Author: Chronicle Editor

Britain’s foreign secretary has said the UK is trying to de-escalate tensions in Iran to avoid a war after a US airstrike killed its top general.

Wu Lei rescued a late point for Espanyol in their derby with La Liga champions Barcelona.

The Federal Government said it would embark on massive training of Nigerians on digital literacy and skills to ensure at least 95 percent of Nigerians are digital literate within the next 10 years.

Two mortar rounds hit the Iraqi capital’s Green Zone Saturday and two rockets slammed into a base housing US troops, security sources said, a day after a deadly American strike.

Four Nigerian stowaways arrested in the UK in 2018 December have been jailed for a total of seven years.

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has approved increase in electricity tariff by the 11 Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) in the country.

Manchester United and Wolves will require a replay after playing out a goalless draw in the FA Cup third-round tie at Molineux.

The Governor of Kogi, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has directed the security agencies in the state to fish out perpetrators of Tawari attack for justice. In a statement by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr Onogwu Muhammed, in Lokoja on Friday, the governor said the security agencies should swing into action and ensure that those who carried out the dastardly act face the law. The governor, who condemned the attack and warned that anyone nursing the ambition of causing crisis in the state would have himself or herself to blamed assured that his administration would do everything possible to protect life…

The Kano State Fire Service on Friday said it saved 1,055 lives and property worth N1.9 billion from 813 fire incidents in the state between January and December 2019. The Public Relations Officer of the service, Alhaji Saidu Muhammed, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano. Muhammed, however, said that 111 lives were lost during the period. “597 people were involved in road accidents, seven in collapsed buildings, 54 fell inside well, 58 fell inside open water and the remaining 97 were involved in flood, domestic fire incidents among others,” he said. Gunmen…

Dr. Mrs Seinye O. B. Lulu-Briggs, widow of High Chief Dr. O. B. Lulu-Briggs has responded to the alleged cancellation of her husband’s January 25, 2020 burial date which was announced by her son Dumo and the family Chiefs last month. She believes that the burial is still achievable because the pre-conditions which the Ghana High Court ordered Dumo to fulfil before by the release of his father’s body for burial by the Ghanaian police and the mortuary are not difficult. She clarifies that she was not ordered to release the body of her husband as Dumo falsely claims in…