The Chartered Institute of Forensic and Investigative Professionals of Nigeria (CIFIPN), has stressed the need for speedy passage of the Forensic Bill, establishing the institute, into law. Pro-term President of CIFIPN, Dr Enape Victoria, made the call on Wednesday in Abuja, in an interview with the News Agency of...
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Professionals in the education sector in Enugu State have bemoaned the very low number of male teachers in schools across the state. Most of them identified poor remuneration of teachers as the major factor driving the largely lopsided gender imbalance in the noble profession. The stakeholders made their views...
South Africa says it is declaring war on the country’s controversial lion-breeding industry. Animal rights activists had welcomed Environment Minister Barbara Creecy’s announcement of recommendations to stop the multimillion-dollar business of breeding lions in captivity. “Today is a massive celebration for South African lions with the government adopting recommendations...
A professor of medicine, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Gregory Erhabor, on Wednesday said that asthma affects about 339 million people annually with over 500,000 hospitalisation and about 400,000 deaths across the globe. Professor Erhabor, who is also President, Asthma and Chest Care Foundation, said this in a statement signed...
Dr Mukaila Ya’u, The Rector of the newly established Federal Polytechnic, Nyak, in Shendam LGA of Plateau, has said the institution will adopt world class standards in its operations. Dr. Ya’u gave the assurance in a statement issued by Dr Makut Macham, Director of Press and Public Affairs to...
India on Wednesday recorded its highest single-day death toll caused by the coronavirus since the pandemic began, as hospitals in the country continue to struggle with the massive patient load. The confirmed new infections has reached 382,000 in India. Experts believe that the actual number of victims is significantly...
Guaranty Trust Bank Plc has said its ongoing corporate reorganisation was ratified by its shareholders at a court-ordered meeting. In a statement titled ‘Update on ongoing Guaranty Trust Bank Plc corporate reorganisation’ on Tuesday, it said to maintain optimum operational efficiency, there would be a holding company board of...
The House of Representatives’ Committee on Local Content has commenced the investigation of alleged abuse of bidding, contracting and operating processes by Exxon Mobil against Nigerian-owned companies. The probe, which began yesterday was carried out by the House Committee on Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring led by Legor Idagbo....
World football power, Argentina, and Romania have been invited to join host Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroun, Mali, South Africa and Morocco in the Aisha Buhari Women Football tournament scheduled to hold in September in Nigeria’s commercial city, Lagos. President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, revealed that talks...
The 2021 budget of the Federal Government contains 316 duplicated projects valued at N39.5 billion, a report by BudgIT, a civic-tech non-profit organisation in Nigeria has alleged. According to the report titled, ‘Demanding Budget Reforms for Resource Optimization’, which was posted on its website yesterday, the following top 10...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday announced that it has registered 34 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 165,215 confirmed cases. As at Tueday, 4 May, 2021, the public health agency recorded no...
The Mexican Government has said it would severely ‘punish’ whoever was responsible for an overpass collapse that killed at least twenty-four people and injured seventy-nine others in the capital. Recalled that the accident occurred on Tuesday evening when a train on Mexico City’s newest metro line plunged onto a...
Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Dr. Zainab Ahmed, says President Muhammadu Buhari has directed salaries committee to review payroll and number of agencies, to cut the cost of governance Ahmed stated this on Tuesday at a ‘National Policy Dialogue on Corruption and Cost of Governance in Nigeria’,...
Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, has urged Nigerians to disregard an employment racketeering currently in circulation. In a statement in Abuja, Mr. Mustapha revealed that the desk to submit CV cited in the fake employment announcement was non-existing at the SFG’s office. Mustapha also...
The acting Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has ordered the appointment of a new Commissioner of Police for Imo State. CP Abutu Yaro is now expected to take over from CP Nasiru Mohammed, who was deployed to the state in January. Under Mohammed, police stations in Imo have come...
Members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have said that they are ready to suspend their planned resumption of strike on Friday, according to a statement signed by the spokesman to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila. The doctors’ apparent reversal was made...
Manchester City reached the Champions League final for the first time in the club’s history as Riyad Mahrez’s double saw off Paris Saint-Germain 2-0 on Tuesday to seal a 4-1 aggregate win. Mahrez’s goal also decided the first leg and the Algerian, who grew up in the Parisian suburbs,...
Some 137 persons found to be occupying a government forest reserve in Ondo State illegally have been evacuated to their various states by men of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, the Amotekun Corps. The illegal occupants were apprehended at Elegbeka Forest Reserve, located along Benin/Owo Highway. The Commander...
The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed has asked the People’s Democratic Party to hold state governments, including those headed by members of the party, accountable for the prosecution of banditry and kidnapping cases. According to him, banditry and kidnapping are not federal offenses. The Minister made the remark at...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday called for an end to what he described as “the cycle of violence” in Benue and Anambra states. In a statement signed by spokesman Garba Shehu, the President said the inclination for people to take law into their hands “in the name of revenge”...