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The burial of the late football legend Pele has been set for Monday and Tuesday. The wake will be held on Monday and his body will be laid to rest on Tuesday at his Santos home, where he enchanted the world, according to his former club. “The wake for the greatest footballer of all time will be held in Urbano …

From daring terror attacks to floods and oil exploration, Northern Nigeria witnessed issues that defined the region in 2022. From a daring terror attack on a moving train to commencement of oil drilling, the year 2022 will be remembered in Northern Nigeria for some key events and developments. Here are some of the stories from the region that stood out in 2022: …

President Muhammadu Buhari has joined world leaders in expressing grief over the death of Brazilian soccer legend, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, popularly known as Pele, who died on Thursday. The world’s greatest-ever football player succumbed to death after suffering a debilitating bout of cancer. He was 82, at the time of his passing on Thursday at the Albert Einstein Jewish Hospital, …

Brazil football legend, Pele, who died on Thursday at the age of 82, was regarded as the game’s greatest player. Pele was the best-loved footballer of his or any other generation, the eternal master of the beautiful game. Here are 13 things to know about Pele: 1. Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento in October 1940, Pele played his first game …

-APC former guber aspirant, Osiobe Okotie, 500 others defect to PDP  •I’ll advance Delta through my MORE agenda — Oborevwori UGHELLI—Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State and vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said the party was out to right all the wrongs done Nigerians by the All Progressives Congress, APC.  Delta Governor and Vice-Presidential Candidate …

What are the drivers of the Japa phenomenon in recent years? What factors led and are leading to the mass exodus of Nigerians abroad? Why are people leaving in droves and some even daring to escape via ship rudders, ignoring threat of certain danger or possible death just to emigrate? In this piece, some Nigerians who emigrated to the UK, US, …

The Labour Party has said the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar takes south-easterners as fools, noting that there is no better way to describe his recent statement in Awka, Anambra State, than insensitive. The Labour Party said that at a time Nigeria is on the brink of division, occasioned by nepotism and dominance of …

The  Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign state of Biafra (MASSOB) has warned the federal government of the disastrous consequences of leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu dying in detention. MASSOB warned that Nigeria as a country would not be able to contend what will hit her if Kanu is denied of medical attention and …

Vatican’s news service posted a prayer for the health of Benedict XVI on Wednesday, after Pope Francis asked Catholics to pray for the “very ill” pope emeritus. At the end of his weekly public audience on Dec. 28, Pope Francis said: “I ask to all of you a special prayer for the pope emeritus Benedict, who, in silence, is sustaining …

…as new policy begins to count gains  Amidst early gains from the recently launched twin policy on cashless economy, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has kick-started some key steps towards consolidating the policy measures. The twin policy is anchored on the Naira redesign and establishment of new limits on cash withdrawal from banks, all geared towards effective monetary policy …