Tobi Amusan couldn’t come to the rescue of Team Nigeria Thursday evening, finishing 6th in the final of the women’s 100m hurdles. Two other Nigerian athletes had lost out in the semifinals of tgeir 200m events. Tobi Express had a slow start and could not recover. She ran 12.62secs to place sixth in a race…
The Commissioner affirms readiness of government to upscale, resuscitate, and rehabilitate dilapidated facilities The Osun state government, under the administration of Governor Ademola Adeleke, has reaffirmed its readiness to upscale, resuscitate, and rehabilitate the dilapidated facilities in all the water corporation facilities across the state. The state government stated this through the Commissioner of Water…
Mozambican doctors and other health workers have suspended a strike that has been going on for more than a month and paralysed public health services. It comes hours after President Filipe Nyusi appealed to the health professionals to resume work to safeguard the health of Mozambicans. He said the strike had caused a lot of…
Federal Capital Territory (FCT) minister, Nyesom Wike has ordered the immediate identification and arrest of the owner of a two-storey building which collapsed in Abuja on Wednesday night. The building, located at Lagos Crescent, Garki Village in the Garki District of the nation’s capital, was one of the first-storey buildings in the area, collapsed around…
There was palpable tension at the national headquarters of the All Progressives Congress on Thursday following the arrival of Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello hours before the inauguration of the new zonal officers of the party’s National Working Committee. Bello, who stormed the secretariat in the company of his loyalists and the heavy presence…
Police in Zimbabwe have arrested 41 election monitors for allegedly trying to disrupt the voting process. Those being held, from civil society groups, were allegedly co-ordinating the release of results from Wednesday’s general election, police say. They are being charged with breaking electoral law, their lawyers say. Civil society groups have tried to do their…
A team of highly skilled medical practitioners have executed the first successful womb transplant in the history of the United Kingdom on the sisters. According to BBC, the woman the womb was transplanted into had her first period two weeks after the surgery. The transplant took place in February at Oxford’s Churchill Hospital by a…
Russian mercenary group Wagner’s chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was reported dead on Wednesday in a plane crash in Russia. He was said to be among the ten people on board a jet flying from Moscow to St. Petersburg. All seven passengers and three crew members were reported killed in the crash. Here are 10 things you…
A Chief Magistrate Court of Nasarawa State has quashed and set aside a warrant of arrest and remand against the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Duport Midstream Company Limited, Dr Akintoye Akindele. In Suit No: CMC/MG/CR/175/2023, the court on August 23, 2023, gave the order in the case between Akindele (defendant) and the Inspector General…
Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has promised that the State will be among the top ten in the ranking of the West African Examination Council(WAEC) before his first term ends. He said his administration will deploy all legal academic means that will return the past glory of the State in external examinations . Speaking…
