•Flamingos players against Japan Nigeria’s Flamingos have won their first FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup title after defeating Japan 2-1 in yesterday’s final. The Flamingos became the first African team to win the competition, with goals from Awawu Bashiru and Oluebube Umejiaku securing the historic victory, reports Channels TV. Bashiru opene...
•Flamingos Nigeria’s U-17 women’s team, the Flamingos, are at the cusp of history as they face Japan in the final of the ongoing FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in Japan. The Coach Akeem Busari girls have already made history by getting into the final of the championship, reports Saturday Guardian. But a win against the […]
The trial of a Japanese former senior prosecutor accused of rape in one of the country’s most high-profile cases of alleged sexual assault restarted today after a two-year pause. Few women in Japan speak out about sexual assault, but a former prosecutor, who uses the pseudonym Hikari, came forward in 2024 to accuse her boss […]
•Late Akihiro Nabae A deputy mayor in western Japan died after being crushed under a giant float during a local parade, officials said today, a week after two others were reportedly killed at separate traditional festivals. Akihiro Nabae, deputy mayor of the city of Saijo in the Ehime region, was carrying a giant float with […]
•People walk down a flooding road in Chiba as heavy rain swept through the area, yesterday At least five people died in eastern Japan after “unprecedented” heavy rain that left thousands stranded at Narita airport overnight and snarled up roads and rail services, authorities said today. The torrential downpours late yesterday triggered landsl...
•Rescue officials work at the site of a house damaged by earthquake Japanese emergency workers searched tirelessly for survivors at a wrecked shopping mall today, as the death toll from a major earthquake hit 34 and tens of thousands were left without power in punishing heat. The Kumamoto disaster management office issued the new tally [&hell...
•Earthquake Japan issued a tsunami alert after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit the country’s southwest today, knocking out power to thousands of households. The tremor at 4:27 pm (0727 GMT) on the island of Kyushu also measured at the highest possible level seven on Japan’s own Shindo scale of shaking, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The ...
•Idara Michael Youth development advocate and public speaker, Idara Michael is representing Nigeria at the 39th JCI Academy, an international leadership programme currently taking place in Tokachi Obihiro, Japan. The academy, which runs from July 2 to July 11, 2026, brings together more than 170 participants from countries around the world, wi...
•Japan’s players celebrate their second goal against Netherlands, yesterday Japan scored an 88th-minute equaliser as they twice fought back to rescue a 2-2 draw with the Netherlands in front of 69,285 in Texas yesterday to open their World Cup campaigns. A match that had bubbled away in the first period sparked into life in the […]...
•A pregnant woman walks to her office in Tokyo Japan’s fertility rate fell again last year to a new record low, official data showed today, underscoring the demographic crisis gnawing at the world’s fourth-largest economy. Japan has one of the world’s lowest birth rates, as well as a falling and ageing population, leading to labour […]...
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