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WWE’s stock price took a steel chair to the head Thursday as the pro-wrestling giant posted revenues and profits that fell short of Wall Street estimates. Shares in the Connecticut-based company which got hammered last week after WWE chairman and CEO Vince McMahon abruptly ousted his co-presidents, George Barrios and Michelle Wilson plunged as much…
Peoples Democratic Party The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it has commenced the sale of forms to elect new executives at the state and zonal levels whose tenure expire in 2020.The party disclosed this in a statement by its National Organizing Secretary, Col. Austin Akobundu (rtd), on Thursday in Abuja. Akobundu said that in line with the…
Sanwo-Olu and Agbaje The All Progressives Congress (APC) Lagos State chapter on Thursday said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) guber candidate in 2019, Jimi Agbaje, lacked the skill and experience to teach Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu the art of planning. Recall that Jimi Agbaje had counselled the Lagos state governor to plan well before enforcing the…
IGP Mohammed Adamu The Inspector General (I-G) of Police Mr Mohammed Adamu, had deployed detectives and special forensic investigators to expedite investigations into the criminal enterprise of Ansaru terror group and their associates. The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), DCP Frank Mba disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. The Police on Wednesday…
Yahya Jammeh Gambian ex-autocrat Yahya Jammeh’s palatial country residence, where he allegedly administered a self-invented AIDS cure, has been partially “gutted by bushfire,” the West African state’s army said Thursday. Located in Jammeh’s home village of Kanilai in western Gambia, his sprawling former private residence was engulfed by a wildfire on Wednesday, according to army spokesman…
Bill Gates’ charity vows to dedicate up to $100 million to combat the coronavirus outbreak that has claimed hundreds of lives. The pledge from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation includes up to $20 million that will immediately go toward detecting, isolating and treating the deadly virus with the goal of containing it, the Seattle-based…
Test kits being sent to 29 labs By Sola Ogundipe There are currently six laboratories in Africa with capacity to diagnose the novel coronavirus. The laboratories are in Nigeria, Ghana, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Senegal, and South Africa. Disclosing this during a media briefing on novel coronavirus preparedness in Africa, the World Health Organisation, WHO, confirmed…
Special Operatives of Operation Puff Adder of the Nigeria Police backed by the Special Forces of the Police Airwing, in a daring offensive operation, stormed one of the largest operational camps of the Ansaru Terror Group (also housing other bandits and kidnappers) located in Kuduru Forest, Birnin Gwari, Kaduna State and successfully neutralized over 250…
Paris Saint-Germain forward Neymar has a great relationship with teammate Kylian Mbappe and he has tipped the 21-year-old to become one of the best players to have ever played. In Mbappe’s short career to this point, he has already played a key role in Monaco lifting the Ligue 1 title before going on to lift…
The announcement of the Visa on Arrival policy last December by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Aswan Forum, in Egypt, was greeted with loads of condemnation from some quarters, largely due to misconception, and, perhaps, mischief. Chief among the allegations was that it was a ploy to import more killers into the country under official…