Tobi Amusan couldn’t come to the rescue of Team Nigeria Thursday evening, finishing 6th in the final of the women’s 100m hurdles. Two other Nigerian athletes had lost out in the semifinals of tgeir 200m events. Tobi Express had a slow start and could not recover. She ran 12.62secs to place sixth in a race…
Mozambican doctors and other health workers have suspended a strike that has been going on for more than a month and paralysed public health services. It comes hours after President Filipe Nyusi appealed to the health professionals to resume work to safeguard the health of Mozambicans. He said the strike had caused a lot of…
Police in Zimbabwe have arrested 41 election monitors for allegedly trying to disrupt the voting process. Those being held, from civil society groups, were allegedly co-ordinating the release of results from Wednesday’s general election, police say. They are being charged with breaking electoral law, their lawyers say. Civil society groups have tried to do their…
A team of highly skilled medical practitioners have executed the first successful womb transplant in the history of the United Kingdom on the sisters. According to BBC, the woman the womb was transplanted into had her first period two weeks after the surgery. The transplant took place in February at Oxford’s Churchill Hospital by a…
Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has promised that the State will be among the top ten in the ranking of the West African Examination Council(WAEC) before his first term ends. He said his administration will deploy all legal academic means that will return the past glory of the State in external examinations . Speaking…
Members of the fuel subsidy removal Palliative committee inaugurated by Governor Adeleke on Wednesday has urged the state government to put on hold the distribution of the three thousand(3000) bags of rice received from the federal government until the remaining fourteen thousand, three hundred and twenty (14,320) bags expected as the second batch are received….
•••Committee to meet with labour unions, marketers, youths, other stakeholders on the distribution model The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke , who was represented by the Deputy Governor, Prince Kola Adewusi on Wednesday inaugurated a committee on the distribution of the federal government’s palliatives in the state. The Deputy Governor restating that the government is…
An Islamic human rights organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has asked the Nigerian Senate to reveal the exact security breach contained in the security report over which the clearance of the former governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai was denied. The group raised the issue in a statement issued on Wednesday, 23rd August,…
U.S.-based sprinter, Alaba Akintola qualified for the next round of the 200m event of the ongoing World Championships in Budapest Hungary on Wednesday. Running in lane 6 of Heat 7, Akintola finished third in 20.45sec to advance. The Tennessee-based sprinter, with a Personal Best of 20.26sec and Season Best of 20:43 secs, made the cut…
Tennis legend Serena Williams and her husband, Alexis Ohanian, have welcomed their second child, a baby girl named Adira River Ohanian. The couple announced the news on Instagram on Tuesday. “Welcome, Adira River Ohanian,” Ohanian wrote. “I’m grateful to report our house is teaming with love: a happy & healthy newborn girl and happy &…
