archiveAugust 18, 2020

Nigerian music star, Wizkid, has ‘smiled’ his way into the ears of Barack Obama, making the former U.S. president’s 2020 summer playlist. Wizkid, whose real name is Ayodeji Balogun, is at No. 15 with his new single “Smile”, featuring American Grammy winner, H.E.R. Obama shared the selection with his followers...

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) spread in Asia-Pacific region is being spread by young people between ages 20 and 40 who are unaware they are infected because they have no or mild symptoms, WHO warned on Tuesday. Takeshi Kasai, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) regional director based in Manila, said because many...

Former President, Nigerian Union of Journalists(NUJ), Chief George Izobo, has commiserated with the family of late Malam Wada Maida, ex-Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Izobo, who also retired from NAN as an Editor, described Maida’s death as shocking, in a telephone conversation with a NAN Correspondent...

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged the hijack of the 774, 000 jobs under the Federal Government’s Special Works Programme (SPW) by godfathers. PDP alleged that political godfathers in the All Progressives Congress, APC-led federal government have taken over the allocation of 774,000 jobs to those associated with political...

Lagos-based lawyer and human rights activist, Inibehe Effiong, has filed a fundamental rights enforcement suit to challenge the imposition of N5 million fine on Nigeria Info 99.3FM Lagos and the threat by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to punish other broadcast stations in the country over alleged hate speech. Joined...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it may respond to some of the issues raised by the Bayelsa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal when it is availed of the full judgment of the case. The INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus Okoye,...

Speaker of the House of Representatives Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila on Monday convened a meeting of some African Speakers of Parliaments where it was agreed that there is an urgent need to push for debt cancellation for the continent from their multilateral and bilateral partners. Gbajabiamila is also pushing to establish...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has warned Nigerians to beware of scammers posing as the centre to defraud them. NCDC said it was not giving money to people neither will it ask for money in exchange for employment. Mrs Elsie Ilori, the Head of Department, Surveillance and Epidemiology...

Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc said it would undertake a bond issuance in the next two months as part of a N70 billion programme to refinance existing debt, a group executive told Reuters on Monday. Anders Kristiansson, group chief finance officer, said the plan was intended at leveraging low market...

The Registrar-General, Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) Garba Abubakar yesterday said the commission’s internally generated revenue (IGR) for 2017, 2018 and 2019 has hit N36billion. In a chat with The Nation in Abuja, he said reports by the some media houses that CAC made N56billion in two years is not true....