Year: 2021
Lagos embarks on enlightenment campaigns to woo school dropouts
The Lagos Government has embarked on public enlightenment campaigns to educate those who dropped out of school.
Guardiola rules out Manchester City’s move for Messi
By Muhaimin Olowoporoku Manchester City coach, Pep Guardiola, has ruled out City making a move for Lionel Messi. The Argentine…
Breaking: Italy wins 4×100 men’s relay, Jamaica takes women’s event
The Canadian team of Andre De Grasse, Aaron Brown, Brendon Rodney and Jerome Blake took the bronze.
Lagos CP orders arrest of policemen, soldiers, okada riders violating traffic laws
Lagos State Police Commissioner, Hakeem Odumosu has ordered urgent clampdown on police officers, military personnel and okada riders violating traffic…
Taliban assassinate Menapal Afghan govt media head
Scores of social activists, journalists, bureaucrats, judges, and public figures fighting to sustain a liberal Islamic administration have been assassinated…
China’s men thrash Germany to win Olympic tennis gold
Up against the world's top three paddlers in Fan Zhendong, Ma Long and Xu Xin, the German team were always…
Joint Tax Board hikes prices of number plates, drivers licence
The Joint Tax Board (JTB), has approved hike in prices of number plates and drivers licence nationwide.
Arewa youths ask FG to ban Big Brother Nigeria
Yerima who spoke on a TV Programme Friday, also called the show a calamity, adding that it should not be…
Makinde swears in seven recalled commissioners
The seven commissioners were reappointed from the list of 17 former commissioners sacked by the governor on June 28.
Shinkafi ex-APGA National Secretary gets APC card
Shinkafi and his wife, Hindatu, were registered at the Abdullahi Shamba 004, polling unit Shinkafi South Ward, of Shinkafi Local…
Cloth masks can’t protect against Delta variant: Michael Osterholm
Osterholm says "when one dons a cloth mask, microscopic aerosols break through the material when people snuff or inhale.
Bandits attack Imo police station; 4 killed
Armed bandits have again attacked another police station in Imo State killing a police inspector.
Sarki-Bello becomes acting registrar for Supreme Court
Sarki-Bello is a 1989 graduate of Law from Uthman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto. She was called to the Nigerian Bar…
Ortom: General Oneya’s death, great loss to Benue, Nigeria
Ortom says Oneya's footprints as administrator of Benue State have remained indelible, particularly as one who handed over power to…
Mothers with COVID-19 can still breastfeed – Expert
Mothers should take precautions by limiting close face-to-face contact with infants, not cough or sneeze directly but do that into…
CNN sacks 3 unvaccinated staffers
At CNN , you need to be vaccinated to come to the office. And you need to be vaccinated to…
Babangida: The real reason I annulled MKO Abiola’s election
Babangida, resorting to revisionism sought to explain the reason for the annulment of an election widely considered to be the…
‘We can’t destroy Barcelona for Messi’: President Laporta
A new era starts now at Barcelona. There will be before and after Leo, as there was with other great…
Messi opens talks with PSG
Messi's move triggered further discussions between the two parties and it is understood that PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi is now…
2023 Presidency: Ibrahim Babangida rules out Atiku, Tinubu, others
Babangida said he has been scouting for a new Nigerian leader who will be in his sixties in 2023.
COVID-19 kills 3 vaccine mockers in UK
Parker was one of three known persons who rejected the vaccine and have died after contracting the virus.
WHO data: Global COVID-19 cases top 200 million, deaths 4.25 million
Globally, as of Thursday, there have been 200,174,883 confirmed cases, including 4,255,892 deaths, reported to WHO.
Nigeria’s Oyebadejo, Carvalho win Women in Aquaculture Global Scholarship
Augustina Oyebadejo, a final year student of the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture Technology of the Federal University of Technology,…
Olympic champion Zverev, Federer out of Toronto Masters
Federer continues to recover from a knee injury, while Zverev cites exhaustion due to the intense past couple of weeks
Covid-19 kills over 6000 people in Africa in 7 days
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday that weekly deaths from COVID-19 in Africa had reached a record peak…
Covid-19 kills 11 Nigerians in 24 hours; infections surge
The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday reported 566 additional COVID-19 infections due to a surge in the…
‘Of all men most miserable’: Femi Adesina slams critics of Buhari
They are "pitiable souls" and "Of all men most miserable." The above were the words used by Femi Adesina to…
Grealish heaps praises on Pep Guardiola after £100m deal
Manchester City's new signee Jack Grealish said Pep Guardiola was one of the reasons why he chose the Etihad outfit.
2023 Presidency: Abaribe, Rochas Okorocha, others back youths
Senators Eyinnaya Abaribe, Rochas Okorocha, Orji Kalu and others said they will work towards ensuring that youths clinch the presidential…
Protesters hit Prime minister Gonsalves with stone, bleeds from it
Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of the Caribbean country St. Vincent and the Grenadines was struck by an object on Thursday…