Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Fri, 06/19/2020 - 15:15
NIGERIA'S federal government has suspended plans to resume domestic flights across the country on Sunday June 21 after health experts warned that it would unsafe to do so in the face or rising coronavirus cases.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Fri, 06/19/2020 - 13:26
Ayo Akinfe
(1) As you all know by now, Quaker Oats has announced that it is changing the name of its Aunt Jemima brand of syrup and pancake mixes. It says it recognises that Aunt Jemima's origins are based on a racial stereotype
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Thu, 06/18/2020 - 15:19
INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) officials have advocated $49bn worth on investment in Nigeria's power sector between now and 2030 as a means of addressing the non-ending problem of epileptic electricity supply.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Thu, 06/18/2020 - 14:53
ANAMBRA State government has established a local vigilante outfit to be known as the Forest Guards and tasked it with the job of providing security following the recent rise in attacks by armed Fulani herdsmen.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Thu, 06/18/2020 - 13:58
SUSPENDED chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole has thrown his weight behind former Oyo State governor Senator Abiola Ajimobi as the authentic acting party chairman in his absence.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Thu, 06/18/2020 - 13:35
BRITISH Airways (BA) has announced plans to switch many of its short-haul flights from Gatwick to Heathrow Airport next month as part of a compulsory restructuring plan brought about by the coronavirus pandemic shutdown.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Thu, 06/18/2020 - 12:54
NIGERIA'S goalkeeping appears to have come to an end after nine bleak months after first choice Francis Uzoho resumed training following a nasty knee injury and second choice Maduka Okoye is set for a move to Dutch side Sparta Rotterdam.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Thu, 06/18/2020 - 10:47
By Ayo Akinfe
(1) I have always regarded the 1851 capture of Lagos as the date when the British colonisation of Nigeria began. That was the year when John Beecroft the British consul of the Bights of Benin and Biafra, lined up his naval gunboats off the coast of Lagos and forced Oba Akintoye to sign a treaty of protection handing over the city to Britain
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 06/17/2020 - 15:57
EDO State deputy governor Philip Shaibu has joined his boss Godwin Obaseki and resigned from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in response to the ongoing saga wrecking the party in the run-up to September's gubernatorial elections.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 06/17/2020 - 15:18
NIGERIA'S federal government has threatened to take punitive action against any resident doctor on its payroll who fails to resume work today June 17 in a desperate bid to break the recent strike called by the National Association of Resident Doctors (Nard).
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