Philippines v Switzerland: Women’s World Cup 2023 Group A – live updates Read more1d ago 05.39 BST Fox is hyping the USA-Vietnam game with pictures of Alex Morgan and a bench player. 1d ago 05.31 BST Full time: Canada 0-0 Nigeria Nnadozie pumps her fists at the final whistle, thrilled with the result. Canada gets the ball to the other end and wins a corner that amounts to little. 1d ago 05.09 BST 79 mins: Nigeria goes Route 1 looking for Oshoala, but Sheridan alertly snares the ball high in her own box. 1d ago 04.48 BST Enjoying the Guardian’s coverage of the Women’s World Cup?

Coach Vlatko Andonovski said Friday that Megan Rapinoe, Julie Ertz, and Rose Lavelle are all available for Saturday’s World Cup opener against Vietnam. Rapinoe and Lavelle will be on restricted minutes initially, but Ertz will have no limitations. Expect to see them, too.”The game might seem like a mismatch — the USWNT is the two-time defending champion while Vietnam is ranked No. They want to become the first team, men’s or women’s, to win three consecutive World Cup titles, and that won’t happen if they’re even the slightest bit complacent. “We’re going into this game to play with the best team and get the result that’s favorable for us.”Credit: usatoday.comENND

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has sacked Vadym Prystaiko, his country’s ambassador to the UK. Prystaiko had recently criticised the president’s response to a row over gratitude for British military aid. Kyiv gave no official reason for the dismissal but confirmed that Prystaiko was no longer ambassador. He was speaking at the Nato summit after Zelensky criticised the military alliance for delays in making Ukraine a member. Zelensky has fired ambassadors before, dismissing five at once a year ago in what was seen as a reshuffle.

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Group Head of Brands, Communications, Content & CSR at Interswitch,Tomi Ogunlesi, has been recognised on the prestigious PR Power List 2023 by GLG Communications. Ogunlesi was honoured alongside other industry giants including the GMD, CMC Connect, Yomi Badejo – Okusanya and Amaechi Okobi, the Group Head, Corporate Communications at Access Bank. The PR Power List, a collaborative initiative by GLG Communications, The Guardian Nigeria, and WPRD, acknowledges 50 exemplary PR and communications practitioners worldwide. Speaking about his recognition on the PR Power List 2023, Ogunlesi expressed his gratitude and shared his vision for the future of PR and communications. He said: “It is an honour to be recognized on the PR Power List 2023, alongside some of the industry’s most accomplished professionals.

The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) has shared a total sum of N907.054 billion June 2023 Federation Account Revenue to the Federal Government, States and Local Government Councils. The N907.054 billion total distributable revenue comprised distributable statutory revenue of N301.501 billion, distributable Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue of N273.225 billion, Electronic Money Transfer Levy (EMTL) revenue of N11.436 billion and Exchange Difference revenue of N320.892 billion. A total sum of N47.478 billion was shared to the relevant States as 13 percent derivation revenue. This was higher than the sum of N701.787 billion received in the previous month by N451.134 billion. From the N301.501 billion distributable statutory revenue, the Federal Government received N146.710 billion, the State Governments received N74.413 billion and the Local Government Councils received N57.370 billion.

Osabuohien noted that the devaluation of Naira and floating of exchange rate was part of the factors responsible for the new pump price of petrol. “In addition, the nation exports petrol products and in return, brings refined products into the country, thus having ripple effects on the economy.” he said. The economist said that the impacts were so much because those that imported refined products into the county needed to translate it to naira equivalent. Osabuohien added that if the country had not been importing refined products, the effects would not have been much on the economy. He said that the Federal Government needed to put back part of the subsidy removal into economy to ameliorate the ripple effects on the people

RECENTLY, Nigeria has been facing an unprecedented scourge of diphtheria, and so soon after the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic. Diphtheria, according to elementary research, is an infectious disease of the nose and throat that is easily preventable by a vaccine, treatable by a medical professional, and requiring medical diagnosis. They should be mustering every effort necessary to prevent the escalation of the infectious disease into a full-blown epidemic. It is true that following the confirmation of diphtheria cases in their domains, states like Osun have rolled out mechanisms to contain its spread. We enjoin governments at all levels to put in place the necessary structures that will help to rein in the spread of this particular infectious disease immediately.

Shops and schools in Kenya reopened on Thursday despite a fresh round of opposition protests that have led to deadly clashes and sparked appeals for dialogue to end the crisis. The toll adds to more than a dozen fatalities since March, when Odinga mounted his campaign, triggering alarm in the international community. His Azimio alliance on Wednesday evening urged “Kenyans to come out in an even bigger way tomorrow”. “Today it is near to normal, not normal yet, but we are getting there,” he told AFP. Opposition protests following Odinga’s election loss in 2017 continued until he brokered a surprise pact with his erstwhile foe, former president Uhuru Kenyatta, that became known as “the handshake”.

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The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has come out to disclose that it is facing challenges ranging from inadequate manpower, especially drivers, inadequate patrol vehicles, and fuelling the patrol vehicles to undertake round-the-clock patrol of the City has become a big challenge. The FCT Police Commissioner Haruna Garba made the disclosure to newsmen in Abuja on Thursday during the familiarization visit of AIG, Zone 7 Adebowale Williams, to the FCT Police Command. Garba said: “The challenges of the Command is not but limited to the following; inadequate manpower, especially drivers, inadequate patrol vehicles and fuelling the patrol vehicles to undertake round the clock patrol of the city has become a big challenge. “I wish to thank the AIG and members of his entourage for finding time to come to interface with the personnel of the Command. Together we shall conquer crime and make the residents of the FCT safe and secure.

A body was found in central Johannesburg early Thursday after an unexplained blast ripped through a main road at rush hour the previous evening, the emergency services said. “(In the) early hours of this morning, we managed to recover a body of a male person on site where the explosion occurred,” Emergency Management Services spokesman Robert Mulaudzi said. Witnesses reported chemical odours and escaping vapours after the blast, which damaged the road surface and overturned vehicles, including minibus taxis. Panyaza Lesufi, the premier of Gauteng province, which includes Johannesburg and Pretoria, said a preliminary inspection did not reveal the cause of the explosion. Emergency services initially blamed underground gas pipes but the city’s privatised gas company, Egoli Gas, said it was “unlikely” this was the case as customers were still receiving their supplies uninterrupted.

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