Food security: Rep urges FG to address desert encroachment
The Chairman, House Committee on Agricultural Colleges and Institutions Hon. Munir Danagundi has called on the Federal Government to address desert encroachment and aridity in the country in order to ensure food security.
Nigeria records worst TB burden in Africa
… EL-Lab boosts case detection with 16-module GeneXpert machine By Chioma Obinna ONE hundred years after the launch of the Tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, Nigeria ranks worst in Africa and 6th among 20 countries with the highest burden of TB in the world. To this end, the country yesterday launched the first 16 Module GeneXpert machine […]
Gumi insists on amnesty for bandits
Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, has reiterated his stand that bandits be given amnesty so they can lay down their arms. Gumi said this on Wednesday at a virtual event organised by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies on insecurity in Nigeria. The cleric said he was not justifying banditry, but that the herders […]
AstraZeneca may have used outdated information in trial, US health officials allege
…As Nigeria vaccinates 215,277 eligible persons By Sola Ogundipe & Chioma Obinna Results from a US trial of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine may have included “outdated information” and that could mean the company provided an incomplete view of efficacy data, American federal health officials have stated. This development came as 215,277 eligible Nigerians were vaccinated with […]
Why Nigeria’s rating by Transparency International is low – FG
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru THE Federal Government Wednesday said that Nigeria’s low rating by the Transparency International (TI) corruption perception index was as a result of the country’s opaqueness in doing business. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed stated this while fielding questions from State House correspondents at the end of the Federal […]
Police arrest 8 suspected cultists in Okija, recover pistols, others
After days of clashes among rival cult groups in Okija, Ihiala local government area of Anambra State, the state police command has finally uncovered their hideouts and arrested eight persons
