By ADARA JOy, Abuja – The Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Senator Basheer Garba Mohammed has promised to build on the existing operational platform, collaboration and policies to ensure national and international visibility for the Agency in order to effectively...
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The Chief of Training (Army), Maj.-Gen. Abubakar Ndalolo, has tasked officers and soldiers on evolving critical thinking in managing security operations in the contemporary security environment. Ndalolo stated this while addressing participants, who graduated from the Leadership Skills Development Course 1/2021, at the Nigerian Army Resource Centre (NARC), Abuja...
Gov. Mai Mala-Buni of Yobe on Friday condoled with the families of the victims of terrorists’ attack that happened in Gujba Local Government Area. Terrorists believed to be members of the Islamic State of West Africa (ISWAP) had on Thursday gunned down three policemen when they attacked a construction...
The World Health Organisation has revealed that no fewer than 146 million Africans die annually from tobacco related disease. The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, said this on Thursday during a virtual press conference. Dr. Moeti said tobacco was the leading cause of preventable deaths in...
A Federal High Court on Friday ordered that a 37-year-old man, Gbenga Ojo, who pleaded guilty to peddling 250g of cannabis, be remanded in a correctional centre, pending sentencing. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) charged Ojo with unlawful dealing in Narcotics. Justice Uche Agomoh, ordered that Ojo...
The Nigeria Baseball and Softball Association (NBSA), on Friday mourned the association’s president, Dr Williams Boyd. According to a statement signed by Robert Onwukwe, the Public Relations Officer of the association, the death of Boyd came as a rude shock. “It is with heavy heart and profound sadness that...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed the arrival of sensitive materials for the by-election for the Sabon Gari Constituency seat in the Kaduna State House of Assembly. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the seat occupied by Aminu Shagali, a former Speaker of the assembly,...
African countries have acquired around 59.9 million COVID-19 vaccines so far, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). The Africa CDC, the specialised healthcare agency of the African Union, said around 0.79 per cent of Africa’s population has received a full vaccine regimen. Five...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Executive Secretary, Tertiary education trust Fund (TETFund), Professor Suleiman Bogoro has noted that a new vista is emerging in Nigeria with the inauguration of the draft committee on the National Research and Development Foundation (NRDF) bill. Bogoro who spoke during the fourth edition...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – A 33-year old woman, Ms. Habiba Khalid, a resident of Bakin kura, a sub-urb of Bauchi metropolis, has stated that seeing her co-wife prosecuted, punished and put on handcuffs, will pacify her. She said that this is because her rival connived with her 18-year daughter...
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, on Thursday said he is more at ease when visiting Maiduguri than Abuja, the nation’s capital. Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, is closer to Nigeria’s insurgency war in the North-East. The war has raged on for over a decade....
Essentially, this recurrent mismanagement manifests itself in acts opposed to demands of the modern educational sector. And its work impedes lecturers from carrying out scholarly researches, leads to fallen standard of education, brings about policy inconsistency and somersaults, truncates academic calendar with strike actions, lace Nigerian schools (primary, colleges...
The Executive Director, Operations at DigitalSENSE Africa, Mrs. Nkem Nweke, has applauded the recent Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Nigeria Communications Satellite (NigComSAT), saying it’s paves the way for digital cooperation, especially on frequency spectrum management for the forthcoming fifth generation networks...
UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has said that innovative measures to address debt are required to help more than 100 middle-income countries expand their economies and exit the COVID-19 pandemic. Guterres told the General Assembly on Thursday at UN headquarters in New York while addressing a high-level meeting on these...
No fewer than 13 persons sustained various degrees of injuries on Thursday night following a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) tanker explosion at Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, opposite Sheraton Hotels and Towers, Ikeja. About 25 cars were destroyed as a result of the explosion which occurred at about 10.32 p.m....
By BARBARA KALU, Owerri – The Department of State Service (DSS) in Imo has said it would provide critical intelligence support to the state government’s fight against insecurity in the state. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Oguwike Nwachuku, disclosed this in a statement issued in Owerri...
A Botswanan diamond firm, Debswana has revealed that it has unearthed a 1,098-carat stone that it described as the third largest of its kind in the world. The stone, found on June 1, was shown to President Mokgweetsi Masisi in the capital Gaborone. “It is believed to be the...
What exactly do you do online? What is the worth of all the data and recharge credit you burn weekly or monthly? Do you get value for money? Are you aware of your rights and responsibilities as you use the digital space? These are the questions and ideas we...