By Bashir Bello The Kano Pilgrims Welfare Board (KSPWB) on Thursday said it was ready to refund all monies paid by intending pilgrims for the 2020 Hajj pilgrimage, adding that they are also at liberty to book ahead of the 2021 pilgrimage. The Executive Secretary of the board, Alhaji Muhammad Abba, made this known while […]

The Chinwe Bode-Akinwande (CBA) Foundation, a non-governmental organization in Lagos, on Friday, donated chairs and industrial standing fans to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Lagos State.

Prof. Akin Abayomi, Lagos State Commissioner for Health, says seven private laboratories have been included to enhance COVID-19 sample testing in the state. Abayomi made the disclosure on Friday in Lagos, while giving an update of the state’s COVID-19 situation. He said that the private laboratories were selected through a rigorous accreditation process. The commissioner […]

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwart and Anambra 2021 gubernatorial hopeful, Hon. Amb Vincent Ike Oligbo has congratulated Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State for winning the governorship PDP primary held on June 25, 2020.

The Nigerian Navy and Nigerian Police Force ate collaborating to beef up security for the safety of lives and property in the country. The Police Public Relations Officer Zone 2 Command, Onikan, DSP Hawa Idris-Adamu, made this known in a statement on Friday in Lagos. Idris-Adamu said that the newly appointed Flag Officer Commanding (FOC) […]

Justin Bieber has filed a $20 million defamation lawsuit against two women who accused him of sexual misconduct. The Canadian pop star filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday after saying on Twitter earlier this week that a claim that he sexually assaulted a woman in 2014 was “factually impossible.” The woman, […]

When news of Dr Akinwumi Adesina’s probe as president of African Development Bank (AfDB) hit the media, I became worried, not only as a Nigerian, but as one of the admirers of the trailblazing technocrat. Adesina has distinguished himself in his chosen career as one of the great sterling reformists Nigeria has gifted to Africa and the world. 

Award-winning Russian film and theatre director, Kirill Serebrennikov, was given a suspended three-year jail sentence on Friday after being convicted of embezzlement, a much more lenient punishment than his supporters had feared. Many in the liberal cultural establishment saw the case as a bid to silence someone whose work mocked the role of the church […]

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) says it has arrested a 25-year-old tricycle rider for allegedly attempting to defile a 15-year-old girl at Brigate area, Nasarawa Local Government Area, Kano State. NSCDC Commandant in Kano State, Mr. Abu Abdu, disclosed this to newsmen while parading the suspect on Friday in Kano. According to […]

By Luminous Jannamike – Abuja Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, on Friday commiserated with the family of the immediate past Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi who died of Coronavirus complications in Lagos on Thursday. The apex Christian body, in a statement by its National President, Dr. Samson Ayokunle, which was issued on his […]