March 2024
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The White House openly proclaiming Easter Sunday, the culmination of Holy Week, as the “Transgender Day of Visibility” is blasphemy that warrants an apology to those who observe the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Trump campaign demanded Saturday. “It is appalling and insulting that Joe Biden’s White House prohibited children from submitting religious egg designs for their Easter…
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Manchester City goalkeeper Ellie Roebuck said she is “on the road to recovery” after revealing she recently suffered a stroke, adding there was no lasting damage to her brain or vision. Roebuck, who has 11 caps for England and was apart of the country’s Euro 2022-winning squad, last appeared for City in May 2023. She said she suffered a “left…
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An extra-time goal from forward Stina Blackstenius helped Arsenal secure a 1-0 victory to win the Conti Cup final for a second straight year, again defeating Chelsea and ending Emma Hayes’ hopes of completing a quadruple in her final season at the club. The game was halted for nine minutes in the final stages of the second half after Arsenal midfielder Frida…
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Jürgen Klopp said Mohamed Salah delivered when it mattered for Liverpool after the forward scored just one of 12 chances to seal a 2-1 Premier League win against Brighton at Anfield on Sunday. Salah’s second-half strike, after being released by Alexis Mac Allister’s pinpoint pass, completed a Liverpool fightback after Luis Díaz had earlier cancelled out Danny Welbeck’s second minute opener for Roberto De Zerbi’s team. The Egypt international…
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I join the global community of Christians, especially Christians in Nigeria, in celebrating Easter – the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. This great occasion brings to an end the Christian Lenten season of fasting, prayers, and almsgiving and ushers us into the season of glory and victory over death. For us in Nigeria, this…
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Super Eagles striker, Victor Osimhen, is the highest-paid footballer in Serie A with his recent Napoli contract and bonuses seeing him rise above Juventus forward in the Italian topflight earnings chart, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. Osimhen, who joined Napoli from Lille in 2020, signed a new contract in December that earns him a monthly salary…
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Barring a last-minute change in plans, the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos, which has been partially closed to traffic in the last seven weeks, will be re-opened on April 4, 2024. Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, in a statement confirmed the re-opening yesterday. Osiyemi said: “Dear Lagos Residents, We’re pleased to share that the Third…
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The Kaduna State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has suspended the state Women Leader for defending the immediate-past governor Nasir El-Rufai over the recent controversy on the state’s huge debt. MEZIESBLOG reports that Governor Uba Sani on Friday lamented the high debt profile he inherited from his predecessor, Nasir El-Rufai. Speaking at a town…
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The Russian Orthodox Church has declared Russia’s invasion a “holy war” against Ukraine as it looks to form “wider nationalist ideology” around the conflict, according to military analysts. The declaration was made in a new document adopted by the the World Russian People’s Council, led by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the head of the ROC and…
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GRID CHALLENGES: CONTINUED EFFORTS TO ENHANCE STABILITY Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) notes that it remains committed to managing the grid and ensuring grid stability amidst ongoing challenges such as the persistent low gas supply affecting power generation into the nation’s grid. Our diligent grid controllers work tirelessly day and night to balance the grid…
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Nigeria’s 36 state governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Mr Nyesom Wike to “widely publish copies of the loan agreements and spending details of some N5.9 trillion and $4.6 billion loans obtained by their states and the FCT, including details and locations of…
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The UK’s deputy head of mission to Russia was among the foreign diplomats who laid flowers at Crocus City Hall today (more in earlier post). Many attended with bouquets of red flowers, which they laid on top of a makeshift memorial which emerged in the wake of the attack last Friday. In a post to…
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Foreign diplomats in Russia have laid flowers at the site of last week’s attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed 144 people. Those in attendance included British deputy head of mission to Russia Tom Dodd and representatives of the US, countries in the EU, Africa and Latin America. Russian state news agency RIA…
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Europe is currently in a “pre-war” era, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said. In an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt, Mr Tusk said the continent needed to step up defence investment, adding that Europe was in a situation “not seen since 1945”. He said: “I know it sounds devastating, especially for the younger…
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Analysis: Why is Russia attacking Ukraine’s power stations? We reported earlier that Russia fired four missiles and 12 Shahed drones into eastern Ukraine overnight. Ukraine’s air forces said nine of the drones were shot down in four regions. Looking at the latest strike, military analyst Sean Bell noted only 24 hours earlier Ukraine saw 58 drone attacks…
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There has been a surge of migrant workers leaving Russia for Tajikistan after the 22 March concert hall attack, according to Tajikistan’s ministry of labour, migration and employment. “We receive a lot of calls. These are most likely not complaints about harassment, but fear of our citizens, panic, many want to leave,” Shakhnoza Nodiri, deputy…
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