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AFCON Headache: Liverpool, City Amid Club v Country Debate As Salah, Marmoush Await Departure
Last Updated:November 01, 2025, 16:08 IST Liverpool and Manchester City will lose Salah and Marmoush to Egypt for AFCON, risking key absences during crucial fixtures as the tournament starts December 22. Liverpool's Salah and City's Marmoush (X)...
NSC chairman discloses Victor Osimhen's dressing room reaction after Super Eagles games
National Sports Commission chairman Alhaji Shehu Dikko has opened up on Victor Osimhen's reaction after games Dikko praised Osimhen’s commitment to the national team and how it helps make the difference with his teammates The Galatasaray forward...
‘I’m not afraid to show who I am’: Alex Iwobi on how family and faith forged the Super Eagles star of today
By Aleks Klosok, Darren Lewis, CNN London (CNN) — Alex Iwobi vividly remembers the day: Friday, August 8, 2019. The transformative moment? A late, unexpected move for the then 23-year-old on transfer deadline day from his boyhood club of Arsenal...
Co-Creating An African Peace Village in Portugal
Imagine a real-world prototype of what life could look like beyond competition: a place where we can practice the kind of future we say we want… The African Peace Village in Portugal is designed to do just that. A land-based, refugee-led...
Casemiro replacement: Man Utd prepare to make offer for £60m "duel monster"
Manchester United made it three successive wins in the Premier League at the weekend when they beat Brighton & Hove Albion 4-2 at Old Trafford on Saturday. Bryan Mbeumo was, arguably, the star of the show with his two impressive goals for the Red...
Kevin De Bruyne likely out until 2026 with severe thigh injury
NAPLES, Italy — Napoli had its fears confirmed by news that Kevin De Bruyne has a severe lesion to his thigh muscle and will be sidelined for several months. De Bruyne immediately pulled up and clutched the back of his right thigh on Saturday...
State House (s), African Leaders New Grave yard…It’s a new retirement home with no exit
State House (s), African Leaders New Grave yard …It’s a new retirement home with no exit Amb. Anthony Mukwita wrote- “and just like a political phantom, no one saw 65 year old President Samia Suluhu Hassan coming in from the cold ‘disguised as a...
Tanzania’s Unfree Election
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Tanzanians head to the polls under an increasingly repressive regime, Cameroon and Ivory Coast crack down on postelection protests, and the Sudanese city of El Fasher falls to the...
Sylvia Blyden Praises Trump and Blames Obama for Nigeria’s Christian Crisis
Sierra Leonean political activist and former Minister of Social Welfare, Dr Sylvia Blyden, has publicly thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for drawing international attention to what she described as a “systematic, religion-based genocide” in...
Trauma & Triumph: The painful mental hea...
But when the armed conflict erupted in Cameroon’s North West and South West Regions, his dreams were suddenly swept away by the violence that engulfed his community. Fleeing to Douala in 2017, he found himself in an unfamiliar city - alone, broke,...
Andre Onana is Turning Heads at Trabzonspor Following Man Utd Move
Thanks to his on-the-ball ability, Manchester United thought they had signed a transformative figure in Andre Onana in the summer of 2023 as the now-29-year-old replaced the long-standing David de Gea. Although he enjoyed moments of brilliance –...
The artist behind KETV's 'Lunch Lady' graffiti
The Lunch Lady is famous around 7 Burlington Station. She's the one piece of graffiti we kept when we moved in 10 years ago. It wasn't the original name Gerard Pefung had in mind when he created the work of art. "The lunch lady was 5% of what I...
Man Utd have struck gold on talent who "has the same raw chaos as Rooney"
Manchester United have been known over recent years to invest heavily in youngsters who can make an immediate and long-term impact at Old Trafford. Part of their £800m spending spree in the last four years has seen numerous big-money talents...
How shadowy Russian and US groups are pouring billions into the systematic destruction of women’s rights globally
A highly organised and well-funded campaign to strip women of their rights is gaining global momentum. “Reject harmful sex education in South Africa!” reads the headline of a petition launched in August this year. “The South African Department of...
‘Poor’ PSG retain Ligue 1 lead despite stalemate and Doue injury
Paris Saint-Germain's Portuguese defender #25 Nuno Mendes (R) fights for the ball with Lorient's Tunisian defender #03 Montassar Talbi (L) and Lorient's Cameroonian defender #44 Darlin Yongwa (C) during the French L1 football match between FC...
Recent African elections a mockery of democracy – Asah-Asante
Political Science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Asah-Asante, has described the recent elections in Tanzania, Cameroon, and Côte d’Ivoire as a “mockery of democracy,” citing the lack of fairness, inclusivity, and freedom in their...
The immortals: Africa’s drift from democracy to gerontocracy
Paul Biya has done it again. At 92 years old, he has secured yet another term in Cameroon’s elections. He has been in power for 43 years, and if he completes this new mandate, he will still be president at 99. He only appeared before the people...
Napoli extend lead at top of Serie A thanks to Anguissa header
PA Media/dpa London Frank Anguissa struck the only goal as Napoli opened up a three-point gap at the top of Serie A with a hard-fought 1-0 win at Lecce. The Cameroon midfielder followed up his superb effort in Saturday’s 3-1 home win over title...
The gap between the Tinubu presidency and Nigerians widen, By Jibrin Ibrahim
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu One of the most serious elements widening the gap is the government’s persistent assurances of significant progress on the security front, which contrasts sharply with the views of citizens that insecurity is growing,...
Does the Cape Verde fairytale have lessons for Indian football?
It was late 2014. The ISL was finally about to kick off. If there was one hope for the turnaround of the beautiful game in India, this was it. Just about everything seemed perfect. One of India’s biggest business houses, Reliance, was in charge of...