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Nigerian striker Taiwo Awoniyi has added another achievement to his football career after graduating from the PFA Business School with a Postgraduate Diploma in Global Football Sport Directorship with Merit. Awoniyi, who plays for Coventry City, celebrated the achievement on his Instagram page, describing it as “another proud moment” away from the football pitch. “Another proud moment for me off the pitch. 🎓 “Graduating from the PFA Business School with a Postgraduate Diploma in Global Football Sport Directorship with Merit,” Awoniyi wrote. The 28-year-old said he believes footballers should continue learning and developing themselves beyond their playing careers. “I have…

Amani Health Inc. has urged children to dream beyond their present circumstances and not allow academic performance, family background or financial limitations to define what they can become. The call was made at the fifth edition of the organisation’s annual Dream Big & Reach for the Stars programme, held on Saturday at Adasa Hall, Oregun, Lagos, over the weekend. Themed “Bridging Ambitions Between Children and Parents: Whose Dream Is It Anyway?”, the event brought together children aged seven to 17, parents and professionals for conversations and activities centred on ambition, goal-setting, confidence and emotional well-being. The programme featured games, critical-thinking…

A reading, signing and interactive conversation on PT Books recently published The Muslim Public Servant in Nigeria: Integrity, Justice and the Sacred Trust of Office is scheduled to hold between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Thursday, 17 September at Roving Heights Book Store, City Centre Mall, Abuja. Written by the notable anticorruption advocate and public intellectual, Umar Yakubu, the book leverages enduring and transcendental Islamic principles as the ethical frame for engaging with the challenges of service, leadership and followership in the country – more so at the public level, which impacts the most across society. The book examines…

Waheed Abu Naim is an English teacher at the Al Mughayyir boys’ school in a village in the West Bank. He loves his job, he says. “I am happy to be a teacher. Although we don’t get lots of money, because my students, especially in the morning, wait for me when I enter the school to shake hands, to smile at me while going inside their classes. So it’s a happy life.”But the last year has been anything but happy for Waheed. His village is now surrounded by settlers, while the military has blocked off every road except one, which…

Alice Springs has a population of 34,000 and exactly one dedicated live music space: a heavy metal venue called the Black Wreath. It has hosted hundreds of bands from around the country over the past decade – despite being 1,500km from the nearest city.For musicians in central Australia, the Black Wreath is a one-of-a-kind resource. So when its operators were informed last year of the owners’ plans to sell, they negotiated a stay of execution and began devising a fundraiser that could save the desert venue. A month-long crowdfunding campaign, which called for donations that would let the team behind…

Kayode Tokede   Following investors’ demand for Aradel Holdings Plc, and 33 others,  the stock market section of the Nigerian Exchange Limited advanced by N651.78 billion yesterday  to sustain its positive momentum trading activities this week.  As the stock price of Aradel Holdings on the Exchange gained 9.62 per cent to close  at N1,550.00 per share, the market capitalisation of listed  companies closed at N158.399 trillion, about N651.78billion increase from N157.747 trillion it closed for trading on Monday.   Consequently, thee  NGX Al Share Index moved to 244,304.51 basis points, representing an increase of 0.41 per cent or 1,005.27 basis points from…

So far, the INEC boss has clearly demonstrated the weight of his responsibility, writes TUNDE OLUSUNLE Come October 10, 2026, it will be exactly one year since Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan, SAN, assumed office as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). I recall I was in the office of a kinsman, out of my usual abode in Abuja, and we were both fixated on live national television, as Amupitan took questions from members of the Senate who screened him, even as we both relished the dexterous dance of “our own masquerade,” in a manner of speaking. One year…

Lionel Messi has been called up by Argentina to make a farewell ⁠appearance in a home friendly in October following his international retirement, the Argentinian football association (AFA) has confirmed.“We invited ⁠the best player in ⁠the world ​to play, the icon of our selection, our captain Lionel Andrés Messi, to have a deserved farewell on 6 October, here in Argentina,” the AFA president, Claudio Tapia, said on social media.Argentina will play three home friendlies during the 21 September to 6 October Fifa international window, their first matches since the World Cup.They will take on ​Benin in Buenos Aires’ Monumental ‌Stadium…

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took aim at New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft after Macklemore was forced off Ed Sheeran’s tour following onstage comments the rapper made in support of Palestinians amid Israel’s war in Gaza. “It’s not just what has happened with the act and not just in removing Macklemore from the lineup, but when you see what Robert Kraft did to line up all of the stadiums to censor speech in that one specific way, it’s become clear that this is not just about one music artist or two music artists, but this is about how just a handful…

A new Pentagon report has shown that the US is running low on its ammunition stockpile due to its ongoing war with Iran.  The Department of Defence Inspector General report was submitted to the US Congress on Monday, according to the Washington Post. It accounts for the losses Washington has incurred since the first strike in February. It is one of the first public accounts from any government agency detailing the cost, scope, and scale of the war on the military, the State Department, and other agencies. Contrary to President Donald Trump’s claim that the US has unlimited weapons and was producing…