Tega Odumu is Joined by Edmund Oris, Dr Williams and Special Guest Osereme on the latest edition of THE Viewing Center Podcast to discuss Queue Setien first loss as Barcelona’s manager,  breakdown of transfer stories, Manchester United’s fate under Solksjaer, Incredible Haaland and the shocking death of Kobe Bryant. In Extra time we delve in […]

IMMEDIATE past Deputy Chief whip of the House of Representatives, Pally Iriase and several other leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, weekend said the National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole was not fighting Governor Adams Oshiomhole contrary to reports just as they pledged continued support for Oshiomhole as he positions the party in forefront for many years to come. The post Edo 2020: Oshiomhole not fighting Obaseki says Iriase, others appeared first on Vanguard News.

Burna Boy who had Nigeria buzzing after being nominated for the Grammy Awards in the World Best Music Album category has lost to Beninese singer-songwriter, Angelique Kidjo. The Grammy Award for Best World Music Album is an honour presented to recording artists for quality albums in the world music genre. Angelique Kidjo beat Burna Boy, […] The post Grammy: No Show For Burna Boy As Angelique Kidjo Wins appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News.

Nigerian singer Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, better known as Burna Boy has lost the 2020 Grammy Award for the Best World Music Album to Angelique Kidjo, whose Celia was adjudged the winner over African Giant.

South Africa saw the lowest number of mine deaths on record last year, with 51 people killed compared to 81 the previous year, the mines ministry said on Friday. “The lowest recorded fatalities in 2019 at 51 shows that there’s a possibility of a fatality-free mining industry and that’s what we are striving for,” the […]

Abdulmumin Jibrin, the ousted All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in Saturday’s rerun election for Kiru/Bebeji Federal Constituency in Kano state has alleged that his mandate was stolen at the polls.

Eastern military commander Khalifa Haftar is violating Libya’s truce and so cannot be expected to respect the ceasefire called between his forces and pro-government troops, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday. Despite efforts by Turkey and Russia, Haftar abandoned talks on a ceasefire in Moscow earlier this month and his blockade of Libyan oilfields […]

Gunmen on Saturday attacked vehicles conveying travellers, who alighted at  Rigasa railway station from Abuja, injured some of them and abducted several others. ‎ ‎

Nineteen soldiers were killed and five wounded in an attack on an army camp in central Mali before dawn on Sunday, army spokesman Dirran Kone said. The identity of the attackers was not immediately clear, Reuters reports. Islamist groups with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State operate in the arid area and carry out […]

Foreign investors bought fewer Nigerian stocks in 2019 than the previous year, stock exchange data showed, after hopes for reforms that could lift Africa’s biggest economy faded. Nigeria has grappled with low growth since recovery from a recession four years ago. President Muhammadu Buhari, who began a second four-year term in May, has pledged to […]

Nine persons were aboard the crashed Sikorsky helicopter that killed NBA legend, Kobe Bryant and his 13 year-old daughter, Gianna.

Talks to salvage a tentative $1.7 billion debt restructuring between Congo Republic and energy traders Glencore and Trafigura are stuck, sources said, jeopardising an International Monetary Fund bailout for the debt-hobbled nation. The IMF signed off in July on a $449 million, three-year lending programme to help the central African nation’s ailing economy – but […]

Alicia Keys is set to host the full ceremony as the evening’s stars move forward to collect their awards throughout the night. The industry finest have all gathered in Los Angeles to celebrate what the Recording Academy has deemed to be the best of the past year. Among nominees, Lizzo leads the pack with eight […]

Real Madrid dethroned Barcelona from the leadership of La Liga for the first time since October after grinding out a 1-0 win away at Real Valladolid on Sunday.

According to TMZ , NBA legend Kobe Bryant died during a helicopter crash in Calabasas Sunday morning. Kobe’s daughter Gianna Maria Onore was on-board the helicopter. She was 13-years-old. They were heading to basketball practice in Thousand Oaks at the Mamba Academy when the helicopter went down. There were five passengers in total on-board, all of […]

Zimbabwe’s central bank has frozen an account of a Chinese company it accused of manipulating the local currency, which lost ground against the dollar on the black market this week. The southern African nation reintroduced the Zimbabwe dollar last June, ending a decade of dollarisation, but this resulted in runaway inflation, which economists say reached […]

The 2020 Grammy for Best Rap Performance has been posthumously awarded to rapper, activist, and entrepreneur, Ermias Joseph Asghedom popularly known as Nipsey Hussle.

Basketball legend Kobe Bryant has died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas Sunday morning ,TMZ Sports has confirmed. Kobe was traveling with at least three other people in his private

Hon. John Okiyi Kalu, the Abia State Commissioner for Information, in this interview with CHRISTIAN NWOKOCHA, in Umuahia, reaffirmed that the completion of the state financed Automated Shoe Factory and the reopening of Golden Guinea Brewery were part of the achievements recorded by the state government in 2019. Excerpts:   What will you consider as major […]

LAGOS – So far, it has been a good year for the equities market as investors have been smiling home from trading on daily basis.  As at Thursday January 23, 2020, the year to date, gain on the Nigerian equities market stood at 10.2 per cent.  A recent report said the growing appetite in equities has […]

Let not your first thought be your only thought Think if there cannot be some other way Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, Betrays a shallowly spirit, an empty heart It is no weakness for the wisest man To learn when he is wrong, know when to yield – Haemon in Sophocles Antigone […]

ABAKALIKI  – Members of the Building Materials’ Association, Abakaliki branch have said that they are ready to relocate to a new site allocated to them by the Ebonyi State Government.  The traders were said to have reached an agreement with the state Governor, Chief Dave Umahi on their relocation to the new site on February […]

UMUAHIA – Trading activities at the Osusu Road Market in Aba that has been stalled in the past 30 years as result of the deplorable nature of roads leading to the Market would soon become a thing of the past, just as the 2.4 kilometer road will be completed within the first quarter of 2020.  Daily […]

Savannah Petroleum Plc has disclosed its intention to acquire more Nigerian companies in the coming years, months after acquiring a Nigerian oil and gas exploration, to expand its footprint in Nigeria and Africa.  Andrew Knott, the Chief Executive of Savannah Petroleum, who made the disclosure to journalists, said the acquisition of Seven Energy International Limited […]

Notwithstanding the insistence by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) that the Naira may not be devalued anytime soon, a report by Afrinvest has observed that the nation’s currency may be devalued by the second half of the year.  At the media presentation of the 2019 review and 2020 outlook tilled, “Nigeria in the New […]

A document obtained from the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has revealed that the fixed income market capitalisation increased by 20.42 per cent to N12.92 trillion in 2019 from N10.72 trillion it recorded in 2018.  Its turnover also increased by 389.26 per cent when compared to 2018, although capital raising was dominated by the Federal Government, […]

 Dr. Chuks Osuji  Undoubtedly, there have been a lot of comments, expressed and unexpressed Public Opinions, divergent views or expression of condemnation over the Supreme Court’s judgment regarding the Imo State Governor’s appeal. There is no doubt that this single incident has generated a lot of public discourse at Home and in Diaspora.  Consequently, those […]

 In the last three weeks we have been talking about what is easily the only story in the land. Yours sincerely had thought of some other issues of national importance or perhaps international relevance to dwell on but somehow Amotekun, Yoruba for leopard, and the relevance it has gained in national discourse in recent weeks […]