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Tottenham Hotspur’s Italian head coach Antonio Conte (R) and Chelsea’s German head coach Thomas Tuchel (L) shake hands then clash after the English Premier League football match between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur at Stamford Bridge in London on August 14, 2022. – The game finished 2-2. (Photo by Glyn KIRK / AFP)
Football

Thomas Tuchel, Antonio Conte charged by English FA following touchline fracas

August 15, 2022
Kess, the only married man on Season 7 of Big Brother Naija show, has asked his fellow housemates not to look at him as someone who has a wife.
TV

BBNaija: Kess rebuffs Ilebaye as she tries to kiss him

August 14, 2022
Mgbeobuna Victor Eberechukwu, 50, from Anambra State has excreted 77 pellets of cocaine after he was arrested at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu on arrival from Ethiopia.
Metro

Nigerian national excretes 77 pellets of cocaine on arrival from Ethiopia

August 14, 2022
A woman drives donkeys to transport jerrycans of water in drought affected areas in Higlo Kebele, Adadle woreda, Somali region of Ethiopia, in this undated handout photograph. Michael Tewelde-World Food Program-Handout via REUTERS.
Africa

Pope calls for help for drought-stricken Somalia

August 14, 2022
Ukraine is targeting Russian soldiers who shoot at an occupied nuclear plant in the south of the country or use it as a base to shoot from, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday.
World

Volodymyr Zelenskiy: Ukraine targeting Russians shooting at or from nuclear plant

August 13, 2022
The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali, MINUSMA, is to resume contingent rotations starting Monday under fresh approval procedures, the Malian foreign minister and a U.N. spokeswoman have said.
Africa

UN peacekeeping troop rotations to resume in Mali

August 13, 2022
Senator Mao Ohuabunwa has decried the precarious security situation and excruciating hardship in the country, warning that if no urgent measures were taken to halt the dangerous trend, Nigeria may collapse before 2023.
Nigeria

Mao Ohuabunwa: Abia North now very unsafe

August 13, 2022
Nigeria beat France 1-0 in their opening Group C match at the Fifa Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica on Thursday.
Football

U20 WWC: Nigeria beat France 1-0 to win opener

August 13, 2022
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant outside the Russian-controlled city of Enerhodar, Ukraine. Alexander Ermochenko-Reuters
World

Ukraine, Russia accuse each other of nuclear plant strikes

August 13, 2022
Kenya’s long-time opposition leader and the head of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), Raila Odinga, held presidential election campaigns in his hometown in Bondo Siaya County, Kenya.
Africa

Early results put Kenya’s Riala Odinga slightly ahead in presidential race

August 13, 2022
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Director General, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa.
Nigeria

NCDC confirms 517 new cases of coronavirus

August 12, 2022
A seal reading “Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation” is displayed on the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building in Washington, DC, o August 9, 2022. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds - AFP)
World

Gunman killed in standoff while attempting to breach FBI office in Ohio

August 12, 2022
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (L) and South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin pose for photographers prior to their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul on August 12, 2022. (Photo by JEON HEON-KYUN - POOL - AFP)
World

UN chief expresses ‘clear commitment’ to North Korea denuclearisation

August 12, 2022
American OnlyFans and Instagram model Courtney Clenney, who stabbed her boyfriend Christian Toby Obumseli to death in Miami, United States in April has been arrested on a murder charge.
People

American model arrested for stabbing Nigerian boyfriend to death

August 12, 2022
Metro

NYSC member bags two years imprisonment for internet fraud

August 12, 2022
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