The Controller-General of the Immigration Servic, Mr Mohammed Babandede, has said that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) travelling certificates would soon be replaced with biometric cards. The spokesman of NIS, Assistant Controller (AC) Amos Okpu, who confirmed the plan to NAN in Lagos on Monday, said individual’s...
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President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria values ties with her longtime allies, and will continue to lubricate the relationships Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman in a statement, said Buhari stated this when he received the outgoing Ambassadors of Spain, and The State of Qatar, in separate audiences on Monday...
A medical expert, Dr Umar Musa, has cautioned women against indiscriminate use of contraceptives. Dr Musa, President, Kaduna State Resident Doctors Association Dr. Musa, who gave the advice in an interview with NAN, also cautioned that that while they could forestall unwanted pregnancies, contraceptives were not antidotes for HIV...
The University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) has been ranked among the top three universities in Nigeria, by AD Scientific Index, a leading global ranking body based in Turkey. The ranking, which was contained in the list of 2021 “World Scientists and University Rankings’’, according to a UNILORIN bulletin issued on Monday,...
The Benue Chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC), says it plans to elect its leaders in the upcoming congresses, through consensus method. This is contained in a statement by the state APC Caretaker Chairman, Mr Abba Yaro on Monday in Makurdi. Yaro said the action was based on the...
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned the trial of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Justice Binta Nyako adjourned the trial on Monday at the resumption of proceedings at the court in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The trial suffered a...
Coach Chika Chukwumerije giving a pep talk to Elizabeth Anyanacho during the 2020 Olympics Taekwondo -67kg fight vs Turkey’s Nur Tarkar. PHOTO CREDIT: @naija_lizzy/Instagram Nigeria’s representative in taekwondo, Elizabeth Anyanacho has been beaten by a double Olympic Medalist and former world champion, Nur Tartar of Turkey in the female...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – The Equal Opportunity Group (JEOG), set up by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has become a model for some African countries in their quest to cater the visually impaired candidates in their various high-stakes examinations. A former Executive Secretary of NUC and...
Lagos State chapter of the PDP on Monday rejected results of Saturday’s council elections in the state. PDP chairman, Deji Doherty, alleged in a statement that the polls were manipulated to favour of the ruling APC. “I seize this opportunity to state categorically that any result published by Lagos...
Former Governor of old Anambra, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, is one of the people attending the trial of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, at the Federal High Court, Abuja. Ezeife told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that he was in court to represent...
A man accused of trying to kill Mali’s military strongman Assimi Goita, the figure behind two coups in less than a year, has died in custody, the government said on Sunday. The suspect, whose identity has not been revealed, had been taken into custody following the assassination attempt at...
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI lashed out at Germany’s Catholic Church in published comments on Monday, perhaps signalling a new fight between the church’s conservative and liberal wings. Pope Benedict, who stepped down in 2013 and adheres closely to traditional Church philosophies, has been critical at times of the Church...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos State on Monday commenced biometric registration and physical capturing of applicants in the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise. INEC Spokesman in Lagos, Femi Akinbiyi, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday. According to him, the...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday disclosed that its much-anticipated digital currency will be launched on October 1. CBN Director, IT Department, Mrs. Rakiya Mohammed, revealed this during a private webinar, explaining that the banking sector regulator had been conducting research towards the launch of digital currencies since...
Eldric Sella went through an arduous journey to get to Tokyo, spending years visualising himself throwing punches in the Olympic boxing ring. But when his Games experience finally became a reality on Monday it lasted only 67 seconds. Representing the Refugee Olympic Team, the Venezuelan-born middleweight Sella was facing...
BY DAVID IROJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari would on Monday depart Abuja for UK to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021 to 2025. The President’s spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, who confirmed this development in a statement in Abuja on Monday,...
No fewer than 7,000 artefacts plundered from Benin Kingdom are expected to be repatriated by Germany to Nigeria not later than October, Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said. The Permanent Secretary, Amb. Gabriel Aduda, disclosed this at the Inaugural Nigerian Cultural Show exhibiting Nigeria’s diverse cultural heritage, sites...
Security was increased around the Federal High Court on Monday ahead of the resumption of the trial of Nnamdi Kanu. It was gathered that the major entrances to the court were blocked. Mr Kanu is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). He was first arrested by...
Bandits on Sunday blocked the Sokoto-Gusau Road and kidnapped passengers in three buses belonging to the Sokoto State Transport Authority. A motorist, Alhaji Mohammed Yusuf, who narrowly escaped the abduction, told newsmen that the bandits blocked the road near Dogon Karfe around 3pm and kidnapped all the passengers in...
CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced that the country’s COVID-19 active cases now stand at 4,180, with majority of the infected people in stable condition. In its verified website on Monday morning, the centre said it registered 216 new COVID-19 cases as...