Author: Vincent Osuwo

Federico Valverde scored a superb winner in stoppage time, helping Real Madrid avoid an upset at AEK Athens and keep their perfect record in this season’s Champions League. The visitors had trailed with 15 minutes remaining, but Kylian Mbappe equalized before Valverde fired in a long-range strike to secure the three points. The 15-time European champions had come to Greece hoping to make it four wins from four in the league phase of the competition, yet they fell behind early when Aboubakary Koita drove in a powerful finish. Jude Bellingham produced a moment of outrageous skill to put Real Madrid…

FC Andorra goalkeeper Jesus Owono said on Wednesday that he is going through the “hardest days of my life” following the death of Tenerife striker Jesus de Miguel, with whom he collided during a Spanish second division match on Monday. The 30-year-old Spanish footballer died on Tuesday from injuries sustained in the horrifying collision with Equatorial Guinea international Owono, who had charged into midfield to clear an aerial ball. “These are the hardest days of my life. I struggle to find the words, and it is very difficult for me to process anything that has happened,” said Owono in a…

President Bola Tinubu departed King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday, heading for Abuja. Tinubu’s departure comes after he completed a week-long lesser pilgrimage in the holy city of Makkah. “President Tinubu’s plane took off at the Royal Terminal of the King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, at exactly 5:13 pm Saudi time,” Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, revealed in a statement Wednesday. The Deputy Governor of the Makkah Region, Prince Saud bin Mishaal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud; Nigeria’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Ambassador Yakubu Gambo; and the Consul-General, Ambassador Muazam…

Democratic lawmaker Ilhan Omar has won a fifth consecutive term in the United States House of Representatives, representing Minnesota’s 5th congressional district in the US midterm elections. Ms Omar, who has held the district since 2019, kept her seat after defeating the Republican nominee, John Nagel. It is worth noting that the Somali-born American lawmaker, who received 76.64% of all votes cast, has had public exchanges with President Donald Trump over her alleged immigration fraud. Speaking on Tuesday after her win, the re-elected lawmaker called the results in Minnesota and across the country a rejection of the Trump administration. The…

US President Donald Trump has dismissed the idea that his leadership and policies played a part in Republican defeats in the midterm elections, instead placing the blame on the party’s candidates for not doing enough to get voters to the polls. The election results, which saw Democrats take control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate on Tuesday, have prompted questions about Trump’s political position and where his administration is headed for the rest of his term. Although members of both parties saw the outcome as a rejection of Trump’s record in office, the president rejected the notion…

Abdul El-Sayed has beaten Republican Mike Rogers in a hard-fought race for Michigan’s senate seat, handing the left wing of the Democratic Party a breakthrough win in one of the country’s most crucial swing states. El-Sayed, the son of Egyptian immigrants, is set to become the first Muslim senator in the nation’s history. A former public health official who has never held elected office, he went from a double-digit loss in Michigan’s Democratic gubernatorial primary eight years ago to winning a seat in the US Senate. El-Sayed overcame enormous outside spending in both the Democratic primary and the general election…

Democrat Troy Jackson has beaten longtime Republican incumbent Susan Collins in Maine, unseating the well-known moderate senator in a race defined by controversy. Jackson joined the race after taking the place of Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee who stepped aside amid a series of scandals. First elected in 1996, Collins was the only Republican senator representing a state that has voted consistently Democratic in presidential elections since 1992. She built a reputation as a moderate and worked to distance herself from President Donald Trump throughout her campaign. Jackson, a former logger, ran on workers’ rights and accused Collins of giving…

Democrat Amy Acton has beaten Republican Vivek Ramaswamy to claim the Ohio governorship in a fiercely fought race. With this projected win, Acton becomes the first Democrat and the first woman ever to secure the Ohio governor’s race in twenty years. Ohio, which was a major battleground for much of the 2000s, has backed Republican Donald Trump in the past three presidential elections, including by 11 points in 2024. Yet the gubernatorial contest, where voters’ frustration over the economy and the cost of living dominated, took an unexpected turn once the Ramaswamy campaign released a deeply personal attack ad featuring…

Manchester United coach Michael Carrick has maintained that he felt no personal relief following his side’s dramatic 3-2 Champions League win over Roma, stating that his only emotion was pride in a group of players who care deeply. At Old Trafford, United came from behind to end a lengthy winless run, as Matheus Cunha scored twice during a frantic late spell before being sent off, and academy graduate Shea Lacey delivered the decisive assists after coming off the bench. According to football transfer expert Fabrizio Romano, writing on X on Wednesday, Carrick was clear when asked whether the result had…

A spinning aircraft propeller has killed a Somali police operative shortly after getting off a plane at an airport in central Somalia. The officer, identified as Mukhtar Qasim Samay, was part of the security detail assigned to Mogadishu Police Chief Ma’alin Mahdi. The incident took place on Tuesday at Dhusamareb Airport, where Mahdi and members of his security team had arrived ahead of the inauguration of Galmudug State’s incoming leader, Liban Ahmed Hassan. According to Somali media reports, Samay was walking away from the aircraft when its propeller, which was still rotating, struck his head and killed him at the…