Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has hinted of giving away nearly all of his $200 billion wealth, leaving only one per cent for himself, as he shuts down the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.The Microsoft co-founder stated on Thursday in a post on his personal blog, Gates Notes, that the foundation,
Robert Francis Prevost became the first Pope from the United States on Thursday, picking the papal name Leo XIV after cardinals from around the world elected him leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.Tens of thousands of people packed in St Peter’s Square cheered as Prevost appeared on the balcony
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope and will soon step onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion CatholicsWhite smoke was sighted rising from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel which was an indication
Robert Prevost has been elected as the successor to Pope Francis, who died last month at the age of 88. He will be known as Leone XIV. He was elected after a conclave lasting 24 hours, the Catholic world has a new leader. The successor to Pope Francis has been
Thick black smoke has emerged from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney, signalling that the cardinals sealed off inside have failed to elect a new pope in their first conclave vote.Tens of thousands of people gathered in Vatican City’s St Peter’s Square to await the smoke, which came about three hours and
Some parents in Lagos on Tuesday expressed disappointment and concerns over the low performance of candidates in the recently-concluded 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Some parents, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said that the low performance could be attributed to a number of issues. NAN
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that the food and nutrition crisis might deepen in Nigeria, as the country has already been flagged as having the highest number of malnourished children in Africa and the second highest in the world.Nemat Hajeebhoy, Chief of Nutrition at UNICEF, gave the
Rev. Fr. Ifeanyichukwu Uwabunkeonye, a US-based Catholic priest, has urged mothers and their children to always support their fathers in building their families especially at this austere time. Uwabunkeonye, a Catholic Priest of St. Augustine, Francisco Parish, California, made the call during the 2025 Fathers’ Day Celebration at the Holy
SERAP and the Nigeria Guild of Editors have asked President Bola Tinubu to take another look at the Cybercrime Act and assessment of these laws for potential restrictions on free speech. They pointed out the importance of carefully reviewing these rules to see how they might affect free speech and
In a very sad event, Tamilore Odunsi, a British-Nigerian nursing student and popular TikTok influencer, has been tragically killed in her Houston apartment, just two weeks before she was set to graduate with her nursing degree. The 23-year-old, who was known as ‘Tami Dollars’ online, was found dead on her