The Director General of World Health Organization, WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said yesterday that a vaccine would not by itself stop the coronavirus pandemic. Ghebreyesus stated this on a day US biotech firm, Moderna, announced that its experimental vaccine against COVID-19 was 94.5 percent effective, marking a second major breakthrough in the vaccine hunt. Pfizer…
Apply for the Lagos State Government Graduate Internship Placement Programme (GIPP) for unemployed graduates (40,000 Naira Monthly Stipend) -http://gipplasg.lagosstate.gov.ng. As part of efforts to reduce the rate of unemployment in Lagos State, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has approved Internship Programme for 4,000 unemployed graduates in line with the T.H.E.M.E.S Agenda of the present administration and the…
At least 20 armed robbers stormed Alaafia Estate in Orogun, Ibadan, the Oyo state capital around 11pm on Sunday and operated till around 2am on Monday, dispossessing residents of valuables running into millions of naira. The robbers were said to have gained entry into the estate through a recently dredged carnal linking Barika, Agbowo, and…
Bukayo Saka. One goal. One moment. Twenty years of hurt — gone. Arsenal are in the Champions League final and the Emirates Stadium erupted like never before. Here is the full story of a historic night in North London. The Goal That Changed Everything Bukayo Saka provided the decisive moment, reacting quickest to sweep home…
Nigeria’s 2027 general elections are still over a year away — but the machinery is already moving. The Independent National Electoral Commission has just revealed the staggering scale of its manpower plan, and young Nigerians in the NYSC scheme are at the very centre of it. The Announcement The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced…
Former Nigerian presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba, has said he would have sued an American news-based pay television channel, Cable News Network, CNN if their recent investigative report about the Lekki Toll Gate shooting had instigated crisis between the government and its citizen According to the tech-inclined politician in a post on his Twitter account on Wednesday,…
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has warned the federal government against making Bishop of Sokoto Catholic diocese, Mathew Kukah a sacrificial lamb for speaking the truth in his Christmas message. Recall that Kukah had accused President Buhari of being nepotistic. He had also alleged that there would have been coup if someone from another…
A 27-year-elderly person distinguished distinctly as “Sooraj” has been captured for supposedly killing his significant other by giving a cobra free access to her room after first failing to kill her with a viper. Sooraj, who worked in a private bank, purchased the snake to murder his better half, Uthra. A 27-year-old man identified only…
A court in Norfolk, Virginia, the United States on Tuesday jailed Nigerian scammer Obinwanne Okeke for 10 years for a computer-based fraud scheme that caused approximately $11 million in known losses to his victims. The sentencing was pronounced by Chief U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith, said the Department of Justice, Eastern District of Virginia….
Canada willing to welcome 1.2 million immigrants between 2021 and 2023 to make up for a shortfall this year blamed on the pandemic, the immigration minister announced Friday. The plan calls for accepting 401,000 new permanent residents in 2021, 411,000 in 2022, and 421,000 in 2023 — an immigration rate equal to about one percent…
