United States President, Donald Trump wished North Korea’s Kim Jong Un a happy birthday, Seoul said Friday — with nuclear talks deadlocked and six years after former Chicago Bulls star Dennis Rodman serenaded Pyongyang’s leader. North Korea has never officially confirmed Kim’s age or date of birth, but Rodman’s breathy Marilyn Monroe-style performance of “Happy […]

United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday she intends to transmit articles of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate next week, moving to end a taut standoff with Republicans over terms of the president’s trial. The top Democrat’s announcement virtually assures that a historic trial of Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction […]

Kano State Government has approved N79 million as a contribution to the implementation of the 2019 Health Work Plan. The state Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, disclosed this on Saturday when he briefed journalists on the outcome of the State Executive Council meeting. He said: “The programme, which is a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday Libyan peace talks would be held in Berlin, as Turkey and Russia appealed to Libya’s warring factions to enter a ceasefire. During a joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Merkel said: “We hope that the joint efforts by Russia and Turkey will lead to […]

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday said the country’s debt-laden power utility Eskom would not be privatised and pledged to restore it to full capacity. Rolling blackouts were implemented several times last year to prevent the grid collapsing and resumed last weekend despite a government promise not to ration power during the first two […]

A Lesotho court has issued an arrest warrant for the prime minister’s wife after she failed to turn up for questioning over the 2017 murder of his previous wife, police said Saturday. The announcement came just days after senior officials in the ruling party called for Prime Minister Thomas Thabane to resign, accusing him of […]

Access Bank Plc has vehemently denied reports that its group managing director, Mr. Herbert Wigwe has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegations of fraud.

Niger State Governor, Abubakar Bello, on Saturday warned that punitive measures would be meted out to teachers who engage in truancy. Bello, who gave the warning when he declared open the 2017/2018 (UBEC/NSUBEB ) training for 8,893 teachers in Minna, stressed that truancy would no longer be tolerated among teachers in the state. The governor, […]

Boko Haram jihadists on Saturday killed at least four villagers and kidnapped four women in western Chad, the local governor and a security official said. The attack occurred near Lake Chad, a vast area bordering Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon, where small islands and swamps serve as hideouts for Islamist militants to carry out raids on […]

No fewer than 100 unrepentant bandits were killed by the Army joint forces of Operation Hadarin Daji in Zamfara and parts of Katsina State between December 2019 and January 2020, the Acting Force Information Officer, Captain Ayobami Oni-Orisan, has said. Oni-Orisan made the disclosure in a statement made available to journalists in Gusau on Saturday. […]

The Governor of Niger State, Abubakar Sani Bello has expressed concern over the last recruitment conducted in the state in 2019. He said it was disheartening and unfortunate that some of the candidates who paraded teaching certificates had nothing to offer. Bello promised to institutionalise regular training in teaching profession in the state, stressing that […]

A move to compel a young man to take up a traditional title of his family has taken a different dimension as the heir apparent has disappeared into thin air in order to escape the responsibility.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa on Saturday commended the Court of Appeal for dismissing the pre-election suit filed against the state Governor-elect, David Lyon, by a former Minister of State for Agriculture, Heineken Lokpobiri. The court dismissed the suit, saying it was filed out of time at the lower court. The Federal High […]

Many politicians and analysts may have been shocked over last week’s comment by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Lagos State governor, that it was premature to be talking about 2023 at this point of Nigeria’s political development.

By Demola Akinyemi – Ilorin At least 179 law students and new lawyers of Kwara State origin have each been paid N100,000 scholarship after online application processes and verification that lasted weeks, a government statement said on Saturday. The payment, made straight to beneficiaries’ accounts, was done in two batches after thorough screenings of the […]