The Edo State Government will tomorrow, Thursday, December 19, 2019 commence training, evaluation and promotion exercise for teaching and non-teaching staff in the state. The exercises, which will be conducted by the Edo State Post Primary Education Board, will take place in the three senatorial zones of the state. READ ALSO: What is really going […]

Gareth Bale saw a goal disallowed as Barcelona and Real Madrid played out a 0-0 draw at Camp Nou on Wednesday. LaLiga’s top two went into the contest level on points this season and with 72 wins each from previous league meetings, and there was nothing to separate them in a tense clash in Catalonia. […]

Holders Manchester City booked their place in the semi-finals of the League Cup as Raheem Sterling’s second half double warded off a shock by League One Oxford in a 3-1 win at the Kassam Stadium. Manchester United ended fourth-tier Colchester United’s fairytale run with a 3-0 win at Old Trafford, while Leicester survived a second […]

Google paid hundreds of millions of dollars in additional Australian taxes to settle a long-running dispute with authorities there, officials said Wednesday. The Silicon Valley giant forked over an extra AU$481.5 million, or about US$326 million, in a settlement with the country’s Taxation Office. The deal followed an audit that examined the company’s tax practices […]

….Firmino scores stoppage-time goal By Onochie Anibeze, Qatar Roberto Firmino’s stoppage-time goal set up the clash the world has been craving for here – a Liverpool versus Flamingo final in the Club World Cup final on Saturday. Fans were already preparing for the extra time when the stadium erupted in ovation. It gave the European […]

  New details are emerging from the Presidency indicating that there is no relenting as yet on the plan by some inside forces to sow seeds of discord between the President and his vice. Specifically, the inside forces latest attempt is around the alleged Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) election campaign fund which had earlier […]

Netflix released three years’ worth of revenue and subscription data this week that show just how fast the streaming giant is growing internationally. More than 57 percent of Netflix’s 158 million streaming subscribers and nearly half its revenue so far this year have come from outside the US and Canada, according to the breakdown filed […]

Dutch farmers and construction workers blocked roads with tractors on Wednesday and gathered outside the offices of national broadcaster NOS in the latest of a series of protests over environmental pollution rules. The protests began after a court ruling in May found the Netherlands in violation of EU rules on “reactive nitrogen” pollution, sparking a […]

International Business Machines Corp on Wednesday said it has come up with a new battery technology that uses materials extracted from seawater and requires no cobalt, as the race to find alternative sources to the expensive mineral intensifies. IBM said it has partnered with the research wing of Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz, battery electrolyte supplier Central […]

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Alhaji Isa Dutse, said on Wednesday that the Federal, States and Local Government Councils shared the sum of N635.8 billion in November. Dutse disclosed this while addressing journalists after the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting in Abuja. He said the amount shared included Value […]

Boko Haram militants killed 14 Chadian civilians and wounded five others in an overnight attack on a fishermens’ camp in the northeastern part of Lake Chad, a local official said on Wednesday. Boko Haram has been fighting for a decade to carve out an Islamist caliphate in northeast Nigeria and has carried out regular raids […]

…Says NASS, APC NEC solidly with Oshiomhole By Simon Ebegbulem, Abuja A member of the National Executive Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and member of the House of Representatives, Hon.Komsol Alphonsus Longgap says those calling for the removal of the National Chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole are enemies of President […]

By Juliet Ebirim The Women at Risk International Foundation, WARIF a non-profit organization leading the charge against gender-based violence in Nigeria, held an advocacy March to raise awareness against gender-based violence in Nigeria, to commemorate the UN 16 days of activism for gender-based violence. The march tagged the “No Tolerance” March was organized, following the […]

The Senate on Wednesday asked for proper funding of the Nigerian Navy to enable the Force to procure needed vessels to clear the over 150 vessel deficit. The Senate said the funding would enable the navy to carry out its constitutional responsibilities without over depending on Private Maritime Logistics Support Companies (PMLSC). This followed the […]

Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has expressed worry on how housing projects in the country favour the upper class alone; leaving the lower class that it said has more need for shelter in desolation. The apex bank is also worried that whereas there is a burgeoning demand for affordable housing in Nigeria, the existing intervention […]