Fifty years ago this month, modern football was born at the World Cup in Mexico, kicking and yelling, and live in vibrant colour for a global audience.
This weekend marks the anniversary of the quarter-finals of that tournament as a star-studded cast played a thrilling series of knock-out games which built to a dazzling final, when the first World Cup broadcast in colour ended with an unparalleled display by a technicolour team.
Mexico in 1970 was not the first World Cup broadcast live. Four years earlier 400 million watched England beat West Germany in the final. But that tournament was
Coronavirus-hit car rental company Hertz was granted permission Friday to sell $1 billion in shares, an extraordinary move after it declared bankruptcy in the United States and Canada.
The unusual green light was given by a bankruptcy court in the US state of Delaware, which “held a hearing and approved the Motion,” according to documents filed by Hertz with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
The company says it will sell the shares at its discretion in terms of timing and volume.
Hertz is trying to capitalize on a surge in its volatile stock price since it filed for bankruptcy …
The Premier League will support players taking a knee before or during matches in protest against racial discrimination, while “Black Lives Matter” will replace player names on the back of shirts for the first 12 games of the league’s restart next week.
“The League supports the players’ wish to have their names replaced by Black Lives Matter on the back of their shirts for the first 12 matches of the restarted 2019/20 season,” the Premier League said in a statement on Friday.
“In addition, the League will support players who ‘take a knee’ before or during matches.”
Protests have erupted …
African countries called Friday on the UN Human Rights Council to urgently debate racism and police brutality amid the unrest in the US and beyond over George Floyd’s death.
In a letter written on behalf of 54 African countries, Burkina Faso’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva asked the UN’s top rights body for an “urgent debate” on “racially inspired human rights violations, police brutality against people of African descent and the violence against the peaceful protests that call for these injustices to stop.”
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The letter, addressed to rights council …
The Federal Government has congratulated media entrepreneur and filmmaker Mo Abudu over her partnership with leading global streaming service Netflix to create two original series as well as multiple Netflix-branded films.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, by his SA on media, Segun Adeyemi, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the partnership, for on-screen adaptation of Wole Soyinka’s ‘Death and The King’s Horseman’ and Lola Shoneyin’s ‘The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives’, adds another feather to Mo Abudu’s already well-adorned creative cap.
For criticising Lai Mohammed, court remands Osun-based poet Nigeria’s Anthony …
When Godwin Obaseki emerged the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the September 10 election in Edo State. Comrade Adams Oshiomhole who was governor at that time described the primaries as the best ever organised by the party.
He noted that the process was transparent, while the delegates were well behaved and called for unity among party members.
He said all the aspirants belonged to one family and needed to work together to ensure victory at the polls.
Comrade Oshiomhole, who described Mr. Obaseki as sound, said he was also at home with governance and “ready to
Former Deputy Chief Whip Pally Iriase on Friday said the All Progressives Congress, APC screening Committee that sent Governor Obaseki out of the Edo governorship race should be applauded for saving democracy in Nigeria.
Iriase a former deputy speaker and former Secretary to the Edo State Government and a think tank of APC in 2015 hailed the screening Committee for towing the line of democracy not minding whose ox is gored.
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In a chat with journalists in Abuja the former two-term Lawmaker said: “Coincidentally, today is June 12, the day …
One of the many contraptions that have defied evolution in Nigeria is our politics. We still practise the basest, vilest and crudest kind of politics. In fact, there is a more transparent and disciplined political system in the animal kingdom than there is in our country.
Some studies have shown that baboons have an ordered democratic system – not based on social dominance but on purpose, merit and importance. Baboons will not follow any member of their troupe based on his rank or social significance but squarely on if that member has direction and purpose.
Also, honey bees have one …
There were gunshots are the Presidential Villa Abuja when First Lady, Dr. Aisha Buhari, members of her immediate family and her Aide-de-camp, Usman Shugaba attempted to force Sabiu Yusuf, a Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari into self-isolation.
The incident, which is regarded as a ‘security breach’ happened after the Yusuf returned from Lagos State where his wife just put the birth.
The newspaper reports that trouble started when the First Lady, Zahra, Halima and Yusuf, accompanied by some of her security aides led by the Aide-de-Camp, went to the residence of Sabiu, who is the President’s nephew, demanding that …
A former Governor of old Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa, has told President Muhammadu Buhari to go after those behind the annulment of June 12, 1993 presidential election without further delay.
Balarabe Musa spoke at the commemoration of Democracy Day in Kaduna on Friday, insisting that those who annulled the polls were responsible for the many challenges facing Nigeria today.
The former Governor commended Buhari for honouring the adjudged winner of the election late MKO Abiola but maintained that the President should complete the task he started.
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He called on …
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has said the party followed its constitution in disqualifying Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki.
Obaseki was on Friday, disqualified from contesting in the APC primaries, ahead of the forthcoming governorship election in the state.
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Oshiomhole, speaking on Channels Television, said the party’s decision was subject to appeal.
…“We are just following our party constitution. We have a screening committee, they turned out a report. And the report is subject to the appeal committee for anyone who
Alexandra Kareem, brother to former Big Brother Naija housemate, Khafi Kareem, is dead.
Alexandra was shot dead in West London by unknown gunmen on Askew Road in Shepherd’s Bush on Monday.
According to BBC, the 20-year-old was said to have died after sustaining gunshot wounds to his chest and abdomen.
Detectives said a white Range Rover Evoque linked to the murder was later found burnt out three miles away in Acton, Ealing.
The Police are yet to make any arrests.
…Det Insp Wayne Jolly, who confirmed the incident said, “Alexander was
