Friday, 17 May, 2024

Month: May 2020


The Niger Delta Development Commission has shut down its headquarters in Port Harcourt after the reported death of its Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Chief Ibanga Etang. Etang was said to have died in the early hours of Thursday as Read more…


The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), abruptly lost connection on Thursday while addressing a United Nations event. The virtual meeting tagged “High-Level Event on Financing for Development in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond”, was at the instance of Read more…


The Anambra state government has announced that the suspended monthly environmental clean up due to the Covid-19 pandemic resumes this Saturday, May 30, 2020. The government has asked the people of the state to use the monthly environmental exercise opportunity Read more…


The World Health Organization (WHO), has expressed worries that the world’s concentration on finding the lasting solution on the Covic-19 pandemic outbreak would undermine the effort to eradicate malaria in Africa. The WHO leader for malaria, Dr Akpaka Kalu advised Read more…


• COVID-19 will not serve as alibi, PDP tells Buhari The opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has said that President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has deserted, betrayed and abandoned underprivileged Nigerians. According to the Party, the President should note that the Read more…


Joel Nwokeoma Everything about it was shrouded in secrecy and seeming insincerity. At other times, it was grand equivocation, as events began to unravel. It is the story of the celebrated arrival of the Chinese medics last April in Nigeria. Read more…


Anambra State House of Assembly Committee on Works has invited theManaging Director, Anambra Road Maintenance Agency, Engineer Emeka Okoye to appear before it on Friday at the State House of Assembly to addressissues concerning the Agency. House of Assembly Correspondent, Read more…


The governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano has assured Anambra children that the rampaging Covid-19 pandemic which has led to the shutdown of schools across the world could only slow down learning but it would not kill their dreams. Read more…


The member representing Nnewi South One Constituency at the Anambra State House of Assembly, Honourable Sony Ozobialu has distributed over one thousand bags of rice to the most vulnerable in the constituency as palliative to cushion the effect of COVID-19 Read more…


Starting next Monday the strict quarantine in Moscow will be lifted as the biggest hotspot of the Covid-19 epidemic in Russia eases restrictions. But many rules are here to stay, at least until the end of the year. Moscow accounts Read more…


In a paper published in the British Medical Journal this month, 21 experts from the U.K., Ireland and the U.S. conclude that while vitamin D is “essential for good health” (especially for bones and muscles) and may bolster the immune Read more…


A Niger Delta group, NigerDelta Accountability andDevelopment Coalition hasagain called on PresidentMuhammadu Buhari and theNational Assembly to obeythe law establishing the NigerDelta Development Commission (NDDC).In a statement by JohnsonEpia, national coordinator,the group said President Buhari erred by constituting anInterim Management Read more…