The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has registered 397 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the country has so far tested 932,327 people since the first...
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The Speaker, Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi, has urged the people of the state to support the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Gov. Abdullahi Sule-led administration beyond 2023.He said that the support had become necessary in order to enable the party and the governor provide...
The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has registered 397 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the country has so far tested 932,327 people since the first...
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted sunny and hazy weather conditions across the nation on Tuesday and Wednesday. NiMet’s weather outlook released on Monday in Abuja predicted sunny and hazy conditions over the northern part on Tuesday. According to NiMet, sunny and hazy conditions are expected over most...
Edo Government on Monday urged residents in the state to ensure they protected the elderly, adjudged most vulnerable to COVID-19, following the outbreak of a second wave of the pandemic. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG) Mr Osarodion Ogie, who gave the advice in a statement in Benin,...
Handlers of Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) have charged the players to be more committed as they resume training after the Christmas break. Mr Dimeji Lawal, 3SC Manager and Edith Agoye, 3SC Coach, gave the charge in Ibadan on Monday while welcoming the players to the training session. The...
Mr Tunji Ajuloopin representing Ekiti, Isin, Irepodun and Oke-ero Federal Constituency of Kwara, on Monday recommended rabbit farming for meaningful engagement of unemployed youths. Ajuloopin said in Omu-Aran, Kwara, that rabbit farming could be a source of empowerment of the youth and a legitimate and viable source of income....
Tropical Storm Chalane, which formed last week in the Indian Ocean, hit the Fenoarivo Atsinanana District Sunday with maximum wind gusts of between 40 and 50 km per hour, the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said here late Monday. Chalane weakened to a Tropical Depression after landfall...
President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré of Burkina Faso was on Monday inaugurated for the second five-year term after winning the November 22 presidential election. “I swear before the people of Burkina Faso and on my honour, to preserve, respect, enforce the constitution and laws to do everything possible to...
Zambia recorded 234 road traffic accidents, 18 of them leading to 28 deaths during this year’s Christmas holidays. According to statistics released Monday by police spokesperson Esther Katongo, from December 24 to December 28, the capital city, Lusaka, recorded the highest number of 105 road accidents with five deaths,...
Twelve countries that will play the next Africa Cup of Nations Under-20 football tournament, “Mauritania 2021”, were announced at the weekend. In addition to the host country, Gambia will represent Zone A of the Union of West African Football Associations (WAFU A). WAFU will count on Burkina Faso and...
The International Football Federation (FIFA) will finance the construction of a technical centre, at Kabala, near the Malian capital, Bamako, a sports source told PANA on Monday. FIFA will also implement a Technical Support Programme (TSP) to strengthen the National Technical Directorate of the Malian Football Federation (FEMAFOOT). A...
Both Nigerians and Ghanaians on social media have hailed the Nigerian musician, Wizkid for maintaining calm amidst the fight between Davido and Burna Boy. The three Nigerian stars who have been in Ghana for the Christmas festivities have been enjoying their yuletide on a solemn note at the blind side of the media till...
National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has shut down six pharmaceutical manufacturers for non-compliance with Good manufacturing Practice (GMP). Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, director general of the Agency, said this in a statement by Mr Sayo Akintola, Resident Media Consultant, NAFDAC, and made available to the News...
Gov. Abubakar Bello of Niger has condemned recent attack by bandits on some communities of Maitumbi and Kuchi in Bosso and Munya local government areas of the state Bello, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mrs Mary Noel-Berje, in Minna on Monday decried the incessant activities of...
The FCT Administration Reform Coordination and Service Improvement Department (RCSI), has mapped out plans to domesticate the e-Government Master Plan of the Federal Government in January 2021. Acting Director of the Department, Dr Jumai Ahmadu, who made the disclosure at an interactive session with newsmen, on Monday, in Abuja,...
Mrs Florence Oyeyemi, Kwara Commissioner for Finance and Planning, has advocated the need to empower women and youths in order to reduce unemployment in the state. Oyeyemi made the call while fielding questions from newsmen after the presentation of the palm-nut cracking machine to black soap makers in Odo-Owa,...
The Sokoto State government says it has begun plans to upgrade the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto (SSCOE) to University of Education.Gov. Aminu Tambuwal made this known at the 22nd convocation and 50th anniversary of the college in Sokoto.Tambuwal said that the twin successes being celebrated by the...
The management of the National Theatre, Lagos, have explained that its planned programmes for the 2020 Xmas and New year festivities were hindered by the Lagos State Government’s ban on carnival, concerts and street parties. Steph Ogundele, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the National Theatre, told the News...
The Nigerian Army has built and handed-over a 1.2 kilometre road at Umurusi-Ukehe Community, in Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area (LGA), of Enugu State. Inaugurating the road on Monday in Umurusi-Ukehe, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, said that the project was part of Nigerian Army’s Civil...