Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said he will stop insurgency and other social vices in the country if elected as president. Atiku was the candidate of the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, for the 2019 general elections. The 74-year-old spoke during an interview on ‘Fitilar Siyasa,’ an Hausa current affairs programme on Progress…
The Indigenous People of Biafra has asked the Federal Government to release Nnamdi Kanu on or before November 4, 2021, or have the entire South-East geopolitical zone locked down for one week. The group, which insisted that its leader, Kanu, did not commit any crime to warrant his continual detention in the custody of the…
Cristiano Ronaldo admits Manchester United need time to hit their stride after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s spending spree. Ronaldo returned for a second spell with United after leaving Juventus in a blockbuster transfer in August. The 36-year-old striker wasn’t the only high-profile signing made by United boss Solskjaer in the close season. France World Cup winner…
The holding company of First Bank of Nigeria, FBN Holdings Plc, has said it has not received any notification of acquisition from the former CEO of Forte Oil, Femi Otedola. In a statement sent to the Nigerian Exchange Limited, the Company Secretary, Seyi Kosoko, responded to the reports that Otedola had allegedly acquired 5 per…
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will formally unveil the Nigerian Central Bank Digital Currency, known as the eNaira, on Monday, at the State House, Abuja. The Director, Corporate Communications, CBN, Osita Nwanisobi, said this in a statement on Saturday titled ‘President Buhari to unveil eNaira on Monday, 25 October 2021.’ It stated that…
Barbados has elected its first-ever president to replace the United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth as head of state in a decisive step towards shedding the Caribbean island’s colonial past. Sandra Mason was elected late on Wednesday by a two-thirds vote of a joint session of the country’s House of Assembly and Senate, a milestone, the government…
One of the world’s last two northern white rhinos is being retired from a breeding programme aimed at saving the species from extinction, scientists have said. Najin, 32, is the mother of Fatu who is now the only donor left in the programme, which aims to implant artificially developed embryos into another more abundant species…
Former President Donald Trump’s media company is proving a hit with day traders. Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. have skyrocketed 1,225% since an announcement that the blank-check company will merge with Trump Media & Technology Group. The stock nearly tripled to $131.90 when the U.S. stock market opened Friday morning before triggering a halt…
Bosnia’s Serb police have held an “anti-terrorist” drill just outside the capital Sarajevo in a move seen by many as another provocation by the Serb separatist leadership. The exercise on Friday was held in the ski resort at Mt Jahorina, the general area from where the Bosnian Serb military relentlessly shelled and sniped Sarajevo throughout…
