Nigeria has risen three places to 38th in the latest FIFA men’s world ranking announced following a month in which the Super Eagles played two competitive fixtures.

The ranking update, which covers one hundred and forty-nine national-team outings worldwide since the previous release, reflects Nigeria’s 4–1 victory over Gabon and the 1–1 draw with the DR Congo, which ended in a 4–3 penalty defeat in the African playoff.

FIFA noted that moves in the table were driven by results across confederations and the conclusion of final qualifying fixtures for the 2026 World Cup.

An anti-migrant group called Operation Dudula has been stopping foreigners from accessing public health clinics in South Africa.

The Johannesburg High Court ruled the group’s actions unlawful, and South Africa’s government noted that health care is available for all under the law.

Members of the group had blocked clinic entrances, demanded local identity documents, and turned away people without them.

The Court also ordered Operation Dudula to stop harassing migrants.

The Lagos State Government has reaffirmed its commitment to expanding safe, accessible, and sustainable sanitation infrastructure across the state, with a renewed focus on ending open defecation through the construction of additional public toilets.

The Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, represented by the Managing Director of the Lagos State Advertising and Signage Agency, Prince Fatiu Akinolu, said the state remained committed to achieving an open defecation-free Lagos in line with the national 2030 target.

Wahab announced recent efforts aimed at expanding toilet infrastructure, stating that the present administration had approved the construction of an additional twenty public toilets, comprising ten units each, bringing the total to two hundred units to be added to the existing one thousand seven hundred and ten toilets located across the state.

He added that the state was determined to strengthen the Lagos State Wastewater Management Office to enhance its capacity to manage faecal sludge efficiently.

Victor Osimhen will be absent at this year’s CAF Awards in Rabat, Morocco, today, as he returns to Galatasaray for a scheduled MRI scan on the hamstring injury he picked up during international duty for Nigeria.

Osimhen, who won the award in 2023, is running for the award for the second time in his career.

This year, he is up against Egypt and Liverpool forward Mohammed Salah and Achraf Hakimi of PSG and Morocco.

The player is expected to undergo a scan that will determine the extent of the injury he suffered on Sunday.

The tourist boats that normally ply Kenya’s famed Lake Naivasha have had a different task in recent weeks: evacuating hundreds of flooded homes.

Although the lake’s level has been rising for more than a decade and has repeatedly breached its banks, locals in the modest district of Kihoto are still astonished by the scale this year.

The Rift Valley lake has travelled up to one and a half kilometres inland.

Joyce Cheche, head of disaster risk management for Nakuru County, estimates that seven thousand people have been displaced by the rising waters, which have also impacted wildlife and threaten tourism and other businesses.

Others have lost everything. Hundreds of homes are completely submerged, churches are in ruins, and police stations are underwater, surrounded by floating vegetation.