By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin – Kwara State has been named alongside Edo, Ogun, and Sokoto as recipient states for the Abdul Samad Rabiu Africa Initiative (ASR Africa)’s N10bn health intervention programmes for 2021. The Managing Director of the ASR Africa, Ubon Udoh, said in the statement in Ilorin on...
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By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja on Tuesday restrained the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and its agents from unlawfully imposing sanctions or doing anything whatsoever to harass, intimidate, arrest or prosecute Twitter and/or any other social media service provider(s), media houses, radio...
An FCT High Court on Tuesday sentenced Farouk Lawal to seven years imprisonment for collecting 500,000 dollars bribe. Delivering judgment, Justice Angela Otaluka, the trial judge, ordered Lawan to restitute the 500, 000 dollars. The EFCC charged Lawan with collecting 500,000 dollars of a three million dollars bribe he...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – As part of the Bank’s mandate to empower female entrepreneurs with financial and business skills, Access Bank Plc has unveiled the third edition of its Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton Africa programme. The Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton Africa programme is designed to provide female owned businesses across Africa an...
The Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Plateau, Rev. Fr. Polycarp Lubo, has called for an end to secession agitations by groups in the country. The CAN chairman made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Jos, said...
The Senate on Tuesday received President Muhammadu Buhari’s request for the approval of the 2021 Supplementary Appropriation Bill of N895.8 billion. President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, read Buhari’s letter at the commencement of Tuesday’s plenary following its resumption from a two-week break. The letter reads: Dear Distinguished Senate...
By DAVID IROJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the composition of the FederalGovernment’s Team to engage with Twitter over the recent suspension of operations of the micro blogging and social networking service in Nigeria. The team would be chaired by The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji...
By MARY RONKE, Kwara – The Kwara State Command of The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Tuesday said a yet to be identified person has reportedly cut off the right hand of a seven-year old boy, identified as Usman Abubakar in Patigi Local Government Area of...
No fewer than seven people have lost their lives and 24 others injured in a road accident in Tanzania’s Morogoro region, local police said on Tuesday. Fortunatus Muslim, the Morogoro regional police commander, said the accident occurred on Monday night after three vehicles were involved in a collision at...
In a bid to curb the practice of Female Genital Mutilation, the National Orientation Agency (NOA) has embarked on a campaign in Ebonyi rural communities. The State Director of NOA, Dr Desmond Owno, told newsmen in Abakaliki on Tuesday that the campaign covered the 13 local government areas. Owno...
The EU’s top court has ruled that online platforms like YouTube can in some circumstances be held responsible for copyrighted material illegally uploaded by users. The preliminary ruling will likely be welcomed by German music producer Frank Peterson who has been locked in a long-running legal battle with YouTube...
The UN’s cultural agency UNESCO has recommended removing Liverpool’s waterfront from its list of world heritage sites over concerns about overdevelopment, a move that has angered many in the northwestern English city. The guidance was published by UNESCO ahead of a meeting of its World Heritage Committee, which oversees...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with the newly elected President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, while assuring the Iranian nation of closer cooperation. The president’s congratulatory message was contained in a statement signed by his spokeman, Mallam Garba Shehu on Monday. According to the statement,...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives have arrested a medical doctor, Jane Chioma Ofoma, in Auchi, Edo, for selling drugged cookies and biscuits. According to a statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, smon Tuesday in Abuja, he said that Chioma sold the drugged...
Some families living in a jungle may be fearful of things going bump at night, but for one household in Thailand, the sight of an elephant rummaging through their kitchen was not a total shock. “It came to cook again,” wrote Kittichai Boodchan sarcastically in a caption to a...
A Singaporean woman, 41, has been jailed for 30 years on Tuesday, over the torture and death of a maid Piang Ngai Don from Myanmar in 2016. The accused, Gaiyathiri Murugayan, had pleaded guilty in February to 28 charges, including culpable homocide, related to the death of Piang Ngai...
The Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General on Sudan, Nicholas Haysom has said that South Sudan is marking its 10th independence anniversary amid languishing political progress and a range of humanitarian challenges. Haysom, Under Secretary General at UN, told Security Council members on Monday that South Sudan, the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has said Nigerian scholars undertaking PhD studies at Morgan State University, (MSU) in Maryland, USA would henceforth, prioritise three key areas of specialties, namely; Public Health, climate change, and Computer Technology. Speaking at a meeting with authorities of...
The UN Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Amina Mohammed, believes re-appointment of Antonio Guterres as Secretary-General by the 193 members of the global body was a vote of confidence in his leadership. The nomination of Guterres, Mohammed told the Nigerian News Agency (NAN) in New York, comes at a time when...
The Nigerian Army has said its troops operating along Mokwa-Jebba road, intercepted and arrested a fleeing bandit in a vehicle traveling from Zuru to Ibadan during a stop and search operation on Sunday. In a statement on Tuesday by The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, said the...