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Today is marked world wide as Good Friday. It commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death on the cross at Calvary. It is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday. The Federal Government had declared Friday, April 19, and Monday, April 22, 2019 as public holidays to mark Good Frday and Easter Monday. Special church service is held on Good Friday across Akwa Ibom State. And in Uyo, the state capital Chrsitians worshipped in their various churches while others keep conventions and retreats. The date of Good Friday varies…

Tennis star Serena Williams, Friday last week, sold her Los Angeles house for $8.1 million after listing it for 18 months. Williams had sought $12 million for the home when it was listed in October 2017, as Mansion Global previously reported. It was last put on the market in January for $9.995 million, according to public listing records. This is even as Vanessa Hudgens sold her two-storey Mediterranean-style mansion in Los Angeles at $3.15 million on Thursday, said listing agent TJ Paradise of Sotheby’s International Realty. Although her home was sold for less than its asking price, Williams, 37, did…

Two English premiership teams- Arsenal and Chelsea- on Thursday cruised into EUROPA league semi finals after trouncing their opponents in the quarter final matches played on Thursday. Alexandre Lacazette scored the only goal of the game as Arsenal booked their place in the Europa League semi-finals with a clinical 1-0 win at Napoli. From 2-0 in the first leg, Unai Emery’s side reserved arguably their best performance of the season for their potentially daunting trip to the San Paolo. Lacazette fired home a 25-yard free-kick in the 36th minute and, although Arkadiusz Milik had earlier had a goal ruled out…

Beyoncé, the US R&B star, has stunned her fans by dropping a new film that keeps tongues wagging, AFP reports. The live album will go with an upcoming Netflix documentary she performed at Coachella last year. The album entitled Homecoming like the film was released in the early hours of Wednesday across all major streaming platforms- Apple Music, Spotify and Google Play. It recontextualizes the show in a way that claims the most influential live music event in North America for black culture. Homecoming in its own way, fits with this definition: Beyoncé unveiled an unannounced, 40-track live album along…

A Federal High Court sitting in Katsina, Thursday, declared Engr. Yakubu Danja, as the winner of the All Progressives Congress, APC, primaries and the general election as the member representing Bakori/Danja Federal constituency at the House of Representatives. However, the court sacked the incumbent member, Amiru Idris as the party’s candidate in the February, 23, 2019 House of Representatives election. Danja, who polled 314 votes to defeat the incumbent member, Amiru Bakori with 305 votes in the primaries and was declared winner by the APC National Electoral Committee in the state headed by Dr. Isah Adamu, had raised concerns over…

A bill that would provide for the documentation and protection of Domestic Workers and Employers of Domestic Workers in the country has passed a second reading in the Senate. If passed by the National Assembly and assented to by the President, the bill will nip in the bud cases of assaults and abuse of domestic workers in Nigeria. Sponsored by Senator Magnus Abe (APC Rivers South-East), the bill does not only seek to protect the domestic workers, but aimed at protecting the employers of domestic workers, adding that a lot of workers are unregistered and not supported by national labour…

The All Progressives Congress, APC, governors and party state chairmen from the North-central geo-political zone, yesterday, endorsed the two candidates of the party for the leadership positions of the 9th National Assembly. According to a statement by Mark Longen, Senior Special Assistant to Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau on Media and Publicity, the governor stated this while addressing journalists after a closed-door meeting of stakeholders in Asokoro, Abuja. Mr. Lalong said: “A meeting of governors and the party chairmen from North Central today(yesterday) resolved to go along with the decision of the party’s endorsement of Sen. Ahmed Lawan as Senate…

Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has called on the Federal Government to hasten negotiations and release template for implementation of the New Minimum Wage. The President of the congress, Bobboi Kaigama, while reacting to the signing of the 2019 Minmum Wage into law by President Muhammadu Buhari, further asked the government to issue circular to the state governments in the country to implement the law without delay. “We appreciate Buhari for the signing. We also congratulate the Nigerian workers for their resilience, perseverance and achievement of the N30,000 minimum wage,” he said. Similarly, Mr. Bension Opia, NLC’s Head of…

Foreign investors have been urged to see the $5 billion foreign investment secured by the Federal Government as a bankable surety by international community to invest massively in the country. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who made the call in London, on Thursday at a breakfast meeting with investors, lawyers, the business community and diplomats with ties to Nigeria, said the Muhamadu Buhari administration has laid the necessary groundwork for the growth of the nation’s economy. Mohammed said the country as the largest economy and a political powerhouse in Africa represents a highly attractive market and…

The Federal Government intends to collect another external loan of $247.3 million for infrastructural development in the country. The loan package was approved by Federal Executive Council (FEC) in Abuja on Wednesday, April 17, bringing the country’s debt profile to N24.38 trillion. Announcing this after the meeting, Zainab Ahmed, the Finance Minister, who stated that African Development Bank would provide $150 million, said the loan would specifically be spent on rural development projects. According to her, $50 million from Africa Grow Together Fund would go to electrification projects and $20 million from French Development Agency would be lent to the…