An Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama in Jos on Friday, sentenced a 22-year-old driver, Taro Mohammed, to two years in prison for breach of trust and cheating. The Judge, Daniel Damulak, who sentenced Mohammed after he pleaded guilty to the offence, however, gave him an option to...
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Publisher of The Guardian, Mrs Maiden Ibru, has lauded Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta for visible infrastructural development in the state.Ibru made the commendation when she, alongside two other publishers, visited Okowa at the Government House Asaba on Thursday, to condole with him on the passing of Pa. Arthur...
Britain has made it mandatory for UK residents and nationals arriving from more than 30 countries to enter 10 days supervised quarantine in hotels, beginning from Feb.15. The measure was intended to prevent the spread of new variants of the novel coronavirus, the Ministry of Health in London said...
The Executive Director of the Africa Health Budget Network (AHBN), Dr. Aminu Magashi, has advocated for the establishment of an agency that will properly handle the financing of cancer issues in Nigeria. Magashi made the call on Thursday in Abuja during a media engagement to mark the World Cancer...
Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission Moussa Mahamat on Friday said that “exceptional situation’’ caused by COVID-19 has not diverted the bloc’s attention from Africa’s priority issues. Although the COVID-19 pandemic “has totally changed the working methods of the AU, it has not diverted the attention of the...
Myanmar resumed the vaccination programme against COVID-19 across the country on Friday, according to an announcement from the Health and Sports Ministry.The announcement said the country started vaccinating about 103,142 front line medical staff and volunteers since Jan. 27, in the first phase of the nationwide vaccination programme.The group...
The Anambra Government has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew from Monday, Feb. 8, to contain the the spread of COVID-19 in the state.This is contained in a statement issued by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Solo Chukwulobelu, on Friday in Awka. Chukwulobelu said the curfew will be observed...
From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Forty persons, combining independent social media influencers from different groups and media aides, have ended a two-day intensive and practical training on news writing, community journalism, social media engagement and governmental media relations conducted by the Department of Mass Communication in the University of...
FBN Holdings PLC (“FBNHoldings), Nigeria’s leading financial holdings company, has announced the appointments of Mr. Seni Adetu and Mrs. Juliet Anammah as Independent Non-Executive directors, while Mr. Otu Hughes has been appointed as a Non-Executive director. These appointments are subject to the approval of the Central Bank of Nigeria (“CBN”)....
The average man and woman of today, is running around like a fowl whose head has just been cut off. Looking for daily bread? Likely. Trying to make ends meet? Perhaps. Running after power and position? Maybe. Who is pushing you to do what you do? What is driving...
Abia Government on Thursday placed a ban on public gatherings as part of efforts to tackle the rising cases of coronavirus in the state. Mr Chris Ezem, Chairman of Abia COVID-19 Inter-ministerial Committee, announced this at a stakeholders meeting in Umuahia. He said that the ban was necessitated by...
Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has promised to establish a Cancer Treatment Centre in the state to enable people to access quality care for cancer-related treatment to reduce the scourge to bearest minimum. Akeredolu made this known on Thursday at the launch of Ondo 2021 Breast and Cervical...
The Fiscal Policy Reforms Committee has advised Nigerians with unclaimed dividends and dormant account balances to start the process of claiming them, if they were not up to six years. Mr Bode Oyetunde, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Finance and Fiscal Matters and Secretary of the committee,...
The Higher Ground Polytechnic, Jigwada Keffi, Nasarawa State, says the institution would take-off before the end of 2021, according to Mr Ibrahim Babayo, Chief security consultant to the polytechnic. Babayo, who disclosed this in an exclusive interview with newsmen, on Thursday, in his office in Keffi, said that some...
Mr Nuhu Zaki, Bauchi state Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, has said that as from February, all the local governments in the state would take over the payment of their staff salaries. Zaki made this known at a news conference, following a meeting between Gov. Bala Mohammed,...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has said that the planned establishment of additional polling units across the country would not be treated as constituency projects, an authoritative source in the commission said. The source, who said this while speaking to news men, in Abuja, on Thursday, noted that...
Some stakeholders in University education in Nigeria, on Thursday, warned against the proliferation of universities in the country, following Wednesday’s approval of 20 new private universities by the Federal Executive Council (FEC). In separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Benin, the stakeholders said there was...
Parastatal agencies under the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy have held an interactive session to discuss critical areas of synergy on the implementation of key provisions, in the amended Finance Act 2020, as they affected the operations of the agencies in the ministry. The session, held under the...
Suspected hoodlums on Thursday attacked the Police Divisional Headquarters in Isu, Onicha Local Government Area (LGA) of Ebonyi State, and burnt the left wing of the Station. DSP Loveth Odah, Spokesperson of Ebonyi Police Command, in a press statement in Abakaliki, said, four patrol vehicles were also burnt. “On...