Watford have appointed Claudio Ranieri as their new manager, the Premier League club announced on Monday. Ranieri, who led Leicester to the Premier League title in 2016, agreed a two-year contract with the Hornets to replace the sacked Xisco Munoz. “Watford FC is delighted to confirm the appointment of Claudio Ranieri as the club’s new head […]
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Social messaging/networking sites WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook have all gone down in what appears to be another major global outage. According to data on Downdetector, the three social media platforms – owned by Mark Zuckerberg — completely stopped working shortly before 5 pm on Monday, leaving millions of users worried. The outages began to trend on Twitter […]
Continue ReadingUBA Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has announced the commencement of the 2021 edition of its annual National Essay Competition (NEC) in Nigeria with a call for entries. The National Essay Competition (NEC) is part of UBA Foundation’s education initiative which is aimed at promoting literacy […]
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Unknown gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted Air Vice Marshal Sikiru Smith (retd.) in Lagos State. Smith, a cousin to a former Inspector-General of Police and current Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Musiliu Smith, was kidnapped in the Ajah axis of Lagos on Monday, according to the Punch. According to the report, the retired […]
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Not less than 13 wedding guests, including the groom’s brother and his wife, have died in an accident which occurred in Etche Local Government Area of River State. It was gathered that the Coaster bus conveying the wedding guests collided with a truck close close to Akpoku- Udufor community in the state last Saturday. It […]
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The Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) of Nigeria says some items used for locally-manufactured improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are collected by scavengers who move round homes. This disclosure was made by Friday Okolie, a commodore, who on Monday when he represented the agency at a public hearing organised by the house of representatives committee on national security and […]
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Guaranty Trust Bank Plc (“GTBank” or “the Group”), now Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc, has released its audited financial results for the period ended June 30, 2021, to the Nigerian and London Stock Exchanges. A review of the results shows a decent performance across key financial metrics against the challenging business environment. This performance reaffirms […]
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The secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, says the federal government will soon make COVID-19 vaccination compulsory for civil servants. Speaking at a meeting of the health commissioners forum on Thursday in Abuja, Mustapha said the government wants civil servants to be vaccinated, considering that they sometimes represent Nigeria abroad. The […]
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) says African countries may miss the goal of vaccinating 10 percent of their most vulnerable populations against COVID, before the end of September. WHO Africa, in a statement on Thursday, said new data shows that 42 out of Africa’s 54 nations may miss the target with the current pace of delivery and […]
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The Director-General of National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has vowed to continue to summon broadcasters who violate the Broadcasting Code. Balarabe Ilelah, Director-General of NBC, made this known when members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) visited the commission’s office in Abuja on Monday. According to Ilelah, the NBC is not out to suppress press […]
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