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Abuja, Aug. 3, 2021 2019 African Games champion, Ese Brume, on Tuesday gave Team Nigeria their first medal at the ongoing Tokyo Olympic Games with a bronze medal in the women’s long jump event. Brume recorded a 6.97 metres jump in the final of the event at the Tokyo Olympic …

The Pink Awards, presented by La Veronica Magazine, will not hold this year, 2021, in honor of the late Comrade Yinka Odumakin, the husband of a key promoter of the program, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin. According to the organizers of the Award, Odumakin was a “dogged icon of human rights… who …

Former First Lady of Nigeria, Dame Patience Goodluck Jonathan, on Sunday, called on women to deploy their God-given talents and endowments to promote peace in North and South Korea. Mrs Jonathan spoke at a virtual International Leadership Conference tagged: ‘Towards a Peaceful Reunification of the Korean Peninsula,” organised by the …

   By Chimezie Anaso Awka, Aug. 2, 2021 Some federal and state infrastructure in Awka, Anambra capital, may be lost if the current threat posed by erosion in their surroundings are not checked, an investigation by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) shows. The facilities are the 20-year-old popular Ekwueme …

By Muhammad Nasir Sokoto Aug. 2, 2021 Alhaji Musa Adar, a member of the House of Representatives, representing Goronyo/Gada Federal Constituency has faulted the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) on lower education quality in Nigeria. Adar (APC-Sokoto), the Chairman House Committee on Petroleum Resources Upstream, made the assertion, while …

The protest by Ogoni youths over the deplorable condition of the East-West road was suspended on Sunday, August 1, 2021 after a Church service, with a vow to return to block the road if work on it stops. The protest lasted seven days and saw the Ogoni people shutting down …

ABUJA, NIGERIA: JULY 31, 2021 As part of its contribution toward helping to reduce the housing shortage in Nigeria, Stratech Properties Limited, a real estate brokerage company, has launched new home ownership product for doctors and other critical off-taker groups. In his address during the products launch which took place …

Niggers – no more We have educators. Negroes – no more We have inspirers, And Black – proudly I am Cause – we are all Africans. Civilization started with us That’s not hilarious. Being back on the bus No longer makes us nervous Oh Africans ! Unite Afro-Diaspora – Unite …

In less than six agonising years, Nigerians have looked on with shock and utter disgust as the Muhammadu Buhari-led government frittered away the goodwill and optimism that greeted his emergence as winner of the keenly fought 2015 general elections. Gradually but surely, the deafening ovations of change and a break …

• State records 30 deaths in few days • Gov: ‘Moderna Vaccine comes in days, Astrazeneca supplements too’ The rise in the number of Coronavirus (COVID-19)-related fatalities recorded in the last one week presents a worrying trend of the third wave of the pandemic in Lagos State. From the last …

·  Assures the IRT will remain focused in the discharge of its professional mandate Embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, has been replaced as the Head of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), a crack special squad of the Inspector General of Police (IGP). The United States of America …

turnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 I heard this joke on social media: A man was asked to define the difference between the PDP and APC; he said: Under PDP, when someone dies, cows are slaughtered to bury the person; but under APC, when a cow dies, human beings are slaughtered to …

July 31, 2021 …Lagos Bible App now available for download . Mr. Lungfa Maikarfi – FAITH COMES BY HEARING Coordinator (NORTHERN NIGERIA), Evangelist Edwin Ebeniro – CHAIRMAN (LAGOS), NIGERIA EVANGELICAL MISSIONS ASSOCIATION, Mr. Lanre Oguntuase – BIBLE SOCIETY OF NIGERIA Campaign Coordinator, Mr. David Oken – FAITH COMES BY HEARING Coordinator …

  By Cecilia Ologunagba New York, Aug. 2, 2021 UN Secretary-General António Guterres is encouraging everyone across the world to participate in the literal race against the climate emergency, inaugurated by UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). OCHA, on Monday launched #TheHumanRace campaign, a global challenge to …

By Dennis Udoma, Uyo Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), Akwa Ibom State Branch has petitioned the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly to probe the running of the State-owned Five-Star Hotel located at Nwaniba, in Uruan Local Government Area of the State. In a letter dated July 26, 2021 signed by …

William Attah, Gombe Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC) 2021 Gombe State Ward Congresses Committee, Dr Danjuma Dabo, has given reasons why the exercise in the State took over 24 hours before conclusion. He told journalists shortly after he started receiving results from the 114 electoral wards of the State, Sunday …

Minister, Niger Delta Affairs Ministry, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has described the victory of the state-owned football club, Akwa United, in this year’s football league as “a good omen which signposts the strides our youths are recording in sport development.” A release by his Chief Press Secretary, Jackson Udom, quoted the …

The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has explained that political leadership and the job of delivering good governance to the people remains a serious business for the young and active and not for the elderly. Obi, who spoke at …

The Akwa Utd Football Club of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on Sunday lifted the 2020/2021 Nigeria Professional Football League trophy. Akwa Utd won Mountain of Fire Ministry FC by five goals to two in the week 37 match played at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium. Speaking at the post match …

Last week we started a series about possible scenarios in our match to the decisive year 2023. The year 2023 represents a watershed of a sort because the forces at play today in the political space and national life constitute a credible threat to National Unity. We have never been …

By Polycarp Auta Jos, Aug. 1, 2021 Unidentified gunmen have killed seven persons and razed down 250 houses in some communities in Miango chiefdom of Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau, according to a statement by the Iregwe Development Association (IDA) on Sunday, in Jos. The statement signed by Mr …

The outgone month of July, 2021 has definitely gone down as one resplendent with intrigues, drama, political shenanigans and a dose of bad tidings. Grab a front row seat and a drink as this writer attempts to highlight some of those eventful moments in no particular order of their occurrence. …

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced that its downstream subsidiary, the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC), recorded ₦234.63 billion revenue from the sale of white products in the month of March 2021 representing a 24.7% increase from the ₦188.15billion sales recorded in the previous month of February 2021. …

By Muhammad Nasir Sokoto Aug. 1, 2021 Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Maigari Dingyadi, has appealed to members of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Sokoto State to remain committed to the party’s unity and ensure its success at all levels. Dingyadi, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) …

Abuja, Aug. 1, 2021 Below is the current medals table of the ongoing 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo at the end of Sunday’s events across all the sports and at all the venues: Rank         Country             Gold       Silver …