Author: Alade Adisa

Holders Manchester United cruised past Women’s Championship opponents, Sunderland to reach the Women’s FA Cup semi-finals. It was a dominant and impressive display from Marc Skinner’s side, who showed their superiority as a Women’s Super League side at Leigh Sports Village. Sunderland, the only quarter-finalist not competing in the top tier, were up against it straight away when Leah Galton nodded United into the lead after seven minutes. Captain Maya le Tissier doubled their lead, heading in Gabby George’s corner delivery, as Sunderland failed to record a shot on target in a testing first half. United continued to be on…

Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he rejects a U.S. push for talks between the two countries because they would be aimed at imposing restrictions on Iranian missile range and its influence in the region. Speaking to a group of officials on Saturday, Khamenei did not identify the United States by name but said a “bullying government” was being persistent in its push for talks. “Their talks are not aimed at solving problems, it is for … let’s talk to impose what we want on the other party that is sitting on the opposite side of the table,” he…

Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State has dissociated the state government from the ₦700 billion fraud allegation leveled against his predecessor, Udom Emmanuel by the Network against Corruption and Trafficking. Uno said neither he nor his government has hands in the ordeal of his immediate predecessor, who is being probed by anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Speaking at a town hall meeting in the Abak area of the state on Saturday, the governor said, “I don’t know where they get those figures from because it can’t be from Akwa Ibom State; it can’t be from us…

Ten thousand Labour Party (LP) members officially dumped the party for the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Kaduna State on Saturday. Welcoming the decampees in Kaduna on Saturday, the state chairman of ADC, Alhaji Tijjani Mustapha, said, “To our 10,000 decampees from the Labour Party, we welcome you with open arms to the ADC family. Your decision to join us is a testament to our shared vision for a better Kaduna State and Nigeria, and we are excited to have you on board.” He stated that their presence in the party marks a significant milestone in the journey towards creating…

The case of Nnamdi Kanu, detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has been reassigned to another judge. The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho effected the reassigning following the recusal of the Judge that was conducting it. Confirming the reassigning in a release on Saturday, Nnamdi Kanu’s lead lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor Ejimakor disclosed that Kanu was ready to face his trial because he was convinced of his innocence. Ejimakor, speaking for Kanu’s legal team, said, “Yesterday, before the legal team conducted our routine visitation to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, we received two separate official…

The Federal Government has promised to wade into the leadership problem rocking the Senate following the suspension of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the member representing Kogi Central Senatorial District. The Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Iman Suleiman-Ibrahim, who disclosed the government’s intention, told State House correspondents during the Meet-the-Press Programme at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Friday, “We’re engaging all the stakeholders to ensure that they temper justice with mercy.” The minister spoke a day after the 10th Senate suspended Natasha for six months. The Kogi lawmaker had submitted a petition alleging she had been sexually harassed by the Senate President,…

Russia’s latest aerial barrage against targets in Ukraine is not dampening expectations by U.S. President Donald Trump that he can broker a deal to end the fighting between Moscow and Kyiv. Ukrainian officials Friday accused Russia of launching more than 200 overnight missile and drone strikes against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure across a broad swath of the nation, hitting targets in five regions while damaging residential buildings and injuring residents. But Trump, speaking to reporters Friday in the Oval Office, said he takes Russian President Vladimir Putin at his word when Putin says he wants peace. “I believe him. I think…

…Assure of quick resolution of ordeal Senators from opposition political parties on Friday visited senator representing Kogi central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who was recently suspended at her home. A former governor of Bayelsa State,Seriake Dickson led the delegation. Dickson, a member of the senate’s ethics and privileges committee that recommended Akpoti-Uduaghan’s suspension, shared a photo of the visit on his social media pages. He said his engagement with the tax reform bills kept him away from senate proceedings on the day of Akpoti-Uduaghan’s suspension. The former governor said, “The public may recall that, for the past three days, I was attending…

.President Donald Trump today discussed the possibility of a new nuclear deal between the United States and Iran, telling reporters that “there’ll be some interesting days ahead, that’s all I can tell you.” “We’re down to final strokes with Iran,” Trump said at the White House. “We can’t let them have a nuclear weapon.” “We have a situation with Iran that something’s going to happen very soon, very, very soon, you’ll be talking about that pretty soon, I guess, and hopefully we can have a peace deal,” he added. Trump said in Fox Business News interview that he sent a…

The Donald Trump administration announced on Friday that it had canceled $400m in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University in New York because of what it alleges as the college’s repeated failure to protect students from antisemitic harassment. The announcement comes after Columbia set up a new disciplinary committee and initiated its own investigations into students critical of Israel and its war on Gaza after Hamas’ own attack on Israel. That move by the university has alarmed advocates of free speech. It also comes at a time of widespread backlash to American universities by the Trump administration and conservatives…