archiveJuly 2019

    Defending champions Cameroun’s 0-0 draw with the Squirrels of Benin Republic coupled with Ghana’s Black Star’s 2-0 win over Guinea Bissau Tuesday, means the Indomitable Lions of Cameroun will play Nigeria’s Super Eagles in the second round of the 2019 Africa Nations Cup in Egypt. The clash which...

  Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has promised to unveil the truth about the rape scandal involving the Founder and Senior Pastor of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), Biodun Fatoyinbo, and Busola, wife of popular soul musician, Timi Dakolo. The body in a statement on Tuesday signed by the PFN...

      The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) said that it has suspended trading in the shares of 11 companies. According to a statement on Tuesday by the NSE Head of Listings Regulation Department, Mr Godstime Iwenekhai, the affected companies were penalized over delayed filing of accounts. He listed the...

  Young Nigerians should rise above divisive ethnic and religious narratives about the country, and actively advocate for causes and issues that would deepen national unity, progress and development, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Prof. Osinbajo stated this on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, when he received...

  The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, has announced the principal officers for the ninth Senate. The announcement was made as he read out separate letters from the All Progressive Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at plenary on Tuesday. The letters from the chairmen of both parties stated that...

  Zambia and Zimbabwe will start building the 2,400 MW Batoka Gorge hydro power plant next year, a company jointly owned by the two governments said on Tuesday. A statement by the two governments in Lusaka said that feasibility studies were almost complete and a developer for the project was...

John Cardinal Onaiyekan has called on the Federal Government to defuse the tension that had arisen in the country in recent times, restore peace and security. Onaiyekan made this call during the Opening/Welcome Dinner of the Second Edition of the Cardinal Onaiyekan Foundation for Peace (COFP) 2019/2020 Fellowship Programme on...

  Former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that ‘God is a Nigerian if not, the country would have ceased to exist’. Obasanjo who  made this known at the Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, also said that Nigeria is losing its identity due to ‘poor management of the nation’s diversity.’...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday re-arraigned former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, before a Federal High Court in Lagos over N6.9 billion money laundering and fraud charges. The EFCC last Friday told the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos State that it was...

  Exactly two months after his abduction by armed kidnappers, an in-law of President Muhammadu Buhari and a traditional ruler in Daura, Musa Umar, has regained freedom. He was kidnapped on May 2, 2019, at his home in Daura, Katsina State. The hometown of President Mohammadu Buhari. After weeks of...