The families of more than 220 captives seized by Hamas demanded answers from the Israeli government with many fearing a military onslaught on the Gaza Strip is putting the captives’ lives at risk. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu broke off from war planning for a hastily arranged meeting on Saturday with captive families after they…
The Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the Labour Party on Saturday congratulated President Bola Tinubu on his victory at the Supreme Court. While urging the President to be magnanimous in victory, the LP faction mocked its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, for filing a petition which it said did not take the justices more than 120 minutes…
The big spending Blues have won just one of their last 13 home Premier League games over the past two seasons and this latest setback punctures belief that Mauricio Pochettino was beginning to get Chelsea back on track. After a difficult start to Pochettino’s reign, back-to-back victories over Fulham and Burnley was followed by an…
At least 32 people have been killed in a multi-car pileup on a highway in Egypt’s Beheira governorate, according to authorities. More than 60 people were also reported injured in the road accident on Saturday, Egypt’s health ministry said.The collision took place in morning fog when a passenger bus on its way to Cairo slammed…
A former National President of the Nigeria Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) and the Iyalode of Yorubaland, Chief Alaba Lawson, is dead. Her demise was communicated today in a statement issued in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital by the Executive Secretary of the Ogun Chambers of Commerce, Industry Mines and…
The House of Representatives has summoned controversial singer Azeez Fashola popularly known as Naira Marley to appear before it as part of moves to secure compensation and royalties for late singer Ilerioluwa Aloba (Mohbad) for his musical works. Through its Committee on Justice, Youth, and Legislative Compliance, the House also invited the manager of the…
Projectiles hit two Egyptian Red Sea towns on Friday, sources and officials say, wounding at least six people in Taba near the border with Israel. Egyptian army spokesperson Colonel Gharib Abdel-Hafez said an “unidentified drone” crashed into a building adjacent to a hospital in Taba in the early hours of the morning.Later, another projectile fell…
Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has hailed the Supreme Court judgment that affirmed President Bola Tinubu’s win in the February 15, 2023 presidential election hoping his government will bring peace and prosperity to the country. “On behalf of the good people of Osun State, I congratulate President Tinubu on his judicial victory at the…
Bearish sentiments were sustained on the Nigerian Exchange Limited as the market reacted to the Supreme Court’s judgment regarding the 2023 general elections cases leading to a loss of N67bn off its market capitalisation. This marked a second consecutive day of negative trading on the local bourse. Dragging the market cap was depreciation recorded in…
