African governments have been urged to decentralise power and make resources available to local councils in order to spur development. Nobel Memorial Prize laureate Roger Myerson, an economist, gave the advise while speaking at the on-going African Economic Conference, said the devolution of power to the local councils could...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Maiduguri city, the capital of Borno State was early morning woke up by multiple heavy explosions that destroyed property worth millions of naira and left few residents injured including an infant in 1000 Housing Estate area of the capital city. NATIONAL ACCORD reliably gathered...
World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday urged countries not to panic but to prepare for the likely spread of COVID-19 Omicron variant as scientists continue to study it. Speaking in Geneva, WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier stressed that data suggesting that Omicron was highly transmissible was only preliminary. The UN...
About 82 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) under the aegis of “Civil Society Coalition for Economic Development (CED) have hailed President Muhammadu Buhari over plans to end subsidy regime in Nigeria. The coalition gave the commendation in a seven-point communique issued at the end of a conference of the Coalition...
With many African countries struggling from the shackles of debt servicing amid downward economic trend occasioned by COVID-19, a ‘New Deal’ worth 7.1 trillion dollars has been suggested as the only solution. This was the position of Mr Antonio Pedro, Deputy Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) at...
President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria remains the most viable and attractive investment destination in Africa. He says also that the country is on the path of becoming the continent’s leading industrial and trading nation. The president made the declarations when he addressed a trade and investments forum at the...
The death of a student of Dowen College in Lagos, Sylvester Oromoni, has sparked agitations from Nigerian celebrities. Oromoni, who was supposed to clock 12 today (Saturday), died under controversial circumstances surrounding bullying and battery. Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh, has called for the commemoration of Sylvester Oromoni’s 12th birthday...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Residents of 1000 Housing Estate in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, woke up to an explosion on Saturday morning. According to locals in the area, the explosion was believed to have been triggered by Boko Haram terrorists. They said the explosions have sparked tension in...
As a nation, Nigeria and most of her Federating states are currently faced with serious socio economic issues/survival dilemmas. Although this in my view has been on over time but as a nation that plays politics with everything, we have been living in denial. But as it currently stands,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested three suspects at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport while attempting to smuggle 1,144 Automated Teller Machine cards out of the country. The EFCC spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren disclosed this in a statement issued to...
At least one Boko Haram militant has been killed in a repelled attack in Cameroon’s Far North, according to local and security sources. Militants attacked Tayer village of the region overnight into Friday. After several hours, troops and members of local vigilante repelled them, seized weapons and killed one...
A terrorist attack at Songho Gare, a small town between Sevare and Bandiagara in central Mali, claimed dozens of lives, a local official and witnesses told Xinhua on Friday. According to the witnesses, the terrorists attacked a bus heading to the Bandiagara fair. “The vehicle was set on fire,...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello has commissioned the 5 storey office complex of the Abuja Property Development Company (APDC) located at Plot 1329, Peace Drive, Central Business District, Abuja. The Minister in his address commended the pioneer as well as the current management...
The International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IIITA) Yam Improvement for Income and Food Security in West Africa (YIIFSWA) has recorded significant progress in the rapid multiplication of yam seedlings. The leader of the Project, Dr Norbert Maroya said this on Friday at the Yam Field Day to celebrate the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the death of former President of the Senate, Sen. Joseph Wayas, as a monumental national loss. The National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, said in a statement in Abuja that late Wayas was a very...
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has called on Nigerian youths to make their numbers count and not be political spectators in the country’s 2023 general elections and democratic processes. Mr Onogwu Muhammed, Chief Press Secretary to Bello in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja said the governor made...
The Republic of Liberia has announced events lined up for the commemoration of the two-hundedth anniversary of the freedom of African descendants and Pan-African Leadership. Mr Ledgerhood Rennie, Liberia’s Minister of Information, Cultural Affairs & Tourism disclosed this in statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
The Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) has trained 62 Medical Military Contingent (NIMED) 8 Level II, to be deployed for peace mission to Mali. The medical personnel were trained at the Martin Luther Agwai International Leadership and Peace Keeping Centre (MLAILPKC), Jaji Military Cantonment, Kaduna. Maj.-Gen. Abdulsalam Ibrahim, Chief...
The Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, has authorised vaccine booster against the pandemic for eligible Nigerians. Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director, National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja, that the decision was reached, in collaboration with the...
There is no iota of truth in the report that two students of Bashorun High School, Ibadan, were on Friday turned to tubers of yam by a suspected ritualist. The Oyo State Commissioner for Education, Mr Abiodun Abdulramah, made this clarification, while addressing students, parents and guardians of the...