Veteran comedian, Atunyota Alleluya Akpobome, better known as Ali Baba has debunked rumours that his 15-year-old marriage has hit the rocks. A few days ago, rumours emerged that Ali Baba had been kicked out of his home in Victoria Garden City (VGC) by his wife, Mary (nee Bassey Udoh)...
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Tens of thousands of people came out in Myanmar on Sunday in one of the biggest days of protest against last month’s coup despite overnight raids by security forces in the main city Yangon on campaign leaders and opposition activists. Police fired tear gas and stun grenades in Lashio...
Twin earthquakes in Greece last week have left around 900 houses uninhabitable, media reported Sunday, while strong aftershocks continue to strike fear into people made homeless and looking for shelter. Wednesday and Thursday’s quakes, rated at magnitude 6.3 and 5.9, damaged hundreds of buildings in the villages of Larissa,...
Three Palestinian fishermen were killed Sunday when their boat exploded off Gaza’s coast in the Mediterranean Sea, the fishermen’s union said, with the cause of the blast unknown. Israel’s army said it was “not responsible for the incident”. “According to our information, the cause of the explosion came from...
A schoolboy was killed during a protest in southern Senegal at the weekend, officials said as several days of unrest in the West African state take the toll to five dead. A security official told AFP people were demonstrating Saturday in the southern town of Diaobe against Wednesday’s arrest...
A Justice of the Supreme Court, Sylvester Nwali Ngwuta has died on Sunday after a yet-to-be-determined illness. The senior judge who was preparing for his retirement would have turned 70 years on March 30th, 2021. A communique confirming Ngwuta’s demise was sent out by the Supreme Court, it reads:...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri- Around midnight on Sunday, Borno Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum showed up for a head count at Mohammed Goni College of Islamic Legal Studies in Maiduguri, where internally displaced persons from Abadam LGA of Northern Borno were being camped. NATIONAL ACCORD gathered that The Governor immediately...
Many people have been feared dead as petrol tanker rams into vehicles along Abuja-Keffi-Nasarawa highway on Saturday. It was learnt that the tanker driver was said to have lost control of the vehicle before the collision. A video of the scene trending on social media showed a gridlock along...
The ECOWAS Vaccines Taskforce has recommended compensation for citizens who may suffer side effects or injury from the COVID-19 vaccination. The Director- General, West African Health Organization, WAHO, Professor Stanley Okolo, stated this at the 5th Virtual Regional Steering Committee meeting of the Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement (REDISSE)...
The wait to be vaccinated against COVID-19 is finally over for Nigerians, as the disease has claimed almost 2000 lives in the country. Nigeria received 3.92 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine on March 2 and a campaign for the rollout of the vaccination was launched on Friday March...
Pope Francis prayed on Sunday for “victims of war” outside a centuries-old church in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, heavily damaged by the Islamic State group.Advertising The 84-year-old, travelling under tight security, led a prayer service “for the victims of the war” in Mosul, an ancient crossroads whose...
Baptist preacher Stewart Allen Clark, 55, handed out unsolicited marriage advice about how to keep a husband from getting “distracted” and asked “why so many women let themselves go” during a sermon. A pastor has been slammed for telling women in his congregation to “lose weight” and become “trophy...
A concessionaire, Topwide Consortium, has urged the Federal Government to discontinue the handover of National Theatre to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) pending the determination of the matter in court. Topwide Consortium Project Director, Mr Chris Ogan, made the call in a statement made available to newsmen on...
The President, Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Mr David Alabi, has advised youths to shun alcoholism, banditry and kidnapping that disturb the peace, economy and security of the country. Alabi gave the advice on Saturday in Abuja when he received an award from the Northern Youth Initiative...
The Nigerian Army has redeployed 204 officers to new formations across the country, PREMIUM TIMES has reported. The redeployment, which sources said was effected on March 5, came the same day the Chief of Army Staff, Ibrahim Attahiru, was confirmed and elevated to the rank of lieutenant general. The redeployment came...
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammad Adamu, has emerged the winner of Saturday’s Kafinhausa State Constituency by-election in Jigawa. Adamu polled 14,924 votes to beat other candidates in the election. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the poll took place in the 120 polling...
The Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR) says it would established offices Nationwide to help curb conflicts and engender peace in the country. The Director General of IPCR, Dr. Batuk T. Batuk, who disclosed this at a special forum in Abuja on Sunday, said the offices would be...
*Restates call for State Police*NLTP, ranching & How to resolve farmer-herder clashes*Says FG can’t grab land The task of building a society desired by all Nigerians is exerting and requires the contribution of all Nigerians as the challenge for everyone is “to build, not to destroy, to add...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered 196 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 158,237 As at Saturday (6th, March 2021), the public health agency also recorded ten (10) new COVID-19-related deaths, raising the...