The West Africa Examinations Council said it spent over N1.5 billion to conduct the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations. The Head, WAEC National Office in Nigeria, Areghan Patrick, disclosed this on Friday in Abuja at the 2021 budget defense before the House of Representatives
The African Cup of Nations Beach Soccer competition will be played in the week of May 23-30, 2021, in Senegal. The date is tentative and subject to approval by the African Football Confederation when the Senegalese Football Federation sends the proposal to Egypt. This information was communicated
President Donald Trump has warned his Democrat challenger Joe Biden not to “wrongfully claim” the White House as electoral college votes showed the former vice president close to an insurmountable lead. Trump, who has consistently threatened legal proceedings since Tuesday, made this known via Twitter Friday. He
Alexander Zverev battled past Stan Wawrinka in straight sets in the Paris Masters quarter-finals on Friday and will face Rafael Nadal in the last four. The 23-year-old German, who is seeking a third straight title after back-to-back victories on home soil in Cologne, edged out Wawrinka
Justice Dolapo Akinsanya, who on November 10, 1993 declared as illegal the Interim National Government of Chief Ernest Shonekan, is dead. The judge, it was learnt, died in Lagos on Thursday at the age of 79. Upon a suit filed by the acclaimed winner of the 1993
No fewer than two persons died after a Daf tanker loaded with PMS (Premium Motor Spirit) exploded at World Oil Filling Station after Kara Bridge on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway outward Lagos The accident reportedly occurred at about 1am. The bridge has witnessed several accident in recent times. Among the
The Ebonyi State Government has issued a ban on the use of high-speed motorcycles for both private and commercial purposes in Abakaliki and other urban centres in the state. Ebonyi Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Uchenna Orji said the ban decision was taken to check the rate
The Enugu State Government has distributed quality agricultural inputs for dry season farming to two thousand poor and vulnerable farmers in the rural areas, under the World Bank-Assisted CARES programme. Speaking during flag-off of the distribution of the agricultural inputs which ranged from cassava stems, rice seeds,
Gunmen have attached the residence of the Adamawa State Speaker, Aminu Iya Abbas and abducted two people. The gunmen who were resisted by security operatives guarding the residence, killed one of the security operatives. It was gathered Friday that the attack on the residence, located in Mbamba,
Nigeria’s Former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, will have to wait to know her fate as the next Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO). This is because a meeting of the organization originally scheduled for Monday, November 9 on the issue has been postponed. Okonjo-Iweala had
