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Tammy Abraham has joined Roma from Chelsea on a five-year contract for £34m. The 23-year-old England striker was Chelsea’s joint-top goalscorer with 12 in all competitions last season but found first-team opportunities limited following the arrival of head coach Thomas Tuchel in January. Champions League winners Chelsea re-signed Romelu Lukaku for a club-record £97.5m […]
From a distance, Jacqueline Suowari’s larger-than-life portraits look like monochromatic photographs overlaid with colorful graphics. Upon closer inspection, you see these dramatic images are the culmination of thousands of tiny lines made using a simple ballpoint pen. Suowari, 31, has been an artist since she was a child, practicing professionally for over a decade. […]
The Zone 5 of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) in Benin, Edo State has declared two sons of the immediate Olu of Warri, Ogiame Ikenwoli Emiko, Princes Onyowoli and Omatsuli, wanted over the stolen 400-year-old crown of Warri Kingdom. The princes were declared wanted ahead of Saturday’s coronation of Prince Tsola Emiko, son of […]
The Taliban declared an “amnesty” across Afghanistan and urged women to join their government Tuesday, trying to calm nerves across a tense capital city that only the day before saw chaos at its airport as people tried to flee. The comments by Enamullah Samangani, a member of the Taliban’s cultural commission, represent the first […]
Maria has emerged as the fourth Head of House in the Big Brother Naija ‘Shine Ya Eye’ Season 6, and she is immune to tonight’s nomination process. Recall Maria was once Deputy to the Major General Pere as fondly called by viewers because of his authoritative leadership trait. During the game of luck on […]
A former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ibrahim Mantu, is dead. Mantu reportedly died in the early hours of Tuesday in an Abuja hospital after a brief illness. He was aged 74. He is said to have been sick for days and died in isolation at a private hospital in the federal capital territory (FCT). […]
Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eye housemate, Kayvee, has been withdrawn from the BBNaija season six show due to health issues. This was announced via a brief from Big Brother, read by the Head of House, Pere, to all the housemates on Monday. According to the brief, Kayvee has been advised by medical personnel […]
Thousands of Afghans rushed onto the tarmac of Kabul’s international airport Monday, so desperate to escape the Taliban capture of their country that they held onto an American military jet as it took off and plunged to death in chaos that killed at least seven people, U.S. officials said. The crowds of people rushing […]
Beijing authorities on Monday approved the arrest of Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu over allegations of rape, in a scandal that has drawn widespread condemnation on social media. The saga has evoked China’s #MeToo movement, which saw a wave of women come forward in 2018 voicing experiences of sexual harassment — sometimes involving powerful […]
President Muhammadu Buhari says the African continent is the new frontline of global militancy. In an opinion article published in Financial Times on Sunday, Buhari said while the world is preoccupied with curbing the spread of COVID-19, terrorism is worsening. The president’s article was centred on the crisis unfolding in Afghanistan. The Taliban has […]