…Says no ransom was paid to the kidnappers Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State on Friday said that security forces have rescued 103 kidnapped victims. Masari made this known while addressing some of the rescued victims at the Government House, Katsina. “This is in continuation of the exercise that started with the recovery of the 344 […]

Gail Halvorsen, the U.S. pilot who was known and loved by German children in the late 1940s as the Candy Bomber, has mostly recovered from the coronavirus, his daughter said. Halvorsen, who lives in the western state of Utah and turned 100 years old earlier this year, has a cough but is otherwise doing “very […]

The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador Mary Beth Leonard, has condemned the storming of the US Capitol by pro-Trump protesters who were of the notion that the presidential election was rigged. The development at the US Capitol drew wide criticism from different regions across the world, especially strong critics of the nation’s democratic system. […]

The efficacy of the Pfizer Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine (official name BNT162b2) might sustain against the newly-detected mutant strains from the United Kingdom (UK) and South Africa, a group of U.S. scientists said in a research paper.The paper was published on the BioRxiv website for biology research on Thursday. The research was conducted by scientists from […]

The National Universities Commission, NUC, has given Nigerian universities the go-ahead to re-open for academic activities on January  18, 2021. This comes a few weeks after the commission ordered all tertiary institutions to remain shut indefinitely, in response to the second wave of COVID-19. The commission said universities should adhere strictly to safety measures put […]

China has sealed off two cities south of Beijing, cutting transport links and banning millions of residents from leaving, as authorities move to stem the country’s largest Covid-19 outbreak in six months. The pandemic has so far broadly been brought to heel by Chinese authorities since its emergence in Wuhan in late 2019, with small […]

Ijaw Youths from the nine states of the Niger Delta region have described as deceitful and diversionary the comments attributed to the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, over the possible constitution of a substantive board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in April 2021 after the forensic audit of the commission. […]

U.S. State Secretary Mike Pompeo and Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin have discussed invoking the 25th Amendment of the U.S. constitution to impeach outgoing President Donald Trump, CNBC reported, citing sources. On Thursday, U.S House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for Trump’s removal from the office by invoking the 25th Amendment for inciting […]

  By Adesina Wahab Following the death of two former professors who worked in the university that was linked to the COVID-19 disease, the authorities of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, have shut up down the staff club in its main campus in Akoka, Lagos. The directive to shut down the club was given by […]

Ijeoma Isimokwenye is a survivor of Endometriosis, a disorder in which tissue that normally lines the uterus grows outside the uterus. In this interview, she recounts her ordeal with the killer health condition. Why did you have to consult 40 different doctors when you travelled to the United States? I had to, because my body […]