Nothing really came to Diego Simeone’s mind after his Atlético Madrid side finally clinched the Spanish league title. So he just started laughing. “My first reaction was to start laughing,” he said. “It came out naturally. I don’t know why, but I laughed, I just laughed.” Atlético had just rallied to defeat Valladolid 2-1 and […]

…buy dollar for 500 naira at parallel market By Lawani Mikairu Domestic airlines have attributed the current astronomical high airfares being charged to different routes to non-availability of foreign exchange needed for operations. This has compelled the airlines to source forex from the open parallel market. According to the airlines, they have been buying dollars […]

  Unknown gunmen Sunday evening attacked B Division of the Nigeria Police Divisional Station and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Akwa, Anambra. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the fully armed attackers came in three Hilux trucks at about 8pm on Sunday, May 23. An eyewitness who almost ran into the […]

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Sunday that hundreds of children and families in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) district of Goma were at risk after the Mount Nyiragongo volcanic eruption. The sky turned red and lava spewed from the volcano on Saturday, causing thousands to flee the city of two million people, […]

The widely acclaimed seminal documentation of what the author, Prof Akinwunmi Ogundiran, tagged a new history of one of the three major tribes in Nigeria- the Yoruba, has been eliciting conversations especially as it relates to the exact origin of the people

By Ben Efe Former Nigeria 400m great Innocent Egbunike and other athletes have been mourning the passing of veteran US-born coach Lee Evans. Evans shocked the world in 1968, when he won the 400m gold at the Olympic Games staged in Mexico. Evans was the the first man to break the 44.00 barrier with a […]

Nigeria’s leading logistics service provider, GIG Logistics (GIGL), is digging deeper into Nigeria’s northern markets in spite of what many business watchers see as an uncertain investment climate. It announced over the weekend, a network expansion to five Northern states in the country. The growth sees the launch of new experience centres in Yola, Zamfara, […]

There’s no doubt that UAE is taking the world by storm in every field. Be it Music, business, politics, entertainment or even social media. We are not only prominently visible on the social media landscape, but are also winning at it! To give you a clearer picture of UAE social media imprints, here is the […]

By Prince Okafor National Chairmanship aspirant, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Saliu Mustapha, have commended the leadership of the party along with stakeholders from the South-West, led by Asiwaju Tinubu, for their resolution on the nation’s polity. The commendation came shortly after the party’s meeting on Sunday in Lagos. The party’s positions was contained […]

By Olayinka Ajayi Ahead of the Local Government Elections, the Amuwo Odofin Arise for Good Governance have urged electorates to do all within their powers to return Engineer Valentine Buraimoh as the local government chairman in the forthcoming Local Government election in Lagos. Speaking, chairman of the group, Fadairo Jamiu commended Dr. Buraimoh’s leadership and […]