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Former Paris Saint-Germain defender Maxwell has insisted that Lionel Messi is still the best footballer in the world despite Kylian Mbappe’s rise to prominence. France international Mbappe has risen to prominence in recent years and is seen as the successor to Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Maxwell, who was Messi’s team-mate at Barcelona, believes without any doubt that the Argentine World Cup winner remains the best player in the world. The former Brazil superstar left-back hailed the… Read the full article here

A Namibian court on Monday overturned a decision granting citizenship to the son of a gay couple, the latest step in a legal battle over the children of gay surrogate parents. In Namibia, homosexuality is still illegal, although the 1927 sodomy law is rarely enforced today. Yona, now four years old, was born to a surrogate mother in South Africa. Namibian Phillip Lühl and his Mexican partner Guillermo Delgado are both listed on the… Read the full article here

MTN’s Ralph Mupita becomes the latest CEO to warn that South Africa’s vanishing electricity, rising crime rates, flailing infrastructure, and organised corruption have become an existential threat. Source Read the full article here

A 37- year -old auto dealer, Ikechukwu Ogbonna, aka IVD, was on Monday arraigned before a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja over the alleged manslaughter of his late wife Abimbola, who died in a fire incident at their residence in the Lekki area of the state. The defendant was arraigned on one count of involuntary manslaughter in suit No LD/21055C/23 preferred against him by the Lagos State Government. The prosecuting counsel, Adeshola Bello, told the court… Read the full article here

Despite the shortcomings of the 2023 presidential election, which were seemingly deliberately created by the Independent National Electoral Commission, the election has given some power to the masses and created some fear in Nigerian politicians. If INEC had kept its word of organising a completely transparent election in which all results at polling units were electronically transmitted and collated without any alteration, it would have revolutionised elections in… Read the full article here

TOPE OMOGBOLAGUN writes that after the general elections, the All Progressive Congress must manage how the National Assembly leadership will emerge without running into the crisis it faced in 2015 After the governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections, one major task that stands in the way of the All Progressives Congress is how the leadership of the National Assembly will emerge. At the first meeting held with lawmakers-elect on March 13, the party directed… Read the full article here

The Economic Community of West African States on Monday raised concern over the low contribution of Value Added Tax to the tax revenue rate in Nigeria. ECOWAS blamed the setback on policy decisions and compliance rate. The ECOWAS Director of the Customs Union and Taxation, Salifou Tiemtore, expressed the concern in Abuja during a workshop on the production of the VAT tax expenditure for Nigeria, which was organised by the ECOWAS Commission under the Context of the… Read the full article here

The United Nations Children’s Fund has urged mothers to give priority to maternal nutrition and first 1,000 days of a child’s life, describing it as golden window that must not be compromised. UNICEF Nutritionist Specialist, Ada Ezeogu, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday, on the sideline of  a Media Advocacy Meeting by the National Orientation Agency, in collaboration with UNICEF. NAN reports that the two-day programme… Read the full article here

FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, has joined a host of others to pay tribute to former Super Falcons head coach, Ismaila Mabo. Mabo, 78, died March 13 in his residence in Jos, the capital of Plateau State, after a prolonged illness. In a letter of condolence signed and addressed to the President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Ibrahim Gusau, Infantino expressed, on behalf of the international football community, FIFA’s deepest sympathy to the NFF, family,… Read the full article here

A new TV series, ‘Lahira’, which will air on Africa Magic, was premiered at the Wheatbaker Hotel, Ikoyi, Lagos State, on Thursday, March 16, 2022, at an event attended by its cast and crew, and other stakeholders in the entertainment industry. Speaking at the event, the series’ producer, Jemila Akinwale, described it as an important Read More Read the full article here