The Kremlin on Tuesday welcomed FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s comments on ending a ban on Moscow from international competitions over its Ukraine campaign, while Kyiv denounced his words as “irresponsible” during the war. Infantino — who previously had friendly relations with Russia’s Vladimir Putin — said in an interview a day earlier the ban on Russia had “not achieved anything.” ...
A US federal judge said he would hear a request to block access to investigative files linked to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday, after lawyers flagged unredacted names of victims. The latest development surrounding the case, which continues to cast a long shadow over Washington, comes after Bill and Hillary Clinton agreed to testify in a US House investigation. ...
A Ugandan court has dismissed the first case brought under an anti-gay law seen as one of the harshest in the world, a lawyer told AFP Tuesday, in a decision welcomed by rights campaigners. The Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 imposes penalties of up to life in prison for consensual same-sex relations and has provisions that make “aggravated homosexuality” an offence punishable ...
Newcastle manager Eddie Howe is confident Sandro Tonali will not try to engineer a move away from the Magpies despite speculation linking the Italian international to Arsenal. Rumours of a shock deadline day move to the Gunners on Monday were quickly quashed after reports in Italy claimed a representative of Tonali had contacted Arsenal. Newcastle’s preparations for the season were ...
Britain’s data regulator on Tuesday launched probes into Elon Musk’s X and xAI to see whether the companies complied with personal data law when it came to AI chatbot Grok’s generation of sexualised deepfakes. “The reported creation and circulation of such content raises serious concerns under UK data protection law and presents a risk of significant potential harm to the ...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has suspended the selection of examination towns for candidates registering for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Ekiti State. The board disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin. Benjamin said that the suspension was to enable the board restructure examination towns to ensure closer ...
The Federal High Court in Ibadan has sentenced one Seun Ogunlade to two years in Agodi Correctional Centre for peddling 820 grammes of Cannabis Sativa. Delivering judgment, Justice Nkeonye Maha convicted and sentenced Ogunlade based on his guilty plea and the evidence tendered against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Oyo State Command. Maha, however, said that ...
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) External results, recording a 71.63 per cent pass rate. The Registrar and Chief Executive of NECO, Prof. Dantani Ibrahim-Wushishi, announced this at a news conference on Wednesday at the council’s headquarters in Minna. Ibrahim-Wushishi said the examination was conducted from Nov. 26 to Dec. 13, 2025, ...
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has warned members of the public against fake websites circulating online and falsely claiming to be conducting recruitment into the Service. In a disclaimer issued via its official X (formerly Twitter) handle on Tuesday, the NIS clarified that it was not conducting any independent recruitment exercise at the moment. According to the Service, the only ...