There are issues bedeviling our country and we can not afford,to be all ostriches, with burrowed heads in the sand, while the winds forcibly expose our unshielded nakedness. Indeed,all over the world, there is a Universal Oath, which is codified by an undeniable spiritual verdict, which prescribes an ingenious testimony, to wit, that, “Truth is an Antidote to Falsehood”! Unfortunately, ...

  The Aare Onakakanfo (Generalisimo) of Yorubaland, Aare Gani Adams, on Tuesday, said he will never reconcile with former President Olusegun Obasanjo as his guadian angel will not forgive him if he did. Aare Adams, while speaking at a press conference at his Omole residence in Lagos, lambasted Obasanjo for casting aspersion on his character. The media had reported that ...

  The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has again given reasons why the strike it began nine months ago has not been suspended, according to agency report. Speaking on Wednesday, the President of ASUU, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, gave conditions that must be satisfied before calling off strike. The body said that it has become very necessary to make a ...

  By Agencies -December 9, 2020 Uganda has applied through the Global Alliances for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) to secure the COVID-19 vaccine from drugmaker AstraZeneca amid surging cases in the country, the country’s ministry of health said. Henry Mwebesa, the Director-General of Health Services, said in a statement that the application process is in an advanced stage and the ...

  The UN warned against “vaccine nationalism” by the wealthy countries. People’s Vaccine Alliance, a coalition of international nongovernmental organisations has warned that dozens of poor countries risk not getting Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines next year due to hoarding by wealthy countries. The coalition, comprising human rights watchdog Amnesty International, said on Wednesday that rich countries such as Canada, the United ...

  China has been increasing its activities in both the South and the East China Sea in response to the increasing US military presence in the region. Japan on Wednesday lodged a protest with China after four Chinese ships entered the coastal waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, media reports say. “Today, at 09:43 a.m. ...

  Report says server failed for applicants that wrote the 9:00am and 10:30 a.m. exam on Wednesday. Applicants who wrote Wednesday UTME exam for admission into the University of Benin (UNIBEN) are to be recalled following the collapse of the university’s server. The university, in a terse short messaging service (SMS) sent out on Wednesday afternoon, directed the affected candidates, ...

  Former chairman of defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, on Wednesday, told the Federal High Court, Abuja, that he had no case to answer in the allegations levied against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Mr. Maina, who told Justice Okon Abang shortly after the EFCC, through its counsel, Farouk Abdullah, closed its case, ...

  The federal government has directed all mobile provider companies in Nigeria to stop the sales and registration of new SIM cards now to allow an audit of the Subscriber Registration Database. The minister of communications and digital economy, Isa Pantami, gave this directive to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) which is the regulatory authority for mobile services Revealing this ...

  Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old grandmother, on Tuesday became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shot outside of trial as Britain began vaccinating its population. Britain began rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech on Tuesday, the first Western country to start vaccinating its general population in what was hailed as ...