Members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors on Thursday morning commenced a nationwide strike despite Federal Government’s last-minute efforts to stop the action. The resident doctors, however, assured Nigerians that their action was not meant to hurt them. They gave the explanation in a message posted on the...
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By TOM CHIAHEMEN – Ethiopian Airlines, Africa’s leading Airline, has transported 1,056,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in a single flight. In statement from its headquarters in Addis Ababa, the Airline said it transported the vaccines in six envirotainers from Beijing to Harare via Addis Ababa and arrived in Harare...
A Nigerian Air Force Alpha Jet involved in the anti-terror war against Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province has lost radar contact in Borno State. NAF spokesman, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, in a statement on Thursday, said the Alpha Jet lost radar contact on Wednesday evening. According...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has forecasted that Africa’s share of the volume of the world’s merchandise export and import will increase by 8.1 per cent and 5.5 per cent respectively in 2021. It also projected a 2.6 per cent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the continent in 2021...
The Federal Government will be meeting with telecommunications operators and other key stakeholders in the sector over the recent court judgement halting the government from disconnecting SIM cards not linked to National Identity Numbers by April 6. Officials of the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy as well...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday said it has registered 129 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 162,891. As at Wednesday (31st, March 2021), the public health agency recorded one (1) COVID-19-related deaths,...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi- A water vendor has been killed and burnt by irate youths in Sade village in Darazo local government area of Bauchi state for allegedly blaspheming prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The victim whose name was given as Talle Mai Ruwa, was reportedly detained at the Police Station...
The Federal Capital Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has begun a thorough assessment of flood prone areas to prevent flood disaster that could lead to loss of lives and property in the territory. The Director-General of FEMA, Alhaji Abbas Idriss, at the inauguration of the exercise at Galadima roundabout in...
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the attempted coup in Niger Republic, according to a statement issued by Malam Garba Shehu, his spokesman, in Abuja, on Wednesday, “Any illegal effort to depose a democratically elected government is not only despicable, but also unacceptable to democratic governments around the world,” Buhari...
At least eight people have been killed and four others injured by bandits in separate attacks in Chikun, Giwa and Kajuru local government areas of Kaduna State. Confirming the incident on Wednesday via a statement, the Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, said armed...
The republic of Niger thwarted an “attempted coup” on Wednesday, the government said, two days before the historic inauguration of Mohamed Bazoum as president of the unstable Sahel nation. Residents in the capital Niamey earlier reported hearing gunfire in the middle of the night in the district where the...
The trial of one Ayodeji Ibrahim Oluokun, a self-acclaimed Pastor based in Lagos, continued before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos State on March 30, 2021, with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, presenting two more witnesses against him. Oluokun is standing...
The United States Government has said that the information on the number of fatalities recorded during the #ENDSARS protests in Lekki Tollgate last year, is not available. According to the US Department of State’s 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, “Accurate information on fatalities resulting from the shooting...
We have not heard the last word yet about the origin of the Coronavirus in our time. Countless conspiracy theories have flourished since its advent over a year ago. Some go as follows: That it is one of the plagues lined up by God to herald the end time;...
Why is Nigeria so unlucky? A country of over 200 million people and with thousands of intellectual giants, always led, or perhaps, hoping to be led by people with half-baked education, people who hardly could critically analyze issues before disgorging them to the public for consumption. Plato said the...
The Federal Government is proposing to spend the sum of N396 billion for the COVID-19 vaccination in 2021 and 2022. The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed disclosed this on Wednesday after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting, which was presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo....
The Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has slammed President Muhammadu Buhari’s handling of the nation’s insecurity, saying nobody takes Buhari seriously not even the service chiefs. Senator Abaribe stated this on Wednesday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today. “Why would we take him (President Muhammadu Buhari)...
By AUSTIN-FAIR NWAULU, Lagos- People are still reacting angrily to Governor Nyesom Wike’s declration of N10m each to all the artistes that performed at Grammy Awards winner, Burna Boy’s home coming concert last weekend even as some see nothing wrong in that to celebrate the young man that brought...
The Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday arraigned 60 suspected cultists before a Magistrate Court sitting in the Yaba area of the state. The 60 suspects, made up of 12 females and 48 males, were arraigned before Chief Magistrate Adeola Adebayo under the new Anti-Cultism Law of Lagos. This...