archiveJuly 2019

…Atiku, PDP seek to play video during Showunmi’s testimony as 40th petitioners’ witness The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal will later today (Monday) rule on the objection by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), President Muhammad Buhari, and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the request by the Peoples Democratic Party...

    An Ilorin-based psychologist, Mrs Sherifat Adeyi, has urged parents to give their children sex education early enough in view of the increasing rate of rape cases. Adeyi told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)  on Monday in Ilorin that it was high time parents  deploy the PANTS rule...

Zambian President Edgar Lungu has sacked Finance Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe, his office said in a statement on Monday. Bwalya Ng’andu, central bank deputy governor, will take over as finance minister, the statement stated. However, the statement did not give any reasons why she was sacked. The Zambian leader, however, thanked...

The Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures inflation, declined to 11.22 per cent year-on-year in June compared to 11.40 per cent in May, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Food inflation also reduced to 13.56 per cent in June compared to 13.79 per cent in the preceding month....

Dear President and General Buhari, I am constrained to write to you this open letter. I decided to make it an open letter because the issue is very weighty and must be greatly worrisome to all concerned Nigerians and that means all right-thinking Nigerians and those resident in Nigeria. Since...

To keep serving and retired officers of the Nigerian Army, Navy, Air force, Police Force and nine other military and paramilitary establishments out of financial trouble, Sterling Bank hosted a financial and retirement planning seminar at the National Defense College in Abuja on Wednesday, 10th July 2019. The well-attended seminar...

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Sunday lamented the growing challenges posed to the security of Nigerians by herdsmen, saying President Muhammadu Buhari’s failure to find a solution to them, has eroded all the achievements of his administration. Soyinka added that the carelessness and negligence of the Buhari’s administration to...

  Riyad Mahrez rifled in a stoppage-time free-kick to earn Algeria a dramatic 2-1 victory over three-time champions Nigeria on Sunday and set up a rematch with Senegal in the Africa Cup of Nations final. Algeria led through a first-half own goal by William Troost-Ekong before Nigeria equalised with an...

Novak Djokovic again proved the toughest of nuts for Roger Federer to crack to claim his fifth Wimbledon title on Sunday. It was the first All England Club final match to be decided by a tiebreaker. The Serbian repelled everything the Federer could throw at him in am epic final...

  A tax expert, Mr Kenneth Chukwu said that Nigeria could generate more revenue through taxation of Investors rather than granting tax concessions to encourage them to stay in the country. Chukwu said this on Sunday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigera (NAN) in Abuja. He said...