Buffalo Bills Safety, Damar Hamlin showing signs of improvement. Doctors say that Hamlin has opened his eyes and has been moving his hands and feet. He has also been responsive to a few questions and commands. According to a team statement, Hamlin said: "Love you boys".  He was tranquilized and placed on a ventilator after his collapse Monday – began awakening late this week and was able to have his breathing tube removed before Friday morning.  On Thursday, the Bills announced that Hamlin has shown what physicians treating him are calling "remarkable improvement over the past 24 hours."

  ADO EKITI- Nigeria's legal icon Afe Babalola (SAN) has raised fears that the coming presidential election will be won by the highest spender and not the best among the candidates. Babalola at a media briefing in Ado Ekiti stressed that the 2023 general elections will be conducted under the 1999 constitution against his advice saying the poll will only reinstate those who have brought Nigeria to a pitiful situation. “It is not who can make a difference that will win this election, I repeat, it is not the person who has all it takes – age, health, education, and patriotism, that will win the election; the winner of this election I can bet it, is going to be the person who has made money in this country. “It is the person who has the money that will win,” the legal icon buttressed. In his opinion, the recent endorsement of Peter Obi of the Labour Party by former President Olusegun Obasanjo does not factor in the role money bags will play in the election. He maintain that only a new...

  ATLANTA -    Atlanta police have made an arrest in the deadly shooting of a Fulton County deputy. James Thomas, 24, was found shot to death in his crashed car near Bolton Road early Thursday morning. At a news briefing   Tuesday, officials with the Atlanta Police Department and Mayor Andre Dickens said 26-year-old Alton Oliver was identified, arrested, and charged Monday for the shooting death of 24-year-old Deputy James Thomas. According to reports, officers were actually called to the scene on Bolton Road and Payton Road at around 4:30 a.m. on December 29 following information of a shooting. They found a car that had been in a crash with the victim still inside. The Fulton County Sheriff's Office and Crime Stoppers had offered a $30,000 reward for anyone who has information that could lead to the arrest of Thomas’ killer.

  NIGERIA: Human Rights lawyer, Femi Falana [SAN] has advised the Federal Government to impose restrictions on passengers arriving from China. He asked the Federal Government to emulate other countries that have been forced by the COVID-19 surge in the Country. The United States will impose mandatory COVID-19 tests on travelers from China,   Hong Kong or Macao.   India, Italy, Japan and Taiwan are already taking  new measures  after Beijing's decision to lift stringent zero-COVID policies. He said, “It is public knowledge that there has been a COVID-19 surge in China in the last few weeks. The Chinese authorities have been reporting about 5,000 cases a day.  Some analysts have said that the crisis has been underreported by the Chinese Government. “The development has compelled many countries to impose restrictions on passengers arriving from China. As usual, the FG has not adopted any measure to prevent the spread of the dangerous disease through trave...

Former pope Benedict XVI has died at the age of 95, the Vatican announced Saturday, almost a decade after he became the first priest to resign in six centuries. “With sorrow I inform you that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, passed away today at 9:34 in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican,” Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement. The German pope emeritus, whose birth name was Joseph Ratzinger, had been living a quiet life in a former convent inside the Vatican grounds since his shock decision to step down in February 2013. His health had been declining for a long time, but the Vatican revealed on Wednesday that his situation had worsened, while his successor Pope Francis called for Catholics worldwide to pray for him. His death brings to an end an unprecedented situation in which two “men in white” — Benedict and Francis — had co-existed within the walls of the tiny city state. While there is no rulebook for former popes, Benedict’s funeral is expected to be at the...

  Premier League and English Football League clubs are considering to wear black armbands and hold a minute's applause to honour Brazil football legend. Pele was admitted to a hospital in São Paulo in late November for a respiratory infection and for complications related to colon cancer.  The three-time World Cup winner passed away on Thursday at the age of 82. Tributes have poured in from across the world and Brazil has declared three days of national mourning. The Premier League's next round begins with two matches on Friday and concludes on Sunday, with all 10 games paying tribute. The EFL said it would hold a minute's applause before EFL fixtures on Friday and on 1 and 2 January, while players will wear black armbands "in memory of the life of Pele". Football's world governing body Fifa has lowered flags at its headquarters in Switzerland to half-mast for Pele "as a symbol of mourning and respect". The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) says it...

  Joseph "Jo Mersa" Marley, the grandson of reggae legend Bob Marley and son of Grammy Award-winning musician Stephen Marley, has died. He was 31. A South Florida Carribbean radio station,  WZPP , confirmed the news and reported that he suffered from an asthma attack—though his official cause of death still hasn’t been released. Born on March 12, 1991, Joe Mersa Marley spent his early years in Jamaica, where he attended Saints Peter and Paul Preparatory School, before moving to Florida at age 11.  He made his debut in 2014 with the five-track EP titled  Comfortable , which was released on the Marley family’s imprint Ghetto Youths International. He also appeared on a Grammy-winning album   Strictly Roots   by Morgan Heritage.