Month: February 2021

Two of the candidates in Barcelona’s presidential election, Joan Laporta and Victor Font, insisted on Monday that Lionel Messi “generates more” than he earns, after his “colossal” club contract was…

The acting Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Hilary Madu, has said that the Corps would soon dispatch more agro ranger operatives to protect farmers and prevent…

The National Industrial Court sitting at the Benin Judicial Division has restrained the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) from proceeding on any strike action in Edo State Primary schools. Hon.…

At least five people were killed in an hours-long Al-Shabaab attack on a Mogadishu hotel which ended around midnight on Sunday, Somali police said. The Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists detonated a car…

Youths in Igangan, Ibarapa North-West Local Council Development Area of Oyo State, on Monday, welcomed Governor Seyi Makinde with a peaceful demonstration. Makinde, who arrived in the area on Sunday…

Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, says Nigeria’s poor ranking on Transparency International’s corruption perception index is a reflection of Nigerians, not President Muhammadu Buhari. On the 2020 index released on Thursday, Nigeria…

Residents of Maiduguri and environs have been thrown into lingering blackout following the destruction of one of the towers supplying electricity to the city from the national grid. The News…

President Muhammadu Buhari  on Monday, congratulated a former Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief, Concord Press Nigeria Limited, Doyin Abiola, on her 75th birthday. Buhari’s congratulatory message was contained in a statement…

Ghana is on course to get at least 17.6 million people vaccinated against COVID-19 pandemic by the end of June, President Nana Akufo-Addo has said. In a televised speech late…

Bruno Fernandes has completed 12 months of service at Manchester United and says he is planning on spending “many years” at Old Trafford. The Portuguese playmaker was snapped up by…