the National Association of Microfinance Banks (NAMB), has launched FastWash, a transformative financial product designed to give millions of Nigerians access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene. Speaking during the unveiling of the financial product in Benin, Edo State, […]
Access Bank Plc said it has integrated the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) into its mobile application, AccessMore, as part of its move toward seamless intra-African payments. This underscores the bank’s commitment to enhancing cross-border payment experiences for its customers across the continent. The deputy managing director of Access Bank, Chizoma Okoli, speaking during […]
The federal government has met with the power generation companies to finalise the implementation of the bond issuance to settle the N4 trillion legacy debts in the sector. The special adviser to the President on Energy, Olu Verheijen, who made this known on Tuesday, said the meeting held on Tuesday, 7 October 2025, in Abuja, […]
African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD) has called on governments at all levels to include men in Gender-based Violence (GBV) prevention frameworks. The founding executive director of the centre, Dr Otive Igbuzor, made the call at the unveiling of an online course on Male Feminism for Prevention of GBV in Nigeria and […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected that Nigeria’s economy will grow by 3.9 per cent in 2025 and 4.2 per cent in 2026, 0.5 and 0.9 percentage points higher than its projection in July. The IMF sees inflation closing this year at around 21.7 per cent and 19.8 per cent next year. This comes […]