Malaria cases in Uganda dropped by 8.7 per cent in the financial year 2020/21, a report indicated on Thursday. The annual report, issued by the ministry of health last Wednesday, said malaria cases dropped to about 13.6 million in 2020/21 from 14.9 million in 2019/20. ALSO READ: Lawyer allegedly burns nephew with hot knife for […]

By Onozure Dania – Lagos A 35-year-old lawyer, Mrs Aina Odetayo, who allegedly assaulted her 12-year-old nephew by burning his back with a hot knife from the fire, for stealing her N500 was arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate Court, sitting at Tinubu. Odetayo is facing a three-count charge bordering on assault, inflicting of injury and […]

A digital currency firm, Wittytech Limited, has launched Africa’s first Non-Custodial Peer-to-Peer Cryptocurrency Exchange Platform. The platform will ensure the seamless transaction of digital currencies while solving the challenges and risks associated with cryptocurrency trading and custody. In a press statement issued recently by the founder of *the* platform, Dan Ewah, the Vision of WITTY […]

By Ikechukwu Amaechi ON Thursday, November 19, 2020, Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, addressed a press conference in Abuja to debunk the damning report of the Cable News Network, CNN, on the Lekki Toll Gate massacre of October 20, 2020. Nigerian youths who were protesting against the brutality of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, a […]

The management of the National Population Commission, NPC, has expressed concerns over the omission of specific funding for family planning in the proposed 2022 budget, fearing that the zero allocation would trigger population explosion in Nigeria.