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2021 prophecies: Nigeria’s VP Osinbajo, ex-Ghana President John Mahama will take the helm as presidents

  As the year 2021 rolled in today, two Ghanaian Christian clerics, who operate in the office of prophets, have unveiled major, status...

Women, men empowerment: Tony Elumelu Foundation unveils 2021 Entrepreneurship programme 

In its avowed commitment towards empowering women and men across African continent, the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has unveiled the TEF Entrepreneurship programme...

Fidelity Bank first female CEO, Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, takes charge 

  Just as the tenure of Mr Nnamdi Okonkwo, the Managing Director of Fidelity Bank ended on December 31, 2020, Mrs Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe on January...

Double “tragedy” for Super Eagles/Napoli Striker as injury-racked  Victor Osimhen tests positive for COVID-19

  By Boye Ajayi For Super Eagles/Napoli Striker, Victor Osimhen, it has been a double “tragedy”  battling nagging shoulder injury and testing positive...

Ogun donning the toga of most crime prone state In Nigeria as Police nab 2,735 rape, kidnapping, robbery suspects In 6 months

  By Boye Ajayi With Ogun gradually becoming a hot bed of crime in the country,  the Police Command says it has arrested...

Security agents arrest Sowore, pro-democracy activists in widening crackdown

  Just a few hours after President Muhammadu Buhari’s New Year broadcast, the publisher of Saharareporters and human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, and others...

Political, royal and academic personages fatally ravaged by COVID-19 pandemic in 2020

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh In a rarity in a century, the world is being ravaged by a global pandemic that has left...

Full text of President Buhari’s New Year message

My fellow countrymen and women, First, I would like to thank and praise the Almighty who saw us through the year 2020 and...

Buhari, in New Year message, bows to pressure, to rejig security apparatus

  “The country would continue to weather all stormy waters and emerge stronger and better where others have fallen and disintegrated …this nation, this Nigeria,...

UNICEF projects 21,000 babies will be given birth to in Nigeria on New Year Day 

      By Ajuma Edwina Ameh As 2021 rolls in, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has projected that an estimated 21,439 babies...

Breaking: Buhari assents 2021 Appropriation Bill of N13.58trn

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday initialled the 2021 Appropriation Bill of N13.58 trillion. The National Assembly had jacked up the budget by N505,...

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2020: The Year That Was By Reuben Abati 

My favourite end-of-the-year quote, which I have shared with many others,  is the following passage from Chapter 3 of the inimitable Chinua Achebe’s Things Falls...

Nigerian on 18-year-old death row in Saudi Arabia: Family pleads for  clemency

  The family of Suleimon Olufemi, a Nigerian, who has been on death row in Saudi Arabia for 18 years for being part...

Male nurse doffs his COVID-19 protective equipment, has anal sex with virus-racked patient in hospital

A horny male nurse in Indonesia has been apprehended after admitting that he removed his Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to “pound” a male...

NASENI gets Presidential order: Mobilize refurbished tractors to farmers to boost food production

  As a fillip to his administration’s promise to tame food inflation in 2021, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday directed the National Agency...

Stakeholders score Buhari’s agric policies low

    A video went viral in November 2020 about a hearing session organised by a committee of Nigeria’s legislative national assembly. Zaheera...