The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kano State command, on Thursday, arraigned an 18-year-old man, Isma’eel Abubakar, before a Senior Magistrates’ Court over alleged defilement of a minor. The defendant, who lives at Kofar Ruwa Quarters, Kano, is standing trial on one-count charge of rape. The Prosecution Counsel, Halliru Isa, told the court […]

US President-elect, Joe Biden, unveiled plans Thursday for fighting Covid and injecting $1.9 trillion into a battered US economy, but already his ambitious first 100 days agenda is overshadowed by the looming Senate trial of his soon-to-be predecessor Donald Trump. Biden promised “a new chapter” for the nation on the day after Trump became the […]

The Gambia has registered two cases of a British-identified coronavirus mutation which is likely more infectious, the nation’s government said on Thursday. Gambian Health Minister Ahmadou Samateh told lawmakers the strain was detected in two people entering the country — both of whom were asymptomatic — but did not give further details. “People coming from […]

Parler on Thursday urged a US judge to order Amazon’s web division to allow the conservative-favoured network back online after cutting it off for failure to rein in incitements to violence. Attorneys for Parler and Amazon argued their rival positions by telephone before the US. District Judge, Barbara Rothstein, who promised a prompt decision. Parler […]

THE coronavirus pandemic has contributed a lot to the current food inflation ravaging Nigerian families. Coming in February/March, the beginning of the planting season, and forcing a prolonged national lockdown, it prevented many of our farmers from sowing their seeds. Food inflation, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, rose from 16.66 per cent […]