Dirtiest slap ever
By TUNDE ODESOLA Creating a soundscape similar to locomotive wheels in motion, the rapid footfalls of marching prisoners travel beyond the walls of National Prisons, Gashua: “Lef, rai! Lef, rai! Lef, rai!” the warder barks as numerous feet, rising and falling, left-right, thud the earth in unison, raising dust. “A-t-t-e-n-t-i-o-n!” As the prisoners’ feet come to a simultaneous halt at exactly...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thomas hospitalised
Justice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalised because of an infection, the Supreme Court said Sunday. Thomas, 73, has been at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., since Friday after experiencing “flu-like symptoms,” the court said in a statement. The court offered no explanation for why it waited two days to disclose that the justice was in the hospital. It also provided no...
Russia bombs school sheltering 400 people
Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday that Russia's military bombed an art school sheltering 400 people in the embattled port city of Mariupol, where Ukraine's President said an unrelenting Russian siege would be remembered for centuries to come. It was the second time in less than a week that city officials reported a public building where residents had taken shelter coming...
Ukraine rejects Russian demand to surrender port city, Mariupol
Ukrainian officials defiantly rejected a Russian demand that their forces in Mariupol lay down arms and raise white flags on Monday in exchange for safe passage out of the besieged strategic port city. Russia has been barraging the encircled southern city on the Sea of Azov, hitting an art school sheltering some 400 people only hours before offering to open...
Sunshine Queens’ goalie, Elizabeth, is dead
Sunshine Queens FC of Akure has lost its goalkeeper, Elizabeth Johnson. A statement by its Media Officer, Femi Atolagbe, described the incident as “shocking” as the deceased had trained with the rest of the squad on Saturday at the Ondo State Sports Complex, Akure. “It is heartbreaking; Sunshine Queens lost one of its goalkeepers, Elizabeth Johnson, moments ago. “She was hale and healthy...
Grid collapse: CBN earmarks N104bn to stabilise electricity supply
The Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, has said that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has provided N104 billion ($250 million) for the rehabilitation and strengthening of critical transmission and distribution infrastructure interfaces to increase and stabilize electricity supply in the country. According to the minister, the $250 million project being funded by the CBN was in addition to the...
Akeredolu backs Kekemeke for APC vice chairmanship
The Ondo State Government has said the former All Progressives Congress chairman in the state chairman, Hon. Isaac Kekemeke, has the support of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, and other governors in the South-West region to contest for the position of National Vice Chairman (South West). It made this known in a statement issued by the Ondo State Commissioner for Information and...
Afegbua berates Atiku over claim PDP may die in 2023
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Edo State, Prince Kassim Afegbua, has berated former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for saying the PDP “would go into extinction in 2023” if the party lose the next year presidential election. Atiku, in an interactive session Board of Trustees (BoT) members of the PDP to seek their support for his presidential aspiration...
Presidency: Saraki, Tambuwal, Bala mull consensus northern candidate
Three presidential hopefuls from the North on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are mulling a consensus candidate during the party’s primaries without acrimony. Former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, gave the assurance in Bauchi on Sunday when he along with Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto, also a PDP presidential hopeful, paid a consultative visit to Governor Bala...
2023: Atiku formally declares Presidential ambition Wednesday
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar will officially declare his intention to contest for President in the 2023 general election on Wednesday. Atiku will run for the number one seat under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). A statement issued by Atiku’s media office on Sunday, a copy of which was made available to The Star, indicated that the former...
