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US sprinter Christian Coleman stormed to 100 meters gold at the World Athletics Championships in Doha Saturday, shrugging off the controversy that had threatened his participation in the global showpiece. Coleman was a hot favorite going into the final and did not disappoint with a blistering winning time of 9.76 seconds, the fastest time in the world this year and sixth best of all time Reigning world champion Justin Gatlin took the silver medal, with Canadian Andre De Grasse completing the podium in 9.90 seconds, with the first five men crossing the line in under 10 seconds in perfect conditions.…

The Big brother housemate was disqualified from the reality show on Friday. The 23-year-old Anita Natacha Akide, popularly called Tacha for assaulting her housemate, Mercy. The fight may have been triggered by the fact that Tacha’s billboard was pulled down in Imo State, Mercy’s home state by some irate youths coupled Mercy provoking her of having body in which she sprayed body deodorant. Yet, Mercy also got two strikes as a result of the fight they both had earlier today. Their disagreement started when the Head Of House, Seyi, called everyone to the lounge so they could read their task for…

By Akanimo Sampson In the next decade, an estimated 60 million Africans will be at risk of being forced to move from degraded land, migrating within and outside the continent. Currently, at least 11 million young Africans enter the job market each year. The obviously worried Director-General of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Guy Ryder, says 73 per cent of all migrants are migrant workers of working age, pointing out, ‘’it will be important to examine the interplay between environmental challenges, migration and employment, and support more integrated and coherent policy approaches.’’ In a bid to smash the impending crisis,…

By Akanimo Sampson Former Ekiti State Governor in the South West of Nigeria, Ayodele Fayose, has come under a severe bombardment by an Islamic group just as the rampaging Jihadists in the North-East axis of Nigeria forced Borno State to bleed again. Seven citizens were allegedly killed along Damaturu-Biu Road on Thursday, when a golf car ran into an IED planted on the road by suspected Boko Haram fighters. Commuters along the road claimed the golf car was carrying seven passengers, and that the insurgents also abducted 10 other persons during the attack. Before this latest development, news had filtered…

With 10 days to go, Big Brother Naija has evicted another housemate from the ongoing reality TV show. Ebuka Obi-Uchendu announced the eviction of Cindy on Friday in the House. Cindy who was the Head of House on September 9, 2019 spent 89 days and nine weeks in the house. The evicted housemate joined the show four weeks after it kicked off alongside Joe, Enkay, Elozonam and Venita. This is the 10th eviction and 11th live eviction show on the Big Brother Naija Pepper Dem edition which kicked off on June 30, 2019. The reality show continues with the remaining…

By Akanimo Sampson Apparently worried by the fact that one billion people could be driven away from their homes due to the worsening impacts of climate change, a citizen journalist has called on citizens of the world to change their mindsets and hold their governments to account. Shobha Shukla who is of the Citizen News Service says political decisions are overriding the interests and safety of the majority of the people for the benefit of a select few. “We need to have well-informed and knowledgeable citizens who can unite and #RiseUp to change mindsets and hold governments to account.’’ According…

By Akanimo Sampson Coordinator of the United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards (UNFSS), Santiago Fernández-de-Córdoba, has said that sustainability standards can support trade and spur economic growth, while promoting environmental protection and inclusive social development. While Fernández-de-Córdoba is however of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), UNFSS is an inter-agency platform that provides information and analysis on Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) and facilitates discussions about them at the intergovernmental level. It co-hosted the convention from September 16-18 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in conjunction with the Brazilian National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology and the Federation…

A Federal High Court in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Thursday, summoned Prof Charles Dokubo, Head of Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, to personally appear before it over allegations of diversion of amnesty slots. Trial judge, Justice Awogboro Abimbola, also ordered that Dokubo appears before her on October 4, with Mr Isaac Ityohuma, Director of Finance and Accounts in the PAP Office. Also subpoenaed is Mr Aroloye Brown, Head of Re-integatration in the Presidential Amnesty Office. Some 75 ex-militants who accepted the Presidential Amnesty in 2010 had dragged the Coordinator of the scheme, Dokubo to court over alleged diverting their slots and accruable…

By Akanimo Sampson This is certainly not the best season for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), a supposed interventionist agency that is currently immersed in some unwholesome contract deals. The commission is on the spot in the Green Chamber of Nigeria’s bicameral Legislature, the House of Representatives. Following the inability of its top officials to answer several questions posed to them by a probe panel of the House, the federal legislators have invited all the former managing directors of the troubled commission, some of whom are the money bags of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic…

Akwa Ibom State has outlawed the operation of commercial motorcyclists within Eket metropolis following reports of rape cases and other heinous crimes being perpetrated by hoodlums disguised as commercial motorcyclists. The state governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel who announced the ban in his remarks at the 4th anniversary celebration of his wife’s Pet project “Family Empowerment and Youth Reorientation Programme, FEYReP, held Thursday in Uyo, decried the alarming rate of rape in the state and country at large in recent times. Emmanuel who condemned a situation where hoodlums now disguise as commercial motorcyclists to rob, murder unsuspecting members of the public,…