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Heavyweight boxers Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury finished their match for the WBC heavyweight championship with a split draw decision on Sunday. Wilder, the undefeated WBC champion retained his title after squaring off against undefeated challenger and former WBA, WBO, IBO, and unofficial lineal champion Fury, in front of almost 18,000 people at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. After twelve rounds, the judges scored the match 115-111 for Wilder, 114-110 for Fury and 113-113, leading to a split draw decision. Following the decision, both men said they thought they did enough to eke out the win. “I think with…

Norwegian world number one beat US opponent in a tie-breaker to retain World Chess Championship title. Magnus Carlsen, the 27-year-old Norwegian came to London as a champion. He is fidgety, bored, almost aloof, but fascinating. Across the chessboard: the challenger from Brooklyn, Fabiano Caruana. He is one year younger with dual Italian and American citizenship. He is more upright and studious looking. Carlsen, the highest-rated player in chess history, has three measly points clear of Caruana in a ranking system where both of them have over two thousand points. Both acknowledged as having the brains of “super computers.” And therefore,…

“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…