There was a mild drama in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand as a couple sued their only son and his wife for not giving them a grandchild after six years of marriage. The couple planned to have a grandchild to play with after retirement irrespective of the gender. The unusual lawsuit was filed […]
Atiku Abubakar, a presidential hopeful has distanced himself from a tweet condemning the lynching of Deborah Samuel, a Christian 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education Sokoto, who was killed for allegedly blaspheming Prophet Muhammad. Atiku who is running for Presidency under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, took to Twitter […]
North Korea says six people have died amid an ‘explosive’ spread of fever, a day after it acknowledged a COVID-19 outbreak. North Korea said Friday that 187,000 people were being “isolated and treated” for fever. “A fever whose cause couldn’t be identified explosively spread nationwide from late April,” the official Korean Central News Agency […]
The United Arab Emirates’ long-ailing ruler, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, died Friday, the government’s state-run news agency announced in a brief statement. He was 73. The UAE’s Ministry of Presidential Affairs announced a 40-day period of mourning and a three-day suspension of work in all ministries and the private sector beginning […]
Miss Boubini Miyensinte Jones-Wonni, a 22 year old Nigerian has emerged the best graduating student from the Howard University Medical Class of 2022 and has been admitted to Harvard University on Scholarship. Boubini Miyensinte Jones-Wonni was born in Ido-ani, a town in Ondo state , Nigeria, on the 23rd of October 1999 to […]
The Management of Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto State has been shut down indefinitely following the killing of a Christian female student by an irate mob. A gory video shared on social media on Thursday revealed when the female student identified as Ms. Deborah from Zuru, Kebbi State was beaten with […]
Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off their strike in the interest of students. The President made the appeal at the 19th National Productivity Day Celebration and Conferment of the National Productivity Order of Merit Award at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja. The […]
Prof Augustine Ubachukwu, Astronomy Research Group Lead, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Enugu State, said that Nigeria and some African countries will witness the first total Lunar eclipse of the year on May 16. Ubachukwu, in an interview on Wednesday with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said the second eclipse is expected […]
The Court of Appeal has set aside the judgment of the Federal High Court in Umuahia which voided the provision of Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act 2022. In a judgment on Wednesday in Abuja, a three-member panel of the court headed by Justice Hamma Akawu Barka held that the Federal High Court […]
Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof Kingsley Moghalu, has formally joined the 2023 presidential race after obtaining the ADC Presidential form for the sum of N25m on Tuesday in Abuja. At the ADC national secretariat, Moghalu told newsmen that politics in Nigeria should be detribalised for the nation to […]
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