Super Eagles on Wednesday beat the Squirrels of Benin Republic 2-1 at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium, Uyo in their first qualifying match for the 2021 African Cup of Nations. Nigeria is in Group L alongside Benin Republic, Lesotho and Sierra … Continue reading Super Eagles beat Squirrels of Benin 2-1
The Senate has reintroduced a bill it abandoned under pressure last year through which it sought to impose the death penalty on “any person found guilty of any form of hate speech that results in the death of another person.” … Continue reading Senate Imposes Death Penalty on Hate Speech Offenders
Nigerian operatives fired live bullets to disperse protesters demanding the release of a journalist turned politician at a sit-in in the capital Abuja on Tuesday. Scores of protesters had gathered at the offices of the Department of State Services, DSS, … Continue reading Gunshots at Protest Demanding Release of Nigeria’s #RevolutionNow Leader
Harsh business environment in Nigeria forced about 322 organised private companies to close shop between 2009 and 2014, a report by the World Bank Enterprise Survey has shown. The report also said out of 5,833 firms sampled in the country … Continue reading 322 Nigerian Firms Shut Down in Five Years – World Bank
A former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the co-founder/ Chief Executive Officer of Twitter, Jack Dorsey have called on Nigerian youths to leverage technology to reduce the level of unemployment in the country. They said that with the … Continue reading Okonjo-Iweala, Twitter CEO, Advocate Use of Technology to Tackle Unemployment
Court of Appeals sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, has faulted the ruling of the Oyo State Governorship Election Tribunal. Justice Yahaya, the lead judge of the four-man panel, on Monday declared that there was a miscarriage of justice by the … Continue reading Appeal Court Faults Seyi Makinde’s Victory at Tribunal
Super Eagles players are expected to arrive in Nigeria on Monday (today) ahead of their 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match against Benin Republic in Uyo. Samuel Kalu and Kenneth Omerou arrived on Sunday. Nigeria open their campaign for … Continue reading AFCON Qualifiers: Eagles to Arrive in Nigeria Today
THE Department of State Security (DSS) on Saturday shunned lawyers, associates and friends of the detained activist, Omoyele Sowore, who had gathered at the agency’s national headquarters in Abuja, to fetch him home. The DSS had said, late on Friday, … Continue reading DSS Stops Sowore’s Lawyers, Friends From Taking Him Home
THE United Nations Children’s Fund has said Nigeria has the second-largest number of child brides in the world, with 23 million girls and women married out as children in the country, thereby ending their educational strive. Mr Bhanu Pathak, Chief … Continue reading Nigeria has Second-Largest Number of Child Brides, Says UNICEF
Ayomide, the orange seller who got his breakthrough while singing Evang. Tope Alabi’s song “You are worthy” has been enrolled in a private school and will enjoy scholarship up till university level courtesy Esther Ajayi Foundation founded by the globally … Continue reading Rev. Mother Esther Ajayi Visits Ayomide at His New School, Sponsors Two Other Students
