INSURGENCY: 5 dead, 47 sustain gunshot wounds in Damboa attack

INSURGENCY: 5 dead, 47 sustain gunshot wounds in Damboa attack

As 19 severe casualties to be referred ― Hospital source By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri No fewer than five persons were killed with 47 others sustained gunshot injuries by stray bullets when suspected members of dreaded Boko Haram sect invaded some parts of Damboa Local Government Area of Borno state on Wednesday morning. According to a […]
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Coronavirus: Italy to increase investment stake in Nigeria — Ambassador

Coronavirus: Italy to increase investment stake in Nigeria — Ambassador

 Adapts to local or regional peculiarities — Dr. Oluwole By Victoria Ojeme and Fortune Eromosele – Abuja The Italian government has, recently, announced plans to increase its investments in Nigeria, stating that trade between Nigeria and Italy has reached two billion Euros. This is despite the first Corona-virus case in Nigeria coming from an Italian […]

Akeredolu signs Amotekun bill into law

Akeredolu signs Amotekun bill into law

Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, on Wednesday signed the state Security Network Agency, otherwise known as Amotekun Corp, Bill 2020 into law. The Amotekun, which was coordinated by Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN), was launched in Ibadan by the six South West governors in January. While signing the bill, Akeredolu said the outfit was […]

Lawmaker wants INEC to raise number of representatives for Rivers

Lawmaker wants INEC to raise number of representatives for Rivers

By Tordue Salem – Abuja A member of the House of Representatives from Rivers State, Rep Farah Dagogo, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to delineate Federal constituencies in Rivers State, to shore up the number of National Assembly representatives from his State. He said the function, will not require the Electoral body […]

Why we prefer second hand, ‘Okirika’ clothes ― Jos residents

Why we prefer second hand, ‘Okirika’ clothes ― Jos residents

Some residents of Jos in Plateau, have said that they preferred second hand clothes, popularly called “Okirika”, because they were more durable compared to new ones usually obtained in boutiques. A cross section of residents interviewed by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Monday in Jos, said that the second hand clothes were cheaper […]

Paul Pogba to resume full training next week ― Solskjaer

Paul Pogba to resume full training next week ― Solskjaer

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has revealed Paul Pogba will be back in full training next week but is unsure when the midfielder will make his Manchester United comeback. The France midfielder has been out since out the Boxing Day victory over Newcastle United after undergoing ankle surgery. United boss Solskjaer stated on Wednesday that Pogba is […]

Rising enterpreneur, Santus bags Cross River Spirit Enterprise Award 2020

Rising enterpreneur, Santus bags Cross River Spirit Enterprise Award 2020

Dedicates award to Yala, Cross River farmers By Gabriel Ewepu A rising entrepreneur and Chief Executive Officer, Santuscom Agro-Hub Investment Nigeria Limited, Chief Paul Santus, weekend, bagged the prestigious Cross River State Spirit of  Enterprise Award 2020. Santuscom Agro-Hub is the producer of the popular Ogoja Rice and other organic food products in the country. […]

Bloomberg drops out of presidential race, endorses Biden

Bloomberg drops out of presidential race, endorses Biden

Billionaire Mike Bloomberg ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden. It was a stunning collapse for the former New York City mayor, who had his 2020 hopes on the Super Tuesday states and pumped more than $500 million of his own fortune into the campaign. […]

Alleged N28.9m fraud: Pastor apologises after accusing Judge of bias

Alleged N28.9m fraud: Pastor apologises after accusing Judge of bias

A pastor, Anu Ojo-Olakunori, standing trial over alleged N28. 9 million fraud on Wednesday apologised to a Jos High Court judge after accusing her of bias in the matter pending before her. Ojo-Olakunori and a couple, Kunle Farinuola and the wife, Josephine are standing trial before Justice Christine Dabup of High Court IV, Jos on […]

Ondo governorship aspirant pays for surgery of student suffering from cancer

Ondo governorship aspirant pays for surgery of student suffering from cancer

Dayo Johnson – Akure A governorship aspirant of the  Progressive Congress (APC) in Ondo State, Ifeoluwa Oyedele has paid for the Surgery of a Student Tobias Sunday suffering from maxillofacial cancer. Tobias Sunday, is a student of Bishop Philip Academy, Ibadan, Oyo state. His case was reported in a national daily on Saturday 22nd of […]

Obaseki, Edo APC target over 500,000 new members

Obaseki, Edo APC target over 500,000 new members

.As party moves to update register The Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has said the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has commenced an aggressive drive, with the objective of reaching a target of over 500,000 members ahead of the 2020 gubernatorial election. The governor said this during the sensitisation of executives […]

On-Loan Man United goalkeeper Kieran O’Hara charged by FA for biting

On-Loan Man United goalkeeper Kieran O’Hara charged by FA for biting

On-loan Manchester United goalkeeper Kieran O’Hara has been charged by the FA for biting his opponent during a League One clash between Burton Albion and Peterborough on Saturday afternoon. The 23-year-old will have been hoping to make an impression on his parent club during his spell at League One side Burton this season, and he […]

Kenya accuses Somali army of ‘unwarranted attack’ on border town

Kenya accuses Somali army of ‘unwarranted attack’ on border town

Kenya on Wednesday accused Somalia of an “unwarranted attack” on the frontier town of Mandera, during heavy fighting over the border between government and regional forces. Already fraught tensions between Nairobi and Mogadishu have soared in recent days, with both sides issuing strongly worded statements accusing each other of encroaching on border territory. Temperatures rose […]

Kidnapped Benue Catholic Priest regains freedom

Kidnapped Benue Catholic Priest regains freedom

By Peter Duru – Makurdi The Catholic Priest who was last weekend, kidnapped by unknown armed men, Rev. Fr. David Echioda, has been released by his abductors. The release of the Priest was contained in a statement issued yesterday by the Director of Communications, Otukpo Catholic Diocese, Rev. Fr. John Okopopu. Rev. Fr. Echioda was […]

Rare Isaac Newton ‘Laws of Motion’ manuscript discovered in French library

Rare Isaac Newton ‘Laws of Motion’ manuscript discovered in French library

A first-edition copy of Isaac Newton’s groundbreaking book laying out his three laws of motion, which became the foundation for modern physics, has been found at a library on the French island of Corsica. Vannina Schirinsky-Schikhmatoff, director of conservation at the Fesch public heritage library in Ajaccio, said she discovered the copy of the 17th-century […]