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Global Sports Personalities In Push To Stop Iran Executing Boxing Champion

Sports

More than 20 Olympic medallists, coaches and other international athletes, including the tennis player Martina Navratilova and the swimmer Sharron Davies, have signed a letter calling for a halt to the execution of a boxing champion and coach, who is on death row in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Amid growing international outrage over Iran’s escalating use of capital punishment as a tool of oppression, the strong-worded letter condemned the Iranian regime’s decision to uphold the death sentence on Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani. Sani, 30, from Mashhad in north-east Iran, was arrested for taking part in nationwide protests in 2019…

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3 US Presidents Visited Nigeria During My Tenures, America Could Not Act In Africa Without Our Knowledge -Obasanjo

News

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has given an indication of the high regard the United States (US) had for Nigeria in the past,saying when he (Obasanjo) was Head of State, the global superpower could not take any action in Africa without pre-informing him. Obasanjo was military Head of State from 1976-79 and two-term civilian President from 1999-2007. He also said that three US Presidents visited Nigeria within his three tenures in office as Nigeria's leader. Obasanjo disclosed these on Monday in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, during the Presidential Youth Mentorship Retreat (6.0) organised by the Youth Development Centre, an arm of…

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My Father Ken Saro-Wiwa Died Fighting For Clean Nigeria, Stop Sucking On Oil Cash Cow’s Dirty Teat

Opinion

By Noo Saro-Wiwa Earlier this year, my father, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and his eight colleagues, known collectively as the Ogoni Nine, were pardoned for a crime they never committed. After peacefully campaigning against environmental degradation of Ogoniland in Nigeria at the hands of the oil industry, they were imprisoned by the military dictatorship on false charges of treason and incitement to murder, following a trial condemned by the international community as a sham. On 10 November 1995, the men were executed by hanging. Thirty years on, the government of President Bola Tinubu granted a pardon to the Ogoni Nine. While our…

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The Prison Ordeal Of Former President, ‘I Never Imagined That At 70 I’d Be In Jail’

Foreign

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy said his time in prison was a nightmare, gruelling and really hard. Released from prison today by an Appeal Court to pursue his appeal, he said he wants to “prove his innocence” against his conviction for criminal conspiracy over a scheme to obtain election campaign funds from late Muammar Gaddafi's Libya. After 20 days in jail that he had earlier described as “gruelling” and a “nightmare”, the former French President was driven away from La Santé prison in Paris today accompanied by his wife, the celebrity singer Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. Sarkozy, who served as France’s rightwing…

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WC Playoff: S/Eagles’ Opponents Gabon Hit Ground Running, Hold First Training Session In Morocco, Aubameyang, Others Arrive

Sports

Nigeria's foes in Thursday's 2026 World Cup playoff in Morocco, the Panthers of Gabon, effectively began their preparations for the crucial qualifier today in Rabat. A report in the Gabonese Press Agency (GPA), monitored by People&Politics, stated that about 10 additional internationals hit camp, as of press time. Some of them were Olympique Marseille hitman Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, N. Lémina, Averlant, Oyono, Ecuéle, Do Marcolino, Openda, and Moussounda. "Further arrivals are expected, notably that of Denis Bouanga," GPA wrote. Thirty-year-old Bouanga plays as a winger and forward for Major League Soccer (MLS) side Los Angeles FC. The Panthers held their first…

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Multibillion Naira Benin Looted Artefacts Spark Protests At New Museum

Culture

Protesters today disrupted a preview event at a major new museum in Benin, the Edo state capital, that has become embroiled in a row over the restitution of artefacts looted by British colonial forces in the 19th century. The demonstrators asserted that the opening of the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) is a violation of Benin City’s cultural heritage, which falls under the authority of its traditional ruler, the Oba of Benin, Ewuare II. In a video circulating on social media, protesters were seen loudly chanting “Oba ghato kpere ise” (“Long live the king” in the Bini language) while…

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Protests: President’s Daughter Goes On Trial

Foreign

Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, a politician and daughter of the former South African president Jacob Zuma, has pleaded not guilty to incitement to commit terrorism and public violence over deadly riots in 2021. The trial, which began today in the coastal city of Durban, is the first prosecution in South Africa in which terrorism‑related charges are being brought based on social media posts. In July 2021, Zuma handed himself in to police to serve a 15-month sentence for contempt of court over his refusal to appear before a commission investigating widespread corruption – often referred to as “state capture”. He served only…

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Anambra Guber: Sowore’s Party’s Candidate, Actress Ifemeludike, With 292 Votes, Hails Self

News

Though the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Governor Chukwuma Soludo re-elected in weekend's Anambra State governorship poll, the candidate of left-wing African Action Congress (AAC), actress Chioma Ifemeludike, who polled 292 votes in the election, thumbed up herself for the feat. AAC is the political party that fielded activist Omoyele Sowore as presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections in which INEC declared President Bola Tinubu as winner. Describing herself as a winner despite losing the election to Gov. Soludo, Ifemeludike said the votes she got were based on voters' belief in her principles and personal integrity. Soludo of…

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As Parents Speak Up, Survivors’ Families Shape Possible Eradication Of GBV

Special Report

By Rosemary Ameh, Sokoto According to data obtained online, globally approximately 736 million women --which is almost one in three women --,have experienced physical or sexual violence at least once in their life time, primarily from intimate partners. Physical and sexual violence has been meted on an estimated 30% of woman aged 15 and older. More than 640 million women have experienced intimate partner violence. In 2023, about 84,900 women were killed worldwide --the highest number of recorded femicides since 2014. When 12-year-old Maryam left her home in rural Sokoto to gather firewood from the farm, she never imagined the…

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NLC President Joe Ajaero Bags Masters in Law With Distinction

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Leading the nation's labour movement has not quenched the thirst of President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, for the golden fleece of higher education as he moved a huge notch up in that wise at the weekend. Comrade Ajaero bagged the prestigious Masters in Law (LLM) from one of Nigeria's finest private universities, Baze University, Abuja, at its convocation ceremony Saturday. What's more, he bagged the LLM with Distinction. Personally touched, the NLC President gushed: "I thank God for granting me Distinction in the Masters in Law, LLM category." In an outpouring of admiration, international and national associates,…