The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC), has reported 501 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN), reports that Since the beginning of the outbreak in February, more than...
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President Muhammadu Buhari has joined the academia in Nigeria and all over the world, in condoling with the family of Prof. Chukwuma Osakwe, a renowned scholar on military history. In a condolence message by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Sunday,...
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the death of Prof. Habu Galadima, the Director General, National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS). In a condolence message by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Sunday, the president described Galadima as...
By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has commissioned erosion control and road improvement projects in Sabon Lugbe and Kafe areas of the Territory. Malam Bello, who told residents of both communities to justify Government’s investment in their communities by...
Apostle Vitalis Odumma, the Senior Pastor, LifeGrace Ministries International with headquarters in London, has urged the Federal Government to grant amnesty to those who sabotaged the Nigerian economy, especially those who stashed money away to foreign countries. Odumma said this on Sunday in an interview with newsmen in Abuja,...
Ghana’s Under-20 national football team, the Black Satellites, came from behind to beat their Burkina Faso counterparts 2-1 in the final of the 2020 WAFU Zone B Cup on Saturday. Kouame Jean Fiacre Botue broke the deadlock for the Burkinabe Young Stallions in the 16th minute when he capitalised...
Some of the residents of Labala Isale Community Layout in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara have appealed to the state government to provide them with a transftormer and end eight years of poor electricity supply. They made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of...
Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti has reiterated call for a reform in the Nigeria Police that will ensure purposeful community policing. Fayemi stated this on Sunday in Ado- Ekiti at the end of a stakeholders’ forum on community policing. The forum featured heads of security agencies, public servants, politicians,...
Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of Nigeria Police have foiled robbery attempt in a gridlock in Lagos. In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday, the command’s Public Relations Officer Olumuyiwa Adejobi said that that two suspects were arrested. Adejobi stated that the incident occurred around Otedola Bridge...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a Desert-to-Power (D2P) technical support programme that will advance the rollout of solar generation in G5 Sahel countries, where 60 million people lack access to electricity. The technical assistance, in the form of a US$5 million grant...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved the Bank’s 2021 Borrowing Programme for up to US$10.4 billion to be raised from capital markets. A statement from the bank said the borrowing programme will allow the Bank to raise funds in the debt capital markets...
As governments move to secure COVID-19 vaccines for their populations, choosing these treatments should not be viewed as “some kind of nationalistic footrace”, with some countries winning and others losing, a senior official with the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. Dr. Mike Ryan, Director of Emergencies, was responding...
Rev. Fr. Peter Asan, Parish Priest, St Michael Catholic Church, Garaku, Nasarawa State, has harped on attitudinal change by Nigerians in order to address the various challenges facing the nation. Asan gave the charge on Sunday in Garaku, while presiding over Thanksgiving/Child Dedication Mass of Mr Daniel Ogazi, member...
The safe return of all 344 boys kidnapped from the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, in Katsina State would be celebrated in any decent part of the world where empathy overrides cheap politics. And for a good cause. The outpouring of sighs, cries of relief and joy over the...
Prof. Habu Galadima, the Director General of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, near Jos, is dead. Retired Brig.-Gen. C.F.J. Udaya, the Secretary and Director of Administration of the Institute announced the death in a statement on Sunday in Jos.According to Udaya, Galadima, 57, died...
The Katsina state Police command has announced the successful rescue of 84 children of Hizburrahim Islamiyya School kidnapped Saturday night. The school children were abducted by armed men, who ambushed them in Mahuta village, Dandume LGA of Katsina state, as they were returning from a Maulud Nabbiyu event at...
There’s this subtle perception that actors and entertainers are not academically good which is why some of them honed their talents so well to find solace in what they do now. But that’s a big fallacy as a lot of celebs have other academic credentials that can make them...
Sexual immorality is another thing that attracts strong generational curses. God made it clear that he hates it and will not fail to curse anybody that involves in it. He allows sexual relationship only between a husband and his wife. Anything outside of this amounts to immorality and...
By FREDRICK NWANKWO – In the evening of February 19, 2018, 110 schoolgirls of Government Girls’ Science Secondary School, Dapchi in Yunusari local government of area of Yobe state were abducted by Boko Haram and taken into grisly captivity. Five of the girls died in the hands of their...