United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has raised an alarm over increasing casualties from improvised explosive devices in the northeastern parts of Nigeria where Boko Haram has been waging a fratricidal war in the last 11 years. At a Read more…
Month: August 2020
• Demands N159m for damages Three medical doctors of the Federal Medical Center, Makurdi as well as the hospital have been dragged to Federal High Court Makurdi for allegedly causing the untimely death of late Mrs Sabina Uyeh who until Read more…
Abia State Commissioner of Transport, Ekele Nwaohammuo, has been sacked. This was contained in a statement titled, ‘Government special announcement’ by Chief of Staff to the Governor, Dr. Anthony Agbazuere, on Sunday. It added that the Transition Committee Chairmen for Read more…
Operators, Service Providers Put Daily Losses At Millions Of Dollars • Smuggling Still Rife – Experts• Closure Against ECOWAS Treaties, Wards Off Investors• Customs, Farmers, Manufacturers Differ On GainsAlmost a year after President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the closure of Nigeria’s land border Read more…
Anambra State farmers have appealed to government at all levels to beef up COVID-19 testing capacity to further contain its spread.The appeal came during a one-day awareness campaign on COVID-19 pandemic organised by the state coordination office of FG/IFAD VCDP.Over Read more…
Edo Government says the ongoing Modular Refinery project at Ologbo in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of the state, will drive the state’s industrial revolution quest. Mr Crusoe Osagie, Special Adviser to Gov. Godwin Obaseki on Media and Communication Strategy, made Read more…
Roscosmos is partnering with a US firm to send two space tourists to the International Space Station (ISS) next year, the Russian space agency has announced. The names of the two individuals are promised to be disclosed sometime in the Read more…
India’s Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah has confirmed that he tested positive for coronavirus and has been admitted to hospital for treatment. Shah said on Twitter that he decided to get tested after showing initial symptoms of Covid-19. “My Read more…
Federal Government will partner Anambra Government in its e-learning initiative toward enhancing effective teaching and learning in post-COVID-19 era. The Minister of State for Education, Mr Emeka Nwajiuba, said this in a message to the e-conference organised by the Anambra Read more…
•He spends his salary on alcohol, denies paternity of our second child —Woman A carpenter lamented before a local court in Ndola, Zambia that his, wife, Bridget Kabwe, had the habit of tying up his manhood with a piece of Read more…
8′ INTERVIEW My father was stoned, burnt to death –Son of village head killed in Akwa Ibom community crisis PublishedAugust 1, 2020 The late Etimene (left) and his son, Henry Emmanuel Henry, the first son of the deceased village head of Nsie Read more…
Mamman Daura, the nephew of the President, Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.) said on Saturday that the death of the late Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari and that of late Ismaila Isa Funtua, was so disturbing to him. Kyari, died on Read more…