WWE smashes cultural taboos, signs first woman wrestler from Arab world
World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. signed its first female performer from the Arab world on Sunday, smashing cultural taboos as the U.S.-based pageant seeks to piledrive its way into lucrative foreign markets.
Dangote to sell 1m metric tons of parboiled rice in 2018
Dangote rice company has said that it is prepared to hit the market with one million metric tons of Dangote rice in 2018 this came as a multi-million Naira Youth Farming Initiative that will engage teeming unemployed Nigerian graduates in rice farming was launched by the Dangote Rice Limited in Kogi State recently.
Update: Death toll from Somalia bombings rises to more than 200
More than 200 people were killed in near simultaneous bombings in the Somali capital and more than 250 people were injured, officials said on Sunday, marking the most deadly such attack by Somalia’s al Shabaab insurgency.
Corruption: Charly Boy group to begin daily sit-out demanding prosecution of top FG officials
The group of protesters led by good governance activist cum maverick entertainer, Charles Oputa, also known as Charly Boy, Sunday announced plans to commence a daily sit-out to focre President Muhammadu Buhari to take action against alleged corruption by top members of his government.
George Weah: from football pitch to presidential palace?
George Weah, 51, emerged from Liberia’s slums to become a superstar footballer in the 1990s, and has leveraged his status as a revered figure among young people in his second run for the presidency.
Saraki calls for International Conference on N/East
The President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has called for international conference on North East and Boko Haram threat in Nigeria.
No $25bn NNPC contract missing – Presidency
THE Presidency Sunday said that neither the report that $25 billion worth of oil contracts were awarded by the NNPC nor that $25 billion in NNPC funds was missing was true.
Nigeria gets first internationally accredited public medical lab at NIMR
Medical laboratory services in the country, yesterday, received a boost as Centre for Human Virology and Genomics of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, NIMR, gets International Organisation, ISO 15189:2012 standards, making it first public health laboratory in Nigeria to attain such status.
Austrian election: Conservative Sebastian Kurz on course to become Europe’s youngest leader
Austria’s political “whizz-kid” Sebastian Kurz, 31, looked on course Sunday to become Europe’s youngest leader, likely in coalition with the far-right, after his conservative party was projected to come first in elections.
Aso Rock Clinic received zero allocation for capital project in 2017 – Perm Sec.
PERMANENT Secretary, State House, Abuja, Jalal Arabi has debunked the allegation that the State House Medical Centre received N11.01 billion as appropriation from 2015 to 2017 fiscal year.
Nobody should kill Nigerian in South Africa – Jacob Zuma
The President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, yesterday, warned that no Nigerian citizen should be killed in any parts of South Africa.
