archiveAugust 2020

Bayern Munich head coach Hansi Flick says he trusts their high line defence and will resist making changes in order to contain fleet-footed Paris Saint Germain forwards Neymar and Kylian Mbappe in Sunday’s Champions League final. “In our games over the last 10 months, we’ve always tried to impose our...

Bishop Godfrey Onah of the Nsukka Catholic Diocese has blamed Christians in the National Assembly (NASS), for the passage of the 2020 Companies and Allied Matters Bill (CAMA), signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. Onah said in a remark during the Sunday Mass that if Christians in NASS had...

Mountain of Fire and Miracle (MFM) Ministries has lost £150,000 to theft said to have been carried out by one of its pastors. Its General Overseer, Pastor Daniel Olukoya, on Saturday, admitted that the money is missing and revealed that his former employee, who is a pastor, stole the church’s...

  A total turnover of 950.414 million shares worth N10.123 billion in 16,647 deals were traded last week by investors on the floor of the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE) in contrast to a total of 1.327 billion shares valued at N13.934 billion that exchanged hands the previous week in 19,392...

The Presidential Panel probing Mr. Ibrahim Magu, suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack him. The panel headed by the retired President of the Appeal Court, Justice Ayo Salami, in its interim report also recommended that Magu should be...

The police have rearrested Sunday Shodipe, a suspected serial killer linked to several ritual-related murders in the Akinyele area of Ibadan, Oyo State. Shodipe earlier escaped from police custody, throwing the entire city and indeed country into panic. Details on the arrest are yet to emerge, however, spokesperson for the...

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 340 new cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the country. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Friday, adding that four deaths were also recorded. The health agency said that with this new figure, Nigeria now has...

Modern technology and international cooperation could limit the coronavirus pandemic to less than two years, World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday. “Hoping we can have additional tools like a vaccine, I think we can finish it in a shorter time than the 1918 flu,” he...

A march with thousands planned for Saturday to commemorate the victims of a racially motivated attack earlier this year in the German city of Hanau has been called off due to fears about the coronavirus, but will be replaced by a smaller event. “As soon the number of infections has...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Oyo State has arrested eight suspected kidnappers terrorising the people of Ado Awaye, Araromi, Okaka, Ilero and Otu in Itesiwsju Local Government Areas of the state. This was disclosed in a statement by the corps’ Public Relations Officer, Oluwole Olusegun, and...