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Nigeria Fencing Federation president, Adeyinka Samuel, has been elected president of the Commonwealth Fencing Federation. Samuel defeated incumbent Marie-France Dufour at the federation’s elective Annual General Meeting held at Rugby School Nigeria, Atlantic City on Saturday. He secured 14 votes against Dufour’s six. This victory makes Samuel the first African and Nigerian to lead the CFF, breaking a long-standing tradition of leadership from countries such as Scotland, Australia, and Canada. The election also coincides with Nigeria’s hosting of the senior and veteran Commonwealth Fencing Championships in Lagos, featuring over 20 participating nations. For the first time, U-23 and wheelchair fencing…

Airport sustainability is no longer a separate environmental project. It is becoming part of daily operational planning, procurement, infrastructure development, and airline partnership discussions. For many airports, the main pressure is to reduce emissions on the ground, improve airside efficiency, and prepare for stricter environmental expectations, while continuing to support aircraft reliably every day. The challenge is that infrastructure does not change overnight. Full electrification remains an important direction for aviation ground operations. Fixed 400 Hz power, electric ground support equipment, charging infrastructure, energy management systems, and cleaner stand concepts are all part of the future airport. But in practical…

Toke Makinwa, a popular media personality, disclosed in a Snapchat post on 6 May that she used the prescription weight-loss injectable drug Mounjaro before returning to the gym after giving birth in August 2025. “Consistency really produces results… I’m not one to pretend or lie. I was on Mounjaro till December; my last dose was on the 31st of December, and I hit the gym hard in January,” Ms Makinwa wrote. Many entertainment blogs and social media users republished the post. This sparked discussions in the comment section about the drug’s cost and usage, to which vendors responded with adverts…

Algeria and hosts Morocco booked their places in the semi-finals of the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations after contrasting victories on Saturday, with both nations also securing qualification for the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Brazil. While Algeria produced a stunning comeback against Côte d’Ivoire, Morocco held off former champions South Africa to keep their title ambitions alive on home soil. Algeria overturn Côte d’Ivoire’s deficit to make history Algeria reached the WAFCON semi-finals for the first time in their history after second-half goals from Ines Khiri and Amira Ould Braham overturned Ines Konan’s opener for Côte d’Ivoire.…

South Africa’s Banyana Banyana have been knocked out of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations after a 2-1 defeat to hosts Morocco in the quarter-finals on Saturday evening. Sakina Ouzraoui and Hanan Ait El Haj scored for Morocco, while Thembi Kgatlana pulled one back for South Africa. The match was a repeat of the 2022 WAFCON final, with both sides also fighting for a place at next year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup in Brazil. Morocco started the brighter of the two teams, with Sanaa Mssoudy heading just wide after meeting a cross from the right. South Africa responded as Kgatlana…

According to new data published on Friday from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a basket of staple foods cost one per cent more in July than a year ago. Why this mattersFood inflation: Staple food prices remain above 2025 levels. Climate impacts: Heatwaves and El Niño continue to threaten harvests. Conflict costs: War and geopolitics drive market uncertainty. Hunger risks: Millions still hungry despite some better harvests. Commodities registering standout price surges included sugar – up 5.6 per cent in July – owing mainly to “concerns about the potential impacts of persistent hot and dry weather on crop yields in the European Union…

Rest Essence never expected to watch a family friend come close to dying while giving birth. It was around 1 a.m. when she went into labour, and she was taken from one hospital to another. The first hospital refused to admit her for reasons that remain unclear, while the second had no electricity. Under the glow of handheld flashlights at the third hospital, she delivered her second child by caesarean section. She then began haemorrhaging, and for a moment, Essence feared she would not survive.  She did, but that experience changed the course of his own life. At the time,…

Nigeria has called for stronger political, economic, and security engagement with countries in the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin, while proposing a development compact to address the region’s security and development challenges. The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye, made the call on Saturday in Maiduguri, Borno State, at a two-day high-level retreat of Nigerian ambassadors and Sahel and Lake Chad diplomatic representatives. The retreat, themed “Strengthening Nigeria’s Engagement with the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin Countries: Towards Peace, Security and Sustainable Regional Development,” brings together Nigerian ambassadors, diplomatic representatives from the Sahel, regional institutions, security agencies,…

Trump publicly criticized Bitcoin in 2021 but rapidly shifted his stance during the campaign, proposing to make the United States the “global cryptocurrency capital.” After returning to the White House, he signed an executive order supporting the development of the digital asset industry. Meanwhile, reports indicate that Trump and his associated businesses have generated over $1 billion in gains through cryptocurrency. As we enter 2026, cloud mining is emerging as a new area of ​​interest amidst the continued development of computing infrastructure and digital asset markets. For the average investor, the question arises: how can one generate $17,700 in passive…

By Innocent Anaba The Lagos State High Court has ordered the Lagos State Administrator-General to take over the interim administration of the estate of late billionaire industrialist, Chief Labode Akindele, amid a legal dispute over his Will. Justice Tanimola Ajorin-Ajose made the order following an application by the deceased’s first son, Mr. Oladipo Akindele, who is challenging the validity of the Will and seeking to prevent the dissipation of his late father’s assets pending the determination of the substantive suit. Akindele, who was the Parakoyi of Ibadan, died on June 29, 2020, at the age of 88 at his residence…