Vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has been removed from office by the governing council of the school. According to a PREMIUM TIMES report, Mr Ogundipe was removed at the council’s meeting held Wednesday at the headquarters of the National Universities Commission, Abuja. In attendance were at...
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Contributor: SHABAN ABDUR RAHMAN ALFA – In 2014, a young boy in Aba, capital of Nigeria’s southeastern Abia State, was positively exposed to a “very crucial” LIFE training program that he admits today, has been: “a stepping stone to more significant opportunities and now is the bedrock of my...
Renowned Kenyan pan-Africanist, Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba, has acknowledged the leadership qualities of President Akufo-Addo by saying the Ghanaian president will make his list of exclusive African leaders. Speaking to Kweku Sakyi Addo in an exclusive interview on Assase Radio’s Sunday Night Live, the renowned Kenyan orator named...
AMINU TUKUR, a close ally of the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, Hon. He is a one-time Chairman of Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of Bauchi State, a two time Member of the Bauchi State House of Assembly (6th and 8th Assemblies) representing Lere/Bula in...
EHIME ALEX, Lagos Paradigm Initiative (PIN) on Wednesday joins the world in commemorating International Youth Day under the theme :Youth Engagement for Global Action”. In a statement to NATIONAL ACCORD, PIN said with many African countries on lockdown guidelines in response to the pandemic, it calls for policies that...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi A bereaved civil servant in Bauchi, Adamu Misau, has expressed his grievances over circumstances surrounding his pregnant wife’s death because of alleged doctor’s negligence at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital and the Bauchi Specialist Hospital. He said his wife had complications while delivering a...
VERA AWUAH – honnyveea3@gmail.com Have you ever considered taking this unique and beautifully-shaped plant that looks like onion for juice or in your salad? Then beetroot is the answer for you this morning. Beetroot, also known as Beta Vulgaris, is a root vegetable known for red beet, table...
Britain’s economy shrank by a record 20.4 per cent between April and June, when the coronavirus lockdown was tightest, the largest contraction reported by any major economy so far. This is according to official figures published on Wednesday, Reuters reported. It said the data also showed the world’s sixth-biggest...
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control(NCDC) has on announced 423 fresh cases of the COVID-19 in the country. The NCDC, which made this known on its official twitter handle on Tuesday, also said six deaths were recorded in the country. The health agency said that the new cases were...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi Over 200,000 households across the 20 local government areas of Bauchi State are to benefit from palliatives donated by the Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) to cushion the effect of the pandemic in the state. Bauchi state Governor, Bala Mohammed, who launched the distribution at an event...
INTERVIEW By SETHI NCUBE – The reproductive health of adolescents in West Africa, like so many regions, is being negatively impacted by COVID-19 with maternal mortality being the second cause of death among adolescents in Senegal. allAfrica‘s Sethi Ncube interviewed Christine Sarr, one of 25 young change-makers from around the world gathered by SheDecides...
The African Telecommunications Union has concluded the 1st African Preparatory Meeting ahead of the 2023 World Radiocommunications Conference (APM-1 for WRC-23). The preparatory meeting hosted by the Government of the Republic of Cameroon and which ran between Aug. 3 and 7, 2020 was the beginning of a rigorous process...