The much anticipated Big Brother Naija Season 6 edition which commenced last Saturday with the slogan ‘Shine Ya Eye’ and has so far garnered so much attention and excitement as expected. A lot of activities and happenstance are already surfacing and fans are no doubt soaking it all up withContinue Reading
If anyone says all is well with team Nigeria at the ongoing 2020 Olympics in far away Japan in Tokyo, such a person is among the greatest enemies of Sports sector in the country. The situation in Team Nigeria camp at the ongoing 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo Japan, isContinue Reading
At Antioch, for the first time, Jesus’ followers were called “Christians.” Originally, opponents of the church used the term as a derogatory label for the “devotees of the Anointed One” (in Greek Christiania). But the Nazarenes soon adopted it gladly. Thus, Antioch grew in Christian influence. In time it succeededContinue Reading
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, (TETFund) has charged the 226 public tertiary institutions statutorily benefiting from its interventions to inculcate efficient service delivery that would ensure that Nigerian higher institutions compete favourably with the best in the world. The fund warned that its desire to achieve results in line withContinue Reading
A law of Solon prohibited school being open before sunrise or after sunset to prevent the boys being exposed to the moral dangers of the deserted streets. But whether there were fixed hours for gymnastics and for music, and what they were, we can only conjecture. Nor do we knowContinue Reading
Tragicomically, the Guardian predicted that, by 2007, Blair’s triumph would be seen as ‘one of the great turning-points of British political history… the moment when Britain at last gave itself the chance to construct a modern liberal socialist order’. (Ibid) Pilger was right, Rusbridger et al were disastrously wrong. BlairContinue Reading
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that would allow him to stay in office for two more terms until the year 2036. The legislation, officially approved by Putin, came after changes to the country’s constitution last year that allowed the 68-year-old Russian leader to run for two moreContinue Reading
Major European Nations Suspend Use of AstraZeneca Vaccine Germany, France and Italy became the latest countries to suspend use of the COVID-19 vaccine AstraZeneca says 37 reports of blood clots out of 17 million people vaccinated in Europe Germany, France and Italy last week became the latest countries to suspendContinue Reading
The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, is set to screen at least three million children for acute malnutrition in the northeast. Folashade Adebayo, UNICEF’s Communication Officer in Nigeria, said in a statement issued in Maiduguri on Monday that the screening would be done with a grant from the government ofContinue Reading