World Health Organization (WHO) has announced football legend Didier Drogba from Côte d’Ivoire as its new Goodwill Ambassador for Sport and Health. Drogba will promote WHO’s top tips on how physical activity can lead to a healthier and happier life, and also highlight the value of sports, particularly for...
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By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has commended the European Union for its support in the fight against human trafficking. The Director General of the agency, Mrs Fatimah Waziri-Azi, gave the commendation on Monday, during an award and speech...
The Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mustapha Shehuri, has solicited for more financial support to upscale investments in the agricultural sector. A statement issued by Ezeaja Ikemefuna, Chief Information Officer in the ministry of Agriculture, in Abuja, quoted the minister as saying this at a virtual...
Ekiti State Government has paid N7.8 billion counterpart funding to the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) in the last three years to attract quality projects to its public schools. The money paid covered seven years from 2015 to 2021, the deputy governor, Chief Bisi Egbeyemi, said in Isan-Ekiti on...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade has felicitated with Muslims on the occasion of the celebration of Eid-ul-Maulud, advising that the unity of purpose, virtues of kindness, humility, and peaceful co-existence exemplified by the Holy Prophet Mohammed (Peace Be Upon Him) be emulated. Eid-ul Maulud...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Amina J. Mohammed; Ghana’s First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo; Founder of EbonyLife TV and EbonyLife Films, Mo Abudu; and the CEO of African Leadership Institute, South Africa, Jackie Chimhanzi, are among the growing number of influential personalities to...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Worried by the magnitude of the lingering insecurity that has bedeviled nearly every part of Nigeria lately, the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar 111 has said that the security challenge seems more serious that the nation’s civil war. Sultan who is the President...
The words of the Pulitzer Prize Twinner and American poet, Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963), in his poem, “The road not taken,” appear quite relevant to the context in which this piece is rightly situated: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled by, and...
Colin Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrants who became a US war hero and the first Black secretary of state but saw his legacy tarnished when he made the case for war in Iraq in 2003, died on Monday of Covid-19 complications. He was 84. The retired four-star general...
Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat, have filed a suit at the Federal High Court Abuja, challenging the seizure of their international passports by the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami. In their...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt Gen Faruk Yahaya has appealed for adequate collaboration with all and sundry to help tackle the disturbing issues of insecurity in Nigeria. Yahaya who spoke in Sokoto during a courtesy visit to Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal stressed...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with the Muslim Ummah, Nigerians of all faiths and the followers of Islam all over the world on the occasion of the Maulud-Un-Nabiyy, the birthday of the Holy Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him. In a message to mark...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Sylvester Egboigbe of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star in collaboration with the Universal Men’s Fellowship have volunteered to construct a line of toilet facilities for Government Technical College Biakpan in Biase LGA. The Government Technical College, Biakpan, has been with out toilets after...
Let me first congratulate your Church for two main reasons. First, for the celebration of one hundred- and twenty-years’ anniversary of your Church. This is a great achievement. Although the circumstances of your birth were different, you rebelled against the Anglican Church which had rebelled also against the Catholic...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Suspected bandits have reportedly invaded a market in Goronyo Local Government Area of Sokoto State, killing scores of people. According to locals, the bandits who stormed the market in their large numbers on Sunday evening, opened fire at any object on sight in the...
By THOMAS AKASE, Benue – Dr Godwin Atser, an Advocacy, Promotion and Outreach Lead with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has called on agricultural processors to invest adequately in the cassava seed sector, in order to address the challenges plaguing the supply of quality cassava roots as...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The former Lagos State Governor and All Progressives Congress stalwart, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has congratulated Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja 11, on his 47th birthday. He commended Ooni for his leadership role in Yorubaland and beyond, saying his energy and dynamism...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja The Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboi has disclosed that Early Childhood Care Development and Education (ECCDE) is taking centre stage in basic education delivery in the country. Bobboi noted this at the 5 days stakeholder engagement on the development of...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Federal Capital Territory Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has commended the peaceful conduct of the state party congress of the All Progressives Congress (APC), held in the Federal Capital Territory and Kogi state on Saturday. Specifically, the minister has congratulated Hon Abdulmalik...
Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema goes on trial in France on Wednesday accused of complicity in the attempted blackmail of former international teammate Mathieu Valbuena in a case known as the “sextape affair”. Benzema, 33, stands accused of helping a group of alleged blackmailers to approach Valbuena in an...