Ahead of Christmas celebration Kaduna-based cleric, Pastor Yohanna Buru, has called on wealthy Christian leaders and aid organisations to support victims of ethno-religious crisis and those affected by activities of banditry in Southern Kaduna. Buru is the General overseer of Christ Evangelical and Life intervention Ministry, Sabon Tasha, Kaduna...
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Botswana’s health authorities on Monday warned the public to avoid non-essential travelling due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic during the upcoming Christmas holiday season. This year’s festive season will be different due to the pandemic, a communique from the Presidential Task Force for COVID-19 said. The authorities have cautioned...
The Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) has said that it was pleased with the level of work done by contractors handling some selected Federal Government funded projects in Ondo State. Mr Sule Unekwuojo, Head, Finance and Account of the FRC, who also doubles as the Head of the Southwest team,...
The residents of old Dagbana Community in Nasarawa State, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT),on Tuesday, benefited from a free medical outreach organised by Help Initiative Initiative, an NGO. The Convener and Chairman, Board of Trustee of the initiative, Mr Onoja Ikojo, said that the event was...
Four men, who allegedly broke into an apartment and stole valuables worth N5.4 million, were, on Tuesday, arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.The defendants, Daniel Odey, 25; Akor John, 21; Chimeh Ifoma, 20 and Chima Okpara, 34, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges of conspiracy, breaking...
The Kaduna State Government on Tuesday donated relief materials to victims of Sunday’s attacks in Ungwan Bido and Ruggan Danbarau villages in the Aso district of Jema’a Local Government Area. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that eight people were killed and four injured in separate attacks on...
A businesswoman, Iyabo Donald, on Tuesday petitioned a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve her six year-old marriage to estranged husband, Richard because he often treated her like a common criminal. In her statement before Chief Ademola Odunade, the court’s President, Iyabo said she had lived in great...
Abba Bukar, an amputee, is one of the beneficiaries of the Physical Rehabilitation Programme of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), aimed at rehabilitating amputees from bomb blasts and other explosions. Bukar, a 300 level student of Mathematic/Statistics at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAD), like other amputees,...
The Kano State Agricultural and Rural Development Agency (KNARDA) has urged Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) to support the state towards the training of extension workers and provision of mini farming implements to encourage agricultural productivity. KNARDA Managing Director, Alhaji Ibrahim Dan-Isle, made the call when the Deputy Country Director...
Kaduna State Government with support from the UNICEF has trained Health workers in Sabon Gari Local Government Area of the state on Community-Infant and Young Child Feeding (C-IYCF). Mr Yamusa Umar, Director, Primary Health Care in the area, said at the opening of the six-day training in Zaria on...
Dr Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, says the rights of women and girls, and gender equality, must be the focus to stop new HIV infections. Moeti said this in her message to mark the 2020 World AIDS Day, globally celebrated on Dec. 1 to...
From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday bitterly expressed his feelings and sympathy over the dreadful attack in Zambarmari rice farmers, describing the massacre as sense, brutal and barbaric. The President also assured that his government would continue to fight Boko Baram insurgency to a logical...
U.S. firm Moderna said it would submit its Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine for emergency use authorisation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and conditional approval from the European Medicines Agency on Monday. The company said in a statement that it planned to submit the necessary applications for approval of...
People of Ndiowu Community, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra has called on the state government to intervene in the brewing crisis in the community over town union leadership. They made the call during a protest at the Government House on Monday, claiming that the continued use of...
An Upper Area Court, Mpape, Abuja, on Monday admitted five applicants to N30 million joint bail for allegedly defrauding a businessman. The applicants are, Thomas Keghijo, 52 and Donald Domenas, 42, both from Nassarawa State. Others are Suleiman Idris, 34, Mohammed Sani, 43, and Muntari Ibrahim, 41, all from...
The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (SMEDAN) 4,500 transport workers in Katsina State with N30,000 each, to enhance their businesses due to the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. The Director-General, SMEDAN, Dr Dikko Umar-Radda, made the disclosure on Monday during a meeting with various associations under the transport sector in...
The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) and the Federal Ministry of Youths and Sports Development have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to organise a Youths Skills Development and Entrepreneurship Programme (YOSDEP) for 23, 310 Nigerian youths. The youths will be drawn from the 36 states of the federation and...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nassarawa Eggon Local Government area of Nasarawa State has passed a vote of confidence on Sen. Godiya Akwashiki (APC-Nasarawa North) over quality representation at the National Assembly.The Chairman of the party in the area, Mr Malle Moses, passed the vote of confidence on...
President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with the immediate past President of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Ahmed Yakasai, as he turns 60, on Dec. 1. The president, in a congratulatory message by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Monday, lauded the former PSN leader for his selfless...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi state has described the recent massacre of 43 farmers by Boko Haram insurgents in Borno state as a blood-chilling barbarity. He stated this in a Statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media, Muktar Gidado, which was made available to...