Spain
30 Apr
Spain's Pablo Larrazabal won the DP World Tour's Korea Championship on Sunday, overcoming interruptions in play due to rain and fog at the tournament.
20 Apr
Spain's ruling Socialists on Thursday secured parliamentary approval to amend a landmark law aimed at fighting sexual violence to fix a loophole that has allowed some offenders to reduce their sentences. Known as "Only yes means yes", that law came into force in October, reforming the criminal code to define all non-consensual sex as rape.…
19 Apr
Spain's disgraced former king Juan Carlos returned home on Wednesday for the second time since he moved to Abu Dhabi in 2020 amid fraud investigations. The 85-year-old arrived in Vigo in northwestern Spain on a private jet from London, where he attended Real Madrid's 2-0 win over Chelsea in the Champions League, according to an…
18 Apr
The European Parliament voted Tuesday to allow visa-free visits to the EU for citizens of Kosovo, starting by the end of next year. Kosovo, once a Serbian province in the former Yugoslavia, is the last territory in the Western Balkans without visa-free travel to the EU's Schengen travel area. The reform will be welcomed in…
28 Mar
Spanish police scuffled with Peru national football players in front of their hotel in Madrid and detained a member of the squad, police and Peruvian officials said Tuesday.
25 Jan
European champions Italy will face Spain while hosts the Netherlands will take on Croatia in the UEFA Nations League semi-finals in June, after Wednesday's draw. The Dutch open the finals against World Cup semi-finalists Croatia in Rotterdam on June 14 before the other last-four clash in Enschede the following day. Spain beat Italy 2-1 in…
25 Jan
Spanish police have arrested a man suspected of being behind a recent letter bombing campaign that targeted the prime minister and the Ukrainian embassy, the interior ministry said Wednesday. A 74-year-old Spanish citizen was arrested in Miranda de Ebro in northern Spain and the ministry said police were searching the man's home. Nobody was killed…
13 Jan
The Kingdom of Spain has honoured former Nigerian Ambassador to Spain, Ademola Seriki, with a Posthumous Award. Seriki died On Thursday, December 15th, 2022 while serving as Nigerian Envoy to Spain. The Civil Merit Award was delivered to the family of the deceased diplomat by the Spanish Foreign Minister, Jose Manuel Álvares, in Abuja on…
16 Dec 2022
Spanish midfielder and 2010 World Cup winner Sergio Busquets announced his international retirement on Friday. "I would like to announce that after almost 15 years and 143 matches, the moment has arrived to bid farewell to the national team," wrote the 34-year-old Barcelona stalwart on his social media platforms. Busquets is the last member of…
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As Nigeria struggles to meet the goal four of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and tackle the increasing menace of out-of-school children, some states have continued to expend millions of naira on overseas training for some of their students.
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The Nigerian military has yet again been caught in misdirected airstrikes, with the latest incident claiming over 80 lives in Kaduna State.
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Yambali Umaru, a carpenter, was in detention for seven years after his friend alleged that he was a member of Boko Haram insurgents, in 2011.
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Federal Government, yesterday, resumed the trial of suspected Boko Haram members in the Kainji Prosecution Project Phase IV in Abuja.
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Nigeria’s external sector recorded a modest improvement last quarter (Q3) as trade surplus rose by 47 per cent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) to N1.89 trillion compared to N1.28 trillion posted in the second quarter (Q2).
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Sports Minister, Senator John Owan Enoh, has revealed that the Federal Government has no intention of sacking Super Eagles’ Coach, Jose Peseiro, before the forthcoming Cote d’Ivoire 2024 Africa Cup of Nations.
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It is an honour and a pleasure to join you today to celebrate the 40th anniversary of what I consider to be one of Nigeria’s, and indeed Africa’s, finest newspapers.
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Amadi Umeh showed why he is currently the country’s best home-based player, at the weekend, when he defeated hard-fighting Rilwan Akanbi to win the Third Quadri Aruna Open Table Tennis Championship.