The Grand Finale
Everything is possible.
Everything is possible.
A California man charged with assaulting police in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and using a metal barricade as a battering ram has fled the United States and is believed to have taken refuge in Belarus, federal prosecutors said on Friday.
Farmers in India have political heft due to their sheer numbers — tens of thousands had camped out to protest against the laws in the biggest challenge to the Modi government since it came to power in 2014.
Brazil’s health ministry said its website was hit on Friday by a hacker attack that took several systems down, including one with information about the national immunization program and another used to issue digital vaccination certificates.
Lagos State government has shut 34 medicine outlets at Shomolu, Bariga, Gbagada, Shomolu and Kosofe Local Councils as well as Bale and Savage streets in Orile Iganmu Local Council Development Area of the state for non-compliance to regulatory standards. The Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi who revealed this following […]
Erling Haaland’s agent, Mino Raiola has mentioned Manchester City, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich as clubs the Norwegian star striker could join in 2022. The 21-year-old has a contract with Dortmund until 2024, but his tally of 23 goals in 20 Champions League games for Dortmund and ex-club Salzburg […]
Former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, says parents should be forced to send their children to school. Atiku made this known while delivering a convocation lecture on Friday at the Achievers University, Owo, Ondo state. Atiku said countries that invest in education and innovation are leading nations of the world. According to […]
Burkina Faso’s President Roch Kabore on Friday nominated the former head of a nuclear-test-ban agency Lassina Zerbo as prime minister amid an escalating security crisis that has killed thousands and led to street protests.
Nigeria, in Group D of the competition alongside Egypt, Sudan, and Guinea Bissau, is among the favourites to win the competition but the player says the three-time African champions will not underrate any team in the competition.
The lecturers made the call on Friday at separate briefings held in the northern and southern parts of the country where they said the government’s action has left them with no other option than to withdraw their services.
He gave the assurance on Friday at a Virtual Summit for Democracy organised by President Joe Biden of the United States, saying necessary mechanisms would be strengthened to ensure Nigeria witnesses another peaceful transfer of power.
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange on Friday moved a step closer to facing criminal charges in the United States for breaking spying law and conspiring to hack government computers after Washington won an appeal over his extradition in an English court.
Antonio Guterres, United Nations (UN) secretary-general, said in Iraq and Syria, the ISIL terrorist group has exploited water shortages and taken over water infrastructure to impose its will on communities, while in Somalia, charcoal production provides a source of income for Al-Shaab.
Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is “thinking of” leaving his jobs and becoming an influencer, the world’s richest man tweeted on Thursday. “thinking of quitting my jobs & becoming an influencer full-time wdyt,” Musk said in the tweet, without elaborating. It was not immediately clear if Musk, a […]
The United States has announced the donation of 2.5 million Pfizer vaccine doses to Nigeria. This was revealed in a statement by the U.S Embassy on Thursday. According to the statement, the vaccine doses arrived in Abuja this week and were received by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency […]
Protesters in Myanmar closed businesses and stayed off the streets on Friday in a “silent strike” against rule by the military and its ousting of the Southeast Asian country’s democratically elected government in a February coup.
Seven United Nations peacekeepers were killed on Wednesday when a logistical convoy struck an explosive device in central Mali, the UN mission MINUSMA said. “The initial toll is seven dead and three seriously injured,” it said on Twitter. The incident took place in the Bandiagara area in the Mopti region, […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said a former interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Bisi Akande is a ‘‘perfect public officer,” and a person he could go into the jungle with.
Officials said it appeared that the driver was speeding when he lost control of the vehicle on the highway connecting the city of Chiapa de Corzo with the state capital Tuxtla Gutierrez. He later fled the scene.
Director-General of the World Trade Organisation( WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and media entrepreneur, Mo Abudu, have been listed by Forbes as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world. The 2021 list is a definitive survey of foremost CEOs and iconic entrepreneurs, pioneer philanthropists, and policymakers who are solving […]
Burkina Faso’s premier and Government resigned on Wednesday, after protests over their inability to prevent Jihadist attacks. President Roch Marc Christian Kabore accepted the resignation letter presented to him by Prime Minister Christophe Joseph Marie Dabire, in accordance with a presidential decree. According to the law of Burkina Faso, the […]
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday became a father again, after his wife, Carrie, gave birth to a girl, Downing Street said. According to a spokeswoman for the couple, the “healthy baby girl” was born at a London hospital in the early hours and “both mother and daughter are […]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has urged the security agencies to leverage more technology-driven solutions and intelligence-driven collaboration in order to improve the nation’s security architecture in line with global standards.
The UK High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, has defended the travel ban on Nigeria following the detection of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, insisting that the move was based on science and not discriminatory.
