February 2019

Alex Iwobi   The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has cleared Super Eagles forward, Alex Iwobi, to play in Nigeria’s game against Lesotho. The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) announced this in a tweet on Tuesday, hours before the African Cup of Nations qualifier set to be played at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos today. […]

This handout photo taken and released by Dawei Watch on March 27, 2021 shows protesters holding candles as they take part in a demonstration against the military coup in a village near Dawei.   The death toll in the Myanmar military’s crackdown on protesters has passed 500, as armed rebel groups on Tuesday threatened the […]

This handout photo taken and released by Dawei Watch on March 27, 2021 shows protesters holding candles as they take part in a demonstration against the military coup in a village near Dawei.   The death toll in the Myanmar military’s crackdown on protesters has passed 500, as armed rebel groups on Tuesday threatened the […]

Naomi Osaka of Japan returns a shot during her singles second round match against Ajla Tomljanović of Australia on Day 5 of the 2021 Miami Open presented by Itaú at Hard Rock Stadium on March 26, 2021 in Miami Gardens, Florida. Mark Brown/Getty Images/AFP   Reigning US and Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka advanced to […]

  President Muhammadu Buhari is currently presiding over a security meeting at the State House in Abuja. This is taking place hours before his scheduled trip to the United Kingdom today for a routine medical check-up. Those in attendance Chief of Defense Staff, Lucky Irabor who arrived at the State House shortly before 10.00 am; […]

A combination of photos of the NFF logo and late Kashimawo Laloko.   A former technical director of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Kashimawo Laloko, is dead. Laloko, who founded the Pepsi Football Academy in 1992, was said to have died on Saturday at the age of 76 after a prolonged battle with diabetes. A […]

Alex Iwobi AFP Photo   Alex Iwobi will not be available for Nigeria’s final 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Lesotho after testing positive for Covid-19, officials told AFP on Monday. Everton forward Iwobi tested positive before Saturday’s 1-0 away win over Benin, and travelled back to Nigeria with the rest of the squad […]

A file photo of a health official helping his colleague with his PPE.   Nigeria on Sunday reported seven more deaths from complications related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, authorities have said. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed this in its latest update on the outbreak of the disease in the country. In […]

    An international expert mission to Wuhan has concluded it was very likely that Covid-19 first passed to humans from a bat through an intermediary animal, while all but ruling out a laboratory leak. The intermediate host hypothesis was deemed “likely to very likely”, while the theory that the virus escaped from a lab […]