The government of Burundi late on Monday launched a second nationwide mass screening campaign of COVID-19, as the coronavirus cases have been increasing in recent days. The 30-day campaign is taking place in the commercial capital Bujumbura and several provinces where cases have been reported. Burundian Minister of Public Health and the Fight Against AIDS, […]

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Muhammad Adamu, has inaugurated a new Area Command office in Shinkafi town,  Shinkafi Local Government Area of Zamfara, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Muhammad Shehu, has said. In a statement issued to newsmen in Gusau, on Tuesday, Shehu said the new office, constructed by the Police […]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says there is a need for “collective commitment” to get vaccinations for health workers and others who are at high risk of catching COVID-19 within the next 100 days. WHO’s Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, made this known during the COVID-19 news conference at WHO headquarters in Geneva. In his speech […]

The Presidential Task Team on the Apapa gridlock has handed over the road traffic management duties to the Lagos State Government. This is contained in a statement by Mr Kayode Opeifa, the Executive Vice Chairman of the task team, on Tuesday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that due to complaints by […]

Authorities two female army officers were killed, while two other fellow officers and their driver were wounded in two separate shootings by militants in Afghanistan on Tuesday. Attackers opened fire on an army vehicle in which they were traveling. The incident happened at Police District 5 of Mazar-i-Sharif, capital of northern Balkh province in the […]

Jigawa State Emergency Management Agency has started the distribution of input to about 35,000 farmers affected by flood in 2020. Executive Secretary of the agency, Alhaji Yusif Sani, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse on Tuesday that items distributed were the leftover of those provided by the Federal Government for farmers affected […]

By magnus onyibe The strange events that reached the crescendo on 6 January , in the country formerly known as the United States of America , USA , which with heavy heart l’m reluctantly rechristening , the Divided States of America, DSA, are indeed unprecedented and epochal , but fortunately not apocalyptic. That’s because at […]

* 6yrs on, APC has failed in promise to make Nigeria great -Wike By Egufe Yafugborhi SENATOR Rochas Okorocha on Monday called for a new political alliance between good leaders of like minds in ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and lead opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), declaring there are bad people in both parties. The […]

Ekiti Assembly Service Commission has released a report of its staff audit, citing a lot of irregularities, barely 24-hours after organised labour in the state had raised alarm that the commission was going to use the audit to illegally sack some staff. Mr Taiwo Olatunbosun, Chairman of the Commission, disclosing details of the report to […]

By Emmanuel Okogba A kidnapper identified as Mohammed Ahmadu paid N1.5 million to regain his freedom from another kidnapper, Abubakar Umaru a.k.a Buba Bargu. Force Public Relations Officer, CP Frank Mba, disclosed this while parading both kidnappers alongside other criminals in Abuja on Monday. He said Buba was notorious for kidnapping citizens on highways around […]