Portuguese football icon, Cristiano Ronaldo revealed in a recent World Cup press conference that he will not be wearing the ‘OneLove’ captain band to campaign for members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ+) community at the 2022 FIFA World Cup tournament. Prior to making the decision not to …
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2022 World Cup: Inside Saudi Arabia dressing room after Argentina win
We go inside the Saudi Arabia dressing room as their players celebrate the shock 2-1 victory against Argentina at the Fifa World Cup. MATCH REPORT: Argentina 1-2 Saudi Arabia Watch all the World Cup action across the BBC Sport website and on demand on BBC iPlayer. Watch more of our …
Read More »Inflation: CBN raises interest rate to 16.5%
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria voted Tuesday to increase the benchmark interest rate by 100 basis points to 16.5 per cent, the highest since 2001. The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this while reading the communique of the last MPC meeting of the year on …
Read More »DR Congo: Goma residents following the FIFA world cup amid rebel threat
The city of Goma and its inhabitants in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are still under threat from the M23 rebels, who are only 20 kilometers to the north, in Kibumba. But in the meantime, life goes on in the capital of the North Kivu province. Here, these inhabitants …
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