Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday backed moves by the OECD group of free-market economies to reform the way online giants are taxed worldwide, even if that means companies like his own paying more to national governments. “We also want tax reform and I’m glad the OECD is looking at this,” Zuckerberg says […]

By Onozure Dania – Lagos A Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, has sentenced a 47-year-old commercial driver Akeem Raimi, popularly known as an old soldier, to death by hanging, for killing a carpenter over refusal to refund N3000. Justice Modupe Nicole-clay handed down the verdict, after finding him guilty of the offence of murder. […]

The lawmaker representing Omuma Constituency  in Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon. Kelechi Nwogu has constructed a 5000 capacity mini stadium in Eberi, the headquarters of Omuma Local Government Area. It is one of his constituency projects.

China’s coronavirus outbreak showed no sign of peaking with health authorities on Friday reporting more than 5,000 new cases, while passengers on a cruise ship blocked from five countries due to virus fears finally disembarked in Cambodia. Policymakers pledged to do more to stimulate Asian economies hit hard by the virus, helping Asia stock markets […]

Students and members of faculty of the University of Pennsylvania have expressed excitement and praised the selection of renowned writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as the Commencement Speaker for the graduation ceremony for the 264th Penn graduating class scheduled to hold on May 18th 2020.

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday accused Huawei of stealing trade secrets and helping Iran track protesters in its latest indictment against the Chinese company, escalating the U.S. battle with the world’s largest telecommunications equipment maker. In the indictment, which supersedes one unsealed last year in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, Huawei Technologies Co was charged […]

By Ozioruva Aliu – Benin City There is anxiety in the palace of Onojie of Ewatto in Esan South East local government area on Edo state, HRH Ikhumen II, as the traditional ruler’s wife, Queen Florence Ikhumen, is spending more nights in the den of her kidnappers. She was reportedly kidnapped on Sunday around Jemila […]

By Ayo Ademokoya The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Mr Femi Adesina has once again reiterated his support for the foremost and oldest football club in South-West Nigeria, the Oluyole Warriors, also known as Shooting Stars. The diehard Shooting Stars supporter said this during a courtesy visit by Mr Ayo Ademokoya, […]

A 50-year-old man in India who mistakenly thought he had contracted the coronavirus hung himself to protect his family, a news report said. K. Bala Krishna was treated by doctors in Tirupati for a viral fever but was assured he did not have the deadly disease that has killed more than 1,350 worldwide, according to […]

The coronavirus-hit Chinese economy will grow at its slowest rate since the financial crisis in the current quarter, according to a Reuters poll of economists who said the downturn will be short-lived if the outbreak is contained. A Feb. 7-13 Reuters poll of 40 economists based in mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, as well as […]

ON a hot, dusty harmattan day last week, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, loaded its gun and pulled the trigger, terminating 74 political parties. The grieving remnants were left to bury their dead in what seemed a most unkind Valentine gift. A number of the leaders of the affected parties have refused to be […]

Afrobeat musician and record label boss, Don Coleone, has weighed in on the recent controversy caused by Burna Boy on social media about his status in the Nigerian Music Industry.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) receives the judgment of the Supreme Court restoring its mandate in the Bayelsa state governorship election but insists that the apex Court must right the wrongs in the Imo state governorship election judgment.

THE crisis in Edo State All Progressives Congress, APC, ahead of this year’s governorship election escalated yesterday, with Governor Godwin Obaseki, calling on all relevant security agencies to place Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and other members of Edo Peoples Movement, EPM, under close surveillance in order to put an end to the rise in the use of explosives to create a sense of insecurity in the state.

By Chioma Obinna  & Elizabeth Uwandu I wish I could take my life or kill my mother for making me go under the knife. Doctor, is there anything I can do to correct my genital?”, Sade Oriola, a victim of genital mutilation, said. Sade’s sad situation aptly describes what many women circumcised under the age-long […]