By Ayo Akinfe
(1) Today is August 3. In this day in 1900, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company founded by this gentleman named Harvey Firestone. Cashing in on the booming automobile market, Mr Firestone soon saw the huge potential for...
NIGERIA'S Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) has recovered public hospital equipment from the private premises of the Mma Obot Foundation belonging to former Akwa Ibom State governor Senator Godswill...
HOODLUMS suspected to be Fulani cattle herdsmen have killed the Catholic Parish Priest of St James the Greater Parish in Ugbawka of Enugu State Reverend Father Paul Offu by shooting him yesterday.
Of late, Fulani cattle herdsmen have...
COMMONWEALTH Zion Assembly (Coza) board member Pastor Obafemi Banigbe has resigned in response to the growing controversy surrounding the church's founder Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo who is accused of rape.
Last month, Busola Dakolo, the...
NIGERIAN teenage goalkeeper Chituru Odunze has been signed up by English Premier league side Leicester City after successfully completing a two week trial with the club ahead of the forthcoming season.
Odunze, 16, spent last season...
PRESIDENCY officials have indicated that the recently published list of ministerial appointees was an unapproved leak not sanctioned by President Muhammadu Buhari who had intended to name their portfolios during their inauguration.
Over...
By Ayo Akinfe
(1) It is a nice coincidence that President Buhari names the members of his cabinet and their portfolios on August 2 as on this same day in 1776, 55 men signed the US Declaration of Independence. Will we see 43 men and...
NIGERIA attracted a total of $15.5bn worth of domestic and foreign investment commitments during the first six months of 2019 according to a recent report by the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) .
Apparently, between...
WOMEN'S groups in Ogun State have written to Governor Dapo Abiodun asking him to ensure that at least 35 of all the commissioners he appoints into his cabinet are ladies as part of a programme to promote gender equality.
Governor...
MURTALA Mohammed International Airport taxi driver Olayinka Adeniyi has returned a sum of $2,400 and an international passport left in his car by passenger Dele Ayeni who hired a cab to take him to Ikorodu.
Mr Adeniyi, who has worked as...