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How to watch Arsenal vs Nottingham Forest: live stream Premier League 2025/26 game today, TV channels, team news
TechRadar
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September 13, 2025
The Arsenal vs Nottingham Forest live stream ushers in the return of the EPL season after the recent international break. Arsenal suffered a 1-0 loss to Liverpool before the World Cup qualifiers. That was a disappointing result for Mikel Arteta's...
Benin marks int'l day for remembrance of slave trade and abolition
Xinhua News Agency
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OUIDAH, Benin, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Afro-descendants together with political, administrative and religious leaders paid tribute on Saturday to the victims of the slave trade in Ouidah, a historic city in southern Benin, on the occasion of the...
Pedaling Equality: How Benin’s Women Are Changing the Face of African Cycling
The Baltimore Times - Maryland
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August 29, 2025
Team Africa Rising (TAR) and the Benin Cycling Federation (FEBECY) united in 2019 during the African Continental Championships in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. Team Africa Rising, the founding entity of Rwanda’s National Cycling Team, had recently...
Domestic Air Travellers Lament over Prohibitive Cost of Flight Ticket
This Day
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August 29, 2025
Chinedu Eze Air travellers to domestic destinations are lamenting that the cost of flight ticket has risen astronomically, especially to Eastern destinations, as one-way ticket now cost about N350, 000 and return ticket costing about N700, 000....
2025 Africa Zone 3 Beach Volleyball Championship: Nigeria men, women off to bright start
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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August 27, 2025
Nigeria enjoyed a strong start at the ongoing 2025 CAVB Zone 3 Africa Beach Volleyball Championship in Abidjan, securing three victories on Wednesday, August 27. In the men’s category, the duo of Ibrahim Peter and Uchenna Austin defeated Benin...
Benin striker Razak Omotoyossi dies at 39
GhanaWeb
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August 19, 2025
Benin legend Razak Omotoyossi has been confirmed dead at the age of 38, sending shockwaves across African football. The former Metz and Helsingborg striker passed away on Tuesday, August 19, 2025, in his home country, though the cause of death has...
Edo Police, Vigilantes Rescue 16 Travellers Abducted By Gunmen
Information Nigeria
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August 27, 2025
The Edo State Police Command has successfully rescued 16 kidnapped victims in a series of coordinated operations along the Benin–Lagos and Benin–Akure highways. Police Public Relations Officer, Moses Yamu, confirmed the development in a statement...
Benin bus accident death toll rises to 37 after river search
The Sun Daily
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August 20, 2025
COTONOU: Rescuers have recovered ten additional bodies from a Beninese river where a bus plunged during the weekend, raising the accident’s total death toll to thirty-seven. Civil protection authority director Abdel Aziz Bio Djibril confirmed six...
16 kidnap victims rescued along Benin-Lagos Road
Punch
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August 27, 2025
The Edo State Police Command has rescued 16 kidnapped victims in a series of coordinated operations carried out on the Benin–Lagos and Benin–Akure highways. A statement from the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Moses Yamu, on Wednesday...
Beat FM at 16: Pulse of Sound and Culture
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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September 13, 2025
For 16 years, Beat FM has been more than radio. It has been the rhythm of Lagos, a soundtrack for Afrobeats, a stage for culture, and a community for millions. As the station celebrates this milestone on September 13, Guardian Life takes a closer...
Edo Police Rescue 16 Kidnap Victims Along Benin-Lagos Road
New Telegraph
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August 27, 2025
The Edo State Police Command has successfully rescued sixteen kidnapped victims in a series of coordinated operations carried out on the Benin–Lagos and Benin–Akure highways. A statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP...
Police rescue 16 kidnap victims along Benin-Lagos Road
Punch
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August 27, 2025
The Edo State Police Command has rescued 16 kidnapped victims in a series of coordinated operations along the Benin–Lagos and Benin–Akure highways. Police Public Relations Officer, Moses Yamu, confirmed the development in a statement on Wednesday,...
Turning Nigeria’s Culture and Tourism into Money-spinner
The News Chronicle
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August 27, 2025
Nigeria is blessed! But what are we doing with the divine blessing? Harnessing it to prosper us or frittering it away? I am a culture enthusiast and have been involved in research and advocacy for decades on how to promote and explore our arts and...
Trans African Tourism and Unity Campaign launched in Accra
Graphic
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August 25, 2025
The Trans African Tourism & Unity Campaign has started a historic 40,000-kilometre road journey across 39 African countries, from August 18, 2025. This initiative is a 163-day road journey across Africa with the sole objective of promoting a...
We are charting a bold path for Edo’s tourism and creative economy – Anto Lecky
Business Day
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August 24, 2025
Munirat Antoinette Lecky (Anto Lecky) is a Nigerian-American entrepreneur, media personality, educationist, and humanitarian. She currently serves as Special Assistant on Digital and New Media to Nigeria’s Minister of Steel Development and Senior...
FLASHBACK: Ooni, Benin monarch superior to Alaafin, says late Oba Sijuwade
Punch
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August 23, 2025
The late Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, had before now asserted that his stool was superior to that of the Alaafin of Oyo. The late monarch also said that even the Oba of Benin is greater than the prominent Oyo monarch in a viral old video...
45 Countries Nigerians Can Travel To Without A Visa In 2025
Biz Watch Nigeria
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August 21, 2025
The Nigerian passport, ranked 94th globally and 43rd in Africa by the 2025 Henley Passport Index, now gives citizens access to 45 destinations worldwide. While mobility still lags behind European and North American counterparts, Nigerians can...
Visa-Free policy will double Africa’s US$190 billion tourism revenue — Julius Debrah
MyJoyOnline
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August 20, 2025
The Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, has stressed the urgent need to dismantle barriers that prevent the free movement of people, goods, and services across the African continent. He insisted that the over US$190 billion generated annually from...
Visa-free policy would double Africa’s US$190bn tourism revenue – Julius Debrah
CNR Citi Newsroom
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August 20, 2025
The Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, has stressed the urgent need to dismantle barriers that prevent the free movement of people, goods, and services across the African continent. He insisted that the over US$190 billion generated annually from...
Flood: Drivers, communities groan as heavy rain cut off bridges between Kebbi, Benin Republic
The Sun Nigeria
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August 20, 2025
From Olanrewaju Lawal, Birnin Kebbi Commercial vehicles, communities across border’s Communities in Kebbi State have been thrown into unnecessary hardship as flood cut off bridges linking Benin Republic and Birnin Kebbi,the state capital as a...