archiveSeptember 14, 2020

Outgoing President of the UN General Assembly (PGA), Amb. Tijani Muhammad-Bande, has highlighted some critical lessons from COVID-19. He told the News Agency of Nigeria in New York that the pandemic had further underscored the need for concerted efforts to bridge the global technological gap. Muhammad-Bande referenced a UN report...

  Says Buhari couldn’t have been president without Obasanjo   A chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) Mr. Olusegun Bamgbose has rebuked the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, over the attack on former President, Olusegun Obasanjo. In a statement on...

Olympique Marseille earned a smash-and-grab 1-0 win at Ligue 1 champions Paris St-Germain (PSG) on Sunday in a match which saw five players sent off and two goals disallowed. Forward Florian Thauvin struck in the 31st minute of a pulsating though ill-tempered match at the Parc des Princes for Marseille’s first...

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has said that the results of the just concluded West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) will be released within 45 days after conclusion of the examination. The examination ended on Saturday, 11th September, 2020 nationwide and in other four West African member...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the House of Representatives on Sunday said the recent increase in the pump price of petrol as well as the electricity tariff has shown that President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is highly irresponsive to the suffering of the Nigerian masses. The caucus leader, Hon....

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, has commended former President, Olusegun Obasanjo and other government critics for speaking the truth about Nigeria. Obasanjo, on Thursday, declared that the country is dividing, a position that appeared to have rattled the federal government. But reacting to criticism that...

The Nigerian Government on Sunday tagged former President, Olusegun Obasanjo as the country’s ‘Divider-in-Chief’ over his latest comment on the state of the nation. This is in a reaction to Obasanjo comment on Thursday that Nigeria was slowly becoming a failed state and a basket case that urgently needs to...

  The Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo, has explained why the State government adopted the phased resumption of schools in the State. According to her, the measure is to enable public schools fulfil the extant COVID-19 safety guidelines as she said Junior Secondary School (JSS) 3 and...

  The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 79 new cases of COVID-19 in the country bringing the nation’s confirmed COVID-19 infection cases to 56,256. The NCDC made this known via its verified Twitter handle @NCDCgov on Sunday. “On the 13th of September 2020, 79 new confirmed cases...