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Nigerian champions Edo Queens will face ASEC Mimosas of Côte d’Ivoire in their second Group B fixture of the 2026 WAFU-B CAF Women’s Champions League qualifiers after making a sensational start to their campaign with a 7-0 demolition of AS Garde Nationale of Niger. The Edo State champions produced a dominant display in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Monday, opening their campaign in emphatic fashion to immediately establish themselves as serious contenders for the tournament’s sole CAF Women’s Champions League qualification ticket. Chioma Moses led the rout with a hat-trick, while Atume Doosuur scored twice. Aminat Folorunsho and Oluwakemi Adegbuyi were…

Living Faith Church Worldwide founder, David Oyedepo, has disclosed that the church built The Ark, its massive auditorium at Canaanland, Ota, Ogun State, without resorting to special offerings or financial appeals to its members. Mr Oyedepo disclosed this in a viral video on Tuesday, extracted from his sermon at the fifth-day Impartation Service of the 2026 Annual Youth Alive Convention (AYAC2026), held at Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland, on Saturday. He said the megachurch auditorium, whose foundation was laid and construction began in 2021, has a seating capacity of 109,000 and features 126 escalators, among other modern facilities. The 71-year-old described the…

The historic harbour is the hub of this working East Neuk fishing port, home to a fleet of about 30 small trawlers and creel boats. Their catches are sold at the covered market on the quay each weekday morning, and served at the harbourside Dory Bistro and Chip Ahoy at the Larachmhor pub. Pittenweem (which means “place of the cave”) also has a Victorian-era swimming pool next to the beach, which is filled by the tide twice a day. After falling into disrepair, it was saved by a local group called the West Braes Project and reopened in 2021, along…

Opening summary: Burnham to take Zelenskyy’s pleas for Patriot missiles to Trump – reportHello, and welcome to our Europe live blog. A day after hosting world leaders in Ukraine for the country’s independence day celebrations, president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has taken to social media with a flurry of posts thanking those who sent their best wishes, including Donald Trump.The Ukrainian president appeared to make a pointed nod to one of his most pressing requests, saying Trump’s message of support lifted spirits “much like the sound of a Patriot PAC-3 launch”. The US Patriot air defence system has been instrumental in protecting…

Wale Igbintade A politician and businessman, Hon. Pratt Tunde, has asked the Federal High Court in Lagos to urgently hear his pre-election suit during the ongoing annual court vacation, alleging that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) secretly replaced his name with that of another aspirant on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) portal. The matter, filed in Suit No: FHC/LAG/PREM/19/2026, is before Justice Akintayo Aluko of the Federal High Court, Lagos. Tunde, also known as Pratt Akintunde Bababunmi, is asking the court to grant leave for the suit to be heard and determined during the court vacation, arguing that any…

A Dick’s Sporting Goods retail store is seen on May 15, 2025 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesDick’s Sporting Goods on Tuesday reported quarterly revenue that missed Wall Street expectations and lowered its outlook for Foot Locker amid what it called a “challenging athletic footwear and apparel marketplace.”The company said Dick’s stores saw 4.9% comparable sales growth for the quarter driven by “broad-based growth” across categories, including strong results from the World Cup. However, Dick’s said Foot Locker saw comparable sales decline by 3.6%, leading the company to revise its outlook to for the Foot Locker business to…

Andy Burnham has said he is likely to attend the UN general assembly in New York next month, a chance for the new prime minister to meet a host of world leaders.While Downing Street said the plans were not definite, the prime minister told Bloomberg in an interview: “I’m looking forward to going to New York in September.”Speaking in Kyiv after a meeting with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Burnham went on: “I’ve not fully confirmed the details yet but it’s likely I will go, particularly after today’s discussion. Leaving today, I’m quite clear what I need to do in…

For billions of years, an ancient cluster of stars has been gradually coming apart, shedding stars that now form a faint, narrow ribbon across space. That delicate structure is offering astronomers a new way to investigate one of the universe’s biggest mysteries. An international research team, including an astrophysicist from Northwestern University, has identified the first stellar stream of this type ever observed outside the Milky Way. Astronomers have long predicted that such streams should exist around other galaxies, but their extreme faintness has made them difficult to detect. The newly discovered stream also offers scientists an unusual tool for…

Nigeria’s D’Tigress are entering the final stretch of their preparations for the 2026 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup, with head coach Rena Wakama expected to rejoin the team ahead of the tournament in Germany. Wakama has remained in the United States because of her professional commitments with WNBA franchise Chicago Sky, but the Nigerian coach is expected to link up with her players before the World Cup gets underway. The tournament is scheduled to run from 4-13 September, with D’Tigress set to move to Zaragoza, Spain, for the final phase of their preparations. Wakama has continued to combine her responsibilities…

The Smiths guitarist will release his fifth solo album, The Age of Everything, in October Johnny Marr released a new single, “It’s Time.” The uplifting rock number is the third song to emerge from the Smiths guitarist’s forthcoming LP, The Age of Everything, out Oct. 2 via BMG. “’It’s Time’ is my way of singing about some worldly issues but finding defiance in idealism,” Marr said in a statement. “I wanted a lyric that matched the exuberance of the music but is actually about resisting cynicism and corruption: ‘Everybody ain’t making it, change the weather and breaking it. Mobilize to…