Olalekan Adeeko, a teacher at Baptist Boys’ High School, Ogun has won the African Union Continental Teacher Prize 2020 for his work and dedication to the teaching profession. He is the first Nigerian to win the prestigious award at the virtual event held in Addis Ababa on the 21st of December, 2020. For the 2020 […]

Dr. Aderonke ‘Dairo, a seasoned health professional and advocate, Psychologist, and social justice crusader has declared her intention to enter the political fray by running for Oyo State House of Assembly seat at the forthcoming polls making her the first female to take such bold steps. The UK-based health practitioner and the founder of Aderonke […]

•His bond with Osun people •Clears air on relationship with Oyetola By Shina Abubakar Oranmiyan is a Yoruba legend, who unarguably served in three different Yoruba kingdoms, and was famous for standing on the side of the people who etched his name on the sand of time. Little wonder that the immediate past Governor of […]

Botswana and Namibia called on their citizens to remain calm and patient after fatal shootings in November of three Namibian nationals and one Zambian national by the Botswana Defence Force. In the statement by the two heads of state, the two sides underscored the deepening bilateral relations and conveyed their commitment to resolving the matter […]

The Plateau Government has directed tertiary institutions to resume on Jan. 18, as against the Jan. 4 date earlier announced. Mr Kakmena Audu, the Plateau Commissioner for Higher Education gave the directive in a statement on Thursday in Jos. He said the decision to shift the resumption date was in line with the directive of […]

The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 1,016 new infections of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Wednesday. The country has so far tested 938,602 persons since the first confirmed case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic was announced in Feb. 27. The agency said […]

China has approved for conditional use its first coronavirus vaccine, developed by state-owned pharmaceutical company Sinopharm. The approval, announced by the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council, has come a day after Sinopharm said its vaccine was found to be 79.3-per-cent effective in preliminary data from the final round of testing. READ […]

Real estate entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist and the Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer of Prince Luxury Group Omoha Nduka John, famously and fondly called Prince Omoha has proven to be the worthy son to his father and a caring sibling to his brother as he celebrates the duo with car gifts, both Sports Utility Van […]

News Analysis by Emmanuella Anokam of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) President Muhammadu Buhari on Dec. 16 ordered the immediate reopening of four critical land borders which have been shut since Aug. 20, 2019. The land borders approved for immediate re-opening were Seme in the Southwest, Ilela in the Northwest, Maigatari in the North-West […]

The Kwara Civil Service Commission has promoted more than 1,600 civil servants who passed the 2019 promotion examination and oral interview. Commission Chair Habeebat Yusuf stated this on Wednesday in Ilorin in a statement. The statement said that the promoted officers were from different ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) and were from Grade Level 07 […]

The world readied to usher in the New Year Thursday, with pandemic controls muting celebrations for billions of people eager to bid virus-ridden 2020 farewell. After a grinding year that has seen at least 1.7 million people die from Covid-19, fresh waves of infection have sparked renewed lockdowns and forced would-be revellers to extend their […]

In Nigeria and across the world, there are several publicists and PR professionals you may know or have read about, but in this article, we would be spotlighting an outstanding, excellent, renowned and prolific image maker, in the Person of Mr. Alex Nwankwo, the MD/CEO of Amity Global Network; one of the fast-growing and leading […]

The year 2020, no doubt, will remain peculiar in the annals of the Nigerian capital market, and indeed all sectors of the economy, both locally and globally. The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) bore its fangs across the world in 2020, so much that the World Health Organisation declared it a pandemic in March. It forced […]

Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, has expressed shock over the decision of the kwara State government to disengage 2,414 teachers employed by the immediate past administration. In a statement yesterday by its chairman, Issa Ore, the union said that the decision to sack that large number of workers was too harsh on the affected people, their […]

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, yesterday, says no date has been fixed for the commencement of sales of the application documents for its 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with NAN in Lagos. Benjamin, who was speaking against the backdrop […]