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The world is “one tiny tantrum away” from a nuclear crisis, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons said on Sunday as it accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. “We have a choice, the end of nuclear weapons or the end of us,” the group’s executive director Beatrice Fihn said, according to a BBC report. ICAN, a network of more than 400 global NGOs, won the prize for its efforts in highlighting the dangers of nuclear weapons, as well as working on a treaty to ban them. The possibility of nuclear retaliation has been thrust into the global spotlight in recent…

FIFA, the world football’s governing body, has penalized Super Eagles of Nigeria for fielding and ineligible player by awarding three vital points to the Fennec Foxes of Algeria. FIFA also fined the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) $6,000  (N2,175,660) for act of complicity. During matchday 6 of the Russia 2018 World Cup qualifiers, Super Eagles fielded defender Shehu Abdullahi, who should have served an automatic one-match ban for two yellow cards from earlier Matchdays (vs. Swaziland and Zambia). The sanction will have no effect on Eagles’ status as one of the 32 teams going to next year’s FIFA World Cup in…

Mohamed Salah, the Liverpool forward has been declared the overall winner of this year’s BBC African Footballer of the Year Award. The 25-year-old Egyptian and Liverpool star beat Gabon’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Guinean Naby Keita, Sadio Mané of Senegal and Nigeria’s Victor Moses. Fans voted online at BBC.com/AfricanFootball in record numbers this year for their favourites on the five-man shortlist. Presenter, Mimi Fawaz announced Mohamed Salah as the winner during a special presentation broadcast during Focus On Africa programme on BBC World Service and BBC World News, as well as a special show on BBC BRIT. Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool manager joined…

Are you looking to get your eating habits on the right track and lay off the supplements? Then, consider eating more eggs. Eggs come with many of benefits ranging from weight loss to even helping you have a baby. It is surprising that so many good things can come from such a small package. There are 10 Reasons Why Eggs Are the Most Important Food in your Diet. Eggs Increase Your Metabolism You may think your metabolism is not quite the same as it was in high school, but eating eggs can at least restore a bit of its former…

Donald Trump, US President has started to lose support among the white voters who helped put him in the White House, the recent polling shows. Trump’s job approval rating among white voters has plummeted from 49 percent to 41 per cent in February, according to the latest Pew Research Center poll results released Thursday. Those figures are a far cry from the 58 percent of the total white vote Trump claimed on Election Day last year. During the eight years of his presidency, Obama, too, lost favor among white voters. When Obama’s presidency began in January 2009, he had a…

Talks are at advanced stage between Anthony Joshua and Joseph Parker for a bumper unification fight in Cardiff on March 31, according to The Sun. New Zealander Parker, the WBO heavy world champion, is set to meet the British boxing star and WBA and IBF title holder, Joshua at the Principality Stadium in the Welsh capital. Speaking to ESPN, the 25-year-old Parker said, “I think the Joshua fight can go ahead early next year when both teams are locked in and happy. “When we can find a free date, a time in March, then we can definitely make it happen.…

Breast cancer awareness is at an all-time high, and most women are keenly aware of the potential threat that they’ll develop it. Breast cancer screening programmes are readily available and are credited, along with the increased awareness, for five-year breast cancer survival rates have risen from about 75 peer cent in 1980 to over 90 per cent today. However, while many women are aware of the most common self-screening technique of checking their breasts for cancerous lumps, there are several other signs that go ignored. We’ll shed some light on those 7 Often Ignored Signs of Breast Cancer in this…

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange, JSE, on Thursday suspended trading in the shares of Nigerian oil company, Oando. The suspension came after an order by Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, prompted the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), to suspend the embattled company on Wednesday. According to a notice by the JSE seen by PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday, the suspension was effected based on a correspondence between the Nigerian bourse and JSE. “The Company has received communication from its primary listing, the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have issued a directive to immediately suspend the trading…

International Kidnapping Expert, Olav Ofstad has written a new book dealing with all aspects of surviving kidnappers’ and here he tells us how to protect our children Thousands of children are abducted each year. Even parents living in comparatively safe environments may devote a lot of energy to ensure their children’s safety. Driving them to school, to friends and to sports activities, they rarely let them out of sight. However, we cannot always be there to guard our children, and part of growing up is to relate more and more to the outside world. So how to protect children as…