Beijing organisers reported another 36 coronavirus infections among Olympic Winter Games participants on Saturday, the vast majority from positive tests on arrival in China. The organising committee said there were 1,418 Olympic-related arrivals on Friday with 29 turning out to be positive for the coronavirus. This number includes 19...
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, says the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government remains committed to the welfare of the common man. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said the vice president said this while receiving a delegation of the APC Professionals Forum at the...
US President Joe Biden sought to maintain pressure on Russian leader Vladimir Putin over Ukraine Friday, announcing a small troop deployment to eastern Europe even as top Pentagon officials backed a renewed push for diplomacy. As President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Western leaders to avoid stirring “panic” over the massive...
Royal families in Ikeja, the capital of Lagos State, have kicked against the nomination of 33-year-old Temitope Ibikunle as the king-designate for the vacant stool of Olu of Ikeja. Ibikunle, who is of Oshoja Ruling House, was a youth representative on the now-defunct Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry...
By SAM ADZEGEH, Makurdi – Long suffering residents of Agber community in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, got a beautiful new year’s gift yesterday when they woke up to the sight and sounds of a gigantic caterpillar fully at work in the neighbourhood. This is as work resumed on...
Singer Chris Brown is being sued for rape in California, with his alleged victim claiming he drugged her and attacked her on a yacht at rap mogul Diddy’s Florida home. The woman, identified in court papers only as Jane Doe, is demanding $20 million in damages from the R&B...
Customers queuing to buy petrol on Wednesday at a filling station in Abuja were left distraught after learning that the fluid the pumps at the station were dispensing into their vehicles was not fuel. The drama occurred at the Azman Oil and Gas Ltd at Wuse Zone 5, Abuja,...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has alerted Nigerians of a new high-risk, critical and Short Messaging Service-based malware, TangleBot, infecting Android mobile devices. TangleBot employs more or less similar tactics as the recently-announced notorious FlutBot SMS Android malware that targets mobile devices. TangleBot equally...
A Presidential Candidate in the 2019 general election, Isaac Babatunde Ositelu, has admonished Nigerians not to lose hope in the transformation of the country to a greater Republic. Speaking against the backdrop of the current economic doldrums, pervasive insecurity, religious strife and political upheavals, he assured that Nigeria will...
Nigerian singer, Davido has stormed the new mega club being built by celebrity barman, Cubana Chiefpriest in Owerri, the capital of Imo State. The star musician stormed the club with his entourage. Recall that Chiefpriest is putting finishing touches to the club. In the new video, Davido who went...
Justice Charles Agbaza of an FCT High Court on Friday rejected evidence by a witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in the trial of a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal. Lawal is charged alongside his younger brother, Hamidu, who is a director...
Some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State have called for fervent prayers to an end to the spate of deaths in the state. They made the calls in separate statements on Friday in Ibadan following the sudden death in the UK of Angela, wife of...
Boris Johnson could finally get sight of the highly-anticipated “partygate” inquiry as early as this weekend, after police insisted they had not delayed its publication. Reports circulated of a potential outside challenger for the Tory leadership as the wait continued for the official investigation by senior civil servant Sue...
The Senator representing Imo South Senatorial District, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, says the fact that Nigeria is passing through difficult moment does not mean that the nation is finished. Okorocha stated this on Friday in Abuja at the “2021 Our Nigeria News Awards“ organised by Our Nigeria Magazine with the...
John Greenleaf Whittier, a 19th Century American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States once said that “God’s providence is not blind, but full of eyes.” Whittier’s profound philosophical statement could be expanded to include “for sighting and lifting of mankind to fulfil...
By MARY RONKE, Ilorin – Suspected armed robbers have attacked some motorists plying Oro Ago-Omu Aran road in the Ifelodun LGA of Kwara State, dispossessing innocent passengers of their money and other valuables. The spokesman of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in the state, Babawale Afolabi,...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) on Friday flagged off the Sustainable Agricultural Empowerment Scheme (SADES), Community Based Agricultural Empowerment Scheme (CABES) Agricultural Enhancement Scheme (AES) and the Graduate Agricultural Empowerment Scheme (GARES) in Cross River State. Flagging off the orientation ceremony for the 108...
The Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, has urged Nigerians to support candidates who are God-fearing and have respect for humanity, in their quest for public offices. The governor made the call at the General Assembly of Catholics in Politics and Catholic Business Leaders in Abuja as contained in a...
Tom Saintfiet, Coach of Gambia, says his team is used to being referred to as ‘underdogs’ ahead of every game they have played in the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Cameroon. Saintfiet speaking at a pre-match press conference on Friday in Douala ahead of their quarter-final match against...
Bayero University, Kano (BUK), has announced death of a final year student from the Department of Library and Information Science, Babangida Ahmad. The University’s Deputy Registrar in charge of Public Affairs, Mr Lamara Garba, made the announcement in a statement on Friday in Kano. He said that the deceased...