Bode, Author at National Accord Newspaper

Post-COVID-19: Buhari seeks economic recovery plan for ECOWAS member-states

Bode June 11, 2020

By DAVID IORJA and GRACE AUDU, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has charged the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission to come up with an economic recovery plan to help member-states to recover from the economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. He gave the charge on...

President Buhari addresses Nation June 12

President Buhari addresses the Nation on June 12

Bode June 11, 2020

By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – To commemorate Nigeria’s Democracy Day, President Muhammadu Buhari will broadcast to the nation on Friday, June 12, 2020. Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity), Femi Adesina, who made this known in a statement on Thursday, said the broadcast at 7am. He enjoined...

Senate passes revised 2020 budget of N10.8trn

Bode June 11, 2020

The Senate on Thursday approved N10.8 trillion as revised 2020 budget forwarded to it for consideration by President Muhammadu Buhari. In giving the request expeditious consideration, the upper legislative chamber had immediately debated general principles of the fresh proposal along with the revised 2020-2022 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF)...

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Lesotho ex-PM ‘paid hit-men to kill former wife’

Bode June 11, 2020

In a damning court affidavit, the police in Lesotho say they have evidence that former Prime Minister Thomas Thabane and his current wife Maesaiah Thabane paid assassins to kill Mr Thabane’s estranged wife in 2017. Lipolelo Thabane was shot dead on the eve of Mr Thabane’s swearing in as...

NCC explains development of policy for deployment of 5G in Nigeria

Bode June 11, 2020

By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), said on Thursday it considered that the deployment of Fifth Generation (5G) technology would be beneficial for socio-economic development of Nigeria. In a statement by its Director, Public Affairs, Dr. Dr. Henry Nkemadu, the NCC explained that the technology...

Nigerian Senate confirms 42 career ambassador designates

Bode June 11, 2020

The Senate on Thursday confirmed the nominations of 42 Ambassador designates presented by President Muhammadu Buhari, for confirmation as Ambassadors to Nigerian foreign missions. The confirmation of the nominees at plenary, followed a presentation of the report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs thtough its Chairman, Sen. Bulkachuwa Muhammad,...

AfCFTA delay presents new opportunities for construction, manufacturing – Africa House

Bode June 11, 2020

The delay in the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), which was scheduled to launch in July this year, could provide much-needed breathing room for Africa’s manufacturing and construction sectors. This is according to Duncan Bonnett, Director Market Access & Research at Africa House – a...

ATU partners Ericsson to accelerate growth of ICT in Africa

Bode June 11, 2020

EHIME ALEX, Lagos The African Telecommunications Union (ATU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Ericsson to help fast the track roll out of technology across the continent. According to a statement on Thursday by Alice Koech, Program Coordinator at ATU, the MoU will support the growth of...

Nigeria records 409 more COVID-19 cases, total infections now 13,873

Bode June 11, 2020

By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – Nigeria’s total COVID-19 infections rose to 13,873 with the confirmation of 409 new cases on Wednesday. According to the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the total number of discharged cases also jumped to 4,351 with 382 deaths. The NCDC in a tweet on...

Group commiserates with Gov. Makinde over mother’s demise

Makinde flags off Youths in Agribusiness project in Aawe

Bode June 10, 2020

…says Agribusiness will benefit from state’s N1bn MSME credit initiative By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – As part of activities commemorating the first anniversary of the Governor Seyi Makinde-led administration in Oyo State, the governor, on Wednesday, flagged off the Youths in Agribusiness Project at the Rural Community Development Centre...

Touched by brutal terrorist attack in Borno, President Buhari asks military to go after Boko Haram/ISWAP

Bode June 10, 2020

By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari President Buhari has charged the armed forces to sustain their recent string of successes against the terrorists to extract a heavy price from the attackers, and bring back all those they kidnapped as well as the large number of cattle rustled....

WHO teams up with Wikipedia to share COVID-19 information

Africa records over 200,000 COVID-19 cases, as AfDB approves $20m for G5 Sahel nations

Bode June 10, 2020

By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed that Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Africa are more than 200,000. The WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, gave the update on its official twitter handle @WHOAFRO. “There are over 200,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases on...

Kano Police arrest man for raping 40 women

Bode June 10, 2020

The Police Command in Kano have arrested a 32-year-old man, Muhammad Alfa, for allegedly raping 40 women in the past one year in the state. The Spokesman of the Command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna, confirmed the arrest in a statement on Wednesday in Kano. Haruna disclosed that the suspect was...

Nigerian governor confirms killing of 81 persons by Boko Haram/ISWAP

Bode June 10, 2020

Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State confirmed on Wednesday the killing of 81 persons in a village by Boko Haram/Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists. The killing took place on Tuesdy when the terrorists invaded Faduma Koloram village in Gubio Local Government Area (LGA) in Nigeria’ north-eastern...

NCC, FIRS sign MoU for ascertaining VAT elements of telcos’ transactions

Bode June 10, 2020

By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to ensure the tax agency ascertain accuracy and completeness of value added tax (VAT) elements and other taxes payable in the transactions of telecoms operators....

COVID-19: UN humanitarians alarmed by plight of conflict-affected Nigerian families

Bode June 10, 2020

By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – The United Nations humanitarians said on Tuesday help and funding were needed urgently for millions of people in Nigeria who have been hit severely by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, including conflict-hit communities “on life-support” in the north-east. According to the World Food...

COVID-19: Collaboration among devt. partners critical to helping economies recover – Adesina

Nigeria’s COVID-19 infections now 13,464 as NCDC records 663 new cases

Bode June 10, 2020

By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – Nigeria’s total CoOVID-19 infections climbed to 13,464 as the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), said it recorded 663 new cases on June 9, 2020 along. The NCDC made this known via a post on its official twitter handle, #COVID19 at 11:45pm on Tuesday....

Health Minister gives encouraging update on COVID-19 in Nigeria

Bode June 10, 2020

“Two new developments have taken place since the last briefing in Abuja on the coronavirus situation in Nigeria. The first is that a team of researchers from various institutions in Nigeria, including scientists from the Centre for Human and Zoology Virology in LUTH, African Centre for Genomics of Infectious...

NiMet predicts cloudy, thundery weather activities Wednesday to Friday

Bode June 10, 2020

he Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted cloudy and thundery weather activities from Wednesday to Friday. NiMet`s weather outlook released on Tuesday in Abuja said there was increased cloudiness and reduction in temperature currently being observed over most parts of the country. According to it, cloudy skies with intervals...

COVID-19: FCT Minister charges royal fathers, council chairmen on community sensitization

Bode June 10, 2020

By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has charged royal fathers and Area Council Chairmen in the FCT to take on the responsibility of educating and sensitizing residents at the grassroots level on the need to adhere to established protocols...