New “torpedo” baseball bats are making waves across America’s national pastime, triggering an explosion of home runs in the first full week of the Major League Baseball season. The New York Yankees blasted an MLB record-tying 15 home runs in their first three games of the season, in part due to the new bats, which…
The Kogi State government has described embattled Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan as an incurable liar who deliberately creates confusion to gain public sympathy. The government which was reacting to a allegations by the suspended Kogi Central lawmaker where she accused Governor Usman Ododo, former Governor Yahaya Bello and Senate President Godswill Akpabio of plotting to kill…
‘ British-Nigerian actor, John Boyega has slammed the Star Wars franchise and its fans while reflecting on the racist backlash. The Bactor, 33, said the franchise is ‘so White that it’s like, a Black person existing in [it] was something,’ while appearing in the new two-part AppleTV+ documentary, Number One on the Call Sheet. ‘Star Wars always…
Image courtesy UNRWA. Rank and file teachers in the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) are mobilizing to demand their pension fund–CalSTRS– divest from Israel’s genocide in Palestine, sell off investments in immigrant surveillance and quit the war economy altogether. CalSTRS, the second largest public pension fund in the United States, invests over a billion…
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has firmly dismissed reports suggesting that Super Eagles head coach Eric Chelle is contemplating resigning from his position. The speculation stemmed from a report by Nigerian journalist Osasu Obayiuwana, which claimed that uncertainty over Nigeria’s FIFA World Cup qualification had caused Chelle to reconsider his future. Mr Obayiuwana stated: “Eric…
