Pope Francis on Saturday named 13 new cardinals, including Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory, the first black US prelate to be admitted among the so-called Princes of the Church. Gregory, who turns 73 next month, leads an archdiocese rocked by the scandal of Theodore McCarrick, a former archbishop who was defrocked […]
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno has commended the State Independent Electoral Commission for a hitch-free conduct of Saturday’s local government council poll. Zulum said this shortly after voting at his Ajari Ward in Mafa, headquarters of Mafa Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. […]
Hundreds of people demonstrated again in Warsaw on Saturday against the tightening of Poland’s abortion law. The police asked the demonstrators to leave via loudspeaker and tried to surround them, the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza reported. “We have a right to protest,” the crowd chanted. The participants carried banners with slogans […]
Ethiopia’s army said Saturday it was in control of the capital of the Tigray region, and was hunting for its dissident leaders. The announcement came after heavy shelling was reported in Mekele, a city of half a million people, as it braced for a military offensive against Tigray’s ruling party. […]
The Victims Support Fund (VSF), says it has budgeted about N3.3 billion for COVID-19 interventions targeting about one million indigent and vulnerable households in the country. The Chairperson, VSF Task Force on COVID-19, Mrs Tosoyi Akerele-Ogundeji, said this while presenting a donation of food items and medical kits to Kano […]
File photo By Henry Ojelu More revelations on the activities of the disbanded police Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS’s operatives emerged on Saturday at the Lagos EndSARS panel, as a 35-year-old hairdresser, Mrs Hannah Olugbodi, narrated how her left leg was shattered by a stray bullet fired by a SARS officer. […]
By Henry Ojelu Mrs Silifat Adeyemo, the wife of an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management, Rotimi Adeyemo, who was killed by a policeman at Iyana Ipaja in November 2018, has pleaded with the Lagos State EndSARS panel to help her secure scholarship up to the university for her […]
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has lamented the fate of over 14 million out of school children in Nigeria, saying that lack of formal education and stagnated development are some of the biggest problems confronting the country. Obasanjo said this […]
By Henry Ojelu Mrs Silifat Adeyemo, the wife of an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management, Rotimi Adeyemo, who was killed by a policeman at Iyana Ipaja in November 2018, has pleaded with the Lagos State EndSARS panel to help her secure scholarship up to the university for her […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerians to continue to pray for peace, unity and stability in the country. The president made the call in an address at the 70th anniversary of the Qaddriyya on Saturday in Kano. Buhari, represented by Alhaji Sabo Nanono, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said […]