archiveJanuary 2021

Osagie Ehanire, minister of health, says Nigeria has secured an additional 41 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. He disclosed this on Thursday, when he featured on a Channels Television programme. TheCable had reported that Nigeria had secured 100,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine through the COVAX facility, which is co-led by...

Nigeria has dropped to 149 on Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perception Index, the worst ranking received by Africa’s largest country in recent time. Nigeria also scored 25 out of a possible 100 points. In the last TI rating in 2019, Nigeria was ranked 146th out of the 180 countries surveyed, scoring 26...

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday appointed new service chiefs for the country. The new service chiefs are Major-General Leo Irabor as Chief of Defence Staff; Major-General I. Attahiru as Chief of Army Staff; Rear Admiral A.Z Gambo as Chief of Naval Staff; and Air-Vice Marshal I.O Amao as Chief of Air...

The Grammy Awards is the most prestigious award in world music. It is awarded to the best singers in the world in different categories and over the years, may Nigerian artists have nominated for the Grammys but only one has been able to win this prestigious award. Here is a...

2020 was not a great year for most smartphone companies as the pandemic hit various points of their supply chains, slowed down consumer appetite for non-essential goods, and lead to increased unemployment rates. But for Transsion Holdings, the story was quite different. A recent report from Counterpoint Research details how...

KAMPALA, Uganda—Ugandan rapper-turned-opposition leader Bobi Wine pledged to continue his fight to oust longtime President Yoweri Museveni, after soldiers released him from nearly two weeks of home detention following January’s disputed election. Dozens of chanting supporters, waving the brightly colored flags of Mr. Wine’s National Unity Platform party, thronged his residence...

“Omo Ghetto” ( The Saga), a movie by Actress Funke Akindele-Bello, popularly known as Jenifa has been declared Nollywood’s highest-grossing movie of all time. Reports have it that the 2020 comedy film has broken a four-year record formally held by Kemi Adetiba’s ‘The Wedding Party’. In a statement released by...

Gone are those days when most pastors, are focused on preaching and spreading the word of God, presently pastors fly first class and some of them own some of the latest private jets that are worth millions of dollars. Most of these pastors own thousands of churches around the world...