The Brazilian was predecessor to Sepp Blatter at world football’s governing body, serving from 1974 to 1998. He resigned as FIFA”s honorary president in April 2013 following an investigation into bribery allegations and was admitted to hospital the following year with a lung infection. He was an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member from 1963 until 2011, resigning because […]
US Vice President Joe Biden has trashed Donald Trump as unqualified for the White House, saying the Republican presidential nominee’s “shame has no limits.” Speaking in his first campaign appearance with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at a rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Monday, Biden said Trump would have loved former Soviet Union dictator Joseph Stalin, […]
ELW Global recently delivered and commissioned ROWPU 2K water purification systems for Cameroon’s Rapid Response Brigade (BIR), after completing a four day training course some eight weeks ago. The units will be used by both the BIR, which is mainly tasked with fighting Boko Haram insurgents, and Cameroon’s regular Army. The order from Cameroon was […]
Raymond Kalla Nkongo, one of Cameroon’s football legends has filed a complaint against Stéphane Mbia Etoundi, the current captain of the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon for fraud and breach of trust. Raymond Kalla who ended his career with Bochum FC in Germany reported the matter to the judicial police located in the administrative district in […]
A new poll reveals that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has the worst support among younger voters in modern American history. The USA TODAY/Rock the Vote poll has found that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is siphoning younger voters off Trump, as he is found to be vastly unpopular among them. The survey shows Clinton has […]
Civil society groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo say more than four dozen people were hacked to death in the country’s restive east over the weekend. The fatalities occurred during clashes between police and militia groups in and around the troubled town of Beni, located in North Kivu province. “Our team on the ground […]
A man who died after he was shot by police with a Taser gun has been named locally as ex-Aston Villa footballer Dalian Atkinson. Officers were called to a home in Meadow Close, Telford, Shrophire in the early hours of this morning amid concerns “for the safety of an individual”. West Mercia Police said the 48-year-old […]
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt has won the 100 meter final, winning a gold medal and defending his Olympic title with ease. Bolt wasn’t so great at the start as he was slow moving out of the blocks. The Jamaican found himself trailing America’s Justin Gatlin at the halfway mark, but never looked like he was being beaten. Bolt […]
The plane carrying the mayor of Lagdo and his companions in misfortune, landed at the Garoua International Airport on Sunday, August 14, 2016. It was the end of an ordeal of nearly 16 months of captivity in the hands of rebels operating in the Central African Republic for the Cameroonian hostages. A statement from the Civil […]
The Turkish prime minister says more than 81,000 people have been dismissed or suspended from work over suspected links to US-based opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for the failed mid-July coup. Binali Yildirim told reporters at Cankaya Palace in the capital, Ankara, on Saturday that a total of 76,597 people have been suspended […]
