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The health and social care sector employs 4,500 people in the Clacton constituency. While the NHS, and access to GPs and dentists has been mentioned by many of the 34 candidates, social care has rarely featured.”Social care is the biggest economy in the area. It’s the most important economy in the area,” says Rahul Jagota, who runs The Corner House care home in Clacton and is a former chair of the Essex Care Association. “We need our leaders to speak about it, speak about the issues, speak about what great work we do, be very positive about it and look…

MFM have emerged champions of the inaugural Louis Edem West Africa Women’s Basketball Championship after defeating record Nigerian Women’s Basketball League champions First Bank 49-41 in the final. The final, played on Saturday at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium in Surulere, Lagos, produced a competitive contest before MFM secured victory, adding another title to their women’s basketball achievements. MFM, two-time winners of the Nigerian Women’s Basketball League, held their nerve against First Bank, who remain the most successful team in the history of the domestic league. In the third-place match, Victoria Queens of Lagos defeated Ghana’s GRA…

The Super Falcons of Nigeria will face familiar opponents when they take on Cameroon in the quarter-finals of the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in Casablanca on Sunday. The match, scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Stade Larbi Zaouli, carries a huge prize: the winner advances to the semi-finals and secures a ticket to the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Brazil. Nigeria entered the contest as defending champions and the most successful team in the history of the competition, while Cameroon have reached the knockout stage unbeaten. But while the numbers strongly favour Nigeria, Cameroon believe they have…

Chilean duo Cristobal León and Joaquín Cociña made a dream nightmare debut with “The Wolf House,” a stop-motion fantasy that turned heads both with its wholly original design — incorporating claymation, puppetry and papier-mâché to palpably handmade but immersively surreal effect — and its trajectory from a seemingly juvenile storybook premise to very grownup recesses of horror and trauma. Their 2024 follow-up “The Hyperboreans” captured fewer imaginations with its dense, narratively abstruse melange of history, psychology and political theory, but still dazzled with technique, adding live-action cinematography to the filmmakers’ varied visual quiltwork. In their beguiling third feature, “Donkey Princess,”…

Paddleboarding the Esk in North YorkshireIt’s early afternoon on an unusually hot and sunny Yorkshire day. I’m standing on my paddleboard on the tidal section of the River Esk, near Whitby’s New Bridge, as cars stream across. The 28-mile-long Esk is special, as it is the only major river in Yorkshire that flows directly into the North Sea.The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.Ahead of me is a bustling marina, the famous abbey and the West and East piers. The town is full to the brim with visitors in search of…

Nigeria’s Flying Eagles will have more than the WAFU B U-20 Championship trophy on their minds when they face familiar foes Burkina Faso in Sunday’s 2026 final. The two sides have emerged as the last teams standing after four matches apiece, setting up a repeat of their Group B encounter and giving Nigeria an immediate opportunity to avenge the only defeat they have suffered in the tournament. But with the regional title and qualification for next year’s Africa U-20 Cup of Nations in Ghana at stake, there is little room for sentiment when the two West African heavyweights meet again…

For Dr. Leo Stan Ekeh, Chairman of Zinox Group, true philanthropy is measured not by the size of donations but by the lives transformed. Over the years, the tech icon has built a reputation as one of Nigeria’s most impactful corporate citizens, channeling his influence and resources into initiatives that nurture ethical leadership, education and community development. It was therefore unsurprising when The Leo Stan Ekeh Foundation partnered the Nkata Ndi Iyom Igbo Foundation to stage a four-day regional Train-the-Trainers seminar aimed at promoting character development and values-based leadership across South-east Nigeria. Held under the theme, “Rebuilding Character, Strengthening Values,…

Hansi Flick made a promise to FC Barcelona fans following a 1-0 defeat to Udinese in preseason on Saturday night.Getty ImagesHead coach Hansi Flick made a promise to FC Barcelona fans following a 1-0 defeat to Udinese in preseason on Saturday night.Both teams beating Nottingham Forest by that score in a unique, 45-minutes only triangular format meant that a meeting between the Catalans and the Italians was a final of sorts.As the home team came out on top, however, they clinched the Friuli Venezia Giulia Cup against a side mostly made up of youth talents save for Andreas Christensen and…

By Emmanuel Aziken Fresh details have emerged on why former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is deeply concerned over a strange payment made into his personal bank account, with fears that the transaction could be part of an attempt to associate him with individuals or activities unknown to him. Read Also: Atiku raises alarm over mysterious credit alert, suspected data breach Saturday Vanguard gathered that beyond the unsolicited payment itself, concerns have arisen over the identity and possible motives of the sender, particularly against the backdrop of the description attached to the transaction: “Contribution Electioneering Campaign.” Atiku, through his spokesman, Phrank Shaibu,…

Dina Thorslund is a world champion again after ending Cherneka Johnson’s undisputed run to cap an emotional return to the sport.Just over a year after vacating her WBC and WBO bantamweight titles because she was pregnant, the undefeated Thorslund fought aggressively from the start to snatch the WBC, WBO, WBA and IBF titles from Johnson, winning every round in a unanimous decision in the main event of MVPW-5 in Orlando, Florida. Thorslund (25-0, nine KOs) vacated her titles in June 2025, and a month later she announced on social media that she had suffered a miscarriage. She returned to the ring…