The Federal government has vowed to address the declining interest of young Nigerians in science studies. The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, stated this noted that the  Ministry has discovered a decreased interest by Nigerian Youths to study Science and Science related courses.

Says action reason for delay of payment to beneficiaries By Joseph Erunke Five months after President Muhammadu Buhari created the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development and appointed her minister in charge of the ministry, Hajia Sadiya Farouq, yesterday, said she was still studying files to understand the essence of the federal […]

Senegal on Monday confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus, a French citizen who visited France last month before returning to the West African country and being quarantined in the capital Dakar. “The results of the tests carried out by the Pasteur Institute in Dakar came back positive,” Senegal’s Health Minister Diouf Sarr told journalists. […]

Saudi Arabia on Monday confirmed its first case of coronavirus after one its citizens who had returned from COVID-19 hotspot Iran tested positive. The health ministry said the man, tested after entering the country through Bahrain, had been “isolated in a hospital”. Saudi Arabia is the last Arab state in the Gulf to report a […]

Italy reported Monday a jump in the death toll from the coronavirus to 52, with more than 2,000 people infected, most in the country’s northern Lombardy region. The civil protection agency said 18 people had died since Sunday — including three in Emilia Romagna — all of whom were either elderly or had serious pre-existing […]