The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has released names of 23 Super Eagles players invited for the upcoming 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying fixtures against Benin Republic and Rwanda. There are three goalkeepers, including AFCON 2023 star Stanley Nwabali, seven defenders, six midfielders and seven forwards. Bendel Insurance safe hands Amas Obasogie also returns, just…
The technical director of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Austine Eguavoen is likely to take charge of the Super Eagles for the upcoming 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying fixtures against Benin Republic and Rwanda. This comes after Finidi George’s resignation in June, and the NFF’s delay in appointing a new head coach. With the…
Rwandan are today, Monday, voting in Polling stations across the country for presidential and parliamentary elections with President Paul Kagame set to cruise to victory and extend his rule for another five years. Rwanda’s de facto leader since the end of the 1994 genocide and president since 2000, Kagame faces only two challengers after several…
New Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he would scrap a controversial plan to fly thousands of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda in his first major policy announcement since winning a landslide election victory. The previous Conservative government first announced the plan in 2022 to send migrants who arrived in Britain without permission to…
Information reaching EKWEANAEDO ONLINE has it that the British government has taken a decisive step in implementing its controversial plan to deport migrants who entered the country illegally to Rwanda, as part of its broader strategy to manage illegal immigration. Multiple news outlets have reported that the government has begun detaining asylum seekers in connection…
Action has indeed matched words, as the UK deported its first migrant to Rwanda, marking a notable shift in the country’s approach to handling illegal immigration. EKWEANAEDO ONLINE gathered that the action, carried out under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s directive, has sparked both support and criticism, raising questions about the ethics and effectiveness of such…
Britain’s King Charles has given his assent to legislation central to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. This happened while police authorities in the U.K. said they arrested nationals from Sudan and South Sudan who were facilitating illegal migration into the nation. Royal Assent is the final stage in the…
A former doctor in Rwanda has been jailed for 24 years by a French court for his involvement in the 1994 genocide in the east African country. Sosthene Munyemana was found guilty of crimes including genocide and crimes against humanity. He was accused of organising torture and killings in the genocide, in which 800,000 people…
Britain’s ruling Conservative party was in disarray Wednesday after its immigration minister quit over legislation regarding sending migrants to Rwanda as hardliners turned the screw on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The UK leader’s position looked increasingly vulnerable after Robert Jenrick said he had resigned due to “strong disagreements with the direction” of the government’s policy…
People arriving in the UK by irregular means will be deported to Rwanda before the next general election, Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister, has said, as the home secretary, James Cleverly, arrives in Kigali to sign a treaty paving the way for the policy. Jenrick, who has taken an increasingly rightwing stance and hinted at…
