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Nigeria’s superstar, Burna Boy will perform live at the UEFA Champions League final in Istanbul, Turkey in June. UEFA made the announcement via its official Twitter handle on Thursday. “Big news! @burnaboy will be performing at the Champions League final in Istanbul alongside another amazing headliner,” the tweet read. The Champions League final will be played in Istanbul on June 10. In February, Burna Boy, Grammy Award-winning singer and Oscar-nominated singer and producer Tems and Rema headlined the 2023 NBA All-Star Game halftime show. Read the full article here

Leicester City duo, Kelechi Iheanacho and Wilfred Ndidi as well as defender Kevin Akpoguma are among the early birds at the Super Eagles camp in Abuja. The team is based at the John Woods Hotel. Nantes of France winger, Moses Simon was the first player to arrive at the team’s camp. Iheanacho, Ndidi and Akpoguma arrived at the camp to increase the number of players to four. Majority of the remaining 19 invited players are expected in Abuja on Monday. Jose Peseiro’s side will entertain the Djurtus of Guinea-Bissau in a 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier at the Moshood…

In the Sudanese capital Khartoum, traditional yellow taxis, which have been operating since the 1970s, face the increasing threat of modern transport vehicles. Many customers are now booking their taxi rides through apps on their smartphones. Many however are determined to fight on. “I have been working as a taxi driver for about 46 years, since 1977. Many parties have introduced modern cars to fight us. Taxis are still determined and will remain so. Taxi drivers are known for their honesty”, said Mirgani Khalafallah, a taxi driver in Khartoum. Despite the advanced state of disrepair of many of the traditional vehicles,…

What does it take to defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) in a governorship election in Lagos? You will need to conquer 57 local council chairmen, outgun 40 state lawmakers, trounce 27 federal lawmakers, outsmart over 50 traditional rulers, overrun an army of transport hooligans, win over a partisan public service and then defeat the sitting governor and a President-elect. Can Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour pull this off?  Source Read the full article here

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Cross River State, Bassey Otu, has won 12 of the 15 local government areas results so far declared last night by the LGA collation officers. He defeated his closest rival and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sandy Onor, who won in three local government areas. Results from the three remaining local government areas, Obanliku, Boki and Akamkpa, were being expected as collation was suspended till Monday (today). The 12 local government areas won by Bassey include Yala, Calabar Municipal, Calabar South, Obudu, Yakurr, Akpabuyo, Biase, Etung, Odukpani, Bakassi, Obubra and…

The family of an undergraduate of the University of Port Harcourt, Deborah Doofan, has been thrown into mourning after she died outside the Emergency Ward of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Surulere, due to a lack of bed space to admit her into a ward in the hospital for prompt treatment. PUNCH Metro gathered that until Doofan’s death, she was suffering from hyperthyroidism, a medical condition associated with overactivity of the thyroid gland, resulting in a rapid heartbeat and an increased rate of metabolism. Our correspondent learnt that Doofan, a 100-level student of Banking and Finance at UNIPORT, was…

Methane is an odourless, colourless, flammable gas. It is used primarily as fuel to make heat and light; and also used to manufacture organic chemicals. It can be formed by the decay of natural materials and is common in landfills, marshes, septic systems and sewers. For easy understanding, methane is that warm gas that comes out of a pit toilet or a compressed dustbin. Methane can also be found in coal gas. Pockets of methane exist naturally underground. In homes, methane may be used to fuel a water heater, stove, and clothes dryer. That is why, for instance, the Lagos…

The 2023 elections came and went, GIFT HABIB compares the electoral processes of the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections and the March 18 governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections The much-anticipated second phase of the general elections in Nigeria was held on Saturday, barely three weeks after Nigerians came out to vote for the next president of Nigeria. The governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections were earlier scheduled for March 11, alongside two National Assembly elections suspended by the Independent National Electoral Commission in Enugu and Edo States. For the first time since 2011, the presidential…

The incessant scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, vandalism of pipelines, oil theft and several other menaces in the oil and gas sector are due to the gross mismanagement of the industry by the Federal Government and politicians, the Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise has said. CPPE described the management of the oil sector by politicians as a disaster, stressing that the government should reduce its hold on the industry and privatise some facilities in it, such as the four refineries being run by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. “Let’s take the oil and gas…

  The World Health Organisation has disclosed health authorities in Burundi have detected eight samples of polio. The detection led to the official declaration of the country’s first outbreak in more than 30 years. The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. The disease is transmitted through contaminated water and food, or by contact with an infected person, many do not become seriously ill, but some can go on to develop acute flaccid paralysis. While the wild-type virus only remains in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Mozambique, these vaccine-derived outbreaks have recently been seen…