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Excitement, gamboling in Africa as U.S. President-Elect Biden nominates Linda Thomas Greenfield, a lover of Africa, as UN Ambassador
By Femi Soneye Just as the US President-elect Joe Biden has begun to name his cabinet choices ahead...
#EndSARS protest: UK lawmakers mull sanctions against Nigerian govt, security officials
The United Kingdom Parliament on Monday took a swipe at the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari for the attack and clampdown on...
Trump finally agrees transition of power to Joe Biden can begin
US President Donald Trump has agreed that the transition of power to President-elect Joe Biden can begin. The head of the General...
COVID-19: PTF asks schools to send home any child with respiratory symptoms
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has directed school authorities to send away any child with respiratory symptoms to reduce the...
Corruption charges: FIFA slams 5-year ban on CAF President, Ahmad Ahmad
By Boye Ajayi The Federation of International Football Association (FIFA), says it has suspended the President of Confederation of African...
Recession: SERAP to Buhari: Cut cost of governance, jumbo salaries of senators, others
Following the sliding of Nigerian economy into the worst recession ever, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked President Muhammadu...
Buhari expresses grief over deaths of Ndoma-Egba’s wife, Amaka, Prof. Bida
President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with a former Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, over the death of his wife, Amaka. He also expressed...
After years of intractable funding crisis, LAUTECH, Ogbomoso, transferred to Oyo State
The decade-long crisis of funding that had bedeviled the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso in Oyo State jointly owned by Osun...
Corruption: It’s all over for Magu as Justice Salami Probe Panel recommends his sack
…Magu’s albatrosses include non-prosecution of ex-Gov. Godswill Akpabio now Minister of Niger Delta Affairs and others, graft, insubordination Mixed reactions have trailed...
Breaking: Black Friday: Senator Ndoma-Egba loses spouse in ghastly road crash
It came like a black joke but it is true as Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, former Senate Leader, on Friday lost his wife, Amaka,...
FG, governors blame rising food prices on #EndSARS protests, banditry
The Federal Government and the 36 state governors have hinged skyrocketing food prices across the country on the October #EndSARS protests. They said the protests,...
UNICEF warns of ‘lost generation’ as COVID-19 threatens irreversible harm to children
By Ajuma Edwina Ameh As COVID-19 lurches towards a second year, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has warned of significant...
NNPC says it’s committed to growing nation’s hydrocarbon reserves to 40bn barrels
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has restated its commitment to grow the nation’s hydrocarbon reserves to 40 billion barrels through...
Octogenarian U.S. Speaker, Pelosi, nominated to lead House of Representatives in Biden administration
US Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday unanimously chose House of Representatives Speaker, fiery 80-year-old Nancy Pelosi, to lead the party into the Joe...
NNPC “steals the show” at NSE Fellowship Award as its COO, Upstream, 6 staff inducted
The 2020 Nigerian Society of Engineers’ (NSE) fellowship awards became a spectacle as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) stood out with the corporation bagging...
Post-COVID-19 report on Nigeria’s Creative Industry will be implemented — Lai Mohammed
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has promised to implement the recommendations of the Committee for Post-COVID-19 Initiatives for the nation’s creative industry. Receiving...
