Stakeholders in the education sector from Adamawa, Bauchi and Gombe states have converged in Gombe to collaboratively tackle the issue of out-of-school children in the North East sub-region. The two-day session, supported by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), sought to formulate effective strategies aimed at mitigating the prevalence of out-of-school children to enhance retention,…
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan wrapped up their three-day visit to Nigeria on Sunday, arriving in the country’s economic capital Lagos during a trip to promote his Invictus Games for wounded military veterans. The couple met with Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and were also set to take part in a Lagos fundraiser. “He…
The Anambra State Government has taken a strong stance against environmental offenders, sealing hotels and other business premises in a bid to enforce environmental laws and protect the state’s ecosystem. The Managing Director of OCHA Brigade, Celestine Anere, who led the enforcement team on Sunday emphasised the necessity of the action, stating, “The issue of…
In a press release dated May 12, 2024, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) urged the public to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activities related to the production of adulterated products. This call to action comes in the wake of the agency’s successful dismantling of an illegal alcohol manufacturing…
Rick Slayman, the first patient to receive a transplanted pig kidney, has passed away at the age of 62. This is coming barely two months when Africa Health Report (AHR) published the groundbreaking operation that took place at Massachusetts General Hospital, where a genetically-edited pig kidney was transplanted into Slayman, who was suffering from end-stage…
Hundreds of thousands students in Nigeria hoping to continue their education to higher levels have their dreams and expectation aborted because of the increasing wave of insecurity occasioned by terrorists’ activities. The insecurity has put the Safe Schools initiative at risk. Ogbodo Ozioma Favour in this special report writes that many students/pupils learn under the…
Some unknown gunmen have reportedly shot dead a middle-aged man, identified as Khalid Bichi, in Maitama, Abuja, on Friday night. Bichi, said to be an employee of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, was reportedly killed by his attackers just before 9 pm while he was out to get food, the Guardian reports. According to sources,…
President Bola Tinubu has asked the Central Bank of Nigeria to suspend the implementation of the controversial cybersecurity levy policy and ordered a review. This followed the decision of the House of Representatives, which, last Thursday, asked the CBN to withdraw its circular directing all banks to commence charging a 0.5 per cent cybersecurity levy…
The Federal Government has commenced the process of review of the nation’s visa and immigration policy as a way to bolster ease of doing business in the country. Minister of Interior Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, speaking at a stakeholders’ consultative meeting on Nigeria Visa Policy on Saturday in Abuja, said there was urgent need to remove…
Gov. Usman Ododo of Kogi State on Saturday expressed dismay that all the CCTV cameras were switched off before the abduction of students of Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTEC), Osara, Kogi. The governor disclosed this when he visited the university campus for an assessment of the security situation in the wake of the…
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