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Portugal Ready to Let Their Football Do the Talking against Ghana

Portugal will be keen to let their football do the talking when they face Ghana in their World Cup opener on Thursday amid controversy over Cristiano Ronaldo's comments about Manchester United and tensions between the squad and the media. Euro 2016 champions Portugal hammered Nigeria 4-0 in their last warm-up…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Gunmen abduct more than 100 in Nigeria's Zamfara state

More than 100 people, including women and children were abducted when gunmen raided four villages in Nigeria's northeastern Zamfara state on Sunday, the information commissioner and residents said on Monday.

Reuters

Nigerian teens create fashion from trash to fight pollution

Teenage climate activists in Nigeria’s largest city are recycling trash into runway outfits for a “Trashion Show.”

The Independent UK

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Treatment of wastewater in Nigeria's oil fields is failing, raising the risk of health hazards

People need both clean, safe water and sustainable energy. That means both resources must be properly managed. But when it comes to the oil and gas industries, there’s a problem.

The Conversation

The 8 best SPFL World Cup performances as class of 2022 aim for Qatar heroics

The SPFL has seen some superb performers on the world stage down the years

Daily Record

He started protesting about his middle school principal. Now he's taking on Big Oil

This year, Chima Williams of Nigeria was a winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize for his activism, targeting Shell for an oil spill in his homeland. Here's how the case went.

WEKU

Arsenal star Bukayo Saka funds 120 life-changing surgeries in Nigeria following charity team-up

Arsenal news: Bukayo Saka has funded 120 life-changing surgeries for poor children who are football fans after teaming up with a charity

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Nottingham Forest star ignores teammates before missing penalty in Portugal defeat

Emmanuel Dennis had already angered Nigeria fans for his role in the Super Eagles' failure to qualify for the FIFA World Cup in Qatar

Nottingham Post

'Made in Manchester' - Man United fans laud Diogo Dalot and Bruno Fernandes after Portugal win

The Manchester United duo looked in fine form against Nigeria as they prepared for their World Cup opener next week.

Manchester Evening News

Nigeria artist transforms oil kegs into faces to reduce waste

Growing up, Nigerian artist Oluwajuwonlo Adeyemi saw her mother discard large plastic kegs of cooking oil she used for her catering business in Lagos.

Reuters

New homes spark joy, caution for hundreds of Boko Haram survivors

Boko Haram activity has displaced thousands in northeast Nigeria, but some are being resettled in their old villages.

Al Jazeera

Cop27 first-timers from Pakistan, Nigeria and Spain share their experiences

Cop27 attendees who fought hard to be heard share their highs and lows from Egypt

The Guardian - UK

Arsenal and England's Bukayo Saka pays for 120 children to have life-changing operations

Arsenal and England winger Bukayo Saka has shown he is a class act yet again by paying for 120 children to undergo surgeries in Kano, the second largest city in Nigeria

Daily Mirror

Portugal 4-0 Nigeria: Bruno Fernandes strikes twice in routine build-up to World Cup 2022

Bruno Fernandes scored twice as Portugal thrashed Nigeria 4-0 in a World Cup warm-up game in Lisbon.

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Reuters

Nigerian soldier kills aid worker, injures UN helicopter pilot

A Nigerian soldier shot and wounded a United Nations helicopter co-pilot on Thursday before going on to kill a humanitarian worker and a fellow soldier at a military base in northeastern Nigeria, the army and a witness said.

Daily Mirror

Cristiano Ronaldo watches on as Bruno Fernandes steals spotlight again amid Man Utd saga

Cristiano Ronaldo was forced to miss Portugal's 4-0 win over Nigeria on Thursday night due to sickness as Bruno Fernandes bagged a first-half brace ahead of the World Cup

Daily Mirror

Nigerian athletes face up to 10 years in prison over fraud scheme after FBI investigation

Two promising track and field athletes from Nigeria are set to be jailed for 10 years after their involvement in a "complex fraud scheme" unearthed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation

USA Today Sports Media Group

Portugal vs. Nigeria, live stream,TV channel, time, lineups, how to watch

Portugal will meet Nigeria in an international friendly match at the Estadio Jose Alvalade in Portugal before heading out to Qatar.

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Manchester Evening News

Portugal boss laughs at Cristiano Ronaldo question amid Man United ace's absence from Nigeria clash

The Man United forward will miss his country's World Cup warm-up game ahead of their opening clash with Ghana.

Evening Standard

Arsenal and England’s Bukayo Saka helps provide Nigerian children with life-changing operations

Arsenal winger Bukayo Saka has teamed up with the charity BigShoe to cover 120 life-changing operations for children in Nigeria.

The Guardian - UK

Leicester’s Ashleigh Plumptre: ‘I love everything about being in Nigeria’

The defender on playing for the club in her heart and learning more about her heritage through representing the country of her grandfather

The Conversation

Asake, the breakout pop star from Nigeria who owned 2022

Asake’s first commercial releases, beginning with the song Lady in 2020, didn’t really portend a seismic shift in Nigeria’s teeming Afrobeats scene. The 27-year-old genre-blending Nigerian singer and rapper has a tongue-in-cheek delivery and jocular persona. He writes nonsensical, self-deprecating rhymes with hip-hop influenced consumerist themes and could easily be…

Reuters

Nigeria charges 26 men from oil tanker in suspected crude theft

A Nigerian court has charged 26 men with conspiracy to commit a maritime offence and attempting to illegally deal in crude oil after authorities accused their supertanker of sailing in Nigerian waters without authority.

The Guardian - UK

Three UK foreign secretaries ‘failed to call for release of Briton held in Nigeria’

Nnamdi Kanu was unlawfully detained and tortured in Kenya before being taken to Nigeria, high court told

The Conversation

Africa has vast gas reserves – here’s how to stop them adding to climate change

The question of whether Africa should be allowed to exploit its gas reserves, estimated at more than 17.56 trillion cubic meters (620 trillion cubic feet) in 2021, has been much discussed at the latest UN climate change summit, COP27, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

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