Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 09/04/2019 - 15:57
NIGERIAN novelist Chigozie Obioma has had his second novel An Orchestra of Minorities shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize after the organisers announced a shortlist of six books yesterday.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 09/04/2019 - 15:35
GERMANY'S government has written the Nigeria's former deputy senate president Senator Ike Ekweremadu assuring him that it will deal the recent assault he suffered in Nuremberg when he was attacked by members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (Ipob).
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 09/04/2019 - 13:13
NIGERIA'S Super Falcons have qualified for the third round of the 2020 Olympic Games knock-out stage after beating Algeria 1-0 in Lagos yesterday to secure a 3-0 aggregate victory over their North African rivals.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 09/04/2019 - 12:52
ARMED gunmen have disrupted the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial primaries in Kogi State just as counting was being rounded up at the exercise organised to elect a governorship candidate yesterday.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 09/04/2019 - 12:16
NIGERIA has demanded financial compensation for all the losses its citizens suffered in the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa and assurances from Pretoria that security mechanisms will be put in place to prevent any occurrence of these pogroms.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 09/04/2019 - 10:52
By Ayo Akinfe
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 09/03/2019 - 18:20
NIGERIA'S conflict situation has been described as one that gives cause for extreme concern by the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur for Extrajudicial and Arbitrary Executions, Agnes Callamard.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 09/03/2019 - 17:17
GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has received the backing of the Coalition of Northern Youth Groups who have come to his defence saying that no mosque was demolished in Rivers State and the claim was the handiwork of political opponents.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 09/03/2019 - 16:42
NIGERIA'S high commission in the UK has introduced the use of Point of Sale (POS) machines on its premises as part of a radical upgrade designed to ameliorate the problems applicants face then they visit the mission to renew their passports.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 09/03/2019 - 15:53
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa has finally responded to the horrific xenophobic pogroms taking place in his country coming out to condemn the murders of fellow Africans as unacceptable.
Over the last week, South African mobs have been carrying our frenzied attacks against migrant workers in the country burning shops and homes belonging to other Africans.
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