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Nigeria’s Flamingos thrashed their hosts Guinea 5-0 in the first leg of the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup second round qualifying fixture in Abidjan on Saturday. Captain Harmony Chidi bagged a hat-trick for the Flamingos in the game. Akeem Busari’s side got off to a perfect start with with Chidi scoring the curtain in the first minute. The forward doubled Nigeria’s lead  on 13 minutes. Oluwakemi Adegbuyi netted the Flamingos third in the 37th minute, before Chidi completed her hat-trick five minutes before the break. The visitors scored one more goal through Mary Dunstan in the 56th minute to make…

The African Democratic Congress has formally announced Senator Ireti Heebah Kingibe as the party’s flag bearer for the Federal Capital Territory senatorial race on Saturday. The exercise, which produced clear outcomes across senatorial and House of Representatives contests, saw Kingibe secure a commanding total of 17,535 votes, far ahead of her sole opponent, Mubarak Tijjani, who polled 806 votes. Declaring the results at the FCT ADC party secretariat, the chairman and returning officer for the senatorial and House of Representatives primary elections, Abubakar Adamu, affirmed the outcome of the exercise. He said, “Having scored the highest number of votes of…

The Oyo State Fire Services Agency has recovered the lifeless body of a 25-year-old man from a soakaway at Kinnira area, opposite Zion Christian Academy School, Ogbomoso, in Ogbomoso North Local Government Area of the state. The victim, whose name was not disclosed, was said to have fallen into the soakaway on Friday while attempting to inspect an abandoned structure. The incident was confirmed in a statement on Saturday by the Special Adviser to Governor Seyi Makinde on Fire Reform and Chairman of the agency, Moroof Akinwande. Akinwande said the command received a distress call at about 7:41 pm on…

Chelsea FC have emerged as the most expensively assembled squad in world football heading into the 2025/26 season, with its team built at a transfer cost exceeding €1.1 billion, according to industry estimates. They are narrowly ahead of Manchester City FC, who also cross the €1 billion threshold, placing both Premier League giants in a category of their own when it comes to squad-building investment. Years of aggressive recruitment and squad reshaping have pushed both clubs to the top of the global spending hierarchy. According to a post obtained from Planet Football’s website on Saturday, these are the clubs with…

Kevin Warsh, who was sworn in as the chairman of the United States Federal Reserve on Friday, will likely slash interest rates, despite the “consensus” view that he will raise interest rates, according to author, Bitcoin investor and market analyst Lawrence Lepard.Lepard said that comments from other US officials, including Kevin Hassett, the director of the White House National Economic Council, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, support the likelihood of rate cuts in 2026. He added: “Warsh will cut. He will use the AI productivity and trimmed inflation excuses and will claim that all the war inflation is transitory. Two data…

Brandi Glanville believes that she might have contracted “sexually transmitted ringworm.” “I have a quick question. Have you heard about sexually transmitted ringworm?” Glanville, 53, asked podcast guest Lisa Ann on the Thursday, May 21, episode of her “Brandi Unfiltered” show. “I feel like I have it … in my throat.” Ringworm is a fungal infection that can affect the hair, skin or nails, according to the CDC. It can spread through skin-to-skin or sexual contact, which causes more severe infections. “It’s one of these things that most people don’t know what to look for,” Ann, an author and media…

The Nigerian Army says the troops of Operation Hadin Kai, a joint task force in the North-east, have repelled an attempted terror attack on a military position in Kirawa, Borno State, killing at least 12 insurgents suspected to be members of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) or Boko Haram. The army said the attack occurred in the early hours of Friday along the Nigeria-Cameroon border in the Sector 1 area of the joint task force operation. According to a statement issued on Friday by the spokesperson for the joint task force, Sani Uba, the insurgents attempted to infiltrate positions…

Nigeria’s U17 girls, the Flamingos, put up a commanding performance with a resounding 5-0 victory over Guinea in the first leg of their 2026 FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup second round, first leg qualifier in Abidjan on Saturday. The encounter, played at the Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny in the Ivorian capital, Abidjan, saw the Nigerian side assert dominance from the very first whistle, with captain Harmony Chidi leading by example in a remarkable individual display. Chidi opened the scoring in spectacular fashion, finding the net with the very first kick of the game to hand the Akeem Busari-led side an immediate…

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has urged Governor Bala Mohammed to reconsider the planned appointment of seven new High Court judges in the state over what it described as gender-based segregation in the recruitment process. Addressing journalists in Bauchi, the chairman of the NBA Bauchi Branch, Rabiu Garba, said the association was concerned about a public notice issued by the Bauchi State Judicial Service Commission for the appointment of seven judges, with five slots allegedly reserved for females and two for males. Garba said the notice, referenced BAS/JSC/S/APP/3/VOL.III and dated 27 April 2026, had generated widespread concern among members of…

President Bola Tinubu has secured victory in the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential primary conducted in Rivers State. Tinubu garnered 280,082 votes in the exercise, while the second aspirant, Stanley Osifo, did not record any vote. The result was declared on Saturday by Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, who acted as the State Collation Officer for the primary election. Speaking after collating results from the 23 local government areas of the state, Fubara said a total of 280,082 valid votes were cast during the exercise. He explained that the votes were shared between the two contestants, with Tinubu receiving all…