Arteta Urges Arsenal players To Focus Beyond Pre-Season
Arsenal’s head coach Mikel Arteta, has sounded a note of warning to his players that they should not return for pre-season resting on the laurels of their FA Cup success. The Spaniard also expressed confidence that the Gunners could return to be a major force soon if the right decisions are made. The first-team squad is […]
Mali Coup Leaders Promise Elections After Keita Overthrow
Military officers who overthrew Mali’s president in a coup d’etat that drew international condemnation pledged on Wednesday to restore stability and oversee a transition to elections within a “reasonable” period. President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resigned and dissolved parliament late on Tuesday, hours after the coup leaders detained him at gunpoint, plunging a country already facing […]
Boko Haram Takes Over Borno Community, Kills Many, Hoist Flag
Boko Haram insurgents have again attacked Kukawa town in Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State, killing many civilians, who returned to the community last week. The Nigerian Army had some weeks ago claimed it embarked on clearance operations within Baga and Kukawa in Northern Borno with a view to enabling a safer environment for […]
Another COVID-19 Patient Writes SSSE In Isolation Centre
Kwara Government on Wednesday arranged a centre for a 16-year female student that tested positive for COVID-19 to sit for the Senior Secondary School Examination (SSSE) in Ilorin. Rafiu Ajakaye, spokesman for the Technical Committee on COVID-19 in the disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Ilorin. He said that the patient was sitting […]
Airport: FFK Allegedly Collected ₦40M To Praise Obiano
Politics and politicians in Nigeria can be likened to the proverbial piper and his fee. The piper, in this case, being former Minister of Aviation and frontline PDP politician, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode while the tune caller is Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano. It has been revealed that for an ample sum of forty million […]
Malian Soldiers Set Up Transitional Body, Announces Curfew
The mutinous soldiers in Mali have explained the mandate of the newly created National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP). They said that body will oversee a political transition toward general elections. The spokesperson, Col. Ismael Wague, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. Wague assured that the mutineers are not keen on […]
Floods In Delhi As South Asia Monsoon Toll Rises To Nearly 1,300
Heavy monsoon rains lashed New Delhi Wednesday, inundating roads and piling on misery for commuters in the chaotic Indian capital, as the death toll from the annual deluge across South Asia rose to nearly 1,300. The monsoon is vital to the densely populated region, revitalising land and waterways amid scorching summers. But it also causes […]
Stop Giving Honourary Degrees Randomly – Fashola Tells VCs
Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has advised Vice-Chancellors in Nigeria universities to stop giving honorary degrees incessantly. He also urged them to channel the data in their confines to guide the government, the private sector and citizens on national development. The minister spoke on Tuesday during a meeting with the Association of Vice-Chancellors […]
You Can’t Subject The Church To CAMA – World Bishops Warn Buhari
The Supreme Primate of the World Council of Bishops, His Eminence, Archbishop Dr. Polycarp Sunday, has kicked against the application of the Company and Allied Matters Act, CAMA, to churches. The World Council of Bishops emphatically described CAMA laws on churches, religious bodies by Nigeria’s Federal Government as an illegality. Bishop Sunday, in a statement […]
774,000 Jobs: PDP Lawmakers Reject 30 Slots Offer
The Minority Caucus, dominated by members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the House of Representatives, yesterday, rejected a federal government’s offer of 30 slots for each member. Under the programme tagged Extended Special Public Works (ESPW), a total of 774,000 persons are to be engaged for three months by the federal government. The […]
Belarus Opposition Urges EU To Reject Votes
The exiled head of Belarus’s opposition urged European leaders to reject President Alexander Lukashenko’s “fraudulent” re-election on Wednesday as the EU held an emergency summit on the country’s political crisis. The European Council convened to discuss the fallout from the vote that saw security services in ex-Soviet Belarus brutally disperse peaceful demonstrators demanding that their […]
N/Korea Has 60 Nuclear Weapons, Smallpox Missiles – US Army
North Korea has up to 60 nuclear weapons and a 5,000-tonne stockpile of chemical weapons, according to the US Army. The calculations were made last month in a report by the US Department of the Army, called North Korean tactics. Sections warn Kim Jong-un’s regime may be able to obtain 100 such weapons by the […]