[ad_1] Adamu Adamu, minister of education, says Nigeria accounts for 12.4 percent of out-of-school children in Sub-Saharan Africa. Speaking on Thursday during the activities to mark the 2023 education week of the Edo government in Benin, the state capital, Adamu said the figure of out-of-school children was heightened by school closure and the non-return of…
[ad_1] No fewer than 14 persons lost their lives in a motor accident which occurred Thursday at about 12:17pm at Zangoro village along Bauchi-Darazo Road. The Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Bauchi State, Mr Yusuf Abdullahi, who disclosed this in a Road Traffic Crash (RTC) report in Bauchi, said five other persons…
[ad_1] The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has appealed to governments to subsidise the cost of kidney disease treatment as cases rise to 20 million. He also tasked the Nigerian Association of Nephrology to find a solution to the rising cases of the disease. Speaking while receiving the president of the association, Professor Adanze…
[ad_1] The Nigeria National PolioPlus Committee (NNPPC) of Rotary International Thursday recognised the key contributions of major stakeholders in Nigeria’s battle against polio disease by awarding field workers who were at the forefront of the struggle. The Chairman of NNPPC, Joshua Hassan, a past District Governor of the international humanitarian organisation, said while it was…
[ad_1] The Supreme Court yesterday granted leave to the Federal Government to bring nine additional grounds against the appeal by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. The five-member panel of justices, led by Justice John Okoro, also fixed May 11 for hearing in the appeal seeking to enforce an earlier order…
[ad_1] The Federal Government says Nigeria is not changing its “no vaccination” policy approach to tackling Avian Influenza. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mahmood Abubakar, said this at a press conference in Abuja Thursday. Farmers had called on the government to change the policy following the continued outbreak of bird flu that led…
[ad_1] By AFP A devastating drought that has struck the Horn of Africa could not have occurred without global warming, according to a new report released Thursday from an international team of climate scientists. “Human-caused climate change has made agricultural drought in the Horn of Africa about 100 times more likely,” said a summary of the…
[ad_1] Serene Insurance Ghana Limited has presented a personal accident insurance cover for 1000 participants at the second Accra Inter-City Homowo Marathon fixed for July 29. The package worth GH¢1,000,000 is to provide cover for 1000 athletes, at a unit cost GH¢1,000 per athlete. The company would also provide the organisers with 400 running vests…
[ad_1] Profiles Joyce Aluoch: Career built on pleasing daddy Friday April 28 2023 Retired Lady Justice Joyce Aluoch poses for a photo during an interview at Serena Hotel on April 12, 2023. PHOTO | SILA KIPLAGAT | NMG Essentially what Lady Justice Joyce Aluoch, EBS, CBS (Rtd) has been doing her whole career is to…
[ad_1] There is a video making the rounds on WhatsApp and other social media handles, about Nigeria’s moribund Ajaokuta Steel Complex. The narrator spoke of how the complex was set up solely to rip off Nigeria and to benefit some politicians. He went on to say that the project was wrong-headed from day 1. I…
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