Calm has finally been restored to Peremabiri Community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa, following the intervention of the government after a period of violence in the past week. Some yet to be identified gunmen had attacked the community on Sunday for the second time in about...
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Below are all the first-round, second-leg fixtures in the 2020-21 CAF Confederation Cup, to be played 5 and 6 January 2021. First-named teams are host and first-leg results are in brackets. 1. RS Berkane, Morocco vs Tevragh-Zeina, Mauritania (0-0)2. JS Kabylie, Algeria vs USGN, Niger (2-1)3. ESAE, Benin vs...
Kwara Government says it has recorded 44 more COVID-19 cases, while 101 patients, who tested negative twice have been discharged. Mr Rafiu Ajakaye, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor and Spokesman for the Technical Committee on COVID-19, made this known in a statement on Monday in Ilorin. According to...
Faustin-Archange Touadera, outgoing president of the Central African Republic (CAR), has won the absolute majority in the first round of the presidential election, according to provisional results announced on Monday. The National Elections Authority (ANE), the electoral body of the CAR, which announced the results, said Touadera garnered 346,687...
The Libyan navy said on Monday that it rescued 82 illegal immigrants off the coast of Khoms city, some 120 km east of the capital Tripoli. The Libyan navy disclosed this in a statement. “A rubber boat was successfully rescued with 82 migrants on board off the coast of...
The Ethiopian Ministry of Health on Monday reported 297 new Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases over the past 24 hours, as the total number of confirmed cases hit 125,919 in the country. The ministry said the number of COVID-19-related deaths in the country had reached 1,950 as of Monday evening, including...
Sudan has voiced reservation over it’s participation in a ministerial meeting on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) that was convened on Monday. Sudan’s Irrigation and Water Resources Ministry in a statement that “Based on outcome of the tripartite ministerial meeting held on Sunday, Sudan requested convening of a...
At the renowned Bogazici University in the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul, students on Monday protested the appointment of a new director by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. There were also isolated clashes with the police, as could be seen on pictures and video recordings. The security forces used tear gas...
An investigation has been opened into one of the suspected organisers of a massive illegal New Year’s Eve party in the French region of Brittany. According to broadcaster France 3, which quoted Rennes’s prosecutor Philippe Astruc on Monday evening, the man is in his early 20s and is being...
A superb lob by Danny Ings in the second minute gave Southampton a surprise 1-0 home win over English Premier League (EPL) leaders Liverpool on Monday. The Reds’ attack looked rudderless as they failed to score for the second game in a row. The injury-hit champions fielded a makeshift...
Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo will on Jan. 5, open his defence at the Federal High Court, Abuja, in the ongoing alleged certificate forgery suit filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) against him. The trial judge, Justice Ahmed Mohammed, adjourned the matter on Monday for Obaseki to open...
Thanking God for giving each of us another year of opportunities of service to him would be appropriate. As leaders in our various corners and at variegated levels, we need a pause and self-examination to ascertain if we have used our influence well: Have we used it strategically in...
By HABILA BINNIYAT – From the title of Mahmud Jega’s piece, it would appear that the columnist would have preferred that Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah plays the ostrich over the current situation in Nigeria, or that even if Kukah is going to say something about it, he should couch...
From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has signed into law, the 2021 appropriation bill passed into law by the Borno State House of Assembly. The budget was however jerked from N208b proposed by Zulum, to N248 billion, for which the assembly explained, was to...
The Federal Government has inaugurated Rural Women Grants Project in Jigawa to cater for 4,350 beneficiaries across state. Mrs Sadiya Farouk, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development said at the inauguration in Dutse on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the project...
The Ekiti government has warned private school proprietors against contravening the Jan. 18 resumption date for the second term academic activities in the state.The Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Dr Bimpe Aderiye, gave the warning in a statement issued on Monday in Ado-Ekiti.According to Aderiye, the announcement for...
Mr Adeniyi Adebayo, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, has enjoined indigenes of Ekiti State to participate in the Federal Government economic recovery and stimulus programme for their own benefits. In a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Ifedayo Sayo, the minister listed the programmes to include N15...