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Qatar are the headline news in the latest group of confirmed entrants for next year’s FIFA 2026 World Cup following the most recent round of qualifying matches. The hosts of the 2022 edition of the global showpiece event reached the finals for the first time through the qualification route, when they beat the United Arab…
In recent days, coordinated attacks on Nigeria’s nationhood have swept across social media, blogs and television outlets, alleging a so-called “Christian genocide”. These attacks, driven by foreign actors, mischaracterise Nigeria’s domestic conflicts, ignore its complexities and manipulate longstanding ethnic and resource-based tensions to advance sectarian agendas. One of the figures driving this propaganda is American…
In late August, government officials from Zambia and Israel assembled to celebrate the reopening of the Israeli embassy in Lusaka. It was the first time in 52 years that an Israeli flag would be raised in the Zambian capital, following a long period of severed ties. “Israel is returning to Zambia. Israel is returning to…
Women and children displaced by Boko Haram attacks are seen outside their camp in Dikwa, northeast Nigeria, on April 29, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Boko Haram militants killed dozens of people in a nighttime assault on a village in northeastern Nigeria that is home to residents who recently returned from a closed camp for…
Resident of Darul Jama says military was warned for three days about Boko Haram massing near village but did nothing. Published On 6 Sep 20256 Sep 2025 Fighters have slaughtered at least 55 people in an attack on a village in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno State where people had recently returned after years of displacement. Residents…
Niger State emergency rescue officials said the overloaded vessel sunk after striking a submerged tree stump. Published On 4 Sep 20254 Sep 2025 At least 60 people have died and dozens more have been rescued after a boat carrying more than 100 passengers capsized in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State, according to local officials. The vessel…
Former Barcelona forward and Ballon d’Or nominee Oshoala leaves San Francisco for Saudi Women’s League on free transfer. Published On 2 Sep 20252 Sep 2025 Nigeria forward Asisat Oshoala has joined Saudi Women’s Premier League club Al-Hilal on transfer from Bay FC in the National Women’s Soccer League. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed….
Emergency food supplies are running out in Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan, Save the Children warns. Millions of children across four African countries could die of malnutrition in the next three months, Save the Children has warned, as emergency food supplies dwindle as a result of international aid cuts. Save the Children said on…
Lagos, Nigeria – “Lord, take my soul, but the struggle continues,” the man said, before his body went limp. It swung gently from the makeshift gallows, hurriedly built a few days earlier. Before that morning, the prison had last enforced a death sentence 30 years earlier, during British rule. It was November 10, 1995. For…
Rights group says perpetrators ‘must be held to account’, a year after 24 people killed during cost of living protests. The Nigerian government has failed to ensure accountability after police used deadly force to disperse mass 2024 demonstrations against soaring living costs, Amnesty International has said on the first anniversary of the protests. In a…
