IAF
8 Nov
With Nigeria’s out-of-school children figure still high at 18.3 million, an international charity has initiated fresh moves to tackle the crisis. The Ibironke Adeagbo Foundation (IAF), based in England, is determined to contribute significantly to addressing the challenge. IAF has been campaigning for intensified efforts to address out-of-school syndrome in Nigeria, where UNICEF and UNESCO…
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The family of a Chinese youth footballer declared "brain dead" after he sustained a serious injury during a match in Spain have accused the Beijing FA of withholding information about the incident. Guo Jiaxuan, 18, fell into a coma on February 6 after an accident during a training match between the Beijing men's U-20 team…
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Borussia Dortmund cruised into the last 16 of the Champions League after a goalless draw with Sporting Lisbon on Wednesday sealed a 3-0 aggregate victory. Serhou Guirassy missed a second-half penalty but it mattered for nothing in the end as last season's finalists were rarely troubled by Sporting and coasted through. Dortmund's reward is a…
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Kylian Mbappe's hat-trick against Manchester City propelled Real Madrid into the Champions League last 16 on Wednesday and him to a new personal high with Los Blancos. This was the kind of night the French superstar dreamed of, both as a boy in his bedroom surrounded by Cristiano Ronaldo posters and in his past few…
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Liverpool's Premier League title charge was slowed by Aston Villa after a pulsating 2-2 draw on Wednesday left neither side satisfied. Arne Slot's men open up an eight-point lead at the top of the table over second-placed Arsenal, but the Gunners now have a game in hand over the Reds. Liverpool led through Mohamed Salah…
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Dutch champions PSV Eindhoven battled into the last 16 of the Champions League Wednesday, after a pulsating 3-1 extra-time win over Juventus gave them a 4-3 aggregate play-off victory. Centre-back Ryan Flamingo seized on some poor Juventus defending to poke the ball home in the first period of extra time, sending PSV through to face…
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Pep Guardiola conceded Manchester City need a rebuild after being swept aside by a Kylian Mbappe hat-trick as Real Madrid progressed to the last 16 of the Champions League 6-3 on aggregate. Mbappe fired the 15-time winners to a 3-1 second leg win on Wednesday, but much of the damage had already been done…
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Paris Saint-Germain can look forward to a showdown with either Liverpool or Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League after mercilessly crushing French rivals Brest 7-0 on Wednesday to win their play-off round tie 10-0 on aggregate. PSG were always overwhelming favourites to beat Brest and effectively killed off the tie with a…
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The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Lateef Fagbemi, and the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ola Olukoyede, at separate events yesterday, weighed in on autonomy for local government areas (LGAs), issuing warnings to state governors and council chairs.
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As the International Women's Day approaches, governments at all levels have been tasked to stop all forms of gender disparity through sound policies and embrace societal advancement . A non governmental organisation , Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre , made the call in a communique issued at the end of a two-day review meeting…
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Barely a week after Boko Haram was featured in an alleged terror funding inquest into the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Nigerian Senate in the federal government’s first official reaction has summoned the National Security Adviser