The shareholders of France’s PSA and US-Italian rival Fiat Chrysler are expected to approve their merger on Monday, creating the world’s fourth-biggest automaker by volume, Stellantis. The outcome of the vote by PSA and Fiat shareholders is seen as a foregone conclusion, coming two weeks after the European Commission gave conditional approval to the mega-merger […]

“Terrorists” killed around 100 people in two villages in western Niger, the latest in a string of civilian massacres that have rocked the jihadist-plagued Tillaberi region, a local mayor said Sunday. The attacks on the villages of Tchoma Bangou and Zaroumadareye occurred Saturday just as first-round presidential results were announced. They were waged by “terrorists […]

There had been mixed reactions from Balogun Market traders, over the shift in the resumption date for business activities after the Dec. 24 closure of the market for the Christmas and New Year holidays. The caretaker management committee inaugurated in December to manage the multi-billion Naira complex had shifted the resumption date from Jan. 4 […]

By Owei Lakemfa IN their beloved city of Oshogbo, Osun State, two indomitable African lions: Hassan Adebayo and Hussein Oyekanmi Sunmonu, are turning 80 this Thursday, January 7, 2021.  Theirs is the story of restless pan African fighters whose stalking like tigers does not potray cowardice. The lives of the Sunmonu twins which began in Ghana, […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria sold N7.77 trillion worth of secondary market (Open Market Operations) treasury bills in 2020, down by 62 percent from N13.92 trillion sold in 2019.

By BENJMAIN NJOKU In a year where there was a slowdown of activities in all the facets of life due to COVID-19, pulling off a film festival that set the sleepy city of Owerri, the capital of Imo State agog for three days was the height of projecting the African film sector to the global […]

By Kelechi Ihunanya Amadi Of all the experiences I had in boarding school, I think the most harrowing was the constipation I had in the second term of my stay there. I was barely 11 and, even with the presence of guardian angels such as Amadi Ijeoma, Juliana Nnokwe, Thelma Mma Ekezie-Mezieobi, Echefu Ihechi Linda […]

DIRECTOR General of Delta State Capital Territory Development Agency, Mrs Joan Mrakpor, has described as false, allegations levelled against her in some quarters that she slapped a 68 years old Grandmother, Mrs Adeaka Odiaka.

By Emem Idio, Yenagoa The President of Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Worldwide, Peter Igbifa, has urged Ijaw youths to be united and have a common goal for the development of the Ijaw nation, as a house that war against itself cannot stand. Igbifa, who stated this in his New Year message to Ijaw youths, said […]

Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Monday he was considering declaring a state of emergency in the greater Tokyo area over a “very severe” third wave of coronavirus infections. Speaking at a regular new year press conference, Suga also said he hoped vaccinations would begin in Japan in late February, adding that he would be […]