By AGGREY MUTAMBO – Kenya has won the UN Security Council seat after beating Djibouti in second round of voting Thursday. The contest between Kenya and Djibouti headed to the second round of voting Thursday after the first phase saw Nairobi’s victory insufficient to win the UN seat. With...
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Embattled Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki has officially joined the Peoples Democratic Party. In its official Twitter page, PDP confirmed Obaseki’s defection. Obaseki has reportedly announced his decision on Friday afternoon at the Edo State Secretariat of the party in Benin City. Also, the opposition party has expressed...
Nigerian Universities’ Scientists, under the aegis of COVID-19 Research Group, on Friday announced the discovery of a vaccine for the prevention of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. At a news conference on Friday at Adeleke University, Ede, Osun, Dr Oladipo Kolawole, Leader of the team, said the vaccine was being developed...
An estimated 250 million people across the world are currently suffering from Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), the Nigerian Orthopaedic Association said. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that Dr Kunle Olawepo, the association president, made this known in a statement on Friday to commemorate the 2020 World Sickle Cell Day....
Nigeria has recorded 745 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 18,480. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this on Thursday through its official Twitter handle. NCDC said that the 745 new confirmed cases were from 21 states, with six deaths...
…urges police to expand forensic protocols against crime Wife of the Oyo State governor, Engineer Tamunominini Makinde, on Thursday, declared that the state government would harmonise all efforts to ensure that justice is served to all victims of sexual violence in the state. Mrs. Makinde, who gave this position...
By SOLOMON ZEWDU Guest Columnist Two months ago, when the peak of the pandemic passed in China and moved to the United States and Western Europe, epidemiologists tried to predict where COVID-19 would hit next – and hit hardest. Many thought Africa would become the next high-risk area, but...
Deputy Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Honourable Christopher Adaji and the Clerk of the House of Assembly, Mr Torese Agena, are currently in a mess as they have been dragged to court for using a non-existing tour of Europe to commit fraud running into N5 million....
By BARBARA KALU, Abuja – Worried about the growing cases of sexual abuse and rape in Nigeria, the government is planning to launch a national campaign against rape and gender-based violence in the country. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who made this known in Abuja on...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate release of N19.67 billion to fast track the completion of the section I-IV of the East-West road project by 2021 to address the deficient infrastructure in the region and boast the economic life of the people. Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator...
The Central Bank of Nigeria has announced plan to fund the value chains of nine commodities to the tune of N432 billion in the 2020 wet season. Mr Yila Yusuf, director of development finance department at the CBN, disclosed this at a stakeholders meeting in Abuja on Thursday, News...
Initially, we were greatly releaved when we saw that like in many other sectors in Nigeria, the South East geopolitical zone was being “marginalized” by coronavirus, currently ravaging the country and the world at large. Any time we looked at the number of people infected with coronavirus, state by...
EHIME ALEX, Lagos Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has expressed his deepest sympathy over the sudden demise of three personnel of the Corps. In a condolence message on Thursday released by Bisi Kazeem, the Corps Public Education Officer, he condoles with the families of the...
Residents of the world’s largest floating slum are keeping their hopes up as lockdown sinks their livelihoods. Written by Kevwe Okporua. Photos by Damillola Onafuwa A riot of canoes bumping into each other in narrow waterways — paddlers yell a chorus of instructions to other boats: “Move! Shift! Stop!”...