After disclosing the career-ending diagnosis, Canadian pop sensation Celine Dion stated in her first interview that she is well and is living “one day at a time.” Dion suffers from a rare neurological illness. The 56-year-old Dion initially revealed in December 2022 that she had been diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome, a condition that results…
Ibrahim Balarabe, the speaker of the state house of assembly, led a plenary meeting on Thursday. The sole female member of the 7th assembly, Hajara Danyaro, was sworn in during the session. Hajara wasn’t previously a member of either side throughout the conflict, but her swearing-in shows that she is a member of the Balarabe-led…
With a 5-0 victory over Werder Bremen on Sunday, Bayer Leverkusen won the Bundesliga championship for the first time in their 120-year existence, ending Bayern Munich’s 11-year monopoly on the German top division. With five games remaining, Leverkusen under Xabi Alonso knew that win would guarantee the title, yet they played a dominant game and…
The Champions League final between Manchester City and Inter Milan will take place on Saturday in Istanbul. Pep Guardiola’s English team is heavily favored to win the competition for the first time. The game, which will be played at the 75,000-seat Ataturk Olympic Stadium, will begin at 10:00 pm (1900 GMT) in the Turkish capital…
On Wednesday, France condemned an incident in which a Tunisian policeman opened fire at a synagogue, killing two tourists and two security personnel. Speaking on the shooting on the island of Djerba on Tuesday that left a French national among its victims, foreign ministry spokeswoman Anne-Claire Legendre said that France “condemns this heinous act in…
Ademola Adeleke, the governor of Osun State, and Gboyega Oyetola, his predecessor, will find out how they stand in the controversy surrounding the results of the governorship election on July 16, 2022. The Peoples Democratic Party’s Adeleke won the election, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), with 403,371 votes versus the incumbent Oyetola’s…
In honor of the monarch’s 90th birthday, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu bestowed the Grand Commander of the Order of Niger (GCON), the second-highest national honor, on Oba Sikiru Adetona, the Awujale of Ijebuland, on Friday. At the Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona School of Governance Studies’ inauguration and book presentation, “Reinventing Governance in Nigeria: The Oba…
On Tuesday, tens of thousands of Iranians came together to pay their respects to President Ebrahim Raisi and the seven members of his entourage who perished in a helicopter crash on a foggy northwest mountainside. Mourners began gathering in Tabriz’s center square, which is northwest of the city where Raisi was headed when his chopper…
Fourteen years after his demise, chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) paid warm homage to the late former president Umaru Yar’Adua on Sunday. From May 1999 to May 2007, Yar’Adua served as the governor of Katsina State in the North-West geopolitical zone of Nigeria. He was sworn in as the party’s nominee to succeed…
In advance of the Bayelsa State governorship election on November 11, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has removed Timipre Sylva, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), from the final list of contenders. Rose Oriaran-Anthony, the secretary to the commission, signed the revised list that was posted on the commission’s website on Tuesday….