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“I want to end this speech with a message to all young girls in the world. Believe in yourselves!” – Ada Hegerberg, Norwegian forward, spoke after scooping the inaugural women’s Ballon d’Or trophy. Women’s fight for recognition on the biggest stage, meanwhile, took a big step with the award of Hegerberg, who plays for French side Olympic Lyonnais. France Football magazine has been awarding the Ballon d’Or since 1956, and created a women’s award for the first time this year. Hegerberg is a three-time Women’s Champions League winner with Olympic Lyonnais and scored a tournament-record 15 times last season. “Being historical…

Two women who got babies after they had clocked menopause jubilated and thanked God for the miracles on Saturday, December 1. The women from Nigeria’s South West Region got the babies after they had attained 62 and 54 years respectively. The duos could not control their joy when they started cuddling their babies born through natural process for the first time. Testifying during the end of this year’s Anointing Service held at Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, Lagos transmitted via satellite, they narrated the trauma they had gone through in search of babies. The 62-year-old (name withheld) flanked by…

The Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka seems to be in a quandary over the person who will become Nigeria’s next president, Straightnews has found out. Although the presidential election slated for February 19, next year, the man of God has a damning prediction for the main gladiators of All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party. On January 1, 2018, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka said that President Muhammadu Buhari is trapped in a horrible bondage and prophesised that he would not be re-elected. After months of waiting, the fiery preacher revealed in October this year…

David Oyedepo, the founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide also known as Winners’ Chapel, Sunday, stepped into the overheated polity and stoked another controversy surrounding the real identity of President Muhammadu Buhari. Oyedepo, a bishop who spoke at Living Faith church HQ at Canaan land, Ota spared at the report of Buhari’s death and Jubril El Sudan as Nigeria’s impostor President in Aso Rock. He, therefore, called on Buhari to, as a matter of urgency, address the nation on the hype. Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, started the allegation in 2017 that the real Buhari…

The 33-year-old became the first Croatian to claim the award, a year after he had won the Champions League and reached the World Cup final. Luka Modric has beaten off competition from the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Antoine Griezmann and Lionel Messi to be named the winner of 2018’s Ballon d’Or. The Real Madrid midfielder played a pivotal role for his club as they stormed to a third consecutive Champions League title, as well as captaining Croatia to second place at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. With France having won the World Cup, Griezmann, Kylian Mbappe and even Modric’s…

The mode of electioneering campaigns among aspirants vying for elective positions ahead of the 2019 general elections in the country has not only dazzled the electorates but has also stunned them. With the use of inciting political statements, vile propaganda, blackmail and offensive advertisements and jingles, candidates of different political parties try to manoeuvre and outdo their opponents. This episode had started to gather momentum the moment the gong was sounded for commencement of political rallies and campaigns for presidential and National Assembly on November 25. Apparently, some candidates have hit the ground running by flooding the minds of the…

Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, Monday, predicted that Nsima Ekere would emerge as the next governor of Akwa Ibom State during March 2, 2019 election. Ekere, the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in the state, is squaring up with Udom Emmanuel, the incumbent governor gunning under the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Akpabio, who was also Akwa Ibom governor from 2007 to 2015, defected from PDP to APC on August 8 and there is no interface with his political estranged son, Emmanuel. “By next year, all these noise will stop and @NsimaUEkere will win the governorship election convincingly,” the…

Fuel scarcity is looming as oil marketers have given the federal government a seven-day ultimatum to settle outstanding debts totalling N800 billion. The marketers, comprising Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN), Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association (DAPPMA) and Independent Petroleum Products Importers (IPPIs), said failure to meet the deadline would force its members to disengage workers from depots across the country. Confirming the seven-day notice, Patrick Etim, legal adviser to IPPI, told NAN that banks have taken over investments and assets of oil marketers over unpaid debts. According to Etim, marketers have no choice that to ask their…

Tyson Fury’s shot at completing a remarkable return to the top of world boxing saw him survive two knockdowns in an enthralling draw with WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder in Los Angeles. In one of the most thrilling heavyweight contests for years, the Briton was floored in the ninth round and brutally dropped in the 12th, somehow regaining his feet to survive for two minutes. Fury had shown plenty of the evasive, counter-punching skill that made his name before his 30-month spell away from the sport and he enjoyed success in the middle rounds. But in the 12th he lay…

The Jewish people globally commenced the celebration of the miracles of Hanukkah from December 2 Some American leaders have felicitated them on the celebration. Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire. It is a lesser Jewish festival, lasting eight days from the 25th day of Kislev (December2-10) and commemorating the rededication of the Temple in 165 BC by the Maccabees after its desecration by the Syrians. It is marked by the successive kindling of eight lights. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) tweeted on…