By Nwafor Sunday Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has received Pfizer Covid-19 in jab vaccine on Thursday. Confirming the news, Ovation magazine Publisher, Chief Dele Momodu, displayed Atiku’s picture when the vaccine was administered to him by a medical practitioner. Though Dele did not mention the place Atiku took the vaccine but information reaching […]

A 35-year-old man, Femi Adesaji, on Thursday appeared in a Magistrates’ Court in Ota, Ogun, for allegedly tampering with a prepaid meter belonging to Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC). The police charged Adesaji, who lives in Ota with three counts of criminal damage, conspiracy and breach of peace. The Prosecution Counsel, Insp. Cynthia Okezie, told […]

One power we gain on our journey to growth is the ability to redefine what we believe. We learn to see things in a new way. This, Charles N Lambert, leader of Africa’s first Economic War and philosopher behind “Compassionate Capitalism” in Africa has vowed to fulfil by changing powers and the dominant economic believes […]

By Nwafor Sunday Barely one hour the congress certified Joe Biden’s electoral victory, former vice president Atiku Abubakar, has joined a former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, in asking Nigerians to emulate United State democratic principles, noting that ‘strong institutions and not strong personalities are the bulwark of a rich democratic culture’. Recall that Biden […]

The United States joint congress has officially declared Joe Biden as President of the United States of America. This brings to a close a long, troubled and, at times violent road from the Tuesday, November 3, 2020 presidential election to the January 20, 2021 swearing-in date of Donald Trump’s successor.

  By Bose Adelaja A fuel-laden tanker is currently on fire at Toyota Bus-stop, Lagos. Although Information was scanty at press time but eye witnesses’ account said the 44,000 litre-tanker was on motion when it fell sideways thereby discharging its content. Eye witnesses’ account also revealed that law enforcement agents are yet to arrive the […]

World leaders condemn ‘assault on democracy’ at US Capitol World leaders and governments on Wednesday expressed shock and outrage at the storming of the US Capitol in Washington by supporters of President Donald Trump. – Britain – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Twitter condemned the “disgraceful scenes in U.S. Congress. The United States stands […]

Nigeria’s leading domestic airline, Aero Contractors has named Captain Abdullahi Zubair Mahmood as its new Chief Executive Officer. Captain Mahmood, who was formerly Chief Pilot, Arik Air Limited, takes over from Captain Ado Sanusi who would later head a new airline, NG Eagle, which is in the process to secure its Air Operating Certificate (AOC) […]

Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Nigerian minister of culture and tourism and a frontline supporter of outgoing United States president, Donald Trump, has condemned in strong terms the invasion of the United States Capitol Hill where electors were gathered to confirm the electoral victory of President-elect Joe Biden.

Transport services were cut off to a city of 11 million people near Beijing on Thursday as local officials were reprimanded for a Covid-19 outbreak that pushed China’s new infections to the highest single-day tally since July. The virus first emerged in central China in late 2019, but since then authorities have largely brought the […]

Friends, family, and well-wishers of Hon. Rex Ogboru, a former aspirant for the Delta State House of Assembly seat, Ethiope East constituency, on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Tuesday thronged the newly built Esther’s Plaza to witness the dedication of the edifice. The building, seated in the heart of Abraka, precisely […]

Saudi Arabia is accelerating trials of so-called dissidents, including a high-profile Saudi-American doctor, those it fears could become bargaining tools in a potential early showdown with Joe Biden’s incoming administration. The US president-elect has pledged to make the kingdom a “pariah” over its human rights failings after it largely got a free pass under President […]

Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani, said Thursday that the chaos unleashed on the US Capitol by US counterpart Donald Trump’s supporters exposed the fragility of Western democracy. “What we saw in the United States yesterday (Wednesday) evening and today shows above all how fragile and vulnerable Western democracy is,” Rouhani said in a speech broadcast by […]

By Nwafor Sunday Former Aviation Minister Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has finally accepted that Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump, in the November 3 Presidential election. Fani-Kayode had insisted that Trump won the election. He has been an ardent supporter of Trump in Nigeria. He has prayed and believed that the election would favor Trump, not […]

American democracy is “limping on both feet” after the storming of the US Capitol by Donald Trump supporters, a senior Russian lawmaker said Thursday. Konstantin Kosachyov, the chair of the Russian upper house’s foreign affairs committee, said the stunning events in the US capital showed that Washington had no right to lecture other countries on […]