French fans felt a familiar feeling of gloom on Tuesday while watching their team fall to a 2-1 semi-final defeat by Spain and exit Euro 2024. It was indeed another disappointing performance at a tournament where they arrived as one of the favourites. Led by a clutch of...
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Spanish teenager, Lamine Yamal on Tuesday sought to play down excitement over his wonder goal against France. Yamal, however, said reaching the European Championship final was a dream come true for him – and his mother too. Sixteen-year-old Yamal eclipsed Brazilian great Pele to become the youngest player...
Inefficiency in front of goal cost France at the European Championship, team head coach Didier Deschamps said after Tuesday’s 1-2 loss to Spain saw them go out at the semi-finals stage. France scored four goals in six matches at the tournament and Randal Kolo Muani’s early effort in...
Defeat for Portugal at the European Championship on Friday likely brought down the curtain on the extraordinary international career of Cristiano Ronaldo. While Portugal’s totemic forward has made no pronouncements on his future with the national team, the 39-year-old struggled to revive former glories at the tournament in...
French striker and captain Kylian Mbappe, asked to be substituted during extra-time in the Euro 2024 quarter-final win over Portugal because he was tired, his coach Didier Deschamps said. The usually prolific Mbappe has not been at his best during the Euros, scoring once from the penalty spot...
France downed Portugal on penalties in the Euro 2024 quarter-finals following a goalless draw on Friday to set up a last-four meeting with Spain. A largely dull 120 minutes saw both sides struggle to create clear chances in Hamburg, before Joao Felix was the only player to...
An 85th minute deflected shot by substitute Randal Kolo Muani, listed as a Jan Vertonghen own goal, gave France a nervy but deserved 1-0 win over Belgium. The victory for France was a Euro 2024 last-16 win over a disappointing Belgium on Monday. France made most of the...
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the dissolution of the National Assembly, following defeat of his party in 2024 European Parliament (EP) elections, according to local media report. “I have decided to give you back the choice of your parliamentary future through the vote. I am therefore dissolving...
French President Emmanuel Macron to receive his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden as a state guest in Paris on Saturday. Following an official welcoming ceremony, the two are scheduled to hold bilateral talks in Macron’s official residence, after which Biden and Macron are expected to appear before the press....
U.S. President Joe Biden landed in France on Wednesday for a visit to meet European leaders and mark the D-Day landings. French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal received Biden at Paris Orly Airport on Wednesday morning. Biden is set to attend ceremonies in Normandy on Thursday to mark the Allied...
French President Emmanuel Macron has called for “reforms” from the Palestinianrr Authority in perspective of recognising the state of Palestine. According to a press statement from the Elysee, Macron talked on the telephone with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over the Gaza situation. Both presidents called for an immediate...
Nigeria’s table tennis star, Fatima Bello has qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics holding in France. Bello joined the duo of Edem Offiong and Olajide Omotayo, who both qualified for the Games on Friday at the African Olympic qualifying event in Kigali. Bello, who secured a maiden ticket...
Two police officers were shot in a Paris police station, according to police sources on Friday. The two were immediately rushed to a hospital and one of them was in critical condition. A man, who had been arrested for domestic violence on Thursday evening, seized the weapon of...
PRP cautions FG against US, French military bases in Nigeria The Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) has cautioned the Federal Government against allowing the U. S or French government to relocate their military bases from the Sahel to Nigeria. Mr Muhammed Ishaq, the PRP National Publicity Secretary, said this in...
Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet French President Emmanuel Macron and with European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen for a three-way meeting on Monday during his visit to France. Following the meeting at the Élysée Palace in the French capital, Macron and Xi plan to meet in...
Two of Africa’s elite table tennis tournaments- African Cup and the Olympics Qualification Tournament- are scheduled to hold at the BK Arena in Kigali from May 12 to May 18. A statement by the African Table Tennis Federation (ATTF) on Thursday said that the best table tennis players...
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics might not take place along the Seine River if the security situation in Europe worsens. French President Emmanuel Macron told broadcasters BFMTV in an interview on Monday. “We can do it and we will do it,” Macron stressed, but he...
President Bola Tinubu has returned to the country after a two-week private visit to France. The President arrived Abuja aboard the presidential flight at about 9:0Opm on Tuesday. He was received by top government officials led by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Sen. George Akume....
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, (TETFund) has awarded scholarships to twelve Nigerian lecturers from public tertiary institutions to undertake doctoral, PhD, studies on science-related disciplines in France, under the TETFund Scholarship for Academic Staff Intervention, TSAS, programme. Speaking at a pre-departure...
President Bola Tinubu has just jetted out to France on a ‘private visit’. He is not back in the country till sometime in the first week of February. We are not told when precisely to expect him back in the country. That is the much information that...