At least 11 people have been killed in the latest fighting between farmers and nomadic herders in the southeast of Chad, the local governor told AFP Sunday. The fighting took place on Friday and Saturday in Salamat province, after cattle belonging to one herder ruined a field. The herders attacked as the farmers were taking […]

South Africa, which has been hard hit by a second wave of coronavirus cases, hopes to obtain its first vaccine doses next month, the health minister announced Sunday. In recent weeks the South African government has come in for criticism, particularly from health experts, over the delay in starting a programme of inoculation against Covid-19. […]

Maggy Soas was born on June 16th 1989 in Lubbock, TX and was raised in Hobbs, New Mexico. She is the founder, designer and creative director for spiritandsoul. spiritandsoul is a contemporary women’s fashion brand based in Los Angeles, California. Maggy graduated from Hobbs High school in 2007, and attended University of Redlands in Redlands, […]

Clad soberly in a chequered knee-length dress, Tobore Ovuorie hardly seems as if she once walked the streets of Lagos in a revealing outfit and high heels. A freelance reporter with a burning desire to uncover the truth about a sordid backstreet trade, Ovuorie dressed as streetwalker to infiltrate a prostitution ring. She took on […]

US officials on Sunday rejected Donald Trump’s claim that the national Covid-19 death toll of more than 350,000 has been exaggerated, but defended the stumbling campaign to vaccinate millions of Americans. Some 4.2 million people in the US have received initial doses of the two-dose vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna — far below official predictions […]

By Victoria Ojeme The Chinese State Councillor and Minister of Foreign Affairs will be on a two-day working visit to Nigeria between Monday 4th to Tuesday 5th January 2021. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, spokesman, Ferdinand Nwonye said said “Mr. Wang Yi, State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Peoples’ Republic of China, together […]

*Promises massive infrastructure renewal in 2021 transformations By Olasunkanmi Akoni Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said that despite COVID-19, EndSARS, amid economic challenges, the as an epi-centre has emerged out of the year 2020, stronger and more confident. Sanwo-Olu, however, promised residents a better the year 2021 as they will witness the delivery […]

The Lagos State Government on Sunday says 377 projects will be inaugurated across the state in the next few months. Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu made this known during the Year 2021 Hybrid Edition of the Lagos State Annual Thanksgiving Service, held at Lagos House Ground, Ikeja. Sanwo-Olu said that all the projects were initiated to positively […]

“…CBN must not give money to import food. Already about seven states are producing all the rice we need.” – President Buhari, December 2020 By Dele Sobowale God knows I want Buhari to remain President until 2023 because, unsettling as that might be for some people, it is the best of all options before us. […]

By Perez Brisibe In the wake of the recent cult-related killings particularly during the yuletide season in Sapele, the outgoing Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr Hafiz Inuwa has ordered the transfer of all Police Inspectors from the Sapele Police division. Also affected by the transfer are all Police sergeants and rank and file in […]

THE call by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, for the decentralisation of our correctional administration is a very welcome idea. It is long overdue in view of our overstuffed prisons populated mainly by those awaiting trial. Malami, at the recent National Summit on Correctional Centres Reform in Nigeria in Abuja said […]

After closing the year 2020 on a very high note, investment experts have said that the bulls dominance in the stock market would be sustained in the first quarter of the year (2021) following positioning by investors ahead of the release of 2020 full year financial statements.

Following the allegations by Monday who raised alarm over the illegal invasion and forceful occupation of landed property in Ikeja area of Lagos by land grabbers, allegedly working with officials of Lagos State Government, Engr Abiodun Ariori, has debunked the news.

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 […]