This report from Oyo State says state schools have received a boost with the addition of over five thousand new teachers. These include seven hundred non-teaching staff who were converted to teachers by the Post-Primary School Teaching Service Commission. Governor Seyi Makinde attended the induction of the new teachers in the state capital, Ibadan yesterday, and he…
All is set for the second phase of the Covid-19 vaccination exercise in Lagos State, which begins tomorrow. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced that the exercise is being done with the Moderna vaccine, which comes with two doses. Speaking during a media briefing at the State House in Ikeja, said Lagos State received a little above three hundred…
Award-winning R and B singer, Robert Sylvester Kelly, popularly known as R. Kelly, has appeared before a federal court in New York. Fifty-four-year-old R. Kelly is accused of racketeering, sexual abuse and bribery, involving six unnamed women, but he has denied the charges. Some of the allegations made against the singer date back more than twenty years,…
Academic activities will resume at the University of Lagos in Akoka, Yaba, on Thursday next week, which is August 26. The announcement of the reopening of the institution comes six weeks after a forced closure of the Akoka campus due to the outbreak of Covid-19. The management of UNILAG also approved the immediate takeoff of second semester…
Romelu Lukaku will be wearing jersey Number-Nine on his return to Chelsea from Inter Milan. Lukaku, who sealed a record deal of ninety-seven point five million pounds, was officially unveiled at a news conference by the London club. The twenty-eight-year-old Belgian striker said that it does not feel as if he was coming into a new team,…
Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani has been granted asylum in the United Arab Emirates. Ghani fled Afghanistan as the Taliban invaded the capital city Kabul over the weekend. The UAE’s foreign ministry said the country had welcomed the Ghani and his family on humanitarian grounds. There had been rumours that Ghani might have fled to Tajikistan. In a Facebook…