•Real Madrid coach, Carlo Ancelotti Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti has agreed to take over the Brazilian national team, several Spanish media outlets reported yesterday. The veteran Italian has one more year on his contract with the Spanish giants but after quarter-final Champions League elimination by Arsenal and Copa del Rey defeat by riv...
Senior diplomats from the BRICS grouping of nations gathered today in Brazil to present a united front in the face of US President Donald Trump’s aggressive trade policies. The meeting comes at a critical moment for the world economy after the International Monetary Fund this week slashed growth forecasts over the impact of the American [&hell...
•Brazilian senator and former president (1990-1992), Fernando Collor de Mello Brazil’s former president Fernando Collor de Mello was arrested today, a federal police source told our correspondent, after a top court upheld his nearly nine-year sentence on corruption and money laundering charges. Collor de Mello, Brazil’s first democratically el...
•Tinubu leaving Brazil after the G20 Leaders Summit President Bola Tinubu has arrived in Nigeria from Brazil where he attended the G20 Leaders’ Summit. The president arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja late yesterday. He was welcomed by a team of government officials and other top dignitaries, hours after he left the [...
•Tinubu with JBS executives President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has called on JBS S.A, one of the top three largest meat processing companies globally, to consider investment in Nigeria’s livestock sector, saying there’s hunger in Nigeria at the moment. Tinubu said this yesterday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the signing of a Letter of Intent […...
•President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa South Africa has assumed the presidency of the G20, becoming the first African nation to lead the influential bloc of the world’s largest economies. The handover ceremony took place yesterday during the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, reports AFP. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of...
•Tinubu jets out President Bola Tinubu departed Abuja for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, yesterday to participate in the 19th G20 Leaders Summit slated for November 18 and 19. The summit, at the instance of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will bring together leaders from the world’s largest economies to discuss critical global issues. ...
•Plane crash Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has declared three days of mourning following the crash of an aeroplane, which claimed 61 lives. An aeroplane carrying 57 passengers and four crew members crashed yesterday in Brazil’s Sao Paulo, killing everyone on board, according to the airline. The Voepass airliner, an ATR 72-500, was...
•Oropouche virus Brazil has recorded the world’s first Oropouche virus deaths, the country’s health ministry said yesterday, after two women died of the illness spread by infected flies and mosquitos. The women from the state of Bahia in northeast Brazil were “under 30 years old, with no comorbidities, but who had signs and symptoms similar [&...
•Super Falcons Goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie, Toni Payne, and defender Michelle Alozie have been named in Nigeria’s starting lineup for their Group C opening match against Brazil at the Paris 2024 Olympics which is ongoing. But star forward and former Barcelona Femeni player Asisat Oshoala is on the bench for the crunch tie with the South [&hel...

