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New Head and Deputy of House challenge in week 8 of the ongoing Big Brother Naija reality show have been picked. Trickytee Monday emerged the head while Laycon is the deputy of the BBNaija 2020. The male housemate who won the challenge was given an option of picking a Deputy Head of House without the rule of the DHOH being someone from the opposite gender. Trickytee, therefore, picked Laycon as the Deputy Head of House. They would now enjoy immunity from this week’s eviction process and will also have unrestricted access to the Head of House lounge. Meanwhile, four housemates…

More than 1,000 primary schools in Kwara State are put up for reconstruction and equipment with modern teaching facilities across the 16 local government areas of the state. Kwara Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq told participants at the last lap of the citizens’ engagement on the 2021 budget held at Ajase-Ipo (Kwara South) on Monday. AbdulRazaq, however, said his administration has activated plans to gradually fix the facilities, equip them, and train and motivate teachers to guarantee quality basic education in the state. “We have over 1000 schools which need to be rebuilt completely. It is not just about renovation because many…

Joe Biden, Democratic presidential nominee, said he would listen to the advice of scientists in going for Coronavirus vaccine if he is elected in the November’s presidential election. “I’d want to see what the scientists said,” he told reporters Monday outside a supporter’s home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump said at a White House briefing on Monday that a vaccine may be ready in October. Biden has previously expressed concern about President Donald Trump and political appointees pushing for the premature approval of a vaccine in hopes of boosting his re-election chances. “He’s undermining public confidence,” Biden…

Kwara State Government plans to obtain a N7.1 billion loan facility to clear a six-year outstanding backlog of UBEC funds to  plough into its basic education sector. Speaking via zoom to the participants at the engagements session on Friday, Kwara Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq said the facility approved by the State Executive Council was to enable the government to access UBEC’s N7.1 billion grant. AbdulRazaq said the administration would also invest it in training and promotion of teachers, among other incentives, to attract more quality hands. He commended the people of the region for their self-help approach to development, saying that…

The popular saying “When one door closes, another door opens“ is applicable to the disqualified Erica, one of the housemates Big Brother Naija Naija Season 5. Erica Ngozi Nlewedim whose Mother luck is smiling on her has been invited by the billionaire Terry Waya to his family house in Abuja on Monday for a party in addition to her fans putting $9,000 in her account. Waya is the father of Kiddwaya, one of the BBNaija 2020 housemates, found to be in a romantic relationship with Erica while she was in the house. In his Twitter handle, Terry Waya (kiddwaya father)…

Despite the huge number of Senators, members of House of Representatives and cabinet members in the country, some Nigerians have deplored that they have not been able to proffer solutions to diverse hardships inflicted by government on the masses. The Nigerians reacted when Mark ‘Dsoulja Otabor, host of the #TheBigIssue on @Tvcconnect tweeted on Saturday “109 Senators in Nigeria, 360 Members of the House of Representative and 44 Cabinet Ministers. “A lot of them with all manner of degrees & qualifications from different schools & everywhere, yet nobody is able to come up with the most brilliant idea to solve…

Nigeria’s Flying Officer and best graduating officer at the Nigeria Air Force, Special Forces Course, Muhammad Auwal, was allegedly killed by terrorists in Birnin Gwari, Kaduna State, on Saturday, September 5. Bulawa Bukarti, a Kano-based lawyer, who broke the sad news on his Twitter handle said Auwal was one of the latest gallant men the country has lost to terrorists that had decimated thousands. “Flying Officer Muhammad Auwal is one of the latest gallant men we sadly lost to terrorists. “He’s killed yesterday (5 Sep.) on duty at Birnin Gwari. He’s the Best Graduating Officer at the NAF Special Forces…

Nigeria has nicked 55,005 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed on Sunday. The centre stated that the country’s daily confirmed cases on Sunday stood at 100 with three deaths recorded, and discharged 43,013 patients from its isolation centres across the country. According to NCDC, new cases were reported in 10 States, with Lagos recording 39 cases, followed by the FCT – 22, Kaduna – 19, Oyo with seven cases. Ebonyi had six new cases, Edo recorded three, while Katsina, Ekiti, Bauchi and Nasarawa had one reported case each. So far, NCDC stated that the…

The Spain’s youngest goal scorer has broken a 95-year-old in history with his strike in the first half of Sunday’s clash with Ukraine in Madrid, Goal reported. Ansu Fati marked his first international start with an appreciable effort to make it 3-0 before half-time in the Nations League match being played at the Estadio Alfredo Di Stefano. The Barcelona forward aged 17 years and 311 days became the youngest player to net for Spain. The rising star broke the record that was set in 1925 by Juan Errazquin, who was 18 years and 344 days old when he struck three…

After a stunning end to his 29-match winning streak and bid for an 18th Grand Slam title, Novak Djokovic has been thrusted out of the US Open for accidentally hitting a line judge in the throat with a tennis ball after dropping a game in his fourth-round match Sunday. As he walked to the Arthur Ashe Stadium sideline for a changeover, trailing Pablo Carreno Busta 6-5 in the first set, Djokovic — who was seeded and ranked No. 1 and an overwhelming favorite for the championship — angrily smacked a ball behind him. The ball flew right at the line…