ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi Following the floods that ravaged parts of Bauchi state and killed many people, the federal government has donated 3,543.37 metric tonnes (118 trailer load) of food items for distribution to households The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Development, Sadiya Farouq, who announced this on...
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ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has commended his Bauchi State counterpart, Senator Bala Mohammed, for the developmental projects he has executed within a short time in office. He gave the commendation during a one-day visit to Bauchi State to flag off the construction of 11 township...
…adds that ‘Debt relief for Africa without commercial debt not sustainable’ EHIME ALEX, Lagos Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has expressed a note of caution that to effectively contain the spread of the Coronavirus disease across the globe, the deployment of the COVID-19 vaccine should be done in an equitable and...
Russia’s “Sputnik-V” COVID-19 vaccine produced an antibody response in all participants in early-stage trials, according to results published on Friday by The Lancet medical journal that were hailed by Moscow as an answer to its critics, Reuters reported. The results of the two trials, conducted in June-July this year...
The Kano State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has confirmed four people killed and over 5,200 houses destroyed due to flooding in Rogo and Danbatta Local Government Areas of the state. Mr Sale Jili, Executive Secretary of the Agency, confirmed the incident in an interview with the News Agency of...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi The Police in Bauchi has said that it has arrested a serial rapist for allegedly defiling a 4-year old girl inside a mosque in Bauchi. The Police Public Relations Officer, Bauchi State Command, Ahmed Wakili, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, disclosed this in a statement released...
Top seed Novak Djokovic continued his dominance of Jan-Lennard Struff on Friday with a 6-3 6-3 6-1 win to advance to the fourth round of the U.S. Open. Djokovic, a three-times champion at Flushing Meadows, was never really pushed by the German, who has taken just one set off...
By DAVID IORJA and GRACE AUDU (Abuja) – The daily figures of COVID-19 infections in Nigeria continued to go down during the week with the confirmation of 156 new cases on Friday, bringing the total number of cases nationwide to 54,743. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which announced...
EHIME ALEX, Lagos Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has charged the newly-appointed Chief Executive Officers of some agencies under the Ministry to consider their appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari as a call to national service. According to a statement by Segun Adeyemi, special assistant to the...
Resident doctors have declared a nationwide strike beginning on Monday, on the ground that the Federal Government had failed to meet their demands. The doctors, under the aegis of National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), reportedly said on Friday, in a statement, that it had resolved to proceed on...
China on Friday fined five financial institutions a total of 320 million yuan ($47 million), as the country’s watchdog steps up a crackdown on financial misconduct to tame systematic risks. China Minsheng Bank was fined 107.8 million yuan for banking illegal property projects, while China Zheshang Bank was fined...
The World Health Organization wants to secure an initial 230 million doses of any COVID-19 vaccine for Africa, officials said Thursday, while emphasising that any vaccine in development should also be tested on the continent, CNBC Africa reported. According to the report, the global vaccine allocation plan, called COVAX,...
…calls for immediate reversal EHIME ALEX, Lagos The Social and Economic Justice Advocacy (SEJA), a Lagos Based non-governmental and non-religious group, has joined the fray to condemn the current increase in the prices of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) and electricity tariff. Contrary to the masses expectations, the Group said the...
By JEROME-MARIO UTOMI For keen political watchers in Nigeria, July 25, 2017, means a memorable date in the annal of the nation’s political history. On that day, at that time and in that place, youth advocacy groups under the aegis of ‘Not too young to run campaign’, accessed the...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 125 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country, bringing the nation’s confirmed cases to 54,588. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Thursday. It said that a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre (EOC), activated at Level...