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Britain’s four-times Olympic champion Mo Farah said he will end his athletics career at the Great North Run in September. Farah finished ninth in his final marathon in London on Sunday, clocking 2:10:28 – nine minutes behind winner Kelvin Kiptum. The 40-year-old will compete at the 10km Great Manchester Run on May 21 before the Great North Run half-marathon on Sept. 10. “Part of me was wanting to cry,” Farah told BBC on Sunday after the London Marathon. “I will miss that feeling, I am emotional today. “I want to pass that on. The Great North Run is going to be my…

Manchester United beat Brighton & Hove Albion in a thrilling penalty shootout after their FA Cup semi-final at Wembley on Sunday finished 0-0 after extra time to set up the first all-Manchester clash in the final. Solly March, Brighton’s seventh player to step up to the spot in the shootout, launched the ball over the bar, before Victor Lindelof found the net to secure a 7-6 shootout victory for United. “It felt great,” Lindelof told the BBC. “It was a great relief and we’re glad to be in the final. “I have confidence in myself and I knew which penalty…

In April 2019, Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, was asked about Nigeria losing healthcare professionals to economic migration that took them to better-paying jobs in other continents, and he brushed it aside, saying that Nigeria had a surplus that made the migration a non-issue. A year before that, his colleague, the health minister at the time, Isaac Adewole, was asked what could be done to improve the post-residency situations of Nigerian doctors, many of whom go through a lot of frustration during and after their residency programmes. Adewole’s flippant response was that such people did not have…

Nigeria’s borrowing from the World Bank has risen by 121.46 per cent under the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), findings by The PUNCH have shown. The PUNCH learnt that the total debt owed to the World Bank Group by Nigeria rose by $7.64bn (N3.52tn, using the exchange rate of the Central Bank of Nigeria, which was N460.53 per dollar as of April 23, 2023) in seven years. Specifically, the country’s indebtedness to the Washington DC, United States-based lender rose from $6.29bn (N2.9tn) as of December 2015 to $13.93bn (N6.42tn) as of December 2022, according to data from the external…

Given his campaign promises in 2014 and 2018, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has reneged on several fronts in the eight years he served, leaving Nigerians with many unfulfilled expectations, STEPHEN ANGBULU writes On Friday, May 29, 2015, thousands of Nigerians gathered at Eagles Square, Abuja, as millions more followed on television to watch their new President, Major General Muhammadu (retd.), take the oath of office. Supporters chanted, “Mai gaskiya! (meaning Man of truth) Sai Baba! Sai Buhari!” The sheer fanfare and jubilation on the streets nationwide showed how much confidence and trust Nigerians had in the 72-year-old,…

Amby Uneze examines the political undercurrents in Imo state as primaries of the parties to elect their governorship candidates gather momentum ahead of the November 11, 2023 gubernatorial poll in the state. t is no longer news that the 2023 general elections for the presidential, governorship, national assembly and States house of assembly ended with the supplementary election held last weekend. The rest of the battle has been shifted to the judiciary for possible adjudication of grey issues. However, about three states where the governorship election was not held on March 18, 2023 would have their own gubernatorial poll on November…

As exclusively reported by THISDAY yesterday, the Secretary of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. James Faleke has confirmed that the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, will arrive Nigeria today, after a one-month rest in France ahead of his inauguration on May 29, 2023.Tinubu left the country for France on Tuesday, March 21 to rest and plan the transition programme ahead of his inauguration on May 29. However, in a short statement yesterday, Faleke informed members of the PCC and the ruling party of Tinubu’s arrival today.Faleke stated: “It’s official. My dear brothers and sisters of…

Nigeria still remained top in 2022, as venture capital investments in Africa dipped slightly to $6.5 billion, but avoided the sharp drop seen in most other global regions, data released by an industry group has shown.The investments, spread over 853 deals, representing a one per cent decline from 2021 – a record year in Africa – according to the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA), which promotes private investment on the continent. The figure compared to a 32 per cent contraction in global venture capital. “When evaluated against any year other than the stratospheric 2021, industry activity in…

*Declares he’s never discriminated against anyone on religion basis *Bwala queries exclusion of Igbo from Tinubu’s inauguration c’ttee *Says it signposts marginalisation, lack of vision *APC dissolves presidential campaign council Presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP) and former Anambra State governor, Mr Peter Obi, has stated that despite tribal and religious difference and diversity, there is a deeper unity that Nigerians share in the country. Obi regretted that politics was the only thing dividing the people.The LP presidential candidate made the assertions yesterday in Onitsha at a meeting with the Muslim community in Anambra State during the Eid-el-Fitri break. He…

• eSIM, contactless payments may cut Nigeria’s SIM, ATM cards production by 60%• Local capacity production stands at 100m• Telecoms operators import SIM cards at $3 each• NATCOMS wants innovation to remain optional, raises cyber concerns• Technology billed to dictate market needs in five years • Banks to turn eSIM as eWallet platform Nigeria’s conventional plastic subscriber identity module (SIM) cards producers may have found succour in the dismal number of people with access to smartphones as well as to the Internet, with indications showing that it might take a longer period for embedded SIM (eSIM) to gain traction in…