Author: Amina Mohammed

Real Madrid winger Vinicius Junior was banned for two La Liga matches on Tuesday after his red card last week against Valencia. The Brazilian winger shoved goalkeeper Stole Dimitrievski in the back of the neck after he had been pushed by the Los Che stopper. Spanish champions Real Madrid came from behind to beat Valencia 2-1 on Friday after Vinicius’ red card, moving top of the table. Vinicius will miss upcoming league games against Las Palmas and Real Valladolid but is able to play in the Spanish Super Cup this week in Saudi Arabia, with Madrid facing Mallorca on Thursday…

France head coach Didier Deschamps will step down from the role when his current contract ends after the 2026 World Cup, a source close to the team said on Tuesday. Deschamps led Les Bleus to the 2018 World Cup title, becoming only the third man to win the tournament as a player and a manager. He took over from Laurent Blanc in 2012 and has taken France to three major finals in total, losing the Euro 2016 final to Portugal and the 2022 World Cup showpiece to Argentina. Deschamps was captain when Les Bleus won their first World Cup on…

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has confirmed the appointment of  Éric Sékou Chelle as Head Coach of Nigeria’s Super Eagles. This was reached at its ”meeting held in Abuja on Thursday, 2nd January 2025, the NFF Technical and Development Sub-Committee had recommended the appointment of the former Coach of the senior men national team of Mali as the new Head Coach of the Super Eagles.” ”This recommendation was on Tuesday, 7th January endorsed by the NFF Executive Committee,” the federation’s website revealed. His appointment is with immediate effect, and he has the responsibility of guiding the Super Eagles to earn a…

Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka says she and her American rapper boyfriend Cordae have split up just days ahead of the Australian Open. The couple have been together since 2019 and share a young daughter, Shai. “Hi everyone, just wanted to say that Cordae and I are no longer in a relationship,” the four-time Grand Slam champion wrote on Instagram late Monday. “No bad blood at all, he’s a great person and an awesome dad. “Honestly really glad our paths crossed because my daughter is my biggest blessing and I was able to grow a lot from our experiences together.”…

The first human death from bird flu in the United States has intensified calls for the government to ramp up efforts to stave off the threat of another pandemic — particularly ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Health experts around the world have for months been urging US authorities to increase surveillance and share more information about its bird flu outbreak after the virus started spreading among dairy cows for the first time. On Monday, Louisiana health authorities reported that a patient aged over 60 was the country’s first person to die from bird flu. The patient,…

The Peoples Democratic Party has apologised following the incident in which one of its staff members, Emmanuel Okoronkwo, assaulted The SUN correspondent, Ndubuisi Orji. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, expressed regret over the incident during a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday and assured all that the matter would be investigated. Recall that the PDP Press Corps condemned the assault on Orji, by Okoronkwo, a PDP staff member linked to the recently ousted PDP National Secretary, Sam Anyanwu, on Monday. The Chairman of the PDP Press Corps, Samuel Ogidan, in a statement, disclosed that the incident occurred at…

Social media giant Meta announced Tuesday a significant rollback of its content moderation policies, including the termination of its third-party fact-checking program in the United States. “We’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X (formerly Twitter), starting in the US,” Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on social media. Zuckerberg said that “fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created, especially in the US.” Meta’s announcement repeated many of the complaints made by Republicans and X-owner Elon Musk about fact-checking…

The Labour Party on Tuesday, issued a seven-day ultimatum to President Bola Tinubu, urging him to reprimand and caution the All Progressives Congress spokesman, Felix Morka, over an alleged threat to its 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi. The ultimatum follows a heated exchange between the ruling party and the Obidient Movement, sparked by concerns over the perceived threat to the former Anambra State governor’s life. The hostility was a fallout of Sunday’s interview on Arise Television, where Morka claimed that Obi has ‘crossed the line’ in his recent criticism of Tinubu’s administration. Morka claimed that Obi is desperately seeking to…

The Nigerian Police Force have announced the arrest of 751 suspects for cybercrime-related fraud in the year 2024. The Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi who reeled out the score card explains that 14 convictions have been secured during the period under review with 508 cases. Adejobi also explains that a total of $840, 000 was recovered for victims of cyber crimes, while a total of N914 million, as well as a total of over $115,000, are frozen in different bank accounts and crypto wallets. A further breakdown of the report according to the force PRO includes the recovery of…

Britain plans to criminally charge people who create and share sexually explicit deepfake images to better protect women and girls, a minister said Tuesday. The government also plans to designate taking intimate images without consent and installing equipment to that end as new offences, with perpetrators facing up to two years in prison, the Ministry of Justice said. It is already an offence in the UK to share or threaten to share intimate images, including deepfakes. But currently, it is only an offence to create an image without consent in certain circumstances, such as so-called upskirting. Victims minister Alex Davies-Jones…