Brazil coach Carlo Ancelotti has confirmed he will make changes to his starting lineup for the Selecao’s second World Cup 2026 group-stage match against Haiti following their disappointing draw with Morocco.

 Enugu State Government has announced the restriction of human and vehicular movement in the six Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Enugu North Senatorial District during Saturday’s by-election.

The comments by the United Nations special rapporteur on religious freedom, Nazila Ghanea, came after US President Donald Trump angered Nigeria last year by condemning what he called a Christian “genocide” in the country.

Speaking in an interview with the BBC days after a London court cleared her of all bribery charges, Alison-Madueke said the investigation left lasting emotional and psychological scars on her and her family.

Niger has been ruled for three years by a military junta, which has struggled to contain jihadist violence that has rocked the west African country for around a decade.

Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has suggested that her efforts to tackle corruption in Nigeria’s oil industry and the powerful interests affected by those reforms contributed to the legal and political battles that followed her tenure in office.

The Students’ Union Government (SUG) of the University of Ibadan (UI) has confirmed the abduction of a 300-level female law student while returning from a religious conference in Imo.

More than three decades later, their sons have returned Norway to the World Cup in the United States, ending the country’s 28-year absence from the tournament.

“I don’t know why the president of the United States behaves this way with his own allies,” the far-right leader wrote on X.

Oshiomhole said the concept of a “civil” defence corps implies a force without firearms, yet operatives are routinely deployed against heavily armed criminals destroying public assets and engaging in illegal oil bunkering.

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday convicted and sentenced the mother and sister of late bandit kingpin Kachallah Ibrahim Battujo to forty years in prison each.

“The outbreak remains serious” and is “evolving so fast”, said Marie-Roseline Belizaire, the WHO Africa emergencies chief.

He emphasised that market realities should be reflected in both ex-depot and retail pump prices in the interest of fairness and economic relief for the public.

Talks that were scheduled for Friday between the US and Iran in Switzerland to take the deal to the next stage were postponed amid the fighting, with no new date announced.

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Edo Command, has arrested two suspects for alleged purchased of diesel siphoned from telecommunication towers in the state.