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ETHIOPIAN Airlines has once more been voted as the Best Airline in Africa for the third consecutive year picking up the Skytrax 2019 World Airlines Awards in Paris and confirming its status as the continent's dominant carrier.

NIGERIA'S state governors are likely to pressurise President Muhammadu Buhari to replace the nation's security chiefs as he starts his second tenure in a bid to bring in fresh ideas as the country grapples with a surge in insecurity.

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) national chairman Adams Oshiomhole's younger brother Seidu was one of several activists recently attacked by unidentified hoodlums at a meeting of the Edo State chapter of the party in Benin.

Lagos State's Governor Babajide Sanwoolu has denied promising to decongest the Oshodi-Apapa expressway within his first 60 days in office saying all offered was to review the matter within two months and come up with recommendations.

BRITAIN has issued a stern travel warning to its citizens planning to visit Nigeria urging them to avoid visiting 24 states because of a recent upsurge in violence that includes kidnapping and armed robbery.

By Ayo Akinfe

[1] Today is June 19. On this day in 1963, Soviet astronaut Valentina Tereshkova returned from space. She became the first woman ever to do so. She had been been selected from more than 400 applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6 on June 16

ISLAMIC campaign group Muslim Rights Concern (Muric) has accused the Adeleke University of Ede in Osun State, of persecuting Muslim students by forcing them to attend Sunday church services.

Founded in 2011, the Adeleke University is a faith-based institution established through the Springtime Development Foundation (SDF), a philanthropic, non-profit organisation. It is closely aligned with the Seventh-day Adventist Church and its philosophy is that of Christian education.

GOVERNOR Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has vowed to arrest and prosecute parents who fail to send their children to school in the state because begging is un-Islamic and those who allow their wards to engage in it are contravening the koran's teaching.

NIGERIA has been identified as one of the most fertile nations on earth by the United Nations Population Division after a recent survey revealed that it is one of the few nations on earth where males outnumber females.

DIASPORA community body the Central Association of Nigerians in the UK (Canuk) has called for calm after a Nigerian Ewohime Apkovweta was arrested by the Metropolitan Police for damaging cars belonging to the high commission in London yesterday.