ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – No fewer than 150 Resident Doctors at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi, have joined the indefinite nationwide strike of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD). The President of NARD, ATBUTH, Chapter, Dr. Nur Algazali, disclosed this in an interview with our...
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A Gabonese businessman has gained attention on social media after he married four wives at once in Libreville, the capital city of Gabon. The businessman identified as Mesmine Abessole wedded the women at a ceremony on Saturday, July 31, 2021. The names of the wives, it was gathered, are...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – After a most eventful five-year tenure as Registrar/Chief Executive of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Is-haq Olarenwaju Oloyede has bowed out of the public examinations body. Prof Oloyede, whose tenure in office expired alongside those of 13 other agencies and parastatals under...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has said it has disbursed more than N300 billion this year to about 226 tertiary institutions for staff members training and infrastructure development. Alhaji Kashim Ibrahim-Imam, the Chairman, Board of Trustees, TETFund, disclosed this on Monday in Asaba...
The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has commended the State Police Command for rescuing the kidnapped wife of his Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Solid Minerals, Mrs Ann Unenge, killing 3 suspected kidnappers in the process. Ortom, who was at the Police Head quarters in Makurdi on Monday to...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), on Monday, inducted a total of 890 2021 Batch B, Stream 1 corps members posted to Borno but deployed to Katsina The corps members were deployed to Katsina for the mandatory three-week orientation exercise. Speaking at the induction of...
By RICHARD ABU, Nasarawa – Nasarawa State Emergency Management Agency (NASEMA) has called on residents in the state to desist from disposing refuse and erecting structures on the waterways, to avoid flooding. The Executive Secretary of the agency, Mr Zakaria Allumaga, gave the advice on Monday while inspecting areas...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The Cross River State Chapter of The Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) on Monday pleged to reposition the educational system in the state in order to ensure that teachers have a better future. The State Chairman, Comrade Olayi Gregory gave the assurance shortly after been...
TotalEnergies has called for a collective commitment from petroleum industry stakeholders to carbon neutrality by 2050 in order to combat climate change. Mr Mike Sangster, Managing Director, Total Exploration and Production Nigeria Ltd., made the call at the 2021 Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Nigeria Annual International Conference and...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – The Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State would on Tuesday at the Government House, Enugu, by 1pm, receive the young inventor, Master Emmanuel Maduabuchi Chukwu, an indigene of the state and student of Government Technical College (GTC), Nsukka, who manufactured a hand-made...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Former Nigeria Ambassador to Mali, Chief Sony Abang has defected to the ruling All Progreasive Congress (APC) at his Alike Unit, Iso-Bendeghe in Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State. Chief Abang, who is also a former State Chairman of PDP said he defected...
The current corruption commentaries coupled with the prevailing insecurity and harsh economic situation in the country, a state of depression (or is it a recession) that has been designed by yet to be established architects, takes me back, though with nostalgia, to a conversation I had with a friend...
In compliance with the new Foreign Exchange (FX) regulation by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), commercial banks in Abuja have set up dedicated teller points for FX transactions in their branches. Recalled that the CBN had last week stopped sales of FX through Bureau de Change Operators and...
The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘C’ (FOUC) has intercepted three trucks conveying six 6×20ft containers of logs of unprocessed timber. This is contained in a release by the Zone ‘C’ Public Relations Officer, Mr Jerry Attah, made available to newsmen in Owerri on Monday. The Zonal...
The death toll from floods in central China last month is at least 302 with dozens of people still missing, officials said Monday, after record downpours dumped a year’s worth of rain on a city in just three days. Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province and the epicentre of...
The Department of State Services on Monday presented the aides of Sunday Igboho who were arrested on July 1 at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The aides were arrested when DSS officials raided Igboho’s home on July 1, but have sued on grounds that their fundamental human rights...
CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 407 new COVID-19 infections from 16 states and the FCT as of Aug. 1, 2021. The new infections according to NCDC indicate a decrease from the 497 cases announced a day earlier. The NCDC announced the...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has visited the Malka village, where the Bauchi-Ningi-Kano road collapsed leading to the death of three people after there vehicle was washed away. NATIONAL ACCORD had reported that the ever-busy road which leads to Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Science Granting Councils Initiative in sub-Saharan Africa (5GC) has announced that the Nigeria Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has joined the initiative to advance research excellence in sub-Saharan Africa. TETFund is an agency set up by the Federal Government of Nigeria to provide...