The 27-year-old clocked 12.55 seconds to finish third in the first heat of the event’s semi-final on Friday. She was placed outside the two automatic qualification spots and later edged to the non-automatic slots by athletes in other heats. Amusan had a poor start off the block in lane six of her heat. She was

The 27-year-old will file out in lane six of the first heat of the event’s semi-final by 11:05 am. She qualified for the penultimate round with the second fastest time overall from the qualification phase, behind only Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho-Quin. Amusan should be able to beat the field once again and keep Nigeria’s medal

Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel winner, was sworn in as Bangladesh’s acting leader. When he first arrived in the nation, he said, “There is much work to be done.” The eighty-four-year-old said shortly after arriving in Dhaka on Thursday from France that “people are excited.” His flight landed mere days after Sheikh Hasina’s escape from Bangladesh,

Peoples Democratic Party chieftain and Publisher of Ovation Magazine International, Dele Momodu has condemned the comments of former Edo state governor Adams Oshiomhole against Edo Peoples’ Democratic Party’s 2024 governorship candidate, Asue Ighodalo. Oshiomhole had declared Ighodalo unelectable following alleged constitutional violations and fraud, as well as accused Ighodalo of manipulating the political process and

In September, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump declared that he would be open to taking part in three debates against Democratic opponent Kamala Harris. During a press conference on Thursday at his Palm Beach home, Trump proposed that the debates be broadcast on three distinct networks: ABC on September 25, NBC on September 10, and

Issa Hayatou, former president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), died at the age of 77. The football executive, who had been a significant role in African football for decades, died in Paris on Thursday, August 8, 2024, one day before his 78th birthday. He was a former Cameroonian 400m and 800m champion who

Innocent Chukwuma, Managing Director/CEO of Innoson Motors, has begged with Nigerians to be patient with President Bola Tinubu’s administration. Speaking to reporters on Thursday after visiting the President at the State House in Abuja, Chukwuma, who revealed that his visit was to encourage the President, emphasised that the President has the ability to turn Nigeria

Former local government chairmen in Rivers State, on Wednesday, accused Governor Siminalayi Fubara of sponsoring the Tuesday attack by hunger protesters on the Port Harcourt house of his predecessor, Nyesom Wike. While warning that Fubara did not have the monopoly of violence, the ex-LG chairmen threatened to mobilise their men to equally unleash an attack

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan Zonal office, on Tuesday, reportedly invited some officials of the Ogun State government in connection with an ongoing investigation. The Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, confirmed the development in a phone conversation with our correspondent on Wednesday. ‘’I just called our Ibadan zonal

Nigeria’s Odunayo Adekuoroye lost 8-10 to China’s Hong Kexin on Thursday in the women’s freestyle 57-kilogramme event of the 2024 Olympic Games wrestling competition. In the quarter-final match at the Champ-de-Mars Arena in Paris, both wrestlers were even by the end of the bout’s first period despite the Nigerian’s early lead. But Hong pulled away