21-year-old rapper of Nigerian parentage wins UK top prize
Dave, a 21-year-old rapper, David Orobosa Omoregie from London whose family comes from Nigeria, has just won the UK’s Mercury Prize for his debut album, Psychodrama. The album has been hailed as “the boldest and best British rap album in a generation”. Released in March, Psychodrama entered the UK charts at number one and has […]
Climate experts meet in Monaco to finalize UN oceans report
By Emmanuel Yashim, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is meeting in Monaco on Friday to begin debating the final wording of a special report on the effects of global warming on oceans, coastal and polar regions. Representatives of the IPCC member states will debate the report, compiled with input from 100 researchers from […]
Jailed El Salvador ex-president gets two more years for bribery
…Found guilty of offering $10,000 bribe Elias Antonio Saca, the former president of El Salvador serving a 10-year prison term for corruption, has been sentenced to another two years for bribery. Saca was found guilty of having offered $10,000 to a court employee to obtain information about a case against him, the attorney general’s office […]
NAS targets 8000 indigent Ikorodu residents for free medical treatment
National Association of Seadog, NAS, has disclosed that no fewer than 8000 indigent residents of Ikorodu Local Government, Lagos State, would be treated freely.
Anambra Assembly wants FG to make Air Peace National Carrier
The Anambra State House of Assembly has urged Federal Government to make Air Peace Airline a National Carrier for its contributions in the evacuation of stranded Nigerians in South Africa. The lawmakers also urged President Muhammadu Buhari to confer on Chief Allen Onyema, Chairman of Air Peace, a national honour for his philanthropic gestures and […]
FAAC shares N720.880bn among FG, states, LGs for August
By Emmanuel Elebeke The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) on Thursday shared a total of N720.880bn to the three tiers of government for the month of August 2019. The amount was shared at the end of the monthly FAAC meeting which held at the headquarters of the Ministry of Finance in Abuja. The N720.880bn comprised […]
