Author: News Room
Bauchi State governor, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has extended olive branch to his opponents in the March 18 election. He declared that with the election over, they should join hands with him to build a new Bauchi. Mohammed, who contested the governorship election and won on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), spoke shortly after receiving his certificate of return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Speaking on behalf of himself and the 31… Read the full article here
Paris Saint-Germain forward, Kylian Mbappe has reportedly taken a fresh decision to leave the club for Real Madrid by 2024. According to the Spanish sports daily, Diario AS, Mbappe has made up his mind to leave PSG when his contract with the French Ligue 1 champions expires next year. The report added that the France captain has already informed Real Madrid officials of his desire to join the club as soon as possible. Mbappe was widely expected to join Real Madrid on a free transfer last… Read the full article here
It seems a logical premise: Produce enough food for the global population and no nation should fall victim to a succession of food crises. But in a world where globalisation and the financialisation of our food system can determine where our food comes from and how much we pay for it, it’s the poorest countries that end up counting the cost. Award-winning filmmaker and journalist Stefano Liberti, who joins us for this special… Read the full article here
A staff member of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Dr. Anthonia Alebiosu, has won the ‘Forty Under 40 Africa Award’ in South Africa. The award ceremony, which took place in South Africa late March, saw Dr. Alebiosu win the taxation category of the award, with over a thousand entries received for the preliminary stage of the award. Awardees that won other categories alongside Dr. Alebiosu are the first African woman referee at the 2022 men’s World Cup, Salima… Read the full article here
At 14, Ekpoma-born Lucky Piety became the first female Nigerian cricketer to score a century in a T20 format game. ABIODUN ADEWALE writes on how she took the cricket world by storm following her eye-popping displays There are not many youngsters who have moved from nurturing ambitions to finding career paths and are certain of what they will be able to make out of it, especially in the world of sports, which usually has uncertainty hanging over it. At that naive… Read the full article here
Popular Nigerian singer, David Adeleke, better known as Davido, has said that he does not think the 2023 general election was credible. The ‘Dami Duro’ crooner said this in an interview with Beat 99.9FM, Lagos, on Friday. Davido, who was off social media for a while after the death of his son, Ifeanyi, said he would have been very vocal about the elections if he was online. He said he was happy about the low turnout of voters, adding that the safety of voters was… Read the full article here
Manchester City striker Erling Haaland has failed to recover from injury in time to feature in Saturday’s crunch Premier League clash with Liverpool.The Norway international suffered a groin issue before the international break and was forced to withdraw from his country’s Euro 2024 qualifiers.But City manager Pep Guardiola hinted at Friday’s press conference that he could gamble on the fitness of his top scorer, saying: “Life is risks and sometimes you have to take it.”Premier… Read the full article here
On TikTok, a campaign to deny ConocoPhillips permission to launch an oil project in Alaska recently went viral. Look up the hashtag #StopWillow and the search results are full of protests warning of the potential damage the project could wreak. One video, which has been liked 3.4mn times, declares that approval would be “game over” for the planet.As impassioned as the campaign was, it did not work: Joe Biden approved the drilling on March 13. The president had given ConocoPhillips… Read the full article here
Contradicting the growing global Bitcoin (BTC) adoption rate, physical ATMs dedicated to fiat-crypto conversions are on the decline. In March alone, 3,627 crypto ATMs were removed from the network, bringing down the total ATMs to 33,727.In nearly a decade since the first Bitcoin ATM was launched on Oct. 29, 2013, the net change of cryptocurrency machines installed and removed monthly remained positive most times — implying that total crypto ATMs worldwide were steadily increasing. However,… Read the full article here
Warning: This story contains spoilers from season 2 of Yellowjackets. No going back now. Yellowjackets took things to the next level by having the stranded group finally feast on their first human meal — which turned out to be Jackie (Ella Purnell). During the new episode, which aired on Friday, March 31, Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) kept speaking to her late friend as if she was still alive. After Taissa (Jasmin Savoy Brown) found Jackie’s corpse covered in makeup and… Read the full article here
