The Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium is to award Chimamanda Adichie with a honourary doctorate degree. A statement signed by Omawumi Ogbe, Editor-in-Chief, GLAZIA communication stated that the award slated for April 28, would be Chimamanda’s 16th honourary doctorate degrees. Read more…
A mother of five, Aisha Tijani, has allegedly set her 10-year-old daughter on fire in Ogun State, the police have said. Officers arrested the woman on Sunday for “pouring petrol on her 10 years old daughter and setting her ablaze” Read more…
A Boeing 737 airliner with 132 people aboard has crashed into a mountainous area in southern China in what looks set to be the country’s most deadly plane crash for decades. The aircraft, on a flight from the city of Kunming Read more…
Russia has said that Kiev’s idea to put peace deal terms up for a referendum will only hurt the ongoing talks. Moscow launched a military campaign against Ukraine late last month. “We’re convinced that putting [the terms] before the public Read more…
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday that it had summoned the U.S. ambassador to warn that President Joe Biden’s recent remarks have put Russian-American relations on the verge of rupture.Russia moves into western Ukraine, families say goodbye and some volunteer to fight Read more…
The Russian Defense Ministry has released a video it claims shows Ukrainian rocket artillery for which civilian buildings had been used as cover before it was hidden inside a Kiev shopping mall. The site was destroyed overnight in a missile Read more…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has tracked down the officer who leaked a video of Willie Obiano, the immediate-past governor of Anambra, in its custody. PREMIUM TIMES had reported how the 12-second footage showing Mr Obiano in his shorts Read more…
The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has said the details of the ongoing investigations of the immediate-past governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, will not be disclosed to the public. Mr Bawa said this in Abuja Read more…
Royal fathers from Enugu West Senatorial District have given their royal blessings and the “Ofo”, which symbolises authority, truth, and justice, to the former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, ahead of the governorship primaries in the state. Read more…
Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, has justified the anger and grievances of University lecturers under the umbrella of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) who have been on a nationwide strike for over a month. Read more…
President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State; the Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, and his Chief Economic Adviser, Prof. Doyin Salami, to a meeting at the Presidential Villa on Monday afternoon. According to a statement by Read more…
Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has sacked some members of the Federal House of Representatives from Cross River State and State House of Assembly, who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the Read more…