President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday rejoiced with foremost scholar, teacher, legal luminary, author, and anti-corruption crusader, Prof. Itsejuwa Sagay, as he turns 80 on Dec. 20. President Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, said in a statement issued in Abuja that the president also rejoiced with the Sagay family, the academia,...
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Stakeholders in education sector have called on the Federal and state governments to increase education budget to solve the dearth of teaching and non teaching aids.They spoke at the 2019/2020 Graduation Ceremony and Prize Giving Day at the Redeemer TEAP School on Saturday in Abuja.They called on the Federal...
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, on Saturday, urged writers and authors in Nigeria to dwell on topical issues in order to find solutions for society’s growing challenges. AbdulRazaq made the call in Ilorin, while speaking at the public presentation and launching of a book titled: “Halal Sex and Intimacy”....
A political analyst, Prof. Augustine Nonyelu, has urged the Anambra electorate to start looking out for a credible leader who would implement good policies, ahead of November 2021 state governorship election. Nonyelu who is the Director, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Business School, made the call on Saturday at a symposium...
The Nigerian military on Saturday made some disclosures on how it carried out the rescue operation of the 344 boys kidnapped from their school in Kankara, Katsina State, on Dec. 11. It disclosed that while kinetic and non-kinetic approaches were used to ensure all the boys were rescued unhurt,...
All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari over his prompt intervention in rescuing the over 300 kidnapped students of Kankara Government Science Secondary School in Katsina State. He also commended Katsina State Governor Aminu Bello Masari and the armed forces for working...
Femi Adesina’s birthday tribute to President Muhammadu Buhari, as fitting and succinctly delivered as it is, can best be described as understating the essence of the real Buhari persona. I understand that modesty is a fundamental requirement to posses if you are to survive in the regimentally Spartan set...
A chemical plant explosion in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province early Saturday, has killed one person with two missing, according to local authorities. The accident occured at around 12:46 a.m. in a workshop of a chemical company in the city of Anda also left four people injured, including two seriously,...
India’s COVID-19 tally surpassed 10 million on Saturday, reaching 10,004,599 as 25,152 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours, said the latest data from the federal health ministry. According to the data, the death toll mounted to 145,136 as 347 COVID-19 patients have died since Friday morning....
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has said that the Federal Government was ready to partner with the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) to attract foreign investors and revamp the economy. Onyeama, who said this on Friday, in Abuja, when members of the AGN visited him, observed that the...
Lagos, Dec. 18, 2020 (NAN) The Lagos State Government said that it had carried out a total of 197,000 COVID-19 tests since the outbreak of the disease in the state, out of which 26,000 tested positive. “We are ramping up testing, we have now recently surpassed the 3,000 tests...
Dr Ibrahim Adamu, Director, Public Health, Nasarawa Ministry of Health has refuted reports alleging that four National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members currently at the orientation camp in the state, tested positive for COVID-19. Adamu made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lafia on Friday....
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Ebonyi on Friday decorated 17 newly-promoted operatives with their new ranks.The State Commandant of the corps, Lucy Samu, said during the brief ceremony in Abakaliki that the officers were promoted from Assistant Superintendent of Corps to Deputy Commandant of Corps...
A 10-year-old girl, Suliya Abubakar, said she threw her step brother, Usman Abubakar, aged 20 months, inside a well because her step mother maltreats her. Abubakar said this while she was being paraded alongside 34 suspects of other crimes, by the Ondo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Salami Bolaji,...
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Friday that the abduction of 344 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina State, was targeted at embarrassing his administration. Buhari made the statement when he met with the rescued Kankara students and representatives of their parents at the Banquet Hall of...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia have expressed disappointment with the conduct of Friday’s Local Government Chairmanship and Councellorship elections in the state. The Chairmen of the two leading opposition parties, Chief Donatus Nwankpa of APC and Rev. Augustine Ehiemere of APGA,...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved for emergency use a second coronavirus vaccine produced by American biotechnology company, Moderna. This clears the way for millions more Americans to be inoculated next week in a country reeling under a second wave of the pandemic. Moderna’s is...
The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 806 new infections of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that the agency has since February 2020, tested over 869,362 samples...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has welcomed the rescue of the abducted 344 students of Government Science School Kankara in Kastina State of Nigeria. Guterres in a note to UN correspondents on Friday, lauded the swift action taken by the Federal Government to rescue the students. He called for the...