Pope Francis on Friday arrived in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad for a historic apostolic four-day trip to the Middle Eastern nation, Iraq’s official news agency INA reported. The papal plane landed at Baghdad International Airport after taking off from the Italian Fiumicino air harbor on Friday morning. Prime...
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The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the appeal filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) challenging the ruling of the lower court in favour of Mr Dele Moses and 10 others. Justice Amina Augie, in the lead judgment held that the appeal had merit and therefore subsists. The Supreme...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says 3.8 million farmers have so far benefited from its Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP). The Director, Development Finance Department of the apex bank, Mr Yila Yusuf, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja. Yusuf...
Prof. Saad Ahmed, the Chief Medical Director, Federal Medical Centre, Jabi, Abuja, has advised Nigerians to take advantage of the website launched by government to register and make themselves available for COVID-19 vaccination. Prof. Ahmed made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
Three former Nigerian leaders, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd), Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, as well as five other former West African leaders thursday joined forces to establish a mechanism targeted at preventing and resolving election-related conflicts and maintaining stability in the sub-region. The leaders resolved to collectively...
A Financial Institution, LAPO Microfinance Bank (MFB) Ltd., has pledged to expend N10 billion to support farming and agriculture projects in 2021.Mr Oluremi Akande, the Head, Corporate Communications and Branding of the bank, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in...
A medical doctor, Ngong Cyprian, has become the first person to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria. Dr Cyprian has been a frontline health worker since March 2020 – days after the first case of the disease was reported in the country. Details later…
Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri, has ordered Aisha Alkali Wakil alias “Mama Boko Haram” to testify orally in her defence rather than through writing. It will be recalled that the EFCC closed its case against Wakil and her co-defendants on February 11, 2021, while...
Former US president Donald Trump will be allowed back on YouTube but only when the threat of his inciting violence abates, the head of the popular online video sharing platform said Thursday. YouTube in late January suspended Trump’s channel, joining other social media platforms in banning his accounts following...
Women in Africa are less likely to die from Covid-19 than men, but more likely to succumb to maternal complications due to limited access to reproductive services since the pandemic started, the UN said Thursday citing reports. A study of 28 African countries including Guinea, Mauritius and Uganda showed...
Human Rights Watch has added its voice to calls for an urgent United Nations-backed inquiry into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Ethiopian region of Tigray. The lobby group accuses Ethiopian and Eritrean forces of indiscriminately shelling the city of Axum in November. Echoing a report...
The Senegalese authorities have suspended the signal of two private television stations after accusing them of focusing too much on protests triggered by the arrest of an opposition leader, Ousmane Sonko. The two stations affected by the decision by the National Audiovisual Regulatory Council (CNRA) are Sen TV and...
Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Buki Ponle, has urged the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), to ensure professionalism while discharging its duties in the society. Ponle made the call on Thursday in Abuja when a delegation from the Guild, led by its President, Dotun...
Have you thought about how true this is? That at every point in life, and at every moment of one’s life, a human being always desires something. Oh, have you watched a new born baby who has just popped out of the womb? The baby is generally keen on...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered 709 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 157,671. As at Thursday (4th, March 2021), the public health agency also recorded twelve (12) new COVID-19-related deaths, raising the...
Ghana’s Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the opposition’s election challenge led by runner-up John Mahama who had asked for a rerun of the December 7 vote won by incumbent Nana Akufo-Addo. Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) won the vote with 51.59 per cent ahead of Mahama of...
The Nigeria Governors will be taking the COVID19 vaccines on Wednesday next week with their deputies before administering them to frontline health workers and the elderly in the states. The Head of Media and Public Affairs of the Forum Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo made this known after the forums meeting in...
Small tsunami waves triggered by a series of powerful earthquakes have hit the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island. Later on in the day, Friday, the government announced that thousands of residents who had evacuated to higher ground could now return to their homes. Officials had initially warned...