•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...
The Super Falcons of Nigeria will be out for a historic victory against Brazil in their opening fixture at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games female football tournament. The match will broadcast live on DStv ch 203 and GOtv ch 61, at 6pm tomorrow, Thursday, 25 July. The two previous meetings between the two sides ended […]
Dangote Petroleum Refinery is set to import a cargo of Brazilian crude, Bloomberg reported on Friday. It said this would add to the large number of overseas barrels of crude feedstock that the Nigerian firm was importing. Indigenous crude oil refiners, including Dangote refinery and modular refineries, as well as local crude producers have rep...
•Late Pele Brazil football legend Pele will be honoured in his home country with a commemorative day baptised “King Pele Day” , reports today’s edition of the government gazette. Considered by many the greatest footballer of all time, Edson Arantes do Nascimento — better known as Pele — won three World Cups with Brazil and […]...
•Brazil flag In 2018, Brazilian pensioner João sought medical help after he found a wart on his penis. “I started visiting medical clinics to find out what it was, but all the doctors told me it was due to excess skin and prescribed medication,” the 63-year-old recalls. Despite the medication, the wart continued to grow. […]
•Scene of the accident A bus ran off a highway in northeastern Brazil and overturned yesterday, killing at least nine people and injuring over 20 more, authorities said. The bus was traveling from Rio de Janeiro in the southeast to the tourist town of Porto Seguro in Bahia state when it ran off the road […]
•Flamengo coach Dorival Junior The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) confirmed yesterday former Sao Paulo boss Dorival Junior has been named coach of the Brazilian men’s national team, taking over the five-time world champions after a string of poor results. Dorival, whose appointment to the job was first announced Sunday by his former cl...
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