A total of 12 undergraduates from Mozambique’s University Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) received the annual Chinese Ambassador Scholarship on Friday. The award, set up in 2018, showed the Chinese ambassador’s support for the UEM, and encouragement to students majoring in Chinese language and culture in the university’s Confucius Institute, said...
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Namibia and Botswana on Friday agreed to work closely in the procurement and distribution of Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines as well as promotion of cross-border trade. The pact was reached on Friday between Namibian President Hage Geingob and his Botswanan Counterpart Mokgweetsi Masisi during the latter’s one-day state visit to...
A Cuban military helicopter crashed in eastern Cuba on Friday, killing all five people on board, the Cuban military said. The helicopter crashed against a hill after leaving eastern Holguin province for the neighboring Guantanamo province, the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces said in a brief statement, cited by state...
The European Commission on Friday said it was not triggering an emergency override clause in the Brexit deal relating to the sensitive Irish border with new restrictions on vaccine exports. The European Union’s (EU) executive arm “will ensure that the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol is unaffected. The Commission is not...
Ethiopia registered 771 new Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 136,365, the country’s Ministry of Health said on Friday. The death toll from COVID-19 in the country reached 2,087 as of Friday evening, after two new deaths were reported, the ministry said....
By MBAFAN ADE, Abuja – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), said on Friday it would do everything within its powers to ensure the timeous completion of the $3.6bn Integrated Gas Processing and Methanol Plant in Odioma, Brass Island, Bayelsa State. Group Managing Director of NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari,...
By MBAFAN ADE, Abuja – The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has debunked a report in a section of the media suggesting that the Commission had concluded work on the licensing framework that will open Nigerian telecoms market for the launch of Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO). In a statement on...
The new Chief of Defence Staff, Maj.-Gen. Lucky Irabor, on Friday, took over the mantle of leadership of the Armed Forces of Nigeria from his predecessor, Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that President Muhammadu Buhari had on Tuesday appointed Irabor alongside the...
Gov. Douye Diri, has set up a special committee to look into the demands of the Niger Delta University (NDU) Chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), and the Higher Institutions Joint Action Committee (HIJAC). Diri, who inaugurated the committee on Friday in Government House, Yenagoa, after ...
Farmers in Ilorin have called on the Kwara Government for urgent intervention over what he described as indiscriminate bush burning in parts of the state. The farmers who expressed worry amidst consistent bush burning in the state spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin on Friday,...
Tehran will not accept U.S. demands that it reverse an acceleration of its nuclear programme before Washington lifts sanctions, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Friday. The demand “is not practical and will not happen”, he said at a joint news conference in Istanbul with his Turkish counterpart...
The Federal Government in its ongoing Special Cash Grant for Rural Women Project has distributed N20,000 each to 8,000 women in Lagos State. Mrs Rhoda Iliya, the Deputy Director of Information, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja....
The World Health Organisation urged countries squabbling over COVID-19 vaccine supplies to think about the situation of health workers in less developed countries. “We all need to step into the place of them. Where they are today fighting on the front line…,” Mike Ryan, WHO’s top emergency expert, told...
Team South South on Friday defeated defending champions, South West by 126 runs in the National U-17 Cricket Girls Finals in Benin-City. The tournament, organised by the Nigeria Cricket Federation (NCF) and sponsored by Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC),is ongoing at the Edo Boys High School, Adolor. South South won the...
Forner Chief of Naval Staff Vice Adm. Ibok Ete-Ibas on Friday in Abuja decorated Rear Adm. Awwal Gambo as the new Chief of Naval Staff. President Muhammadu Buhari, had on Tuesday, announced the appointment of Rear Adm. Awwal Gambo as the new Chief of Naval Staff, among others. Ete-Ibas...
The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola has received the Outline Business Case Certificate of Compliance for 12 federal road corridors for concession by the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Agency (ICRC). Fashola received the document from Mr Micheal Ohiari, acting-Director-General, ICRC at a formal handover ceremony on Friday...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) market indices on Friday advanced further by 0.58 per cent following gains made by some blue chip companies. Speficially, the NSE All-Share Index rose by 243.25 points or 0.58 per cent to close at 42,412.66 from 42,169.41 posted on Thursday. Similarly, the market capitalisation...
President Muhammadu Buhari has departed Abuja for Daura, Katsina State, his home town, to participate in the national membership registration and revalidation exercise of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president left Abuja after performing the weekly Juma’at prayer at the...
Dr Efem Ubi, Director of Research, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, says the allegation by critics that Nigeria is gradually ceding her sovereignty to China on account of excessive borrowing is untrue. Ubi made this assertion on Friday in Abuja in a presentation at a round table organised by...