The world is moving on and you either move with the times or you become unemployable or out of business. It’s unfortunate that our universities are not helping matters as they continue to offer 18th century courses thus churning out graduates year-in, year-out who are ill-equipped for the 21st...
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The All Progressive Congress (APC) in Jigawa, says it has concluded arrangements to receive 4,000 members of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) into its fold. Alhaji Aminu Sani-Gumel, the Jigawa APC Chairman, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday that all the necessary required procedures for their smooth...
Kenyan police said, on Tuesday, they arrested five suspects in connection with the killing of seven civilians in the coastal region on Monday. National Police Service Spokesperson, Bruno Shioso, said the suspects were nabbed on Tuesday over the attack at Widhu Majembeni and Bobo-Sunkia – both in Lamu. Shioso...
Nostalgic for those mobile phones with a physical keyboard? Brace yourself, because as of Tuesday many models of the once-indispensable BlackBerry devices will no longer work. The Canadian company has decided to pull the plug on new updates of its operating system, meaning most BlackBerries that became synonymous with...
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has waded into the lingering land dispute in Magodo Phase Two Estate. The governor visited the estate on Tuesday and invited all parties involved for a meeting in his office tomorrow, Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Magodo residents had staged a protest over the...
Naomi Osaka marked her return to tennis with a hard-fought win in Melbourne on Tuesday and declared her love for competing had been reignited during a break from the sport. The former world number one beat French player Alize Cornet 6-4 3-6 6-3, in her first match since a...
Abductors of the wife and two daughters of a lecturer with the Federal College of Education, Technical (FCET) Gusau in Zamfara State, Abdurrazak Muazu, have demanded N50 million ransom. A family member who pleaded anonymity said on Tuesday that the bandits called and informed them that they needed the...
Hundreds of Sudanese anti-coup protesters rallied Tuesday chanting slogans against the military as security forces deployed in Khartoum and neighbouring cities, witnesses said, days after the resignation of the country’s civilian premier. Protesters shouted “No, no to military rule” and called for the fall of Sudan’s ruling council headed...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – A Chief Economic Adviser to the President (CEAP) has been appointed. Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, Femi Adesina, who made this known in a statement on Tuesday, named the new CEAP as Dr Doyin Salami, who was until his appointment,...
By JEROME-MARIO CHIJIOKE UTOMI – For Nigerians that have their thinking divided between the present and the future, with part of it dedicated to finding solution to current nagging challenges in the country, and the other, concerned with what becomes the future of the country, if the present administration fails to...
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has survived an assassination attempt months after President Jovenel Moïse was killed by assassins in his residence. In an interview with AFP on Monday, he said that was targeted in the assassination attempt during weekend national day celebrations. “An attempt has been made against...
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed seven members of the same family during an attack on Sabon Birnin Birnin village in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, said the security agencies are working assiduously to...
World number one Novak Djokovic said on Tuesday he would defend his Australian Open title at Melbourne Park later this month after receiving a medical exemption from getting vaccinated against COVID-19. Djokovic, who had declined to reveal his COVID-19 vaccination status, said previously that he was unsure whether he...
The Department of Energy has announced the official fuel price adjustments set to come into effect in South Africa on Wednesday, 5 January 2022. All grades of fuel will see prices decreases this month, with petrol down between 68 cents and 71 cents per litre, and diesel decreasing by 67 and...
The England-based trio of Kelechi Iheanacho, Alex Iwobi and Wilfred Ndidi were amongst nine players who arrived at the Super Eagles Bolton White Hotel camp on Tuesday in Abuja ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Cameroon. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the other...
The Kano State Fire Service on Tuesday said it has saved 1,240 lives and property worth N1.58 billion in 831 fire incidents recorded in the state in the past one year. The spokesman of the service, Saminu Abdullahi, who disclosed this in a statement, said 182 persons lost their...
Five people were killed and nine others remain missing after a landslide hit a construction site in Bijie City, southwest China’s Guizhou Province Monday, local authorities said Tuesday. The landslide occurred at around 7 p.m. on Monday, according to the municipal government of Bijie. As of 7 a.m. Tuesday,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Chef Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Kalu, has expressed sadness over the death of the Presidential candidate of National Republican Convention (NRC) in the June 12, 1993 election, Alhaji Bashir Tofa. In his condolence message issued on Tuesday, Senator Kalu, described the...
By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau- A notorious bandit leader, Bello Turji, has reportedly released over 50 kidnapped victims in his custody in Zamfara State. Confirming the release on Tuesday, The Co-Chairman of the state Committee on Finding Lasting Solutions to Banditry, Dr. Abdullahi Shinkafi, said the victims are about 70,...
Tanaka, from Japan, was born in 1903, and married a rice shop owner at the age of 19. She worked in the family store until she was 103. Tanaka who has seen two world wars, survived the 1918 Spanish flu, seen 49 Summer and Winter Olympic Games. She reached...