The 1930 and 1950 champions Uruguay are through to the quarter finals; they’ll face France in Nizhny Novgorod on Friday afternoon, the Guardian of UK reports. Both teams thoroughly deserve to be there after scoring some cracking goals today. The only downside for Uruguayis the injury to the heroic Edinson Cavani; he’ll be a huge miss should he not recover in ...

Teenage star Kylian Mbappe struck twice and earned another goal as France found their attacking edge to beat Lionel Messi’s Argentina 4-3 and move into the quarter-finals of the World Cup on Saturday. Billed as Messi’s chance to reignite stuttering Argentina’s hopes, the thrilling last-16 clash in Kazan instead saw 19-year-old Paris Saint-Germain star Mbappe grab the limelight as he ...

Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has commended the Lagos State Government for establishing the Employment Trust Fund (ETF) through which loans are granted to small scale businesses and people with business ideas, saying that it was particularly laudable that over 12,500 new jobs were created within the first six months of the scheme. The ETF is an initiative of the ...

Rest day over, now the 2018 World Cup resumes with two big last 16 ties. France and Argentina have not found their fluency in the tournament so far and one will be going home at some point today. Meanwhile, Uruguay will play Portugal for a place in the quarter-finals this evening in what is sure to be a gripping day of ...

The world’s two greatest players and a crowd of pretenders enter the knockout stage of the World Cup on Saturday when Lionel Messi’s Argentina and Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal target a place in the quarter-finals. Argentina, the beaten finalists four years ago, escaped by the skin of their teeth after a ragged group phase and will rely heavily on Messi when ...

Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, on Thursday evening visited the scene of the tanker explosion which occurred on Otedola Bridge inward Ojodu Berger along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, describing the incident as sad and unfortunate.  The incident, which occurred about 5pm, was said to have left over 50 vehicles burnt and nine people dead. Governor Ambode, who visited the scene ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka About 500,000 children under five years old in Anambra state grapple with acute malnutrition and stunted growth resulting from poor feeding and lack of proper hygiene practice. The findings were contained in the 2017 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey conducted nationwide. Speaking with journalists at the state secretariat complex Awka, Anambra State Baby-friendly Initiative cum Infant and Young ...

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, on Thursday expressed concern over violent conflicts between farmers and herders in countries across West and Central Africa, particularly the Plateau attacks that claimed the lives of over 86 villagers on Saturday. But the Amnesty International has said by failing to hold murderers to account, the Federal Government is encouraging impunity that ...

French cement giant Lafarge was charged Thursday with complicity in crimes against humanity and financing a terrorist organisation for paying millions to jihadist groups, including the Islamic State, to keep a factory in Syria open during the war. A legal source said the company, which paid the armed groups through middlemen, has also been charged with endangering the lives of ...

Witnesses and survivors have recounted the horrific fire from an oil tanker  that killed nine people and destroyed 54 cars when  the tanker  fell on Otedola Bridge along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway Thursday evening. According to the Vanguard, a witness  identified as Adewale Adesanya, said he  never envisaged that the truck would experience any brake failure. He said  that immediately the vehicle ...