McKinsey & Company today released its latest Women in the Workplace report, extending its landmark research series to Kenya, Nigeria, and India for the first time. Launched at the Africa CEO Forum 2025 today—the continent’s largest private sector convening—the research sheds new light on the systemic barriers affecting women’s participation in the formal economies of…
The 2nd Annual Kids Showjumping and Horse Riding Competition was held on Sunday at the Nigeria Police Mounted Troop Barracks in Ikeja, Lagos.Organized by Gidi Up Horse Riding Academy in collaboration with the Nigeria Equestrian Federation, the 2nd Kids Showjumping and Riding Competition lived up to the exciting expectations as kids from Nigeria, the event…
Hoffenheim are determined to continue with coach Christian Ilzer next season, sporting managing director Andreas Schicker has said. Hoffenheim all but saved themselves from relegation with a 2-2 draw at Wolfsburg on Friday night, six points and nine goals ahead of Heidenheim, who are in the relegation play-off spot and have two games left. “I…
Borussia Dortmund coach Niko Kovac would prefer all Bundesliga matches on the last two matchdays to kick off at the same time like in the past, although his team has a small advantage over top-four rivals in this weekend’s penultimate round. Until 2020 the last two matchdays saw all nine games start at the same…
Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer, one of the last living Jewish survivors of the Nazi concentration camps, has died at the age of 103, the Margot Friedländer Foundation announced on Friday. Friedländer, who was born in Berlin in 1921, went into hiding in the city and was eventually sent to the Theriesenstadt concentration camp in 1944,…
The first asylum-seekers have been turned away from Germany under stricter border controls established this week by the country’s new conservative-led government. Four Afghan nationals who entered the country from Luxembourg were turned away on Thursday, according to Stefan Döhn, spokesman for the federal police in the western city of Trier. The two women and…
Katherina Reiche on Friday called for the rapid construction of new gas-fired power plants in the country to support the country’s energy supply when renewable sources are unavailable. “We need flexible gas-fired power plants that can supply electricity when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. And we need them quickly,” Germany’s new…
Ukraine and its Western allies – among them the recently elected German Chancellor Friedrich Merz – have proposed a 30-day ceasefire with Russia starting Monday, in what European leaders described as a united push to open the door to peace negotiations and end Moscow’s three-year-old war against its neighbour. “Ukraine and all allies are ready…
It is a date with another set of Lion Cubs on Monday afternoon and Head Coach Aliyu Zubairu has assured that Nigeria’s U20 boys are focused and determined to achieve a win that will guarantee them a place at this year’s FIFA U20 World Cup finals. Unbeaten in their group B campaign, the Flying Eagles…
To avoid delays in events, Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun has assured all contingents to the 22nd National Sports Festival (NSF) of smooth transportation to event venues across the state. With more than five venues hosting various events during the NSF, the Governor emphasized that shuttle buses would be provided from the games village at…
