By Bose Adelaja Lagos State Emergency Management Agency LASEMA, Friday, raised the alarm, over a distressed building in the state. LASEMA Director-General Oluwafemi Oke-Osanyintolu said the building situated at No 7, Sule Close, Apapa/ Iganmu Local Council Development Area of the state, was physically unfit when the attention of the agency was drawn to it. […]

A coalition of 14 Civil Society Organisations (CSO), yesterday, enjoined the Federal Government to urgently privatise the country’s four refineries and salvage the country from further loss of revenue, especially with the looming global economic downturn and the low crude oil price brought about by the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The Bundesliga season will restart on May 16 after a suspension of more than two months, the German Football League (DFL) said yesterday, becoming the first European league to resume amid the coronavirus epidemic. The DFL said the season would restart under the terms of a strict health protocol that bans fans from the stadium, […]

By Rasheed Sobowale To deal with the challenges presented by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), the National Judicial Council (NJC) on Thursday issued new guidelines all Nigerian courts are expected to operate with. In a press statement signed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Hon. Dr. Justice I. T. Muhammad, CFR, the Council encouraged the […]

Tottenham Hotspur striker Son Heung-min was named one of the top five recruits in his unit as he finished three weeks of compulsory military training in South Korea on Friday. South Korea’s marine corps posted pictures of Son wielding an M-16 assault rifle and saluting on their Facebook page as he completed his stint at […]

Gary Neville believes the Premier League is trying to blackmail clubs into playing again – by threatening them with relegation if they refuse. Top-flight chiefs will meet on Monday to discuss how best to implement Project Restart and complete the season, currently suspended due to the coronavirus crisis. Neville refused to back suggestions that relegation […]

Fourteen migrant labourers walking back to their villages after being left destitute by India’s strict coronavirus lockdown were killed Friday after being hit by a train, officials said. The men were returning home when they were hit by the goods train in the western state of Maharashtra, police official S.S. Sutale told AFP. They were […]

Maryam Ali Adamu, Chief Executive Officer of Aljism Skincare Products and wife of Yusuf Gidado Idris, son of former Secretary to Government of the Federation during the General Sani Abacha regime has revealed why she went into skincare business, stating that she did so to address skin problems she had herself.

  By Abdulmumin Murtala – Kano The Kano State Commissioner for Health, Dr Aminu Tsanyawa, who earlier contracted COVID-19 and 15 others have been discharged from isolation after testing negative for Coronavirus. Also, Prof Abdurrazak Habeeb of the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital who earlier contracted the virus has now tested negative. A statement signed by […]

Oil prices rose in Asian trade Friday and were set to end the week with strong gains on signs demand is returning as some governments ease tough coronavirus lockdowns. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate gained 4.5 percent to change hands at $24.62 per barrel, and has risen around 25 percent this week. International benchmark Brent […]

•COVID-19 economic impact would have been less in a restructured Nigeria •We must enter post-COVID era without debts • Nigeria needs debt relief now not fresh loans By Chioma Onuegbu Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga, former military administrator of Akwa Ibom State, chairman of Ibom Airline, and national chairman, Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, in this […]

First, there was the battle of Babyface versus Teddy Riley last month. But now R&B fans will get to see two queens get in the ring, when Erykah Badu belts it out against Jill Scott in Swizz Beatz and Timbaland’s “Verzuz” battle series on Instagram Live on Saturday. Yes, the mother of all neo-soul showdowns […]

THE Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has said it was going to enforce the social distancing measure of the federal and state governments in all passenger vehicles on Nigerian roads.

Manchester United want to extend Odion Ighalo’s loan deal, with the Premier League side currently set to lose the striker before the season resumes. Ighalo’s loan stay at Old Trafford expires at the end of May, when he is scheduled to return to Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shenhua. The top-flight will not have returned […]

China’s new prototype spacecraft “successfully landed” on Friday, marking an important step in its ambitions to run a permanent space station and send astronauts to the moon. The spacecraft — which was launched Tuesday — arrived safely at a predetermined site, the China Manned Space Agency said, after a hitch in an earlier part of the […]