archiveNovember 2021

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday announced a new COVID-19 variant named Omicron. This was contained in a statement by the UN agency stating that the B.1.1.529 variant was first reported to WHO from South Africa on 24 November 2021 and classified it a variant of concern. The statement...

A total of 125 students of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), on Saturday, graduated with First Class at the 46th and 47th combined convocation ceremony. Vice-Chancellor of UNIBEN, Professor Lilian Salami, in her welcome address, also disclosed that a total of 2,794 got second class upper division while those awarded...

  Prominent personalities from different parts of the country on Saturday attended the wedding ceremony of the Speaker, Oyo State House of Assembly, Mr Adebo Ogundoyin, held at the All Souls’ Anglican Church, Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the solemnisation between Ogundoyin and his wife, Olamidun...

A 34-year- old married man, Godwin Iroro, arrested for allegedly defiling his neighbour’s 10 year old daughter in Ajegunle, Lagos State, has admitted that he only defiled the little girl two times. The suspect, in his argument, at the station, urged the investigating police Officer (IPO) to dismiss claims by...

An Ilorin based legal practitioner, Mr Ahmed Taiwo, has advised youths to be focused and not spend too much time on the social media. Taiwo, who gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin on Saturday, said youths were gradually losing focus owing...

The Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, has said that the bank would establish an International Financial Centre at the Eko Atlantic City for investors seeking to invest in critical sectors of the nation's economy. Emefiele disclosed this at the 56th Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) Annual Bankers Dinner,...

The Head of Service of the Federation, Folasade Yemi-Esan, has said that all civil servants will resume at the offices on December 1st but will be required to show proof of COVID-19 test or vaccination. This was contained in a circular on Friday. Yemi-Esan directed all workers from Grade Level...

One hundred percent of the United Arab Emirates’ population has received at least one dose of a vaccine against Covid-19, the health ministry has said. The announcement late Friday came amid growing global concern over a new Covid variant dubbed Omicron that was first detected by South Africa. The World...

Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has vowed never to stoop low to beg President Muhammadu Buhari to release Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Igboho, who is currently in prison custody in Benin Republic. The group was reacting to calls by prominent Yoruba individuals and groups urging it to emulate Igbo leaders and...

 The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has postponed a major conference that was to be held next week in Geneva after governments around the world imposed travel restrictions due to a new and particularly transmissible variant of COVID-19.The EU Trade Ministers’ Consultations on the Ministerial Conference of the WTO has been postponed...