The Senate Thursday appealed to the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar Adamu, to urgently reduce the number of checkpoints on federal highways in the country. It stated that the plea had become necessary to reduce the gridlock on the roads ahead of the Yuletide celebration. The upper chamber also urged Adamu to direct officers of […]
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Anthony Joshua is spending less time looking at his phone due to Wladimir Klitschko’s advice. “He told me not to spend too much time on my phone this week,” Joshua said ahead of his world heavyweight title rematch with Andy Ruiz Jr on Saturday, with ring-walks at 8.45pm, live on Sky Sports Box Office. Joshua […]
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The organisers of an international student sports competition have called for two Nigerian table tennis players to be returned to their own country after Croatian police wrongly deported them to a Bosnian refugee camp. Abia Uchenna Alexandro and Eboh Kenneth Chinedu, students at the Federal University of Technology Owerri in Nigeria, arrived in Zagreb on […]
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Former presidential candidate and activist, Omoyele Sowore, has been released after four months in detention. A judge in Abuja ordered the Department of State Security (DSS) to free Sowore and pay a fine for their repeated refusal to comply with court rulings on the case. The police had previously refused to grant him bail, despite […]
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Chelsea captain, Cesar Azpilicueta, has tipped his teammate, Tammy Abraham, to lift the Premier League Golden Boot. Chelsea ace Abraham returned from a hip injury on Wednesday to claim his 11th Premiership goal of the season in the 2-1 win over Aston Villa. Blues skipper Azpi said: “What he has done is amazing — and […]
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Managerless Arsenal’s season plummeted to a new low as they were beaten by Brighton in interim manager Freddie Ljungberg’s first home match in charge. Alexandre Lacazette marked his 100th Gunners appearance by heading his side level after Adam Webster had given the visitors a first-half lead. With the score 1-1, there was frustration for Ljungberg […]
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Uber said it received almost 6,000 reports of sexual assault in the United States in 2017 and 2018. While the number of cases rose in 2018, the rate of incidents dropped by 16%, as the number of journeys was higher. The data was published in a report which Uber said showed its commitment to “improving […]
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The queen’s only daughter, Princess Anne, also known as Princess Royal, has been trending worldwide on Twitter after a clip emerged, which purportedly showed her mother, the Queen, urging her (unsuccessfully) to come and greet the US president. Princess Anne basically told @realDonaldTrump to "Please leave my country!" And she is speaking for most people […]
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Rugby player Israel Folau has reached a settlement with Rugby Australia (RA) over his controversial sacking for writing anti-gay posts on social media. The former Wallabies star had been suing RA for A$14m (£7.4m; $9.5m) after having his contract terminated in May. Folau, a Christian, argued that the termination of his contract was a case […]
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Zimbabwe’s former President Robert Mugabe died with $10m (£7.7m) cash in the bank, a legal letter from his daughter quoted by state media says. His other assets included four houses, 10 cars, a farm and an orchard. But he appears not to have left a will, according to the family’s lawyer. Mugabe, who died in […]
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