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Joshua Cheptegei  broke the 10,000m track world record on Wednesday in Valencia with a time of 26mins 11.00 seconds. He lowered the previous mark of 26min 17.53sec set by Kenenisa Bekele in 2005 in Brussels. This was the 24-year-old 10,000m world champion’s third world record this year and cemented his standing as the new middle distance maestro. In February he claimed the world 5km road record in Monaco. Then, after a period of Coronavirus lockdown in his native Uganda, he returned to Monaco and, in his first race back, wiped almost two seconds off Bekele’s 16-year-old track world record time…

Some prominent Nigerians have felicitated Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli over his successful emergence as the new Emir of Zazzau. In a message signed by Ja’afaru Ibrahim Sani, the Commissioner for Local Government Affairs, Nasir El-Rufai, the Kaduna State governor, Wednesday announced the appointment of the new emir after weeks of apprehension, 17 days since the stool became vacant. Mr Bamalli succeeds Shehu Idris, the 17th Fulani emir of Zazzau who reigned for 45 years before his death on September 20. Princes from three of the four dynastic lines of the emirate jostled for the post with four of them believed to…

Nigeria has escaped a $1.5 billion liability in an application for arbitration filed by two oil companies. Abubakar Malami, Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), said in a statement the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Dispute in the United States gave the judgment during its sitting on Tuesday. The oil companies — Interocean Oil Development Company and Interocean Oil Exploration Company — had in 2013 filed the request for arbitration before the tribunal. They had sought for settlement of investment disputes against Nigeria over a contract between the two parties. But in the statement issued on…

The founder and president of Uma Ukpai Evangelistic Association, a non-denominational gospel ministry based in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, South-South Nigeria, Rev. Uma Ukpai, has opposed Biafra agitations. The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, who is also the Director of Radio Biafra, is agitating for the Republic of Biafra. His group, the IPOB which is also seeking to break away from Nigeria had since been proscribed by President Muhammadu Buhari administration. Like IPOB, the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) is also fighting the same cause along with other pro-Biafra…

The estranged wife of Femi Fani-Kayode has called it quit in her marriage after rumours of separation and accusation of infidelity. Precious Chikwendu has finally confirmed that her marriage to former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has ended. The mother of 4 confirmed the end of her marriage in an exchange with an Instagram follower after she shared photos with her sons.  The follower had written; These enablers are faceless, ur marriage is collapsing n yet these lonely, never better are encouraging you to join their miserable association. I pity you. However reacting to the comment, Precious wrote: @matress89 take note,…

Legendary performer of the 1972 hit “I Can See Clearly Now” Johnny Nash has died. The singer-songwriter who had been in declining health in recent months died at age of 80, his son told CBS Los Angeles. The reggae and pop musician made his major debut in 1957 with the single, “A Teenager Sings the Blues,” after making his start singing at the Progressive New Hope Baptist Church. The first non-Jamaican singer to record reggae in Kingston, Jamaica, Nash had spent the latter half of his career working with Grammy-winning engineers to transfer analogue tapes of his recordings from the…

The winner of the just-concluded Big Brother Naija Season 5 reality show, Laycon has benefited from a three-bedroom bungalow and N5 million from Ogun Government. Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun state who announced this on Tuesday October 6, when he hosted Laycon in his office in Abeokuta, the state capital. The governor also announced that Olamilekan Agbelesebioba popularly known as Laycon has been appointed a Youth Ambassador in the state. He expressed the hope that his good character, excellence, good virtues, calmness and integrity would serve as a model to the youths in the state. Abiodun said despite all the odds,…

The selection of a new Vice Chancellor for University of Uyo (UNIUYO) in Akwa Ibom State has become stormy between the outgoing Vice Chancellor and the institution’s Governing Council. Speaking in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, Tuesday, after the selection, Prof. Austin Awujo, the Chairman of UNIUYO Governing Council said Mallam Adamu Adamu, the Minister of Education, has summoned him for a crucial meeting in Abuja, as controversy continues to trail the selection process of the new VC of the institution. Awujo explained that the interview process was fairly and democratically conducted for the best candidate to emerge, but…

Miracle! Mirage! Shocker! Dream! These are few words used to describe a situation a Nigerian woman found herself five months after she had delivered a set of twins, she reportedly gave birth to a baby girl. The Ijaw woman is said to have delivered the baby girl on September 18, 2020. Another shock is that the woman conceived and delivered a baby girl in April this year during COVID-19 lockdown while her husband was abroad during the pandemic lockdown too. The woman was said to have been childless for seven years, when she suddenly got pregnant and gave birth to…

An Akure High Court in Ondo State capital Tuesday, handed a life imprisonment to a popular Nigerian Pastor and six others over a missing child in his church last year. Prophet Babatunde Alfa (Sotitobire), founder of Sotitobire Praising Chapel alongside five others was found guilty on two-count charge bordering on kidnapping, aiding and abetting to kidnapping preferred against them. Justice Olusegun Odusola who presided over the case of a one-year-old child, Gold Kolawole who disappeared from the prophet’s church in 2019, found the accused guilty of charges preferred against them. Other defendants jailed alongside the clergyman were Omodara Olayinka, Margaret…