By Oluwashina Iyanda FIFA has announced it sold over half-a-million tickets to fans from more than 120 countries for the ninth edition of the FIFA Women’s World Cup. This is contained in a statement e-mailed to The NewsZenith on Monday The women soccer tournament is taking place this July and August in Australia and Aotearoa New […]
By Our Correspondent The Labour Party gubernatorial aspirant retired Maj.-Gen. Lincoln Jack Ogunewe, has sued for peace and called for calm over the rising insecurity in Imo State. Ogunewe made the call in Owerri at the weekend. “I call on all Imolites and the government to condemn the killings and destruction in the state. “Enough […]
Libyan Deputy Prime Minister Ramadan Abu-Janah, on Sunday, discussed with the Indonesian Charge D’affaires to Libya healthcare on cooperation between the two countries. Abu-Janah doubles as Libya’s acting Health Minister. The meeting discussed providing necessary healthcare for migrants in Libya and recruiting Indonesian medical personnel in hospitals in remote areas, the government said in a […]
The Indomitable Lions of Cameroon have qualified for the U-17 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) scheduled for Algeria in April. The lions obtained the qualification after beating Congo 2-0 on Sunday at the ongoing Central African Football Federations’ Union (UNIFFAC) tournament. The tournament, which kicked off in Cameroon on Friday, serves as zonal qualifiers for […]
The Presidential Candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, will on Monday, speak about his programmes at Chatham House in London, United Kingdom. Dr Yunusa Tanko, spokesman of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council, announced this in a statement emailed to The NewsZenith. Chatham House is a global policy institution that celebrated it’s centennial in 2021. Tanko […]
The Bola Ahmed Tinubu Ambassadors (BAT) has pledged to give presidential candidate of APC, ”at least one million votes” in the general elections next month. BAT’s National Secretary, Prof. Mojeed Alabi, made the pledge during the inauguration of State, Local Governments and Ward Executives of the BAT Ambassadors, on Saturday, in Lagos. Alabi, who is […]
Russia will launch the unmanned Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft to bring home three astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS). This is as the astronauts’ Soyuz MS-22 spaceship has an emergency situation, Russian space authorities said on Saturday. Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin together with NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio will return to Earth aboard […]
Kentucky progressive Democrat and gubernatorial candidate, Geoffrey Young, has proposed immediate impeachment of President Joe Biden for war crimes committed by his administration. “I think Joe Biden should be impeached immediately for war crimes in Ukraine, Yemen, Syria, Iraq etc,” Young tweeted. He specified that reasons for the impeachment include “the illegal proxy war against […]
Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara, on Saturday, said the state government has discovered 199 ghost medical doctors in its payroll. Matawalle announced the discovery during this chat with newsmen in Maradun town, Maradun Local Government Area of the state. The discovery came to the limelight during the recent workers’ verification exercise for the implementation of […]
Four family members died in a road accident on Saturday in Tanzania’s eastern region of Morogoro, said an official. Majid Mwanga, the Kilosa District Commissioner in the Morogoro region, said the accident occurred at around 9.20 a.m. local time. A salon car, in which the family was travelling in, collided head-on with a truck at […]