Wang Yi, a special envoy of Chinese President, Xi Jinping, on Friday urged all parties to strengthen unity, expand consensus and work together on COVID-19 as control efforts reach a crucial stage. In a virtual speech at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly special session in response to the...
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Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), has inaugurated some projects at the 205 Combat Search and Rescue Group and the Air Provost Training Centre, all in Kerang, Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau.The projects include a medical center, administrative block and blocks of accommodation...
Africa CDC has pointed out major gaps delaying response to the coronavirus pandemic, including the inadequate public health infrastructure and foreign supplies of testing kits and other diagnostics. John Nkengasong, Director at the Addis Ababa-based Africa CDC, said on Thursday that only 16 out of the 54 African Union...
An Australian court on Friday dismissed eight out of 87 contempt of court charges against media on their reporting of ex-Vatican treasurer George Pell’s 2018 conviction for child sex assault. The trial on the remaining 79 charges that media breached a suppression order on reporting of the cardinal’s conviction...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Friday, produced the former Chairman, the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abulrasheed Maina, at the Federal High Court, Abuja, to stand his trial.Maina who is being prosecuted by the EFCC on N2 billion money laundering charges had jumped bail and...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja Hultprize CRUTECH in partnership with the Bridge leadership foundation will work at providing professional skills, personal and Business management skills trainings to the Top 9 teams that emerged among other 22 teams to the Semi finals. The competition which comprises of 3 or 4 members making...
A new publication by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has revealed that children with disabilities were among the most disadvantaged during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Mr Mark Hereward, UNICEF’s Associate Director, Data & Analytics, Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring said this in a statement on Friday....
The Olusegun Obasanjo Foundation (OOF) has won the 2020 Humanitarian Foundation of the Year award, conducted by the Igbere TV, a foremost community Television station based in the hilly town of Igbere, the home town of former Governors Amadi Ikwechegh (Imo), Emma Ukaegbu (Anambra) and Orji Uzor Kalu (Abia)....
The Federal Government has approved charges on the new Lagos-Ibadan rail standard gauge which would begins operations by January, 2021. The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, made the disclosure during the inauguration of the Governing Council of the Chartered Institute of Transport Administration of Nigeria (CIOTA) in Abuja on...
The Kwara state College of Education, Ilorin has said that it is in dire need of N20 million to complete its affiliation with the University of Ilorin on degree courses, the Provost of the Institution, Dr AbdulRaheem Yusuf said in Ilorin. In an interview with the News Agency of...
The Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) on Friday advised Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA’s) of government to sanction contractors who failed to complete projects awarded to them. Mr Sule Unekwuojo, leader of the South West Monitoring and Evaluation Team of the commission, gave the advice during the verification of selected...
The United Nations (UN) has donated hygiene supplies to people with disabilities in Mongolia on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD), local media reported on Friday. This is based on a statement by the country’s Ministry of Labor and Social Protection. According to the...
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday launched a US$6.4 billion emergency funding appeal to reach more than 190 million children affected by humanitarian crises amidst the coronavirus pandemic. The appeal for 2021, which is a 35 per cent increase over the funds requested for this year, is the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja The Tertiary Education Trust Fund TETFund, has set an ambitious target of N500 billion education tax collection for the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, in 2021.Chairman, TETFund Board of Trustees (BoT), Alhaji Kashim Imam, who disclosed this at the 2020 TETFund/FIRS Joint Interactive Forum in...
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has failed to tender the presidential approval on the creation of the new five zonal commands and departments as directed by the Police Service Commission. This has stalled the promotion of 112 senior officers, which was stood down by the commission in October....
Prior to 2017, when The federal government during one of the federal executive council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari decided to stop Nigeria’s membership of 90 international organisations, as a result of a backlog of $120 million in membership dues and other financial commitments, the nation reportedly belonged...
From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – … Northern Governors donate N20m… NEDC gives N5m The 48 bereaved families of Zabarmari farmers killed last Saturday received on Thursday, the sum of N600,000 each and bags of food items from a committee assigned by Bornor state Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, to transparently...
If former President Goodluck Jonathan had “Trumped” after the 2015 Presidential election, that is, if Jonathan had refused to conceded defeat as Donald Trump is currently doing in the United States of America, retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari would not have become President, and he would have remained a...
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a six-million-dollar “EatSafe” initiative, to support Nigeria to improve food security, safety and nutrition. The agency launched the five-year programme on Thursday in Abuja with Kebbi as the pilot beneficiary state. The project is to be implemented by Global Alliance...
By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has announced that 343 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) were recorded in the country on Thursday. In the daily update on its official twitter handle NCDCgov, the health agency also put the total number of infections at...