The Paris 2024 Olympic Games will showcase 3,800 hours of live sports and award 329 gold medals in 32 sports over 18 days of competition across the capital, and other parts of France. Here is all you need to know about the 34th summer Olympics. The opening ceremony to signal the official start of the…
IG claims foreign infilteration, youths accuse DSS of freezing accountShelve your demonstration, Tantita boss, Tompolo, begs organisersAs momentum continues to gather ahead of the planned nationwide #EndBadGovernance protest, some organisers, who all the while were tagged ‘faceless’, have revealed their identities, Saturday PUNCH reports. They also insisted that they remained undaunted and would hit the…
The Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum, Prof Ango Abdullahi, has warned against frustrating and demarketing Dangote Refinery, saying it is an ill wind that would do the country no good. The former vice-chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, raised the concerns in a statement issued in Abuja on Saturday. His concerns come in…
Canadian-French singer, Céline Dion, rounded up the opening ceremony of 2024 Paris Olympics with her first performance since she announced her diagnosis with stiff-person syndrome in 2022. Dion performed “L’Hymne à l’amour” by the French singer Édith Piaf, from a stage at the base of the Eiffel Tower. American rapper, Snoop Doggy, was also one…
Federal lawmaker representing Anambra South Senatorial District, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, is dead. He was aged 52. The lawmaker who flew to the United Kingdom since he seriously took ill few weeks ago died Saturday morning in a London hospital. His condition reportedly became critical in the past 48 hours. The cause of death was not…
“Naija no dey carry last🇳🇬.” Team Nigeria blends culture and sports as they show off our traditional outfits for the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics. Photo credit : @makingofchamps @nigeriaolympic (Instagram)
Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State has commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for signing the North West Development Commission Bill into law. On Tuesday, the president signed bills creating the North West Development Commission (NWDC) and the South East Development Commission. In a statement issued on Thursday in Gusau, the spokesperson for the Zamfara Governor,…
Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, poet, author, teacher and political activist, was born in Nigeria and educated in England. In 1986, the playwright and political activist became the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. He dedicated his Nobel acceptance speech to Nelson Mandela. Soyinka has published hundreds of works, including drama,…
Governor Ademola Adeleke is governing Osun State without borrowing a single kobo and without drawing any security votes, Spokesperson to the State Governor, Mallam Olawale Rasheed has clarified. He made the clarifications in response to questions from reporters who quoted some opposition figures alleging the state Governor of increasing Osun debt and of accessing security…
