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Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Monday was confirmed as the next Director-General of the World Trade Organisation. She is the first woman and the first African to lead the international trade body. Her term is scheduled to start on March 1. The term, which is renewable, will expire on August 31, 2025. “This […]
NASA’s latest Mars rover is approaching its final descent to the surface. Perseverance, the largest vehicle ever to attempt to land on the Red Planet, is due to touch down on 18 February. Landing on Mars is difficult: about 60 per cent of the missions that have tried it to date have failed. Perseverance will […]
The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has dispelled rumours that its national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, is dead. The National Publicity Secretary of PANDEF, Hon. Ken Robinson, in a statement issued yesterday described the speculation as malicious falsehood aimed at causing confusion within its chairman board of trustees’ constituency. “PANDEF was inundated with anxious […]
Rising crude oil theft and illegal refineries in the Niger Delta creeks have been attributed to alleged complicity of Nigerian Uniformed personnel and criminals bent on sabotaging the nation’s economy. Media sources learnt that some alleged naval officers who know the locations of illegal refineries usually receive gratifications not to close down crude oil […]
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 520 new cases of corona virus (COVID-19), this makes the total number of infected people in the country to 146,184. The NCDC disclosed this figure on its official Twitter handle on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that with the 520 fresh cases in […]
Delta State Government is partnering the World Bank under the aegis of the Delta Cares Programme (DCP) as part of its efforts to cushion the effects of the COVID-19 on small scale businesses in the state. This was disclosed by the State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu, while briefing newsmen on some recent […]
UFC welterweight champion, Kamaru Usman, retained his title with a third-round knockout win over challenger, Gilbert Burns, in UFC 258 in Las Vegas on Sunday. The win is Usman’s third title defence after previously dispatching Colby Covington and Jorge Masvidal in 2019 and 2020 respectively. Burns came out fast and hard, raining powerful shots […]
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele is expected to appear before the House of Representatives’ Public Accounts Committee to render the bank’s audited accounts this Thursday. Chairman of the Committee, Wole Oke, said they would be expected to render accounts from 2014 to 2019. Oke said they had written to […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that his government will protect all religious and ethnic groups, whether majority or minority in line with its responsibility under the constitution. In a reaction to reports of breakout of violence in some parts of the country by some ethnic and sectional groups, President Buhari warned that the government […]
The father of singer-rapper Nicki Minaj has died after being struck by a car in New York, police have said. Robert Maraj, 64, had been walking along a road in Long Island on Friday evening when he was hit by the car, before the car continued on its journey. Mr Maraj was taken […]
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