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Argentina football icon Lionel Messi bid farewell Sunday to his father, the global star’s emotional anchor and agent since childhood who passed away following a battle with cancer aged 68. The eight-time Ballon d’Or winner touched down on a private flight from Miami late on Saturday with his wife Antonela Roccuzzo and their children and has remained surrounded by his close family since. A private ceremony with a few teammates from the Argentine national squad is scheduled to take place at a cemetery in the town of Perez, adjacent to Rosario, later Sunday. The gates of the town’s El Prado…
Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships. We receive compensation when you click on a link and make a purchase. Learn more! Not everyone can say they’ve been a true fashion influencer for most of their lives, but Naomi Campbell has more than earned the title. The supermodel has been serving looks and inspiring outfits since at least the ’80s. So when she stepped out carrying a large bordeaux suede tote, it was only a matter of time before the style became the new ‘It’ staple, and — spoiler alert — the time has now come. Campbell’s job makes her privy to fashion…
Clouds hung heavily over the Atlantic coastline, a familiar sight at the peak of the rainy season in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. On this day in June, rain had been falling since morning, leaving the sandy pathways of Ikot Inua Eyet, a fishing community in Ibeno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, slick with mud. At their home, 52-year-old fisherman, Christian Inyang, helped his wife attend to customers at her small roadside food stall. Moments later, as the drizzle became heavier, Mr Inyang looked toward the river that had sustained his family for decades. He should have been on the…
What Nigeria needs to curtail issues of mob justice is public safety that is people-centred: community policing that is genuinely local, accountable to the neighbourhoods it serves, and built on relationships. Community policing means officers who know the streets they patrol and the people on them, response times that make reporting a crime feel worthwhile, and oversight structures where ordinary citizens, not just governors and commissioners, have a real say in how their safety is managed. ALUU4. Deborah Yakubu. The sixteen travellers lynched on the road in Uromi. These names have become painfully familiar in Nigeria’s national conversation on mob…
The Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, has received the 400m Hurdles Commonwealth Games champion, Ezekiel Nathaniel, a corporal, at the Force Headquarters in Abuja. Speaking during the reception, the IGP said the victory underscored the longstanding relationship between the Nigeria Police Force and sports. The police boss explained that Nathaniel’s achievement is a reminder of what police personnel can accomplish when provided with the necessary platform and support to excel both in their professional duties and sporting careers. IGP Olatunji Disu with Ezekiel Nathaniel [Credit: NPF]He said: “The Nigeria Police Force and sports have always been twins, bound together by…
A chieftain of the Peoples Redemption Party, Yakubu Kingsley, has called for a constructive approach to opposition politics ahead of the 2027 general elections. Kingsley said political opposition should be rooted in constructive criticism, objectivity and the presentation of alternative solutions rather than the wholesale rejection of government policies and projects. He made the call in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday while reacting to comments by former Cross River State Governor, Donald Duke, on the ongoing Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project. Duke, who is the presidential candidate of the PRP currently recognised by the Independent National Electoral Commission, had…
Real Housewives of Orange County’s Gina Kirschenheiter is sharing her emotional reaction to the news fellow Bravosphere star Jeana Keough is battling tongue cancer. “The last [I saw] Gina [was] this season, and we have a very good mutual friend, so I kind of knew what was going on with her,” Gina exclusively told Us on Friday, August 6. “I just gave her really big hugs the night that I did see her.” She continued, “You know, she has so much she’s going through right now. The last thing she needs is another housewife, you know, poking around in her…
The Bible reads us. I asked a question during a Bible Study, “What will happen to the great men of the earth?” Nobody answered. Then I said the great men are all in trouble. God is going to deal very harshly with them. I then quoted some scriptures: “The Lord of hosts has purposed it, to bring to dishonour the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.” (Isaiah 23:9). “It shall come to pass in that day that the Lord will punish on high the host of exalted ones, and on the earth…
Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, has urged the 1,500 couples who benefited from the state government’s mass wedding programme to build their homes on patience, justice, mutual respect and understanding. Yusuf made the call while addressing the newly married couples, according to a statement issued on Saturday by his spokesperson, Sunusi Dawakin Tofa. The governor reminded the couples that marriage was an act of worship and urged them to conduct their marital affairs in accordance with the teachings of the Holy Quran and the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad. “Marriage is an act of ibadah and should be conducted in accordance…
In 2018 I bet my reputation and self-worth on a huge crowdfunded game design project. It could have been a failure for many reasons, but the one I became most worried about was losing all of the work that was stored locally on my home-built PC — a scenario that would have left a lot of people very upset and placed me in deep trouble. I wasn’t irresponsible, I had local backups, but at some point I found myself in custody of so many important files that it scared me. And no matter how many redundancies I could build at…
