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Emma Raducanu is through to the second round of the Slovenia Open after winning her first match since her unsuccessful US Open title defence. British number one Raducanu was leading 6-2 5-3 when her opponent Dayana Yastremska was forced to retire. The 22-year-old Ukrainian, who is 89th in the world, injured her wrist while 30-0 down serving to stay in the match. 19-year-old Raducanu went into the WTA 250 hard-court event […]
An Australian man has died after being attacked by a kangaroo he had been keeping as a pet. A relative found the 77-year-old man with serious injuries yesterday at his home in Redmond, about 400 kilometers south of Perth. When paramedics arrived at the rural property, the kangaroo prevented them from treating the man forcing the Police to shoot the marsupial dead, while the man died at the scene. A […]
The Young Peoples Party YPP has called for a thorough investigation of the gruesome attack on lawmaker Ifeanyi Ubah representing Anambra South in the National Assembly is a top chieftain of the party. Ubah’s convoy was ambushed around 5pm on Sunday, close to Nkwo Enugwu Ukwu Market, as it headed to Nnewi, with close aides Goodness Mathias, Obum Ikechukwu, and some security personnel killed at the scene. A statement by the YPP said […]
The daughter of the former Deputy President of the Senate Ike Ekweremadu, Sonia has broken her silence since her organ donor scandal began to make the news. The 25-year-old in a lengthy Instagram post confirmed that she dropped out of the University of Newcastle in 2019, after being diagnosed with rare kidney disease, FSGS Nephrotic Syndrome and she is currently in London, United Kingdom, where she receives five hours of […]
The Governor of Enugu State Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi yesterday swore in Kingsley Awuka, as his Special Adviser, at the EXCO Chamber, Government House, Enugu, to the delight of the people of Ozalla Community in Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu State. Speaking shortly after he was sworn in, Awuka expressed profound gratitude to Ugwuanyi for the great honour and privilege accorded to the people of the Ozalla Community in the Igbo-Etiti […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has detected ineligible records in the Continuous Voter Registration CVR which took place nationwide, from January 2022 and ended July 31. The Head of Information and Voter Education Committee of INEC Festus Okoye in a statement yesterday said irregularities were discovered during the cleaning up of the voters register using the Automated Biometric Identification System Abis. Okoye said several double, multiple, and ineligible registrants […]
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, yesterday said the federal government would complete the 9,000 special facility capacity custodial centers in three states of the country by December 2022. Aregbesola, who disclosed this to newsmen after a facility tour to the 3,000 ultra-modern Capacity Custodial Centre Karshi, Abuja said the 3,000 capacity custodial centers are also located in Kano, Rivers State. He said the one in Kano was almost completed […]
Aviation unions have given the Federal Government a 14-day ultimatum over what they describe as anti-labour clauses in recently amended aviation bills, which gives the Minister of Aviation overriding powers to direct affairs on issues affecting trade unions in the industry. The Union in a light demonstration in some airports in the country emphasized that the clauses were an attempt to gag and control the unions and it contradicts international […]
The Federal Government has inaugurated a committee to provide concrete measures to safeguard train passengers and railway infrastructure across the country. The Federal Ministry of Transportation in a statement said an 11-man committee was inaugurated by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Magdalene Ajani, in Abuja to review the use of surveillance equipment along rail lines, and set up a special task force on railway lines across the country. It […]
Show creator of the television series The Crown, Peter Morgan has hinted that filming its sixth and final season which recently began will stop out of respect to late Queen Elizabeth II. Morgan in a statement said The Crown is a love letter to The Queen and he has nothing to add for now, just silence and respect. The British Royal family, at 6:30 pm yesterday, announced that the 96-year-old […]
