Adebayor: Former Arsenal forward leaves Turkish club Kayserispor
Former Arsenal forward Emmanuel Adebayor has terminated his contract at Turkish Super Lig club Kayserispor, three months after signing as a free agent. Adebayor switched to the Kadir Has Stadium in August and played eight league games, notching in two goals in the process. ALSO READ: Tiger Woods’ ‘aura’ has dimmed, says Presidents Cup rival Els […]
Teenage girl dies trying to rescue man in Kenyan flood
Rescuers have retrieved the body of a Kenyan teenage girl who drowned as she tried to save a man who was drowning in a swollen river in Kenya. Nineteen-year-old Ann Nduku fell into a River Kandisi in Ongata Rongai, on the outskirts of the capital Nairobi on Tuesday. Ms Nduku was responding to the cries […]
Google co-founders step aside as Pichai takes helm of parent Alphabet
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping aside as leaders of the Internet behemoth they founded 21 years ago, ending an extraordinary run that saw them build one of the world’s most valuable and influential companies. Trusted lieutenant Sundar Pichai, who has run the core Google search business since 2015, will immediately take […]
IDPD: Is Nigeria Failing Persons Living With Disabilities?
The theme for this year’s International Day for People with Disabilities, IDPD is ‘Promoting the participation of persons with disabilities and their leadership: taking action on the 2030 Development Agenda’. In January 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law the Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Act, 2018. The Act states that all employers of […]
Iran: Pres. Rouhani calls for release of innocent, unarmed protesters
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani called on Wednesday for the release of any unarmed and innocent people who were detained during protests against gasoline price hikes, after two weeks of violent protests. The protests, which began on Nov. 15 after the government abruptly raised fuel prices by as much as 300%, spread to more than 100 […]
Foremost Ibadan education expert, Bisi Akin-Alabi to chair maiden community dev day
By Adeola Badru The immediate-past Special Adviser to former Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State on Education, Science and Technology, Dr Bisi Akin-Alabi, will on Saturday, 7, 2019, chair a community development day, tagged: “Delesolu Descendants Re-Union Day.” According to a statement made available to journalists in Ibadan on Wednesday, the event will feature lecture […]
