Guinean government officials are barred from leaving the country until further notice and a curfew imposed in mining areas has been lifted, the leader of an army unit that overthrew President Alpha Conde has said. On Monday Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya [...]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that eligible voters in the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State must use its new Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS). Disclosing this, yesterday, in Abuja during the commission’s third quarterly meeting [...]
All public and private schools in Lagos will resume for the 2021/2022 academic session on Monday, September 13. This announcement was made on Monday evening by the state’s Commissioner for Education, Folasade Adefisayo, in a statement signed by an assistant [...]
September 7, 2021
Education
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday approved the appointment of Dr Ifedayo Morayo Adetifa as the new Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. Buhari also approved the establishment of a health sector reform committee to oversee the development and [...]
September 7, 2021
Health issues
The electricity challenge confronting the country appears to have attained a worrisome dimension as there is an estimated 22 million small generators in households use and MSMEs in Nigeria. Operations Director/Executive Director, Selattyn Energy Plc, Mr. Effiong Okon, stated this during [...]
Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been released from prison on medical parole, prison authorities have confirmed. Zuma, 79, was sentenced to a 15-month prison sentence two months ago by the country’s Constitutional Court for contempt after he refused [...]
Sudanese authorities have seized a shipment of weapons at Khartoum airport arriving from neighbouring Ethiopia, state media said Sunday. The shipment, which was confiscated late Saturday, arrived on an Ethiopian Airlines passenger flight, prompting an immediate launch of investigations, the [...]
September 6, 2021
Featured Post
Although extra-judicial killings by armed non-state actors continued in some Nigerian states last week, the number of victims reduced significantly compared to the previous week. Unlike the previous week (August 22 to 28), when at least 66 people were killed [...]
September 6, 2021
Security
Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore has said Nigerians always find ways to make themselves happy despite living almost miserable lives. Sowore stated this while responding to a question from Toyin Falola on the reconciliation between the security challenges bedevilling the [...]
September 6, 2021
Human rights
Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai has lost the Saturday’s chairmanship and councillorship elections in his polling unit to the main opposition, People’s Democratic Party (PDP). El-Rufai voted at his Polling Unit 001 Ungwar Sarki, Kaduna North local government area where he [...]
Twelve people died and 4,400 fell sick in southern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) following a tailings leak from the Catoca diamond mine in Angola in July, the DRC’s environment minister has said. After a visit to Kasai province, [...]
The bodies of three Palestinians were discovered on Friday after an underground tunnel from the southern Gaza Strip to Egypt collapsed, authorities in the Islamist Hamas-controlled enclave said. “Civil defence teams found three bodies under the ground near the border, [...]
September 4, 2021
Incidents
The Super Eagles of Nigeria have kicked off their World Cup qualifying campaign on a bright note as they secured a 2-0 win Friday night against the Lone Stars of Liberia at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos. Two first-half goals [...]
Two officers of the National Drugs’ Law Enforcement Agency on a special duty from Ogwashi Uku command headquarters in Delta State have been arrested and detained at the Sapele Police Station over the death of a 50-year-old alleged drugs dealer, [...]
Kogi State Government is set to sue the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC ) for allegedly misleading a court to order freezing of its account with a new generation bank. Addressing journalists in Abuja, yesterday , the Commissioner [...]
Forces from Ethiopia’s Tigray region in recent weeks looted warehouses belonging to the US government’s humanitarian agency in the Amhara region, USAID’s Ethiopia director has said. War broke out in the mountainous region last November between Ethiopian troops and the [...]
September 1, 2021
Security
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that malnutrition is the biggest threat to child “survival and development” in the North East. The Chief Field Officer, Maiduguri, Samuel Sesay, raised the alarm, yesterday, at a three-day Media Dialogue on [...]
September 1, 2021
Health issues
Cristiano Ronaldo’s Manchester United return was the stand-out highlight on deadline day on Tuesday as the English transfer window closed. His move from Juventus was teed-up on Friday. Juventus had said then that Manchester United had agreed to pay 17.7 [...]
Suspected armed robbers on Tuesday, raided a government hospital, Diete Koki Memorial Hospital, in Bayelsa state carting away cash and valuables belonging to doctors on duty and patients. The bandits scaled the perimeter fence of the state-owned health facility from [...]
September 1, 2021
Security
The naira extended its decline on Monday, sliding to an all-time low of 527 against the dollar at the parallel market. The local currency, which has been on a downward trend in recent weeks, fell to 524 against the greenback [...]
September 1, 2021
Finance