Manchester United defender Raphael Varane has announced his retirement from international football at the age of just 29. Varane won the World Cup with France in 2018 and was in the side beaten by Argentina in last year’s final. With…
PSG lose injured Mbappe for 1st leg of Bayern Champions League tie
Kylian Mbappe faces three weeks out with a thigh injury and will miss the first leg of Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League last-16 tie against Bayern Munich on February 14, his club announced Thursday. The France star was hurt during the…
3-Storey building on fire in Lagos Island
A three-storey building is on fire at Kosoko Street, off Martins Street in Lagos Island. Channels Television gathered that Thursday’s inferno started from the topmost part of the building opposite Animashaun Plaza. Mr Shakiru Amodu who spoke on behalf of…
2 feared dead, 40 trapped as 2 storey building collapses in Abuja
Two people have been feared dead and over 40 others suspected to be trapped under the rubbles of a two storey suspended building which collapsed on Thursday at 7th Avenue, Gwarinpa in the nation’s capital, Abuja. At least, seven people…
Pakistan mosque bomber wore police uniform: Police chief
A top police chief in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has revealed that a suicide bomber who blew himself up on Monday in a deadly attack on a Peshawar mosque had entered the high-security mosque compound disguised as a…
Young Thug co-defendants accused of stabbing jail inmate
Three of Young Thug’s 13 co-defendants in the sprawling RICO case against his Young Slime Life (YSL) collective are facing new charges stemming from an alleged jail stabbing. Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat told WSB-TV on Wednesday (February 1) that…
Iranian film director Jafar Panahi goes on hunger strike
Iran’s courts voided the dissident director’s sentence last week, but Jafar Panahi is being kept incarcerated in the notoriously harsh Evin prison. “I firmly declare that in protest against the illegal and inhumane behavior of the judicial and security apparatus…
Andrew Tate loses appeal against detention in Romania
Andrew Tate, the controversial former kickboxer turned social media influencer, and his brother Tristan have lost their appeal and will remain in detention in Romania on allegations of human trafficking and rape, CNN affiliate Antena 3 reported Wednesday. The brothers…
Assault: Nigerian consulate, South African police watchdog effect arrest of officers
The Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg in partnership with that country’s police have effected the arrest of four police men for allegedly beating a Nigerian into coma. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the policemen were arrested on Wednesday…
Okowa a betrayer, Ijaw leader Edwin Clark fumes
Ijaw leader Chief Edwin Clark has labelled Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, who is also vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a betrayer. Clark also asked Okowa to step down as running mate to PDP presidential candidate Abubakar Atiku…