Didier Deschamps remains confident Paul Pogba will be fit to play for France at the World Cup in spite missing the start of the season through injury. Pogba sustained a knee problem in pre-season after returning to Juventus from Manchester United on a free transfer. There were early suggestions...
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Popular businessman, Femi Otedola, has visited the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Mr. Bola Tinubu in Paris, France. The APC presidential candidate, who is currently in France, has been holding a series of meetings with personalities, his spokesman, Tunde Rahman, stated. Otedola’s visit to Tinubu followed...
Hundreds of German police have carried out multiple raids early on Tuesday as part of an international operation targeting people-smuggling gangs. Police in the city of Osnabrück in north-western Germany said the raids focused on the area around the city, as well as Bremen and Stuttgart. Police in Britain,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu has denied rumours that he held a meeting with Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike in France. Tinubu had recently flown to the European nation to continue high-level engagements with stakeholders. However, a chieftain...
Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) kicked off their three-day annual summit on Sunday in Schloss Elmau in south Germany’s Bavarian Alps amid lower expectations and protests. The summit will focus on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, climate and others, while the host dampened expectations. The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, especially...
French authorities were warned three days before Saturday’s 2021/2022 UEFA Champions League final match that thousands of Liverpool fans would come to Paris without tickets, a report claimed on Tuesday. They were also warned that some of the fans would try to get into the Stade de France with...
Five people, including four members of the same family, were killed in a tourist plane crash in the French Alps on Saturday, rescue services said. The accident happened in the afternoon shortly after take-off from the Versoud airfield near Grenoble in southeast France, for what should have been a...
Nigeria’s Falconets have been drawn alongside France, Canada and Korea Republic in Group C of the FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup scheduled for Costa Rica in August. Also, at Thursday’s draw held at the Teatro Nacional in the central American country’s capital city of San Jose, title-holders Spain were...
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday defeated his rival Marine Le Pen in presidential elections, projections showed, prompting a wave of relief in Europe that the far-right had been prevented from taking power. Centrist Macron was set to win 57.0-58.5 per cent of the vote compared with Le Pen...
Manchester United FC midfielder, Paul Pogba said his World Cup winner’s medal was among the items stolen during a recent burglary at his home. The France international spoke last week of his family’s “worst nightmare” after his house was broken into while his children were asleep in their bedroom....
Neymar has emerged as the highest-paid footballer in France, beating Lionel Messi and Kyrlan Mbappe with a staggering £41m-a-year salary, according to French publication, L’Equipe. French publication L’Equipe also released estimates of monthly salaries across the country’s top tier. Mauricio Pochettino’s side dominates the list with the top 14...
Nigeria’s senior national women basketball team, D’Tigress, have been drawn in Group B of the 2022 FIBA Women’s World Cup in Australia. The Nigerian side were drawn to face France, Australia, Canada, Japan and Serbia at the competition which is in its 19th edition. The World Cup is scheduled...
The Minister of Defence, Maj.-Gen. Bashir Magashi (Rtd), has called for renewal of existing bilateral military agreements between Nigeria and France to reflect real-time security related needs of the two countries. Magashi made the call when the French Ambassador to Nigeria, Emmanuelle Blatmann, paid him a courtesy visit on...
Nigeria’s senior national women basketball team on Friday in Belgrade defeated their French counterparts 67-65 at the ongoing 2022 International Federation Basketball Association (FIBA) Women World Cup Qualifiers. With a world ranking of 15, 10 places below France, and having lost 76-90 to world number seven China on Thursday,...
European states combating militants in Mali will try to find a way to keep their mission going. But there are limits to the price that France is prepared to pay to remain there, French Defence Minister, Florence Parly, said on Saturday. Relations between Mali’s military junta and its international...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The French Ambassador to Nigeria, Emmanuelle Bultmann has said her country plans to partner Borno State Government on the development of agriculture, education, and the resettlement of IDPs. Amb. Bultmann announced this on Wednesday when she paid a courtesy visit to Governor Babagana Zulum...
A ban on the use of plastic to package a range of fruit and vegetables came into force in France on Saturday, to the dismay of the sector’s packaging industry. Environmentalists have long campaigned against single-use plastics as pollution worsens globally while President Emmanuel Macron has backed the move...
France has ordered the closure of a mosque in the north of the country because of the radical nature of its imam’s preaching, regional authorities told AFP on Tuesday. The mosque in Beauvais, a town of 50,000 people some 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Paris, will remain shut...
The Saudi embassy in Paris said Tuesday that a Saudi national arrested as a suspect in the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has no connection with the case. French police earlier Tuesday arrested a man suspected of being a member of the hit squad that murdered Khashoggi at...
Lionel Messi won the men’s Ballon d’Or award for a record-extending seventh time at a ceremony in Paris on Monday. The Argentine beat, Polish forward, Roberto Lewandowski, to win the prize on the same night that Italian goalkeeper, Gianluigi Donnarumma, also clinched the Yashin Trophy. Below is a list...