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4 days ago | thisage.com.ng | Ayo Kehinde |Charles Dickson

The head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State, Pope Francis, has died, the Vatican announced on Monday. The 88-year-old Argentine was discharged from Rome’s Gemelli hospital on March 23, after a five-week, life-threatening bout of double pneumonia. Last week Thursday, the pontiff made an unannounced visit to St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican dressed in black pants rather than his usual, traditional white papal attire.

2 weeks ago | thisage.com.ng | Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu |Uzor Maxim Uzoatu |Charles Dickson

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s most cherished national anthem, which he eagerly signed into law on May 29, 2024, has a profound message in the second stanza. It reads: “Our flag shall be a symbol that truth and justice reign… To hand on to our children; A banner without stain.”The President always emphasised the last line -to hand to our children a banner without stain. He likes those lines.

2 weeks ago | thisage.com.ng | Ayo Kehinde |Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

By Ayo KehindeVice Admiral (Rtd) Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas has approved the appointments of Administrators for the 23 Local Government Areas of Rivers State. A statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Ibibia Worika, said the administrator also approved the reconstitution of some earlier suspended Boards of Agencies, Commissions, and Parastatals. Worika said all the appointments take effect from Monday, the 7th of April 2025.

2 weeks ago | thisage.com.ng | Uzor Maxim Uzoatu |Charles Dickson |Promise Adiele

Writing on what passes for Nigerian politics today is a pathetic attempt at making meaning out of wretched absurdity. To lift the spirit, one has to take a recourse to literature where there is a measure of elevation in the undertaking of Nigeria’s creative writers across the decades. One cannot be too wrong in starting the discourse with the offering of Nigeria’s arguably most influential poet, Christopher Okigbo. The lived life of Okigbo was short, but the poetry he wrote remains deathless.

2 weeks ago | thisage.com.ng | Charles Dickson

From Victor Osula, AbujaThe Federal Government has directed all heads of federal universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education to publish critical institutional data on their official websites with immediate effect. The directive, issued by the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, is part of a broader strategy to institutionalise transparency, accountability, and good governance in the management of Nigeria’s tertiary education system.