List of EU countries banning flights from Britain over new strain grows
The list of European Union (EU) countries stopping flights from Britain continued to grow on Sunday as alarmed officials reacted to a new, highly contagious variant of the Coronavirus that has sent London and south-eastern England into lockdown. The Netherlands was the first on Sunday to announce an immediate ban on flights, with similar advisories […]
COVID-19: 549 Kebbi entrepreneurs to receive N2bn FG loan ― Malami
No fewer than 3,000 owners of Small and Medium Scale Businesses in Kebbi State would receive Federal Government’s post COVID-19 grants in order to enhance their business activities, says Abubakar Malami (SAN), Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice. A statement by Dr Umar Gwandu, his Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, […]
Bayelsa council stakeholders rally support for enumeration exercise
By Samuel Oyandongha, Oporoma Stakeholders in the Southern Ijaw council area of Bayelsa State have reiterated their preparedness to cooperate with the National Population Commission to ensure a successful Enumeration Area Demarcation exercise. Southern Ijaw Local Government Area is the largest council area and the most riverine in the state with seventeen wards. Only three […]
Global smartphone industries to establish plants in Nigeria soon ― Sylva
The Minister of State for Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva, has said that major international smartphone industries would soon establish Assembly plants in Nigeria. Sylva said this on Monday, in Kano, at the graduation ceremony of 600 youths trained on GSM phone repairs, maintenance, software and hardware specialisation. The training was a collaboration between the Nigeria […]
Breaking: Soldiers rescue 10 victims kidnapped by bandits in Zamfara
Troops of Operation Hadarin Daji have again rescued 10 kidnapped victims from bandits at Yenyewa Village in Zamfara following a tip-off. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. Enenche said the troops had on Dec. 20 responded to a distress call on bandits’ activities in […]
Kano to enrol 553 HIV/AIDS patients to access free healthcare services
Kano State Government is to enrol 553 people living with HIV/AIDS to access free healthcare services, Aminu Bello-Sani, the Public Relations Officer, Kano State Agency for the Control of Aids (KSACA) disclosed in a statement on Monday, in Kano. According to him, the Executive Secretary of the state’s Contributory Healthcare Management Agency (KSCHMA), Dr Halima Mijinyawa […]
UUTH doctors offer free healthcare to children with disabilities
By Chioma Onuegbu, Etoi Succour came the way of children with disabilities at the Special Education Centre, Etoi community in Uyo local government area of Akwa Ibom State last week when Association of Resident Doctors, University of Uyo, Teaching Hospital, UUTH, took free healthcare services to them. Speaking with NDV, the President of the Association, […]
China to import record 100m tonnes of soybeans in 2020 ― COFCO
China is expected to import more than 100 million tonnes of soybeans in 2020, a record high, said an executive with leading state-owned grains trader COFCO on Tuesday. This is as the rebuilding of the country’s huge hog herd boosts demand for the protein. The country is expected to crush 92.6 million tonnes of the […]
2 men beat 2 Policewomen controlling traffic, say ‘Nigerians don’t need police again’
Two men: Gbenga Adekoya and Abiodun Adesope, were on Tuesday arraigned at an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly assaulting two policewomen. Adekoya, 34, an apprentice, Adesope, 35, a businessman, who are residents of Ifo in Ogun, are being tried for alleged conspiracy, breach of peace and assault. According to the Prosecutor, ASP Clifford Ogu, […]
Nigerian Surgeons, Egyptian Group conduct Cochlear implant surgery
…6 year old boy,46 year old woman regain hearing …Our success will reduce medical tourism – NECC CMD By ibrahim HassanWuyo The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the National Ear Care Centre (NECC), Dr Mustapha Abubakar-Yaro has said that the centre in collaboration with Med-El, a hearing implant company from Egypt had conducted two successful […]
Timi Frank urges Lawan, Gbajabiamila to withhold NDDC’s 2020 budget
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has called on the leadership of the National Assembly to withhold the 2020 budget of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) it passed on Monday to a Sole Administrator recently appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari. Frank in separate letters to the […]
Boat operators destroying our nets, Lagos fishermen cry out
A group of fishermen under the aegis of Association of Badagry Fishermen (ABF) has cried out against alleged destructive activities of commercial boat operators on Lagos waterways. ABF Chairman, Sunday Ayedogbon, said on Tuesday in Badagry that the boat operators worked all nights on waterways in contravention of 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m as directed […]
Kaduna to spend N2.8bn on water, sanitation, hygiene in 2021
The Kaduna State Government has earmarked N2.8bn to be spent on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) interventions in 2021 under its Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency. The amount is contained in the 2021 budget approved document obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna on Tuesday. The document also showed that N1.4 […]
‘Nigerians fail to appreciate that Buhari administration is doing so much with little resources’
Alhaji Lai Mohammed says his only regret as a minister is that some Nigerians have failed to appreciate that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is doing so much with little resources. Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, stated this at a Special Forum of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. He […]
Court dissolves 6-year-old marriage over defamation, attempted murder
An Ile-Tuntun Customary Court sitting in Ibadan, has dissolved the six-year-old marriage between one Monsuru Adebayo and his estranged wife, Nafisat, over defamation of character and attempted murder. The President of the court, Chief Henry Agbaje, held that the court would not allow any situation that might lead to bloodshed, hence there need for dissolution […]
Police arraign man, 24, over alleged theft of N240,000
The Police in Ogun State on Tuesday arraigned a 24-year-old man, Ndubuisi Emeka, before an Ota Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly stealing N240,000 belonging to his friend. Emeka, who lives at No. 21 Ifelodun Street, Iyana-Iyesi, Ota, is facing a charge of theft. The Prosecutor, Insp Emmanuel Adaraloye, told the court that the defendant allegedly committed […]
