archiveJanuary 2020

Olumide Oyedeji, one of Nigeria’s foremost basketball player, says the death of U.S. basketball legend, Kobe Byrant, would be felt by up-and-coming players who looked up to him. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Byrant died in a helicopter crash on Sunday morning in a hillside in Calabasas,...

  The South African Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday appealed to the Federal Government to give necessary support for Operation Amatekun to survive. The party described “Operation Amatekun”, the new security outfit of the South-West Nigeria, “as a great initiative that requires necessary intervention for timely...

  Female faculty members at a flagship university in Egypt will not be able to wear the niqab, or full face veil, ruled the country’s top administrative court as it upheld a ban, state media reported on Monday. The High Administrative Court turned down an appeal by 80 researchers who...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has mobilised and validated 140,848 tomato farmers for the Anchor Borrowers Programme. The CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele disclosed this at the Ground-Breaking ceremony of Tomato Jos at Kangimi community in Kaduna on Monday. Tomato Jos is an American owned company aimed to transform...

  Chief Sola Aboderin, a member of the Ibadan Chamber of Commerce, Mines, Industry and Agriculture (ICCIMA), has lauded the Federal Government’s policy exempting a category of entrepreneurs from paying Companies Income Tax. Aboderin said in Ibadan on Monday that one of the good things the government had done was...

  An FCT High Court on Monday sentenced Maryam Sanda, the woman who  stabbed her husband to death, Bilyaminu, son of a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Haliru Bello, to death by hanging. Delivering judgment, Justice Yusuf Halilu, convicted Sanda based on the `doctrine of last...

  The senatorial candidate for Action Alliance (AA) in the 2019 general election in Imo State, Ndubuisi Emenike, has been shot dead by his security escort, an operative of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). The incident happened accidentally on Sunday at the home of the All Progressives Congress...

  The NBA grappled with the sudden death of league great Kobe Bryant on Sunday, players saying they felt sick to their stomach taking to the court without having ample time to absorb the shocking news. Reports have it that haunting moment of silence preceded the Houston Rockets’ game against...

  Beninese music legend, Angelique Kidjo , on Monday, beats Nigeria's Burna boy to win the best world music album category. Nigerian superstar Afro-fusion artist, Burna Boy, 28, lost in his first attempt to win a Grammy award after being nominated in the best world music album category. This marks...

Statistician General, National Bureau of Statistics, has called on government at all levels to embrace the culture of evidence-based planning for national development. Kale said this at the Annual Mathematics Conference and Exhibition 2020 organised by Mathematics For Life Foundation on Saturday in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...