For decades, no one says a report, around the world talked that much about the importance of a president’s first 100 days—until Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States took office in 1933. He took swift action to calm the nation’s crippling financial panic (cue the Emergency Banking Act and...
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Uganda’s long-time president, Yoweri Museveni, has been re-elected with 58.64 per cent of the vote, according to the country’s electoral commission. The commission announced this on Saturday afternoon. Provisional Presidential results from di announcement from Uganda Electoral Commission on Saturday around 9:00 am showed that Museveni was leading. Election results...
A Tribute by IREKE A. KALU ONUMA – The end began on Monday 11th January 2021 evening. I had just come in from Owerri, and a call from a very unexpected person, Gen. Zamani Lekwot, came through asking after Adm. Ndubuisi Kanu. I told him I was in the...
The FCT Education Secretariat has directed all schools to resume on Monday, Jan. 18, following the announcement by the Federal Ministry of Education on maintaining the resumption date. Malam Leramoh Abdulrazaq, Acting Secretary and Director, Administration and Finance, issued the directive at a stakeholders meeting on Friday in Abuja....
Ekiti State University has reiterated its commitment to promoting academic excellence, as it held a virtual matriculation ceremony in Ado-Ekiti for the directorate of Part-Time Programmes for fresh students in various study centres, for the 2019/2020 academic sessions.. The Voice Chancellor, Prof. Edward Olanipekun, who stated the commitment at...
Mr Igbekele Akinriwa, Chairman, Okitipupa Local Government Area (LGA) of Ondo State, has commended the gallantry of Nigerian soldiers who died while fighting various wars in the defence of the country. Akinriwa, who extolled the fallen heroes during the celebration of the 2021 Armed Forces Remembrance Day in Okitipupa,...
The Plateau State University chapter, of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has commenced an indefinite strike action over insecurity, poor infrastructural development and arrears of earned allowances for its members. Dr. Pamson Bentse, chairman of the union in the University, who disclosed this to the News Agency...
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, (SAN) has denied the allegation that he collected gratification from the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio in respect of the appointment of a Sole Administrator for the NDDC. Malami made the denial in a statement...
Imam Dawud Yahya has admonished Muslim faithfuls, and indeed all Nigerians, to heed the day of reckoning by ensuring they lived up to the responsibilities assigned to them either in their public, private or personal lives.Yahya gave the admonition in his sermon, during Friday prayers at the Jama’atu Izalatil...
Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Unity Schools Old Students Association (USOSA), has described the late Albert Okumagba, Pioneer President-General of the association, as “an extraordinary Nigerian”. Muhammed-Oyebode made the assertion on Friday in her tributes, which was made available to newsmen in Asaba, after the burial of Okumagba. Okumagba, who died on Nov. 19 at the age of...
The Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (LASUBEB), on Friday, launched the first edition of Lagos Schools’ Poetry Festival, ”Eko 200 Poems: An anthology of Nursery Rhymes”, to birth literary awareness in basic public schools. Mr Wahab Alwaiye-King, Executive Chairman, LASUBEB, told a news conference in Lagos that the festival...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised Nigerians to stop politicising the issues of security and efforts of security services, particularly the Armed Forces, to keep Nigeria safe. The party gave the advice in a statement signed by Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, on Friday in Abuja, while celebrating with the military officers on the...
Nigerian football league’s second tier, the Nigeria National League (NNL), will begin its 2020/2021 season on Jan. 30. Ademola Olajire, Director of Media and Communications at Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), disclosed this in a statement on Friday. He said the decision on the date was reached at the league’s...
The Africa Regional Office of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) on Friday in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire confirmed the venues for the upcoming February window of the FIBA AfroBasket 2021 Qualifiers. After successfully holding the games of the Qualifiers in bubbles in November, the third and last window will also...
Luis Alberto’s brace followed the opener from his skipper Ciro Immobile as Lazio crushed Roma 3-0 Friday in the Rome derby which opened the Serie A weekend. Last season’s Golden Boot winner Immobile put Lazio ahead in the 14th minute after Manuel Lazzari dispossessed a dithering Roger Ibanez and...
Due to logistical challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, the World Golf Championships-Mexico Championship will not be played in Mexico this year, the PGA Tour announced on Friday. In a memo released to players on its website, the PGA said this year’s event will be conducted from Feb. 25 to...
President-elect Joe Biden, inheriting responsibility for a pandemic that is unchecked and worsening after nearly a year, has outlined his plan to throw the weight of the federal government behind getting Americans vaccinated against the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Biden, in a speech in Wilmington, Delaware, five days before his inauguration,...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Delta North Senatorial District chapter, on Friday began a peace and reconciliation move to ensure victory in the March 6 council elections. The Chapter Chairman, Mr Moses Iduh, who spoke to newsmen at the end of the party’s leadership meeting in Asaba, said every...