Leeds United and Burnley won automatic promotion to the Premier League on Monday as faltering Sheffield United were forced to settle for a place in the Championship play-offs. Leeds, who have spent two seasons in the second tier of English football, humbled Stoke 6-0 at Elland Road, with Joel Piroe scoring four goals. Daniel Farke’s…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) member states will meet in Ghana on Tuesday to discuss the withdrawal of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. The meeting will take place over two days, Tuesday and Wednesday. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the bloc said member states will discuss the modalities of the countries’…
Legendary Nigerian juju musician Ebenezer Remilekun Aremu Olasupo Obey-Fabiyi, MFR, known professionally as Ebenezer Obey, has shut down rumours of his death. Obey-Fabiyi dismissed the claim with a rousing performance in a video posted Tuesday morning. While singing in Yoruba, English, and Pidgin, he described the news as untrue. In the social media video, the 83-year-old…
Tech N9ne has opened up about a controversial and personal chapter from his past, admitting to a relationship with his 7th grade teacher that he kept secret, even when they almost got caught. The shocking confession was made on the “Dumb Blonde” podcast hosted by Bunnie XO, wife of Jelly Roll, on Monday, April…
Jelena Ostapenko upset No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 6-1 in the Porsche Grand Prix final on Monday. Ostapenko beat Sabalenka for the first time in four meetings to win her first clay-court title since the 2017 French Open. She also beat world No. 2 Iga Swiatek in the quarterfinals in her run to her ninth…
“We should all give our best to public service, and be grateful because it is a privilege to be called upon,’’ he would cheerfully declare, every now and then, at our weekly meetings of the Delta State Executive Council. Amos Agbe Utuama, a professor and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and deputy governor of Delta…
The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise, CPPE, has criticized the proposed Raw Materials Bill currently before the Nigerian National Assembly saying it will bring significant adverse and unintended consequences for Nigerian exporters and manufacturers if passed. The bill, which seeks to restrict manufacturers from importing essential raw materials and intends to impose barriers…
A Nigerian pharmacist, Emem, has narrated a particular incident that made her realize she could never marry a man she was dating. “When he was dragging road with governor’s convoy and the soldiers pointed guns at us yet he was shouting “I dare you to shoot” with me beside him. I was shouting “don’t…
Image by Daniel McCullough. I got one of the worst text messages a parent can receive at 12:05 p.m. on April 17. “Active shooter.” My daughter is in her final two weeks of undergraduate studies at Florida State University, where a shooter, later identified as FSU student Phoenix Ikner, opened fire. As I write, still…
The kind of pace that propelled teenage sprinting phenom Gout Gout to break decades-old Australian records and earned him an invitation to train with Olympic champion Noah Lyles ended up costing him in his season finale. The handicapper’s calculations on Monday achieved what few of Gout’s rivals could do all southern summer, making it too…
