When it comes to understanding how the defender position works, most fans begin with steals and blocks because they are easy to count and remember. The problem is that defense usually tilts a possession before the highlight arrives. A defender might cut off the driving angle, shade a ball handler toward help, tag the roller […]

While a couple of nations would be looking forward to clinching a World Cup ticket, some would only be playing friendlies in readiness for the World Cup.

Police on Monday arrested Tajudeen Baruwa hours after he led members of his faction to seize control of the National Union of Road Transport Workers national secretariat in Abuja, in a dramatic escalation of the union’s prolonged leadership crisis. Baruwa and his supporters had stormed the union’s headquarters earlier in the day, wresting control from […]

Britain is sending short-range air defence systems to the Gulf to help counter Iranian missile attacks, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday. “We’re deploying short range air defence systems to Bahrain at speed,” Starmer told a parliamentary committee, adding the UK was “doing the same with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia”. The UK is working with […]

Nigeria’s largest carrier, Air Peace, Monday, refuted reports that its Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Allen Onyema, and Vice Chairman, Mrs Alice Onyema, are the subject of a tax suit by the Lagos State government.