Author: David Great

Chelsea Women’s manager Emma Hayes will depart the club at the end of the season, the WSL side said on Saturday after Chelsea defeated Aston Villa 0-6. The highly decorated English manager will pursue a new opportunity outside of the WSL and club football, the statement said. Emma Hayes OBE joined the reigning double winners in 2012 and during her tenure with the club won six FA WSL titles, five Women’s FA Cups, two FA Women’s League Cups, one FA Women’s Spring Series trophy and one FA Women’s Community Shield. Emma guided the team to a historic double on two…

A new research has found that thousands of Black women claim that hair relaxers have given them cancer, a report by Reuters say Sheila Bush, a cosmetologist, was lounging in the recliner at her St. Louis-area home last winter when an advertisement from a law firm flashed up on her television screen, urging viewers to call a toll-free number if they or a loved one had used hair relaxers and been diagnosed with uterine cancer. After seeing the ad three times, Bush, who said she had used hair relaxers every six weeks for most of her life and was diagnosed…

At least 132 people were killed in an overnight earthquake that struck a remote pocket of Nepal, officials said on Saturday, as security forces rushed to assist with rescue efforts. The 5.6-magnitude quake hit the far west of the Himalayan country late Friday and was measured by the US Geological Survey at just 18 kilometres (11 miles) deep. Videos and photos posted on social media showed locals digging through rubble in the dark to pull survivors from the wreckage of collapsed homes and buildings. Mud houses were flattened or damaged as survivors crouched outside for safety, the sirens of emergency…

Heavy fire erupted on Saturday in the centre of the Guinean capital Conakry and security forces blocked off the area, witnesses told AFP. “There is gunfire from both automatic and weapons of war in Kaloum,” the political and administrative heart of the seaside city, a witness from the area said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “The city centre has been sealed since dawn, we can neither enter, nor leave,” a shopkeeper added, also speaking on condition of anonymity. Rwanda announces visa-free travel for Africans “I wanted to go to the port area where I work but was prevented from leaving…

NNPC Limited will supply Dangote refinery with up to six cargoes of crude oil in December to be used in test runs, three industry sources with knowledge of the matter said. The new 650,000 barrel-per-day refinery, funded by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, is expected to transform oil trading in the Atlantic Basin and remove a lucrative outlet for fuels produced in Europe and the United States that have for years powered the cars, trucks and generators on the continent. The refinery is in the Lekki free trade zone near Lagos. Once it is fully up and running, it will…

Police in Ogun State have detained two individuals for stealing a vehicle from the Dangote Cement Factory in Ibese. The suspects have been named as Lawal and Mohammed Ndatotu, according to Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer Omolola Odutola. According to Odutola, the truck driver assigned to Dangote Cement’s transport department in Ibese said that his truck, with registration number KPF 237 XA, was taken while he left his two motor boys, Mohammed Lawal and Ismail, inside. “Upon returning to the parking area on October 29, 2023, the driver discovered that his truck had been taken to an unknown location,…

Manchester United midfielder Casemiro has been ruled out for “several weeks” with a hamstring injury, the club announced on Friday, adding to manager Erik ten Hag’s woes. After missing three matches, the 31-year-old captained Erik ten Hag’s side on his return against Newcastle in the League Cup on Wednesday. Casemiro was replaced at half-time of the 3-0 defeat and United have now confirmed he will miss a key run of fixtures. The club said in a statement: “Casemiro will be out for several weeks due to a hamstring injury suffered during our Carabao (League) Cup defeat to Newcastle United on…

The Lagos High Court in Ikeja on Friday ordered the arrest of Cletus Ibeto, Chairman/CEO of Ibeto Energy Development Company, for allegedly refusing to appear in court to stand trial on charges of a N4.8bn fraud. The bench warrant was issued by Justice Ismail Ijelu in response to a motion moved by Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), who informed the judge that the defendant had flagrantly failed and refused to appear in court despite repeated hearing notices served on him. The EFCC charged the defendant and his enterprises, Ibeto Energy Development Company and…

The Food and Agriculture Organisation says no fewer than 2.6 million Nigerians in Borno, Sokoto and Zamfara States including the FCT may face a food crisis between June and August 2024. FAO country representative, Dominique Kouacou, disclosed this at the presentation of the October to November round of the Cadre Harmonise food security and early warning analysis on Friday in Abuja. Kouacou was represented by Dr Abubakar Suleiman, Assistant FAO representative, Programme. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the CH analysis was conducted in 26 states and the FCT to ascertain the food security situation and make projections for…

Usman Sahabi, a journalist, has been kidnapped by gunmen in Yola, Adamawa State’s capital. According to family sources, an Adamawa Broadcasting Corporation employee who is also the Chief of Staff to the Speaker of the state House of Assembly was abducted at his Wuro Chekke house at 1 a.m. on Friday (today). About five gunmen allegedly forced their way into his room and snatched him away at gunpoint. According to authorities, no ransom has been sought thus far. Troops rescue two kidnapped NYSC members in Katsina Confirming the incident to the media, Superintendent of Police Suleiman Nguroje of the Adamawa…