Queen Elizabeth Leads Royal Birthday Cheers For Meghan Markle
American Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, is 39 today. The celebration is expected to be low key as she now lives in pandemic wracked California, where she moved with her husband, Prince Harry and son Archie early this year. For the UK Royal family, however, Meghan being out of sight is not out of mind, […]
Good News For Americans, Stimulus Check 2 Could Be Bigger
Congressmen may still be locked in talks over the size of unemployment benefits to Americans, there are indications that Americans with large families may end up with fatter stimulus checks. According to Tom’s Guide, the HEALS Act framework calls for $500 per dependant in qualifying households. So this change could benefit larger families in need of […]
NIPOST, FIRS Blast Each Other On Twitter Over Stamp Duty
Two Federal government agencies, NIPOST and Federal Inland Revenue Service are waging a social media war over stamp duty, that will require President Buhari to resolve. NIPOST chairman, Maimuna Abubakar triggered the war on 2 August, when she tweeted that FIRS has gone rogue over stamp duty, by stealing its mandate, by way of printing […]
NDA Announces New Date For Screening
The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) has said that the screening test for all its candidates will hold on August 15 at designated centres across the country, starting from 7:00 am. The NDA Registrar, Brig.-Gen. Ayoola Aboaba, announced this in a statement issued in Kaduna on Monday. Abaoba also advised all candidates to come with their […]
COVID-19: Nigeria Now Has Over 44,000 Confirmed Cases
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday night, announced 288 new cases of COVID-19. It brings the current tally in the country to 44,129. Read Also: NANS Lambaste Gov Abiodun Over ₦25,000 COVID-19 Test Fee NCDC’s tweet read: “288 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Lagos-88 Kwara-33 Osun-27 FCT-25 Enugu-25 Abia-20 Kaduna-17 Plateau-13 Rivers-13 Delta-10 […]
Air Peace Sacks Pilots, Staff, Gives Reasons
The management of Air Peace has said that the crippling effects of coronavirus pandemic on its operations was responsible for the sack of some pilots and supporting staff. The company made this known in a statement on Monday in Lagos adding that it took the “very painful, but rightful decision”, NAN reports. It also stated […]
Kwara Govt Probes ₦300m Controversial LG Funds
Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara State, on Monday, constituted an 8-man probe panel to investigate the Federal government allocations accruing to the 16 local government councils in the State. The panel will also probe the councils share of the internally generated revenue from May 29, 2019 to date. A statement by his spokesman, Rafiu Ajakaye, […]
Schools Have Right To Charge Third Term Fees – FG
The Federal Government has said that private school owners are entitled to charge fees for the third term as schools start resuming for exit classes. The Minister of State for Education, Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, said this at the media briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 in Abuja on Monday. Nwajiuba was reacting […]
Indian Restaurant Offers ‘COVID Curry’ To Scared Customers
An Indian restaurant is hoping to win back customers afraid of eating out during the pandemic with a special “COVID Curry” and “Mask Naans”. “This has been a really tough time for us and for our entire sector,” Yash Solanki, owner of the vegetarian Vedic eatery in the western city of Jodphur, told AFP. The […]
Vatican Plays Down Fears For Former Pope Benedict’s Health
The Vatican on Monday said former pope Benedict XVI was not in especially bad health after his biographer told a German newspaper he was “extremely frail”. Pope emeritus Benedict’s health “is no cause for particular concern, especially regarding a 93-year-old person getting over the most acute phase of a painful illness,” the Vatican press office […]
Spate Of Insecurity In Nigeria No Longer Acceptable – Arewa Publishers
The Arewa Online Publishers’ Forum, AOPF, has condemned in the strongest term the spate of insecurity in the North and the nation at large with hundreds of law-abiding citizens daily being killed with reckless abandon by what the forum described, “an untrained ragtag army of hoodlums”. The forum also condemned the attitude being shown by […]
NANS Lambaste Gov Abiodun Over ₦25,000 COVID-19 Test Fee
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and the National Association of Ogun State Students (NAOSS) have called out the Governor Dapo Abiodun-led administration/government for requesting students in boarding schools to pay ₦25,000 for COVID-19 test. The students’ bodies described the Ogun State government under Abiodun as, “not only being insensitive to the plights of […]