The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared Thursday 30 and Friday 31 July, 2020 as Public Holidays to mark this year’s Eid-el-Kabir Celebration.
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Hollywood actress, Royana Black, who starred in Broadway’s Brighton Beach Memoirs, has died. She was aged 47. Black died in Los Angeles on July 14 following a battle with Leukemia, her family have revealed in her obituary announced Tuesday, July 28. According to a GoFundMe campaign set up for her memorial, Black had acute myeloid […]
The 2020 West African Examination Council (WAEC) will commence on August 17, the Federal Government has declared. To this end, it asked secondary schools to reopen on August 4, 2020 for students in exit classes to sit for the exams. The government said students will have two weeks to prepare for WAEC. These were parts […]
The quest for the 2023 presidential or vice presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC), might have informed the decision of former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara to join the ruling party. The chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Walid Jubrin, disclosed this in […]
The Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) has declared its facilities and environs a no-mask no-entry zone in preparation for the resumption of operations on Wednesday. Manager, Abuja-Kaduna Train Service Mr. Pascal Nnorli told reporters that the corporation has put measures in place to ensure passengers obeyed COVID-19 guidelines on the trains. “We are 85 per cent […]
The flight for evacuation of Nigerians from United Kingdom scheduled for August 8 is fully booked, the Nigeria High Commission in UK has stated. The Commission, which disclosed this in a memo, also urged prospective evacuees yet to make payment not to bother to do so. They however said efforts would be made to schedule […]
A chief Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Dr. Abubakar Danladi, has claimed that over 10,000 health workers across Africa have tested positive for COVID-19 pandemic. He added that 200 Nigerian health workers and 10 doctors have so far been killed by the disease. Danladi, who stated these in Kaduna, said the development, coupled with lockdown, reduction […]
Former Big Brother Africa star, Pokello Nare has come out to blast people who say she bleached her skin so she could look light skinned. Pokello Nare, a Zimbabwean socialite and businesswoman, rose to fame during the 2013 edition of Big Brother Africa (BBA). According to Pokello who shared her childhood photos on Monday, not everyone who […]
Two persons have been confirmed dead while three others were injured after a 20-feet container fell on a commercial bus at Ilasamaja on the Oshodi-Badagry Expressway in Lagos state. A statement released by the Director-General Lagos State Emergency Management Agency LASEMA, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, today July 27, said the accident occurred on Sunday, July 26 and that […]
