The South African Football Association, SAFA, has said it will lodge a formal appeal against the three-point deduction and fine sanctioned against it by FIFA, for fielding an ineligible player, Teboho Mokoena, during their two thousand and twenty-six World Cup qualifiers against Lesotho in March.
According to latest reports, FIFA, has now awarded Lesotho a 3-0 win in the Group C qualifier that took place on March twenty-one, of which Bafana initially won by two goals to nothing, but with a player who was supposed to be suspended.
The ruling will see their six-point gap ahead of Nigeria cut to three points, while the Benin Republic will also go top on goal difference, against which SAFA has prepared their appeal.

The Taliban government in Afghanistan, has imposed a nationwide shutdown of telecommunications, weeks after it began severing fibre-optic internet connections.
The country is currently experiencing a total internet blackout, with international news agencies complaining to have lost contact with offices in the capital Kabul.
However, the Taliban have refused to give an official reason for the shutdown which has affected both mobile internet and satellite TV across Afghanistan.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has given the Federal Government a fourteen-day ultimatum to address its seven-point demands or face an industrial action.

The union said it reached the decision at its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Sunday at the University of Abuja.

ASUU’s National President, Prof. Chris Piwuna, announced the strike notice while addressing reporters at its National Executive Council NEC, meeting in Abuja.

However, in a recent interview, the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, had said there was no need for the union to embark on a strike in the middle of ongoing talks, thereby appealing to the university lecturers to exercise some patience.

The Federal Government, has announced that there will be no anniversary parade to mark the sixty-fifth Independence celebration tomorrow in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
However, other programmes already slated for the anniversary will take place, according to a statement by the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Senator George Akume.
The Director of Information and Public Relations in the Office of the SGF, Segun Imohiosen, explained that the decision does not diminish the significance of the milestone celebration.

Ex- Manchester United captain, Wayne Rooney says the spirit and identity of Manchester United have disappeared, and he has no confidence in manager Ruben Amorim’s ability to turn the situation around.

Speaking at an interview, United’s all-time leading goalscorer described the club as broken and admitted he now attends matches expecting them to lose.

However, the club are said to remain supportive of their head coach despite the damaging loss which left them 14th in the Premier League table.