The General Manager of The National Theater, Prof. Sunday Ododo, has said that more than 16,000 jobs would be created during and after the ongoing renovation of the 44 year-old theater’s complex, Iganmu, Lagos State. Prof. Ododo told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday that most of...
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The former Chief of Defence Staff to late Gen. Sani Abacha, Lt-Gen. Joshua Dogonyaro has died at the age of 80. The first son of the deceased, Mr. Joseph Dogonyaro, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an telephone interview in Pankshin on Thursday. According to...
More than 20 women say they were sexually abused by aid workers during last year’s Ebola outbreak in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The information was revealed in a new report by the Thomson Reuters Foundation and The New Humanitarian news agency. The women said they...
Three more African countries – Algeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria – have now detected the Indian variant of coronavirus, Dr Ngoy Nsenga, from the World Health Organization (WHO), has told the BBC. The confirmation brings to seven the number of African nations that have confirmed the...
Robert Mugabe was buried in 2019 after weeks of his family’s argument with the governmentImage caption: Robert Mugabe was buried in 2019 after weeks of his family’s argument with the government Former Zimbabwe’s first lady, Grace Mugabe, has been summoned to appear before a traditional court over the “improper”...
Gabon’s President, Ali Bongo Ondimba has said the country could join the Commonwealth during the upcoming summit in Kigali, Rwanda. President Bongo held talks with the Commonwealth’s Secretary General, Patricia Scotland. He said the integration of Gabon into the Commonwealth “would be a historical milestone”. The president then went...
Three sailors who had been kidnapped by jihadists have killed their abductors and escaped, Carta de Mozambique newspaper reports. The jihadists had invaded an island located near Macomia district and held hostage a group of displaced people, fishermen and three sailors, who were waiting for rescue to the city...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has declared that de-escalation of the Palestine-Israel conflict was “an absolute must”, saying that the mounting death toll, including children, is totally unacceptable. Guterres, after meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, in Moscow, said that an end to the violence was needed “to...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday announced that it has registered 44 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 165,559 confirmed cases. As at Wednesday, 12 May, 2021, the public health agency recorded one...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja- The Minister of the FCT, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has called on residents of the Territory to always collaborate with security agencies to guarantee the safety and security of lives and property within their communities. The Minister said this following the monthly FCT Security Committee...
The Gombe State Governor, Alhaji Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has felicitated with the Muslim Ummah in the state as they join other faithful the world over in celebrating the Eid-el-Fitr which marks the successful completion of the Ramadan fast. The Governor in a goodwill message on Thursday, urged the Ummah...
Arsenal has defeated Chelsea’s bid to finish in the Premier League’s top four as Emile Smith Rowe punished Jorginho’s blunder to seal a 1-0 win on Wednesday. Midfielder Jorginho was guilty of a woefully misplaced back-pass that ended with Gunners youngster Smith Rowe slotting home early in the first...
A gas explosion has killed three persons in the Igbore area of Abeokuta South Local Government Area of Ogun State. The Public Relations Officer of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the incident which occurred on Wednesday. He added that four other persons...
A pair of basketball legend Michael Jordan’s famous Air Jordans from his rookie season sold at auction for $152,500 on Wednesday, the star item in Sotheby’s first international dedicated sneaker sale. Seen as a niche interest 10 years ago, sneakers are now one of the fastest-growing markets at auctions,...
World Rugby’s reach across Africa has increased as Algeria and Burundi become full members of the International Federation. This follows the approval of the two countries’ membership at the virtual meeting of the World Rugby Council held on Wednesday. World Rugby Chairman, Sir Bill Beaumont said, “We are very...
The Nigeria Army Headquarters has said that its troops in the South-Eastern region of the country have arrested the second-in-command to Ikonso, the neutralised commander of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)/ Eastern Security Network (ESN). The suspects, identified as Awurum Eze was nabbed by security operatives in Aba,...
Two transgender Cameroonians were on Tuesday sentenced to five years in prison in Cameroon, where gay sex is illegal, for “attempting homosexuality”, their lawyer told AFP. Loïc Djeukam, well-known on social media under the pseudonym Shakiro, and Roland Mouthe alias Patricia, were jailed in February. They were found guilty...
A World Bank report says officially recorded remittance flows to low- and middle-income countries reached 540 billion dollars in 2020, 1.6 per cent below the 2019 total of 548 billion dollars. The report which is titled ‘Migration and Development Brief’ released in Washington D.C. on Wednesday provides updates on...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says N392.77 billion was generated as Company Income Tax (CIT) in Quarter One, 2021 (Q1, 2021) an increase of N97.05 billion over N295.72 billion generated in Q4 2020. This is revealed in the “Company Income Tax by Sectors, Q1 2021” obtained from the...
Nigerian singer, Born Olarenwaju Fasasi, popularly known as Sound Sultan has been diagnosed with throat cancer. According to Sahara Reporters, the Jagbajantis singer who is 44, is undergoing chemotherapy in a hospital in the United States of America. Sound Sultan started his career in show business in the 90s...