Jannik Sinner underlined why he is the world’s best men’s player by securing back-to-back Australian Open titles with a merciless victory over Alexander Zverev. Italian top seed Sinner delivered in the decisive moments to secure a 6-3 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 win over second seed Zverev.Despite an ongoing doping case hanging over him, Sinner has been able to…
US tennis star Madison Keys, on Saturday defeated Belarus’ Aryna Sabalenka to clinch the 2025 Australian Open women’s title. Keys defeated Sabalenka to claim her first Grand Slam title at the Rod Laver Arena. The American seeded 19 had been the underdog against the two-time defending champion who was seeking a 21st consecutive Melbourne match…
Leicester City Manager Ruud Van Nistelrooy has dismissed concerns that he could be sacked less than two months into his reign. The Foxes have lost their last seven Premier League games and another defeat on Sunday at Tottenham would equal a club record run set in 2001. They are second bottom, two points from safety,…
The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, has dismissed allegations that the Nigerian military was involved in forcefully aborting pregnancies among women impregnated by Boko Haram insurgents in Northern Nigeria. A Reuters report from February 2022 had alleged that the military conducted a secret abortion program as part of its counter-insurgency efforts in the…
Veteran actress, Oluwabukola Ajoke, aka Bukky Wright has opened up about her time away from Nigeria and how she changed careers during her stay in the United States of America. Speaking in an interview with Saturday Beats, she said, “I will be practising it (tech) simultaneously with entertainment. The fact that I had to deviate totally…
Back-to-back champion Aryna Sabalenka is looking to defend her Australian Open women’s singles crown tonight against powerful American Madison Keys. This is the sixth time Aryna Sabalenka and Madison Keys will be meeting each otherSabalenka won four of the previous five matches between the pair. Their first meeting was at the Cincinnati Open in 2018,…
Manchester City captain Kyle Walker has completed a move to Italian club AC Milan on loan for the remainder of the season. The England defender completed a medical with the seven-time European Cup winners on Thursday. Milan’s deal for Walker includes an option to buy the 34-year-old when his loan deal expires at the end…
The Court of Appeal Abuja has slammed a N1 million fine on David Atita, a counsel to Liberation Movement, one of the political parties deregistered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in 2020, for what it termed a waste of judicial time of the court. Liberation Movement had appealed against the July 24, 2020,…
The Association of Resident Doctors in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has called off its warning strike after the intervention of the FCT Minister, Nyesome Wike. The President of the Association, Dr. George Ebong, in a statement on Friday, said the FCTA under Wike has met their demands. On Wednesday, the doctors grounded all FCTA-owned…
The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, on Friday disclosed that notorious terrorist kingpin, Bello Turji, has declared that he is ready to surrender. With his second in command and other lieutenants recently taken out by the military, the Chief of Defence Staff said that Turji has been forced to discard most of those…
