Just In: OPC founder, Frederick Fasehun, dies at 83
The founder of Odua Peoples Congress (OPC), Dr. Frederick Fasehun, has died, The Punch NG reports.
Fasehun, it was learnt, died in the early hours of Saturday at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja.
It was...
Customer drags Ecobank to court over loss of N2 billion
A Lagos businessman, Rev. Chukwuemeka Ngubo and his company, Elim Motors Nigeria limited have filed a suit against Ecobank Nigeria limited for allegedly buying United States Dollar on his behalf at the rate of...
Mayorkun’s debut album, ‘The Mayor of Lagos’ hits Billboard World Chart
Nigerian singer, Mayorkun’s album ‘The Mayor of Lagos’ (TMOL) hit number 15 on The Billboard World Album Chart for the week of Nov 15, 2018.
The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record...
US official says Atiku’s visa status confidential…politicians should embrace issue-based campaigns
The United States Consulate in Lagos has said matters relating to the issuance of visa to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, or any other individual is a confidential matter.
This was...
ASUU: Stop salaries of striking lectures, FG orders VCs
The federal government has ordered vice-chancellors of Nigeria public universities to stop with immediate effect the salaries of lecturers who are on strike.
The National Universities Commission (NUC) had issued a memo containing the no-work-no-pay...
Envoy: Buhari’s dynamism rekindles Morocco-Nigeria ties
Ambassador Mohammed Methqal, Director General of Morocco International Cooperation Agency, has attributed the present cooperation between Nigeria and Morocco to strategic thinking by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Methqal disclosed this in an interview with the News...
Former US president George H.W. Bush dead at 94
Former US president George H.W. Bush, who helped steer America through the end of the Cold War, died Friday at age 94, his family announced.
Tributes quickly poured in for the former US leader, a...
A lifesaving therapy—and the researcher who helped launch it
Oral rehydration therapy (ORT)—a mixture of water, sugar, and salt that is remarkably effective at rehydrating people with cholera or other diarrheal diseases—is credited with saving tens of millions of lives worldwide.
On November 19, 2018, a...
Buhari extols Agunloye at 70
President Muhammadu Buhari has saluted former Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, Dr. Olu Agunloye, on his 70th birthday.
Mr. Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity), said in...
PDP reacts over FG asking US not to grant Atiku visa, says APC’s game...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to statement made by Lai Mohammed, the minister of information asking the United States no to grant visa to its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
The opposition party alleged...