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Receive free Vladimir Putin updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Vladimir Putin news every morning. Vladimir Putin has survived the most serious threat to his authority in two decades as Russia’s paramount leader. Yet the aborted rebellion led by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner paramilitaries has laid bare the utter folly of the war Putin unleashed against his neighbour. The Kremlin is bogged down in a conflict it cannot win, which has taken a… Read the full article here
Busy Philipps is a big fan of margaritas — and she knows a thing or two about what makes one worthy to drink time and again. “My ideal meal is chips and salsa and a margarita,” Philipps told The Cut in January 2017. “I grew up in Arizona. I grew up on chips and salsa. It’s in my blood.” The Dawson’s Creek alum explained that Mexican food is something she includes in her overall wellness routine, which she described as “doing the best you can for your… Read the full article here
A former governor of Ogun State, who is now the senator for Ogun East district, Gbenga Daniel, has revealed the reason for the sour relationship between him and his longtime friend, Governor Dapo Abiodun. Both men won their elections this year on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and had been friends long before Mr Daniel served as governor from 2003 to 2011. But the former governor said the current one fell out with him for his unflinching support for President… Read the full article here
The world is in a mourning mood. After a fruitless five-day search for a missing deep-sea submersible vessel with five passengers on board, its wreckage was eventually found last Thursday. The five occupants on board were killed in the process. The search had been spearheaded by a robotic diving vehicle deployed from a Canadian ship. The five were on a voyage to see the century-old wreckage of the famous Titanic by the time this catastrophic implosion occurred. The robotic vehicle… Read the full article here
President Bola Tinubu has been urged to allow for a full-scale investigation into the immediate past administration led by the former president, Muhammadu Buhari. Former lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, who made the call in a tweet on his verified handle on Sunday, said the investigation should begin with Buhari, members of his cabinet, service chiefs and other cabals in the administration. According to Sani, if the probe is not extended to other aspects of the previous government, the… Read the full article here
Former France midfielder, Zinedine Zidane, has said he will return to management soon. Zinedine has not had a job in football since he left Real Madrid in 2021, where he won three consecutive Champions League trophies. He has already snubbed an offer from Paris Saint-Germain to replace Christophe Galtier and interest from Saudi Arabia. But speaking to Téléfoot, Zidane said: ”Live and work again in France? Nothing should be ruled out. “I know what I want and what I don’t want. If I… Read the full article here
Sebastien Ogier won the 70th edition of the Safari Rally Kenya on Sunday after just managing to hold off Kalle Rovanpera in a thrilling finale. The French 8-time world champion held a narrow 13.6 second advantage over the current champion and 2023 points leader going into the final three stages of the event and saw that margin cut to under ten seconds going into the concluding 10.53-kilometre Hell’s Gate route at Lake Naivasha. Ogier,… Read the full article here
The Chief of Staff to the President and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has been hailed as an exceptional and remarkable leader. In a congratulatory message on Gbajabiamila’s 61st birthday on Sunday, the member representing Ibadan North Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Olaide Akinremi, expressed his admiration for the former Speaker. Akinremi commended Gbajabiamila as one of Nigeria’s finest… Read the full article here
The Rivers State deputy governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress in the 2023 election and popular Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh, said on Saturday she would not stop contesting the election until she realised her ambition. She said her chances of governing the oil-rich state in the future were both high and slim because politics is dirty. Dikeh stated these in an interview with journalists in Abuja during the GOTNI national leadership conference,… Read the full article here
The Federal University of Oye Ekiti, Ekiti State, has described the news of being ranked as the fourth most sought-after university in Nigeria as a step in the right direction. The PUNCH reports that JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, during the board policy meeting on Friday, listed FUOYE alongside the University of Ilorin, the University of Lagos and the Lagos State University as the most-sought universities following an appraisal of its 2023 Unified Tertiary… Read the full article here
