China’s industrial output grew 6.7 per cent year-on–year in April, accelerating from the 4.5 per cent pace seen in March, as the recovery in the manufacturing sector gathered pace. The official data released on Friday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) came above a 5.5 per cent increase in a Reuters’ poll of analysts. However, […]
Nigerians no longer worry over what the state of the nation will look like tomorrow. Everyone is now focused on how to survive in the failing economy. It is no longer news that people’s purchasing powers have continued to decrease, as prices of goods and services continue to rise, unabated. The continuous rise has affected […]
The Police Command in Kaduna State said its operatives have killed two suspected bandits allegedly terrorising residents and recovered two AK-47 rifles from them. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Mansir Hassan, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna on Sunday. Hassan said, “On Saturday at about 0900 hours, armed […]
Abakaliki—Suspected warlords early, yesterday, attacked Ikachi village in the Akparata area of Effium in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, killing two persons and destroying property worth millions of naira. It was learned that the two killed were beheaded while seven persons were kidnapped and five houses burnt down. In a statement in Abakaliki, […]
The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Dr Isaiah Osifo said, if elected governor in the September 21 election, he would replicate the performances of Peter Obi and Charles Soludo as governors of Anambra State under APGA. The APGA candidate described the party as a performing one. He also called on the electorates […]
Former Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Hon Francis Okiye, a former governorship aspirant, under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon Felix Akhabue, former Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the Deputy Governor, Hin Kingsley Ehigiamusoe and thousands of their supporters on Sunday rejoined the All Progressives Congress (APC) at a rally in […]
Super Sunday’s match against Wolves marked Jurgen Klopp’s last as the manager of Liverpool. A journey that began in 2015, during which the team won seven major titles, including its first-ever Premier League. “If I sit here in four years, I am pretty confident we will have one title,” Klopp said in his introductory press […]
Canadian rapper Drake has suffered another substantial gambling loss, this time losing $565,000 after betting on Tyson Fury to defeat Oleksandr Usyk. Drake had shared on Instagram that he placed a hefty bet on Fury, hoping to win over $1 million if Fury emerged victorious. However, Usyk won by split decision in Saudi Arabia, making […]
In a recent turn of events, rapper and music executive Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs has issued an apology for physically assaulting his former signee and estranged girlfriend, Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura, two days after CNN released exclusive hotel surveillance footage from 2016. The CCTV footage depicts a disturbing incident from 2016, where Combs is seen chasing Ventura […]
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has died after the helicopter he was travelling on crashed in a mountainous area in the northwest of Iran. Rescue teams located the crash site on Monday morning, at which point the president and his foreign minister had been missing for more than 12 hours. “President Raisi, the foreign minister and […]
