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Leicester City striker, Kelechi Iheanacho shone like a star as Nigeria on Friday beat Liberia 2-0 in the first round of World Cup qualifier matches played across Africa. The match, played at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos, was lit by Iheanacho who bagged both goals for the Super Eagles. Both goals were scored in the first half. The result puts Nigeria at the top of Group C after one round of matches. The other two teams in the group – Cape Verde and the Central African Republic – had earlier played out a stalemate in Douala, Cameroon.

Amid divorce saga, singer Paul Okoye ‘Rude Boy’ was electrified in emotional hug when he met his wife and kids after school in United States of America. After 17 years together and seven years of marriage, entrepreneur Anita Okoye filed for divorce from her husband, Paul Okoye of defunct P-Square music fame. The music star shared a video of him in an emotional hug with his three children on Instagram, with love and kiss emojis, also tagging his wife to the post. Some social media platforms had reported on Friday, August 20  that his marriage to Anita is facing crisis.…

Football’s world governing body says it has opened disciplinary proceedings over the racist abuse of England players during a World Cup qualifier match against Hungary. “Following analysis of the match reports, FIFA has opened disciplinary proceedings concerning the incidents last night at the game Hungary-England,” the body said in a statement. “Once again, FIFA would like to state that our position remains firm and resolute in rejecting any form of racism and violence as well as any other form of discrimination or abuse. We have a very clear zero-tolerance stance against such abhorrent behaviour in football,” it added. The announcement…

The Court of Appeal has declared Mr Valentine Ozigbo as the validly elected governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State. In the unanimous judgment delivered by President of the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division,z Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, the appellate court held that the primary held at Professor Dora Akunyuli Women Center, Awka, which produced Ozigbo as a PDP candidate, was conducted in line with the law and the PDP guidelines. The court, therefore, set aside the decision of Justice A. O. Nwabunike of High Court of Anambra State which had…

A Mexican boxer has tragically  died after a knockout left her in critical condition. Jeanette Zacarias Zapata was knocked out in the fourth round against Marie Pier Houle at the GVM Gala International  in Montreal  last week. The 18-year-old appeared to have a seizure after a left uppercut and a right hook, and she was rushed to hospital. Referee Albert Paduano Junior, who had checked on the Mexican fighter, called time on the contest after the fourth round, with the medical team quickly placing her in an ambulance. Fight promoter Yvon Michel announced the sad news in a statement on…

Heavy clashes reportedly occurred around Afghanistan’s northern Panjshir Valley between Taliban fighters and an anti-Taliban group, according to a source in the group. Panjshir Valley, a mountainous, inaccessible region north of Kabul, is the last major stronghold holding out against Taliban rule, and has a long history of resisting the insurgent group. For the past four decades the NRF has rebuffed advances by the British Empire’s army, Soviet forces and the Taliban. But following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, with the exception of the Panjshir region that is controlled by the NRF, the Taliban advanced into the region on Thursday…

The marriage between Nollywood actress, Annie and Innocent Idibia aka 2Face is facing turbulence. Annie had accused her music superstar husband of infidelity. This led the actress to have removed Idibia from her name, leaving only Annie Macaulay (her maiden name). But she has added her husband’s surname back to her Instagram bio. In a post shared on her Instagram page on Thursday, the actress alleged that 2Face was still romantically involved with one of his “baby mamas,” Pero Adeniyi. She wrote: “I am a patient woman. I am not an innocent fool. Your family never loved me from the…

Bishop David Oyedepo, President of Living Faith Church Worldwide, says any gang up against his church would crash within one hour. Reacting in a video making the rounds on social media, Oyedepo who is also and Founder of the church known also as Living Faith Church declared that “any gang up against this church crashes within one hour.” He claimed that the Fulani herdsmen are being sponsored to unleash mayhem on unsuspecting citizens of the country. Recall that unknown gunmen had during the weekend attacked a branch of his church in Kogi State and abducted at least three worshippers. It…

Nigerian Government has vowed to fish out contractors who collected billions of naira and abandoned more than 13,777 projects awarded by the Niger Delta Development Commission. The jobs designed to make life more meaningful for the people of the Niger Delta region were awarded by those at the helms of affairs of NDDC. President Muhammadu Buhari also vowed in Abuja that fraudulent Nigerians involved in the misappropriation of N6 trillion pumped into the NDDC, would be made to cough it out. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami received the Forensic Audit Report carried out by…

As crisis is rocking All Progressives Congress, Court has sacked Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State as the APC Caretaker National Chairman. The court also sacked other members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Caretaker/ Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, CECPC. Delta State High Court in Asaba, Wednesday, September 1, restrained the Governor and the others from parading themselves as Chairman and members of the APC CECPC until the determination of a substantive suit before the court. Justice Onome Marshal Umukoro, who presided over the matter, also stopped the party’s scheduled LG Congress in Delta State slated for September 4,…