Lagos Orders Private, Pubic Schools To Close on Friday For Christmas
The Lagos State Government has directed all public and private schools in the state to vacate on Friday, December 18. In a statement issued on Thursday, Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, Ministry of Education, Mrs Abiola Seriki-Ayeni said the public and private schools to close for the first term academic session on Friday fro […]
Macron Tests Positive For COVID-19
President of France, Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for COVID-19. This was disclosed in a statement by the Presidential Elysee Palace on Thursday “The president tested positive for COVID-19 today,” it said in a statement, adding that he had been tested after the “onset of the first symptoms”. It said the president took a test […]
COVID-19: Nigeria To Receive Vaccine By January 2021- FG
The Federal Government has said Nigeria will receive coronavirus vaccine by the end of January 2021. This was announced by the Minister of Health, Enahire Osagie at the end of the virtual Federal Executive Meeting(FEC) held on Wednesday. He said there is a technical working group in the Ministry of Health working on which vaccine […]
BREAKING: Buhari Orders Full Opening Of Borders
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the immediate full opening of four land borders. The borders are Seme in the southwest, Illela in Sokoto State, Maigatari in the northwest, and Mfun in the south-south. This was disclosed by the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed at the end of the virtual FEC on Wednesday The President also […]
CJN Tanko Muhammed Tests Positive For COVID-19
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Muhammad has tested positive for COVID-19. A Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Ibrahim Saulawa confirmed this at the unveiling of the national headquarters of the Muslim Lawyers’Association of Nigeria (MULAN) on Tuesday in Abuja. According to justice Saulawa, the CJN is presently in Dubai, the United Arab […]
Nigeria’s Inflation Hits 14.89% As Food Prices Soar
Nigeria’s inflation has increased to 14.89% in November from 14.23% in October, a new report by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistic has shown. The report which was released on Tuesday shows a spike in food inflation which jumped from 18.30% in November from 17.38% the previous month. According to the Bureau, the rise in the […]
ICPC and the National Integrity Policy initiative By Olayinka Oyegbile
It is perhaps not a matter of sheer coincidence that as Nigeria marked her 60th year of Independence from colonial rule, the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, was also marking its two decades of existence. Created by an Act of Parliament in 2020, a year after the country returned to democratic rule […]
Conversation with Prof Kwasi Konadu
By Toyin Falola Kwasi Konadu is the father of three beautiful and very intelligent daughters, a truly grateful husband who is married to an equally beautiful and intelligent wife and life partner, a scholar specializing in the histories of Africa and its worldwide communities, a healer (Tanɔ ɔbosomfoɔ) who studied with his grandfather in Jamaica […]
Human rights and cultural limitations
By Toyin Falola Every year all around the world, people gather (in their minds, and also physically) to celebrate the International Human Rights Day, which has become part and parcel of our annual calendar. The day is always one to celebrate the “birth,” “conception,” or perhaps better put, “document” a set of […]
Ex-Liverpool Manager, Gerard Houllier, Dies At 73
Gerard Houllier, the French coach who won the UEFA Cup, FA Cup and League Cup treble with Liverpool, has died aged 73. Two of the French clubs Houllier managed, Paris Saint-Germain and Lens, confirmed he had died. Houllier, who managed Liverpool from 1998 to 2004, died overnight Sunday to Monday after undergoing hart surgery. His […]
