The Emir of Birnin Gwari in Kaduna state, Alhaji Zubairu Jibril Mai Gwari has decried that his people are facing existential threats, following unabated attacks by heavily armed gun men; calling on the Government to come to their rescue before the attackers took over the town after taking over almostContinue Reading
The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, is set to screen at least three million children for acute malnutrition in the northeast. Folashade Adebayo, UNICEF’s Communication Officer in Nigeria, said in a statement issued in Maiduguri on Monday that the screening would be done with a grant from the government ofContinue Reading
Dangote Fertiliser is to train farmers in the Southeast on the use of the product, a representative of the company, Ekene Obiefuna, has said. Obiefuna, who spoke at the Enugu International Trade Fair, said with the training on the best ways of applying fertiliser, farming would become very lucrative andContinue Reading
Barely a day after the gruesome murder of two policemen by unknown gunmen in Taraba State, the state has again been thrown into mourning following the killings of three farmers. The farmers who were tilling their farmlands in preparation for the rainy season, were on Wednesday hacked to death inContinue Reading
Germany, France and Italy became the latest countries to suspend use of the COVID-19 vaccine AstraZeneca says 37 reports of blood clots out of 17 million people vaccinated in Europe Germany, France and Italy last week became the latest countries to suspend use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine over reports ofContinue Reading
Troops of I Division, FCC, Nigerian Army has released the names of the five rescued students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna who were kidnapped by bandits on March 11. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Yerima, who disclosed this in a statement recently in Abuja,Continue Reading
The National Hospital, Abuja has disown one Mrs. Roseline Oghenekevwe, a 40-year-old mother of three, who allegedly needs a kidney transplant, whose story was published in the Guardian Newspaper. A report in the paper published on Tuesday September 5, 2017 quoted Oghenekevwe as suffering from an end stage renal disease,Continue Reading
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that would allow him to stay in office for two more terms until the year 2036. The legislation, officially approved by Putin, came after changes to the country’s constitution last year that allowed the 68-year-old Russian leader to run for two moreContinue Reading
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said that the Kingdom will spend more in the next 10 years than it has done in the past 300 years as he announces a new program to strengthen partnership with the private sector. During his announcement of the “Shareek” partner program betweenContinue Reading