Pastor Adeboye: The Day My Ex Girlfriend Came For Prayers
Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye is marking his 78th birthday today. His church members who call him Daddy G.O, that is General Overseer (of the Redeemed Christian Church of God) are paying tributes to him. Politicians, captains of industry and many others who admire him will shower praises on him like confetti. In other words, it […]
2023 Presidency: The Mind Game Begins
It is about three years to the next general election, but political maneuverings have started in several quarters across the various political parties, geopolitical zones and power blocs over the 2023 presidency even as President Muhammadu Buhari, who was re-elected for a second term during the February/March 2019 general election has not spent up to […]
Nokia Replacing CEO Suri After Struggling To Get 5G Break
Nokia Oyj is replacing Chief Executive Officer Rajeev Suri as the Finnish maker of phone gear seeks to make up lost ground to Huawei Technologies Co. and Ericsson AB in the race for 5G networks. Pekka Lundmark, the 57-year-old CEO of Fortum Oyj, will take over from Suri at the start of September, the company […]
Clashes In Strategic Syrian Town After Turkish Strikes
Syrian government forces battled to recapture a strategic rebel-held town in Idlib province on Monday and a Turkish official said Ankara would continue to strike President Bashar al-Assad’s troops after escalating its military operations at the weekend. Syrian state television broadcast live footage from inside Saraqeb, which lies on the country’s main north-south highway, and […]
How Delhi Police Commissioner Lost Control Of His Force
Delhi’s police commissioner Amulya Patnaik retires on Saturday after a 35-year career, of which he would want to forget the last five months. Four days before his retirement, on Tuesday, the Union government, in a sudden move brought back SN Shrivastava, Patnaik’s batch mate (AGMUT cadre, 1985) from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) […]
Three Things We Learned From The Premier League
Liverpool’s 44-game unbeaten run in the Premier League was ended in spectacular style by a 3-0 defeat at Watford on another weekend when those hoping to join the Reds in the Champions League next season stumbled. Leicester lost at bottom-of-the-table Norwich, Chelsea were held at Bournemouth, Manchester United drew 1-1 at Everton and Tottenham twice […]
Wilder Exercises Rematch Clause For Third Fight With Fury
Dethroned world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder has exercised his rematch clause and will fight Tyson Fury a third time, according to media reports on Saturday. BT Sport, citing promoters Bob Arum and Frank Warren, and Yahoo Sports, reported Wilder had officially exercised his contractual rematch clause and will take on Fury for a third time […]
Vatican Opens Archives On Most Controversial Pope
The Vatican unseals the archives of history’s most contentious popes on Monday, potentially shedding light on why Pius XII stayed silent during the extermination of six million Jews in the Holocaust. Two hundred researchers have already requested access to the mountain of documents, made available after an inventory that took more than 14 years for […]
Big Win For Joe Biden Puts Him Back In US Race
A resounding victory in South Carolina has thrust Joe Biden back into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, but that could all change in two days when voters go to the polls in 14 “Super Tuesday” states. With 48 percent of the vote in South Carolina, the former vice president more than doubled the […]
France Closes Louvre As Virus Cases Mount In Europe
France’s famed Louvre museum closed Sunday as coronavirus cases mounted across Europe and beyond, with the global death toll nearing 3,000. The virus has now infected more than 88,000 people and spread to more than 60 countries around the world, well beyond the epicentre in China where it first emerged late last year. It has […]
Greece Blocks Nearly 10,000 Migrants At Turkey Border
Greece has blocked nearly 10,000 migrants trying to enter from the Turkey border over the past 24 hours, a Greek government source said Sunday. A massive influx of migrants swelled along the border over the weekend after Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to open its frontier to Europe. He is seeking to pressure EU […]
Turkish Drones Kill 19 Syrian Government Soldiers
Turkish drone strikes in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province killed 19 government soldiers on Sunday, a war monitor reported, as tensions soared between Damascus and Ankara. The 19 died in strikes on a military convoy in the Jabal al-Zawiya area and a base near Maaret al-Numan city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Read Also: […]