Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 09/10/2019 - 17:21
SOUTH Africa's defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has declared that the government is powerless to stop the ongoing xenophobic attacks against foreign nationals because they were planned by criminal gangs.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 09/10/2019 - 16:44
FORMER petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke has list her legal battle to keep hold of 2,149 pieces of jewellery valued at $40m after an Abuja high court ruled that she had failed to show why the items should not be permanently forfeited to the federal government.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 09/10/2019 - 15:54
FORMER British Labour Party deputy leader and the member of parliament for Peckham Harriet Harman has confirmed she will run to become the next House of Commons speaker when the incumbent John Bercow stands down.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 09/10/2019 - 15:20
SUPER Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr is confident tonight's friendly match against Ukraine will produce one or two players that will go on to become the mainstay of the team when it commences the 2020 World Cup and 2021 African Nations Cup qualifiers.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 09/10/2019 - 13:10
By Ayo Akinfe
(1) One good thing to have come out of Nigeria’s 2019 elections is that a few governors have woken up to the realisation that they need to work on their state’s internally generated revenue (IGR). It is crystal clear to them that you simply cannot provide good governance or any kind of infrastructural development when your running costs are about four times the revenue you generate
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Mon, 09/09/2019 - 16:59
MEMBERS of the youth wing of the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has declared that the north central geo-political zone will never be part of northern Nigeria and will continue to fight for the liberation of its people.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Mon, 09/09/2019 - 16:25
NIGERIAN-born robotics engineer Silas Adekunle has shut down the UK engineering firm Reach Robotics that he co-founded a few years ago saying he now intends to focus on other things.
Mr Adekunle who gained international attention with his famous Mekamon robot, runs Reach Robotics from Bristol in southwest England. One of his co-founders John Rees confirmed that the decision has been made to close the business and appoint administrators, effective from September 2.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Mon, 09/09/2019 - 16:04
THOUSANDS of Nigerian passengers face being stranded over the next few days as British Airways announced it has been forced to cancel almost all its flights from UK airports on the first day of a pilots strike.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Mon, 09/09/2019 - 15:14
HUNDREDS of South Africans walked out of a meeting in Johannesburg called to combat the ongoing scourge of xenophobia when Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) founder Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi asked them to remember the sacrifices made by other Africans during the liberation struggle.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Mon, 09/09/2019 - 14:36
FORMER Abia State governor and current chief whip of the Nigerian senate Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has sold his shareholding in Gambian-registered First International Banking (Fib) for about $10m ending his presence the financial markets of six African companies.
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