More than 1,000 people gathered in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou on Tuesday in support of a military coup that a day earlier ousted President Roch Kabore, dissolved the government and suspended the constitution. The fifth coup in West and Central Africa this decade comes amid an increasingly bloody Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands and Read More…
In picture above: Mamo Konchora, a nomad herder from the Gabra tribe, stands next to the corpses of his livestock which died due to cold weather, near North Horr, Marsabit county, Kenya, January 21, 2022. Picture taken January 21, 2022. REUTERS/Baz Ratner The carcasses of goats and sheep that are strewn across the scrubland of Read More…
In picture above: Ukrainian service members unload a shipment of military aid delivered as part of the United States of America’s security assistance to Ukraine, at the Boryspil International Airport outside Kyiv, Ukraine January 25, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he would consider personal sanctions on President Vladimir Putin if Read More…
The police in Lagos have arrested the wife of a hotel owner and three others after she was alleged to have stabbed her hotelier husband to death. The wife of the owner of the popular Bama Hotel and Suites, Abule-Egba, allegedly stabbed her husband on Monday night after finding out that he had impregnated another Read More…
The Lagos State Government (LASG) has suspended the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) activities at Eyin Eyo, Church Street and Idumota Bridge indefinitely due to the recent violence in those areas. Special Adviser to the Governor on Transportation, Oluwatoyin Fayinka, made the disclosure in a statement, signed by the Asst. Director, Public Affairs Read More…
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has said that the former Secretary to the Lagos State Government (SSG), late Princess Adenrele Adeniran-Ogunsanya, was impactful in the state’s politics. Sanwo-Olu said this in a condolence message signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Gboyega Akosile, on Tuesday in Lagos. He praised Adeniran-Ogunsanya’s contribution to governance, growth Read More…
The Nigerian Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday, received on a courtesy call, a delegation of the Old Boys Association of Igbobi College, (ICOBA) to which he belongs. The delegation led by Yomi Badejo-Okunsanya, (who represented the President of ICOBA), intimated Prof. Osinbajo about plans for the 90th Anniversary of the school. In his Read More…
The producers of Nigerian Idol, Multichoice Nigeria and Africa Magic have revealed that they received about 10,000 entries when they opened for auditions for the seventh season. Dr Busola Tejumola, Executive Head, Content and West Africa Channels, Multichoice Nigeria, in a statement on Saturday said that it was the most entries they had ever received Read More…
The Omicron-fuelled wave of COVID-19 infections has led wealthy countries to intensify their recruitment of nurses from poorer parts of the world, including Nigeria, worsening dire staffing shortages in overstretched workforces there, the International Council of Nurses said. Sickness, burnout and staff departures amid surging Omicron cases have driven absentee rates to levels not yet Read More…
Russia said on Tuesday it was watching with great concern after the United States put 8,500 troops on alert to be ready to deploy to Europe in case of an escalation in the Ukraine crisis. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused Washington of fuelling tensions over Ukraine – repeating Moscow’s line that the crisis is being Read More…