Manchester city top the English Premier league table with with 50 points after beating Liverpool 4-1 at Anfield on Sunday night, February 7. City top their neighbors Manchester United, by 5 points and still have a game in hand, after United struggled against Everton during the 3-3 draw over the weekend. Leicester city are…
The Kano State Police Command has arrested two suspects in connection with the brutal murder of a vigilante in Bebeji Local Government Area of the State. Spokesperson of the command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, February 5, said the culprits killed Ibrahim Shuaib and made away with…
The Civil Liberties Organization has berated AMCON for failing to obey court orders on an ongoing case involving the agency and Peace Global Satellite Communications Limited. The Human Rights Organization made this disclosure in Lagos today during a press conference. The organization stated below its findings after a thorough investigation of the dispute…
Suspected bandits have killed at least nineteen persons and injured several others during two separate attacks in Birnin Gwari and Kajuru Local Government areas of Kaduna State. Confirming the incident, the Kaduna State Commissioner for internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, in a statement released, said fourteen persons were killed on Saturday February 6 by…
The Federal Government has lifted the ban it placed on Emirates Airlines. The airline was barred from lifting passengers from Nigeria after the United Arab Emirates made it mandatory for such passengers to carry out Rapid Antigen Testing in laboratories that are not approved or authorized by the appropriate regulatory bodies. The UAE has now withdrawn the Rapid Antigen Testing requirements…
Canadian-born actor Christopher Plummer has died at his home in Connecticut. The actor who starred in films including “The Sound of Music” died on Friday morning, Feb 5, He was 91. His family confirmed the news, saying he died peacefully at home in Connecticut with his wife of 53 years, Elaine Taylor, by…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced that 1,624 new cases of Coronavirus were recorded in the country on Friday February 5. The health agency gave a breakdown of the new cases as follows; Lagos-535,Plateau-183, Osun-98, Akwa Ibom-85, FCT-83, Ondo-77, Nasarawa-72, Edo-69, Oyo-63, Rivers-52, Taraba-48, Ogun-44, Borno-31, Kwara-31, Ekiti-30, Benue-25, Kano-21, Niger-21, Kaduna-18, Abia-15, Delta-10, Bayelsa-7, Zamfara-6. …
The Biden administration on Friday, Feb 5, said the U.S. would support Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the next director-general of the World Trade Organization, hours after South Korea’s trade minister stepped out of the race. The Biden administration’s decision is the last hurdle standing in the way of Ms. Okonjo-Iweala assuming the top job at the…
Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige has described the proposed strike action by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities as illegal. Ngige who asked the two unions to give the federal government three months to forward a supplementary budget to the National Assembly to cover…
Former senate president and chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Ken Nnamani, has said the party may find it difficult to produce a good candidate like President Buhari to carry on with its legacy in 2023. Nnamani shared this thought during an interview with Channels TV. “Mr. president believes in leaving a strong legacy and…
