UgamatvLEBANON LEADERS NAME FAVORITE FOR PM BEFORE MACRON’S VISIT
Lebanon was to start consultations Monday to name a new premier, with the envoy to Berlin emerging as a front-runner, as French President Emmanuel Macron was to visit the disaster-hit…
TRUMP LAUDS ABE AS JAPAN’S BEST-EVER PM
US President Donald Trump on Sunday praised outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as Japan’s best head of government ever. In a late-night tweet, Trump said he had just spoken with…
AFTER FIVE MONTHS, GHANA REOPENS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Ghana will reopen its international airport on Tuesday but with new regulations in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the president announced. Kotoka International Airport, located outside the…
COVID-19: LAGOS HEALTH COMMISSIONER ABAYOMI RECOVERS
Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, has recovered from coronavirus. Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Lagos State, Gbenga Omotosho, made this known on Monday. Abayomi had on August 24…
UPDATE: SUPREME COURT DISMISSES PDP’S APPEAL AGAINST YAHAYA BELLO’S ELECTION
The Supreme Court, on Monday, dismissed the Peoples Democratic Party’s appeal challenging the victory of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State at the November 16, 2019 governorship election in the…
CAMA: LAWYER WRITES CAC, THREATENS LAWSUIT
A Lagos-based activist lawyer, Chief Malcolm Omirhobo, has written a pre-action letter to the Registrar General of the Corporate Affairs Commission, threatening to sue the commission over the provisions of…
JAMB LIFTS SUSPENSION ON ADMISSION LETTERS PRINTING, OTHERS
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said it had lifted the suspension earlier placed on the printing of admission letters, inter-university transfers among others. The organisation said with the development,…
WE’RE NOT READY FOR FULL RESUMPTION YET- ENUGU, BAUCHI, OGUN OTHERS
States including Ogun, Katsina, Bauchi, Enugu, Sokoto, Gombe and Ekiti on Sunday ruled out full reopening of schools, including tertiary institutions, despite the success recorded so far in the fight…
MAKINDE SAYS, EDUCATION TOOL FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY
The Oyo State Governor, Mr Seyi Makinde, has decsribed education as a tool for economic recovery and development of any society. The governor said this in Ibadan on Sunday during…
COVID-19: IKOYI MARRIAGE REGISTRY REOPENS FOR WEDDINGS
After being closed for about five months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ikoyi Marriage Registry in Lagos has reopened for conduct of weddings. Our correspondent, who visited the marriage…
