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Belgium bounced back from defeat in their Euro 2024 opener to secure a 2-0 win over Romania, with Kevin de Bruyne inspiring the win. Belgium were shocked by Slovakia in their first match in Group E, but managed to overcome the pressure to secure a big win over Romania as the battle for knockout qualification continues. Romelu Lukaku saw his …

The Nigerian team’s mixed 4x400m relay quartet won silver at the African Championships in Douala, Cameroon. The team consisting of Emmanuel Ojeli, Ella Onojuvwevwo, Dubem Nwachukwu, and Patience Okon-George secured second place with a time of 3:13.72. South Africa won gold with a time of 3:13.12, while Botswana won bronze with a time of 3:15.93. In the women’s hammer throw, …

Suspected armed robbers on Saturday morning killed one Uwem Udokwere, a retired brigadier general, in Abuja. Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police command spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, confirmed the incident in a statement on Saturday evening. He said the FCT Police Commissioner, Benneth Igweh, had ordered an immediate investigation into the incident. The statement read: “In response to the tragic and unprecedented …

Celeste Arantes, mother of Brazilian soccer legend Pele, has died at age 101, outliving her famous son by 18 months, her family announced Friday. Arantes was 17 when she gave birth to her first child on October 23, 1940, a child who would grow up to become the man widely considered the greatest footballer of all time. “Rest in peace, …

The suspected vandal, Inalegwu Elias, was electrocuted while trying to damage a transformer of the Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JED) on Friday evening in Benue State. Spokesman of the state police command, Sewuese Anene, confirmed the incident to journalists on Saturday in Makurdi. He said the victim was found hanging from a double transformer pole in the state’s Otukpo area. …

  A nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea on Saturday for a three-way exercise involving Japan as it stepped up military training to deal with North Korean threats, which have intensified following a security pact with the Russia. An F-18 fighter jet sits in the hangar of the Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, docked at …

Gunmen suspected of being bandits on Saturday morning kidnapped the parish priest of St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Raymond Damba in Gusau, Zamfara State, Pastor Fr. Mikah Sulaiman. Spokesperson for the state police command, Yazid Abubakar, confirmed the incident to journalists in Gusau. He said the pastor was kidnapped at around 03.00 am, at his residence in the Damba area of …

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar said on Saturday that the upcoming congress of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would resolve the party’s lingering crisis in Katsina State. Atiku spoke to journalists after paying a condolence visit to the Emir of Katsina, Alhaji Abdulmumini Kabir-Usman, on the death of his son, Abdullah Abdulmumini. He said: “I also convey my condolences to …

Operatives of the Makurdi Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested two former staff of Union Bank in Makurdi for allegedly stealing the sum of N4,199,500.00 belonging to a deceased customer of the bank. Suspects Idah Ogoh and Agbo Okwute were arrested on Friday, 21 June 2024 in Makurdi, Benue State. According to a statement …

Open AI, an American research organization, has acquired Rockset, an enterprise analytics business, to enhance AI capabilities and retrieval infrastructure across its products. Former Facebook engineer Venkat Venkataramani, CEO of Rockset, which was co-founded by Database architects Dhruba Borthakur and Tudor Bosman confirmed the acquisition in a blog post on Friday. According to OpenAI representatives, this acquisition marks the first …