•Canada’s forward Cyle Larin (C;L) celebrates goal against Bosnia and Herzegovina, yesterday Co-hosts Canada grabbed a second-half equaliser to draw 1-1 with Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday in the first World Cup finals game ever played on Canadian soil. Cyle Larin got Canada’s goal after Jovo Lukic put Bosnia ahead with a header in the [&he...
Nigerian pilgrims who participated in the 2026 Hajj will begin their journey back to the country today, starting with pilgrims from Nasarawa State. An update by the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria today noted that MaxAir flight NGL267 departed Jeddah for Abuja at 09:27hrs with 560 Nasarawa Pilgrims, reports Channels TV. A Saudi-designated ...
Grade A Customary Court, Court 2, sitting at Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State, has ruled on a divorce suit brought before it by a woman, Ifeoluwa, against her husband, Gabriel, whom she accused of lack of love, irresponsibility and abandonment. Ifeoluwa stated that Gabriel, a prophet, left home for Lagos when their child was two months […]
Four South African men lured into fighting for Russian forces in Ukraine returned home today, local media said. Their arrival comes days after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa held talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on the return of South Africans caught up in the Ukraine war, reports AFP. It was not immediately clear [...
•Late Ifunanya Nwangene and a snake An Abuja-based music talent, Ifunanya Nwangene, died on Saturday after sustaining a snakebite, prompting renewed concerns over snake safety, especially in residential areas. Nwangene, a soprano singer with the Amemuso Choir, died on Saturday at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abuja, reports The Nation. The...
•Bandits Eighty worshippers who escaped abduction during a bandit attack at Kurmin Wali community in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State have returned to their homes. However, dozens of others remain in captivity, as security operatives intensify efforts to rescue the victims, reports Channels TV. This is according to the village head...
•Late film director and actor Rob Reiner American film director Rob Reiner and his wife were found dead at their Southern California mansion, CNN and NBC reported yesterday. Los Angeles police said in a media conference yesterday evening that they would not yet publicly confirm the identities of the two people found dead at the […]
•Released Israeli hostage Avinatan Or (C) Thousands cheered yesterday as a smiling Avinatan Or stepped out of the van bringing him from the hospital to his parents’ home in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank. Or, 30, was released last week along with 19 other hostages as part of a ceasefire deal that […]
•Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy France’s ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy left home today to head to jail after being found guilty of seeking to acquire Libyan funding for his 2007 presidential run. He walked out of his home hand-in-hand with his singer wife, Carla Bruni, and left in a car escorted by police on motorbikes, reports [&helli...
•Late Raila Odinga “A king”, “a hero”, “Nelson Mandela”, “Jesus Christ” no superlatives were too much for the crowd that came to mourn the death of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga at his Nairobi home today. That he failed to win the presidency no less than five times is not the point for the fans […]

