Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa’s struggle against white minority rule, turned 90 on Thursday, celebrating his birthday with a low-key church service at Cape Town’s St. George’s Cathedral. Tutu, who has struggled with ill health in recent years, is often hailed as...
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A former SS guard, now 100 years old, hobbled into a German courtroom on a walking frame on Thursday to face charges of helping to send more than 3,518 people to their deaths in a Nazi concentration camp during World War Two. Prosecutors say Josef S., a member of...
Pope Francis on Thursday received the outgoing German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, in the Vatican as she paid a farewell visit to Rome, which includes talks with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. Merkel and her husband, Joachim Sauer, arrived at the Apostolic Palace, where they went into a private audience...
Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose work touches on colonialism and refugee life, on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize, the Swedish Academy said. Gurnah, who grew up on the island of Zanzibar but came to England as a refugee at the end of the 1960s, was honoured “for his...
Popular Comedian, Freedom Atsepoyi, popularly known as Mr Jollof, has disclosed how he was saved from being kidnapped at gunpoint. Mr Jollof on Thursday said he was kidnapped at gunpoint but the police saved his life. He made this known in a post shared on his Instagram page. He,...
2022 BUDGET SPEECH Budget of Economic Growth and Sustainability Delivered By: His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari President, Federal Republic of Nigeria At the Joint Session of the National Assembly, Abuja Thursday, October 7, 2021 PROTOCOLS It is my great pleasure to be here once again to present the 2022...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Lagos – The Federal Government has outlined some of the measures being implementedfor COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery and Reconstruction in the country, after taking steps to contain the spread of infection, minimize casualties and ensure that clinical services could cope with the projected fatalities. Secretary to the...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday presented a total budget of N16.39 trillion for the year 2022 to the National Assembly. The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, said the National Assembly is committed to passing the budget before the end of year. Speaking at the assembly chambers, the President tagged the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Sector Command has said 70 per cent of crashes recorded between January and September was caused by over-speeding and night travels. The Sector Commander, Mr Samuel Ochi, said this during the commencement of the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has met behind closed door with Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting came barely 24 hours after the Federal Government had threatened to invoke emergency rule as part of measures to address security challenges and safeguard electoral process in the...
By EMMANUEL JIMOH, Benin – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) command in Edo, has arrested 90 suspected illicit drugs dealers in the state. Mr Buba Wakawa, the state NDLEA commander disclosed this in Benin on Thursday, said that the suspects were arrested between July and September across...
Spain is planning to offer adults between the ages of 18 to 35, who are still living with their parents, €250 ($290). The Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced that his government is worried that too many young adults live with their parents well into their thirties. According to...
Faisal Maina, son of the former chairman of the now-defunct Pension Reformed Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina has been sentenced to 24 years imprisonment. Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja gave the judgement on Thursday in the suit filed by the Federal Government against Faisal Abdulrasheed...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party has warned against imposing a state of emergency in Anambra State ahead of the November 6 governorship election. Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, had on Wednesday said the Federal Government had the option of imposing emergency rule if the...
The World Bank has projected the Nigerian economy to grow by 2.4 percent in 2021. The projection is contained in the bank’s Africa Pulse, a biannual analysis of the near-term macroeconomic outlook for the region. In June, the World Bank had set the GDP growth rate at 1.8 percent....
Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Kalu, has congratulated the Obi of Onitsha, Nnaemeka Achebe on the occasion of 2021 Ofala festival. Kalu in a statement issued in Abuja, described the age-long historic celebration as a platform for the sustenance of peace and unity in Onitsha and Anambra...
Lionel Messi insisted he did not make a mistake leaving boyhood club, Barcelona FC for Ligue 1 giants Paris Saint-Germain. Messi joined PSG on a free transfer after Barca were unable to re-sign the six-time Ballon d’Or winner due to their financial crisis. It ended Messi’s long-standing association with...
The President, Nigeria Football Supporters Club (NFSC), Sam Ikpea, says the Super Eagles can qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar without permutations. Ikpea stated this in Lagos on Wednesday, against the backdrop of the Super Eagles’ double-header World Cup qualification matches against the Les Fauves of...
Governors have been urged to concentrate more on the best Nigerian to contest and emerge as the President of the country rather than the zone or region that the candidate comes from. Mr Peter Esele, former president of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), disclosed this in an interview with...
The Anambra State Government and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, have faulted the planned move by the Federal Government to impose a state of emergency in the south-eastern state. As part of measures to tackle the worsening insecurity in Anambra especially as the state holds a...