The mayor of Atlanta, one of dozens of U.S. cities hit by massive protests in recent days, has a message for demonstrators: “If you were out protesting last night, you probably need to go get a COVID test this week.” As emergency orders are lifted and beaches and businesses reopen, add protests to the list […]

Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has expressed deep sadness on the demise of immediate past Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru. Baru died on Friday, May 29, 2020, at 60, after a brief illness. He hailed from Jama’are in Bauchi State. He was appointed 18th Group Managing Director […]

Twenty-one COVID-19 patients have been discharged from the Oyo State Isolation Centre in the past three days after receiving their second negative test results.

Lesotho’s former first lady, Maesaiah Thabane, has left the country a day after a Court of Appeal ordered her rearrest, according to the nation’s police on Saturday. Maesaiah Thabane is suspected of orchestrating the shooting of Lipolelo Thabane her husband’s estranged wife. who was gunned down outside her home in the capital Maseru, in 2017. […]

By Tunde Oso President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday sent a request to the National Assembly for a fresh $5.513 billion external loan, which has elicited widespread comments from economists and financial experts. The loan, according to President Buhari, would be used to finance the proposed 2020 revised budget, some priority projects and to support state […]

Liberian President George Weah, a former international football legend, has released a song to be used by the UN to spread awareness about the new coronavirus (COVID-19), his office said Saturday. Weah hopes to appeal to music lovers across the West African nation of some 4.5 million people to ensure COVID-19 does not spread further. […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a Freedom of Information request to President Muhammadu Buhari requesting him to use his “leadership position and the opportunity of the 5th anniversary of your government in office to provide spending details of all loans obtained by the government since May 29, 2015, including details and locations of projects on which the loans have been spent.”

Pan -Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) was quick in its response to the reconstitution of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday, saying President Muhammadu Buhari was, by the action, just scratching the surface of the problem.

Saturday May 30 marks half a century in remembrance of the Biafran / Nigerian Civil War which took millions of lives between July 6, 1967 – January 15, 1970. On social media, the hashtag is #ozoemena meaning “May it never happen again”.

About 50 journalists working with Microsoft are set to lose their jobs, as the American multinational tech giant reportedly moves to replace them with robots. According to local media reports, those affected are contract employees working as curators for the company’s news website, MSN. They perform functions such as selection of stories, headlines, pictures and […]