The Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Makurdi, and six other hospitals in Benue, have won the quarterly best viral load coverage and suppression sites awards of the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC). Performing the ceremony on Wednesday, via Zoom and monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in...
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Tech giants, Google on Wednesday created a doodle to celebrate the 74th posthumous birthday of one of Nigeria’s finest highlife musicians, Oliver De Coque. Oliver De Coque whose real name is Oliver Sunday Akanite was largely regarded as the “Highlife King of Africa” and one of the continent’s most...
The Emir of Keffi, Dr Shehu Chindo-Yamusa, has cautioned Islamic preachers against provocative sermons capable of inciting public disturbances during and after the Ramadan fasting. Chindo-Yamusa made the call in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lafia on Wednesday. He said that the clerics should always...
Turkish Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy on Wednesday said Turkey might lose nearly 500,000 tourists by June after Russia imposed flight restrictions, the NTV broadcaster reported. “There might be a fall of nearly 500,000 in tourist numbers,’’ Ersoy was quoted as saying. The minister said no problems had been...
Lunar exploration firm iSpace said Wednesday it will transport a United Arab Emirates unmanned rover to the Moon next year, as the Gulf state seeks to expand its space sector. The UAE — made up of seven emirates including the capital Abu Dhabi and freewheeling Dubai — announced in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri- The Governor of Borno State, Prof. Babagana Zulum says he is optimistic that the abducted Chibok schoolgirls will be rescued, seven years after they were kidnapped by the terror group, Boko Haram. Recalled that the terrorists had on 14 April 2014, captured 276 girls aged...
US tech giant Google on Wednesday launched a new cloud data hub in Warsaw — its first in Central and Eastern Europe — with an investment of nearly $2.0 billion (1.7 billion euros). Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki hailed the new hub saying it would ensure “better service from private...
Gambian Lawmaker, Hon. Fatmata Njai says the ECOWAS Parliament can achieve 30 per cent representation of women in parliament only if it rejects nominations from countries not meeting the criteria. Njai expressed this thought while speaking with journalists during the Fifth Legislature’s Delocalised meeting of the ECOWAS Parliament holding in...
Two motor boys were reported dead while three others sustained various degrees of injuries in an accident involving two trucks and a motorcycle at Nasfat U-turn on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) Divisional Commander in Mowe/Ibafo, Ojuoro Olusola, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
The FCT Police Command on Wednesday arraigned a trader, Abba Shekarau in an Upper Area Court, Mpape, Abuja, for allegedly receiving stolen drum, belonging to a church. The police charged Shekarau, 42, of Dutse Panteka, Abuja with one count of receiving stolen property. The Prosecution Counsel, Stanley Nwaforaku, told...
A 35-year old man, Umaru Jibrin has stabbed the Chief Imam of Enagi town, in Edati Local Government area of Niger State to death for allegedly having a sexual relationship with his wife, Aisha Umar. Jibrin claims that he caught the 48-year old Islamic cleric, Alhaji Attahiru Alhassan, in...
The Police in Jigawa have arrested two suspected armed robbers in Gumel Local Government Area of the state. ASP Zubairu Aminuddeen, the Public Relations Officer of the command, confirmed the arrest to newsmen in Dutse on Wednesday. Aminuddeen said the suspects were arrested on April 10, after they broke...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday presided over the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. President Muhammadu Buhari is in London for a routine medical check-up. Before the proceedings, a minute silence was observed in honour of Mahmud Tukur, a former Minister of Commerce...
People under 60 in Germany who were given the AstraZeneca vaccine as their first dose will switch to a different vaccine for the second dose, German federal and state health ministers have decided. “The solution that has now been found offers good protection for people,” Bavarian lawmaker Klaus Holetschek,...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja– Over a dozen fraudsters have gained access into an intranet site of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, and altered profiles of the board’s ad hoc staff, diverting over N10 million meant for their allowances. Registrar of JAMB, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, said the board...
Officials say 20 nursery school children died in Niger on Tuesday in a fire that trapped them in straw-hut classrooms. “There were 20 deaths, most of them young children,” said the head of Niger’s fire service, Col. Bako Boubacar. He said the origin of the fire in Niamey was...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja- The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), FCT Correspondents’ Chapel would on Thursday, hold its annual Press Week/Lecture with the Theme: “Insecurity in Nigeria: Restoring Peace, Unity and Progress” A statement jointly signed by the Chapel Chairman, Comrade Philip Nyam and the Secretary, Comrade Jide Oyekunle...
A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Nnamdi Onochie, has taken his peace building initiative to traders in Onitsha and other parts of the South East, asking them to embrace peace to make Nigeria stand. This is contained in a statement made available to the News Agency...
Kenya’s exports of avocados hit 72,000 tons in 2020, up from 59,000 tons recorded in the previous year, a government official said on Wednesday. “The increase in export volumes was partly due to enhanced cultivation of avocado by Kenyan farmers over the past five years,” Benjamin Tito, head of...