The governments of Lagos, Osun, Oyo and Ogun have declared Tuesday, 20 August, a public holiday to commemorate the Isese Day celebration. The announcements were contained in separate circulars on Monday by the commissioners of information for each state. Bode Agoro, the head of service in Lagos, said the decision further reaffirms Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the…
Tunji Adeniji-Soji, the Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) season nine housemate better known as Tjay, has welcomed a set of twins. The twins were born on August 18, 2024, according to an Instagram post by the reality star’s handler. The handler described the newborn baby boys as “truly a double portion of joy” while appreciating the…
Determined to wipe out corruption in the region, chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria, has called on member-countries of the regional body to, as a matter of necessity, ratify and fully implement the ECOWAS Protocol against Corruption….
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted thundery and rainy weather conditions from Monday to Wednesday across the country. NiMet’s weather outlook released in Abuja envisaged thunderstorms over parts of Kano, Katsina, Zamfara, Jigawa, Kaduna, Taraba and Bauchi States during the morning hours. According to NiMet, thunderstorms are expected over parts of Kebbi, Adamawa, Taraba,…
Two siblings have been killed by overburdened mass, which collapsed at an artisanal mining site in Kakaki village of Paikoro local government area of Niger State. LEADERSHIP gathered that the two brothers Zubairu and Sadiq Ibrahim went to a gold mining site in the village with a large deposit of gold in order to meet…
UK businessman Mike Lynch, who was recently acquitted in the United States of an $11 billion fraud, is among those missing Monday after a superyacht sank off southern Italy, a source close to the rescue effort said. Lynch’s wife was among 15 people rescued, according to the source, after the luxury yacht sank overnight amid…
Nigerians have been warned against the consumption of undercooked bush meat, to save them from contacting the deadly Mpox virus. They were also advised to avoid contact with dead animals to reduce the possibility of contacting the Mpox virus. The president of the National Association of Resident Doctors, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (ARD-UITH) branch…
By Kehinde Olusegun Rena Wakama is a Nigerian professional basketball coach and former player, she is the head coach for the Nigeria Senior Women’s Basketball Team and an assistant coach at Tulane University, New Orleans. Before joining Tulane, Wakama spent a year as an Assistant Coach at Stony Brook University, New York. Wakama was born…
South Africa’s Dricus du Plessis has secured his first successful UFC middleweight title defence, thrashing Nigerian born Israel Adesanya in the fourth round to retain his title. Du Plessis took a flurry of body hits across four rounds before defeating Adesanya via a rear-naked choke submission to retain his middleweight championship at UFC 305 in…
A surging mpox outbreak in Africa was declared an emergency by the World Health Organisation this week. And the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDC, an EU agency, on Friday said more imported cases to Europe were “highly likely”. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Africa CDC, declared its first-ever Public…