The governor disclosed this in a statement signed by him on Thursday, November 9, 2021. He said he is “constrained to stand down all preparations for the Walk for Peace” so as not to “endanger the life of any Lagosian” amid the outbreak of the Omicron COVID-19 variant.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday announced the tightening of virus restrictions in England as Omicron variant cases surge, including guidance to work from home and mandatory vaccine passports.
Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis was elected by parliament Wednesday as the country’s next president, set to lead in 2022 amid deepening tensions over the response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Brazilian football legend Pele has been hospitalized for treatment of a previously identified colon tumor, his doctors said Wednesday, the latest health problem for the 81-year-old icon.
A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has said some corrupt judges are usually included in election petition tribunals in order to corruptly enrich themselves by selling judgments to the highest bidders. Jega said some of these corrupt judges sold judgments to the highest bidders […]
Barcelona crashed out of the UEFA Champions League (UCL) after losing 3-0 to Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena on Wednesday night. The defeat means Barcelona have been eliminated at the group stage for the first time in 21 years. First-half goals from Thomas Muller and Leroy Sane, and a […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the Omicron COVID variant has now been detected in 57 countries. Omicron which has been labelled a “variant of concern” was detected by South African authorities and subsequently reported to the WHO. There are reports that the variant had been earlier detected in the […]
Middle school will bury you.
Pfizer and BioNTech have announced that three doses of its COVID-19 vaccine provides sufficient protection against the Omicron variant. Since the new strain was discovered and its designation as a variant of concern (VOC) by the World Health Organisation (WHO), there have been concerns about how effective current vaccines are […]
India’s defence chief General Bipin Rawat and his wife were among 13 people killed in a helicopter crash on Wednesday, the air force said.
Australia will join the United States in a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, as other allies weighed similar moves to protest China’s human rights record.
A leaked video that shows staff members in British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office joking about holding a lockdown-breaching Christmas party is adding fuel to allegations that government officials flouted coronavirus rules.
The Lagos State Government has shut down Bab Fafunwa Millennium School, Ojodu, formerly Ojodu Grammar School until January 2022. Commissioner for Education, Folashade Adefisayo, made this announcement when she visited the school on Wednesday. On Tuesday, a trailer had crushed some pupils of the school. Some of the students died […]
Tottenham Hotspur manager, Antonio Conte, has disclosed that players on his team and some of his backroom staff have contracted the COVID-19 virus. Conte, who was scheduled for an in-person pre-match press conference on Wednesday, was only able to take questions virtually due to the incident where he said that […]
Qatar and Turkey have announced their agreement to extend a currency swap deal between their central banks, as Ankara’s lira has plunged in value fuelling an economic crisis. According to a joint statement on Tuesday, both parties “welcomed the signing of the agreement on the extension and amendment of the […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the Senate, seeking the consideration and passage of the 2021 Finance bill which is expected to guide the implementation of the 2022 budget. In a letter addressed to the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, and read during plenary on Tuesday, the President […]
Papua New Guinea carried out the first in a series of mass Covid-19 burials Wednesday, interring 54 people whose remains were unclaimed for months as the pandemic ravaged the under-resourced Melanesian nation. Hospital and government officials ordered the crisis ceremony after 300 bodies piled up at Port Moresby General Hospital […]
Mbappe scored twice in the first seven minutes, the second-fastest double at the start of a game in Champions League history, before setting up Messi to make it 3-0 at half-time.
Scholz, who will be formally elected by the Bundestag lower house of parliament and then sworn in by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has pledged broad “continuity” with the popular Merkel while making Germany greener and fairer.
French police earlier Tuesday arrested a man suspected of being a member of the hit squad that murdered Khashoggi at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul, and investigators were seeking to confirm that the man carrying a passport in the name of Khalid Alotaibi was indeed the man being sought in […]
A special court in Benin on Tuesday sentenced one of the country’s opposition leaders, Joel Aivo, to 10 years in prison after a trial on treason and corruption charges. The academic had said the charges of plotting against the state and money laundering were politically motivated. He was convicted after […]
The companies, once merged, say they plan to launch the social media platform “TRUTH Social” nationally early next year, hoping to rival services like Twitter, which banned Trump over the January US Capitol riot.
Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, the First Lady of Lagos State, has described the death of Sylvester Oromomi, a 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, as a slap on the state government.
Drake has asked the Recording Academy to withdraw his two Grammy nominations from the ballot – and the academy has complied, according to two people familiar with the decision. The star rapper and singer has long been a critic of the awards.
Secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, says the country has enough vaccines that can cater for over 70 percent of the Nigeria’s population before the end of 2022. Mustapha made this known at the national COVID-19 summit which was held at Muhammadu Buhari Conference Centre in […]
China on Tuesday accused the United States of violating the Olympic spirit by announcing an American diplomatic boycott of February’s Beijing Winter Games, amid an increasingly bitter feud over the Biden administration’s decision not to send officials due to human rights concerns. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian told reporters at […]