Switzerland’s Xherdan Shaqiri has called time on his international career on Monday The 32 year old former Liverpool player won 125 caps with the Swiss national team. Shaqiri who now plays with Chicago Fire in the United States, is Switzerland’s second most-capped player after team-mate Granit Xhaka on 130 caps. The former Bayern Munich player…
The number of those who lost their lives in a cafe bomb blast in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu packed with football fans watching the the Euro 2024 final has risen to nine. Witnesses described scenes of panic and chaos after the powerful blast late Sunday, with people scrambling for safety and the main entrance to the…
The police in Kenya say they had arrested a suspected serial killer who has confessed to murdering 42 women including his own wife before dumping their dismembered bodies in a Nairobi rubbish tip. A total of nine butchered bodies trussed up in plastic bags have been pulled from the garbage site in the Mukuru slum…
A High court in Kano state has permanently restrained the deposed Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, and four other former Emirs from parading themselves as Emirs The Court presided over by Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu delivered the ruling on Monday. The judgement specifically prohibits the former Emirs of Bichi, Rano, Gaya, and Karaye, as…
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dr Olisa Agbakoba, has faulted the the agitation for the creation of additional states in the South-East, insisting it would not solve the problem of the region. Rather than create more states, Agbakoba, a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, said the National Assembly should amend the constitution or…
The main Opposition party in Rivers state All Progressives Congress has called on Governor Siminalayi Fubara to respect last week’s judgment of the Supreme Court, which declared it is illegal to run local government areas with caretaker committees. This was as one of the replaced LG chairmen, Olobarimate Ollor, said the Supreme Court’s judgment had…
Colombia’s twenty eight match unbeaten run came to an end Monday as Lautaro Martinez scored an extra-time winner to help Argentina defend their Copa America title and win a record 16th title A poor game which had been marred by security and crowd issues, forcing a 82-minute delay, was decided by a quality finish from…
Southampton have signed Japan defender Yukinari Sugawara from Dutch club AZ Alkmaar. The 24-year-old has joined for an undisclosed fee reported to be in the region of £6m and signed a four-year contract at St Mary’s. Sugawara is Saints boss Russell Martin’s seventh signing of the summer and the club’s fifth defensive addition. Martin said…
English Premier League side Manchester United have agreed to sell their central defender Willy Kambwala to Villarreal. United will receive €5.5m (£4.63m) as an initial payment, with add-ons potentially taking the fee to €11.5m (£9.68m). In addition, United have a buy-back option and negotiated a sizeable share of any sell-on fee for the 19-year-old. Kambwala…
The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, says it will take over Abia and Enugu states in the 2027 general elections. The party said it has made serious inroads in the South-East zone and will take over the states in the next general election. The national vice chairman of APC, Ijeoma Arodiogu, stated this in Abakaliki,…
