The National Directorate of Employment (NDE), on Tuesday commenced a three-day training of 50 unemployed women on spices production and modern packaging in Kano State. Mr Iliyasu Ahmed, the NDE’s Coordinator in Kano said the training was part of Federal Government’s efforts to tackle unemployment in the country. According...
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By JOHN ONAH, Abuja The Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) Dr. Hamid Bobboyi has said Kano State has injected a whopping sum of N6 billion to basic education sub-sector between 2018 and 2019. The Executive Secretary made known in a speech he delivered at the on-going two-...
A Magistrates’ Court in Ikeja, Lagos, has ordered the remand of a 30-year-old painter, Sunday Ajibade, in Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly defiling a 14-year-old girl. The Magistrate, Mrs M.O. Tanimola, ordered that the defendant be remanded, following the motion by the Prosecutor, ASP Victor Eruada, that the matter...
Organisers of the Edo 2020 trade fair say no fewer than 45 exhibitors have registered ahead of the Dec. 14 opening, Director of the Edo 2020 Trade Fair Planning Committee, Mr Osayande Igbe, disclosed in Benin on Tuesday. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Igbe...
Port Harcourt-based professional golfer Michael Ubi says he has already started working towards defending the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Pro-Am Golf Tournament trophy in 2021. Ubi, who is a member of Python Golf Club of Port Harcourt, on Sunday in Abuja won the trophy for the pro category at...
The President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), Mr Musa Kida, has lamented the ”legal encumbrances” that had held back a robust National Premier League for men in the country. A statement on Tuesday, made available by Afolabi Oni, Board Member (NBBF) on Media, quoted Kida as saying that ...
Three men: Aderemi Adegoke, Adekunle Adegoke and Rasaq Okemakinde, who allegedly beat-up a policeman to avert arrest, on Tuesday appeared before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court. Adegoke, 59; Adegoke 22 and Okemakinde, 30, are facing a six-count-charge bordering on conspiracy, breach of peace, wilful damage and assault. They, however,...
Chief Solomon Onwe, a Commissioner in Ebonyi Civil Service Commission has resigned his appointment. This is contained in a letter dated Dec.7, addressed to Gov. Dave Umahi through the Secretary to the State Government (SSG) on Tuesday in Abakaliki. “I hereby formally resign my appointment as member of the...
The police on Tuesday arraigned a businessman, Lohnan Nicholas, in an Upper Area Court at Mpape in Abuja for allegedly stealing property worth N464,000. The police charged Nicholas, 27, of Gishiri community in the FCT with three counts of trespass, causing mischief and theft. The Judge, Mr Mohammed Marafa,...
A lightning strike at an Australian school landed 13 students and two teachers in hospital on Tuesday, with the victims experiencing mild tingling symptoms. The students, aged between 10 and 12 years, were playing on an open sports field when lightning struck nearby shortly after 1:30 pm local time....
Sasakawa Association Africa (SAA), an international agriculture intervention group, says it will provide extension services to 550,000 farmers in Kano State under the State’s Agro-Pastoral Development Programme.The Deputy Country Director of the SAA, Dr Abdulhamid Gambo, told newsmen on Tuesday in Kano that the programme was focused at promoting...
The House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee on Public Account has summoned Chief Hyacinth Ikpor, Chairman of Ebonyi State Universal Basic Education Board (EBSUBEB) to appear before it in Abuja for alleged insubordination. The committee issued the summons on Tuesday in Abakaliki during its oversight visit to Tertiary Education...
The Director General, Nigeria Copyright Commission (NCC), Mr John Asien, says the commission would focus more on the enforcement of copyright laws as from 2021. Asien told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN,) on the sidelines of the just concluded 39th International Convention of the Association of Nigerian Authors...
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) on Tuesday disclosed that exploration and production in the Nigeria oil and gas sector was now fully indigenized. Mr Simbi Wabote, Executive Secretary of NCDMB, made the disclosure in a goodwill message to a workshop organised by the NCDMB, and entitled...
U.S. President Donald Trump called the speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives twice asking for assistance in revising his election loss in the state, media reported. According to The Washington Post, the office of House Speaker Bryan Cutler confirmed these calls. Pennsylvania is the third state after Georgia...
South Korea said on Tuesday that it had signed deals to provide Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines for 44 million people in 2021 but it would not hurry inoculation to allow more time to observe potential side effects. South Korea’s Health Minister Park Neung-hoo said the government had arranged to buy...
The UN children’s agency (UNICEF) has cautioned countries fighting the Coronavirus against imposing nationwide or large-scale school closures, saying it is a wrong response that could compound the societal cost of the disease. UNICEF Global Chief of Education, Robert Jenkins, said in a statement that 320 million children were locked out...
EDDY OCHIGBO, Kaduna The Kaduna state government has commenced the process of community and state policing, aimed at tackling the worsening insecurity in the state holistically. Acting Governor, Dr. Hadiza Balarabe, who dropped the hint after presiding over a security meeting yesterday, said consultations have begun in the state’s...
A day after eligible voters cast their ballot to elect a President and parliamentary candidates, voting results are being announced at various Coalition Centres. The 2020 election is the eighth of the fourth republic and has the highest number of registered voters. 8,810,283 representing 51.7% of the total number...