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By Gift Habib The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a Civil Society Organisation, Intersex Nigeria, to integrate intersex perspectives into the country’s healthcare policies, in a move aimed at improving protection and access to care for persons born with variations in sexual characteristics. The agreement, signed over the weekend in Abuja, formalised a partnership that began in 2023 between the ministry and the CSO. It also coincided with the unveiling of a policy toolkit designed to guide healthcare institutions in adopting more inclusive practices. This was contained in a statement signed…

Former Super Eagles and Lobi Stars left back Juwon Oshaniwa has revealed how the late Stephen Keshi changed his career for the better, Soccernet.ng reports. The 35-year-old burst onto the scene in 2012, following Taye Taiwo’s decline, and made his debut that year in an international friendly against Liberia. However, he wasn’t the coach’s first choice, as Elderson Echiejile was making waves at the time. As the year went on, Oshaniwa became a regular under Keshi, playing in the World Cup and AFCON qualifiers. When Keshi released his final 23-man AFCON 2013 squad, Oshaniwa, alongside Godfrey Oboabona, Chigozie Agbim and…

Stakeholders in the Nigerian aviation industry have attributed the reluctance of foreign financial institutions and global aircraft lessors to invest in the country over the last decade to governance concerns, unresolved disputes, and weak investor protections. They warned that unless the current situation changes, efforts by the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr Festus Keyamo, to attract foreign investors may be jeopardised. Speaking with journalists in Lagos earlier in the week, aviation analyst Lanre Bamgbose said that the issue should be viewed from a broader commercial and institutional perspective, rather than targeting any specific organisation. According to him, investors…

Super Falcons of Nigeria produced a dominant response to their weekend setback by defeating Cameroon 3-1 in an international friendly at the Military Stadium in Yaoundé on Tuesday, Soccernet.ng reports. The result came three days after the Falcons suffered a narrow defeat in the first of two matches against the Indomitable Lionesses, with Head Coach Justin Madugu rotating his squad heavily for the return fixture. Cameroon opened the scoring in the seventh minute, briefly threatening a repeat of their earlier victory. Nigeria, however, settled into the game and began to assert control in midfield and wide areas. Ihezuo Chinwendu of…

France is sending its flagship aircraft carrier to the Mediterranean in response to the widening conflict in the Middle East, President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday. “I have ordered the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, its air assets, and its escort of frigates to set course for the Mediterranean,” he said in a televised speech a day after he warned of the risk of the conflict spilling over Europe’s borders. The Charles de Gaulle carrier has been pulled out of a deployment in the North Atlantic to head for the eastern Mediterranean. It made a stopover in the Swedish port of…

Chika Otuchikere The Niger State Government has decried the paucity of data to aid research in health conditions affecting women. It urged health-related agencies and the federal government to deploy resources as well as funds to build up a database to enhance research into the health conditions of the black woman. The Niger State Commissioner for Health, Murtala Bagana, made this known during a stakeholders’ engagement and media interaction on the need to prioritise women’s menstrual and reproductive health through evidence-based research and policy leadership put together by Youterus Health in collaboration with White Ribbon Alliance Nigeria. In a chat…

Super Eagles striker Paul Onuachu is on course to become Trabzonspor’s highest-scoring foreigner in a single Süper Lig campaign, Soccernet.ng reports. ​Onuachu completed a permanent transfer to Trabzonspor from Southampton last summer and has since taken the Süper Lig by storm. This season, he has netted 18 goals and provided two assists in just 21 league games. In fact, Onuachu has been involved in 41.67% of the Black Sea Storm’s league goals—a clear testament to his importance. Anthony Nwakaeme, Paul Onuachu, Trabzonspor players. (PC: Club X) His brilliance has helped the club climb to third in the table, giving them…

Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, on Tuesday charged the newly elected State Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress in the state to deliver no fewer than two million votes for President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general elections. President Bola Tinubu. Credit: State House The directive came as Isaac Atiku Sankay emerged as the consensus chairman of the party during the state congress held at Murtala Muhammed Square, Kaduna. Sankay, born in 1983, is the current Special Adviser on Peace and Conflict Resolution to the Governor and was adopted…

What do Tems and Bukayo Saka have in common? Apparently, a studio session at Abbey Road and something that is landing very soon. Arsenal shared a video of the two at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London with just two words as a caption — “Landing soon” — and that was all it took for the internet to completely unravel. A footballer and one of Nigeria’s biggest music exports, together in the same room where The Beatles once recorded, working on something nobody saw coming. We have questions, and we suspect the answers are going to be very good.…

Ademola Lookman will be hoping to make history tonight when Atlético Madrid face FC Barcelona in the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey, Soccernet.ng reports. Atlético go into the second leg with a big advantage after beating Barcelona 4-0 in the first leg at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano. Lookman was one of the stars of that game. He scored Atlético’s third goal and later set up the fourth as Diego Simeone’s side delivered a dominant performance. Despite the heavy defeat, Barcelona believe they can still fight back at the Spotify Camp Nou. Teenage forward Lamine Yamal is in excellent form…