[ad_1] On his second day of the official visit to Katsina State, President Muhammadu Buhari commissioned other developmental projects executed by the administration of Governor Aminu Bello Masari. The projects commissioned Friday to include the Gora-Makauraci-Malamawa road, General Hospital, Musawa and Government Day Secondary School (GDSS) Musawa in the Katsina South senatorial district, known as…
[ad_1] (Xinhua) 08:26, January 28, 2023 SYDNEY, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) — While lion dances heated up the festive mood in Melbourne Chinatown, a memory-keeper of Australia’s Chinese community offered a tranquil corner for visitors to explore histories, traditions, mythical stories and mouth-watering cuisines related to the Spring Festival, one of the most important dates for…
[ad_1] (Xinhua) 08:20, January 28, 2023 BEIJING, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) — China saw a 73-percent year-on-year increase in passenger trips made Wednesday, the fifth day of the seven-day Spring Festival holiday, the Ministry of Transport said Thursday. The passenger trips topped 35.3 million Wednesday, but it was still 38.2 percent lower than the pre-pandemic level…
[ad_1] (Xinhua) 08:29, January 28, 2023 MEXICO CITY, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) — For decades, Argentines have dreamt of having a hydroelectric power plant on the Santa Cruz River, one of the last large free-flowing rivers in the region of Patagonia encompassing the southern end of South America, so that they could be less dependent on…
[ad_1] Yes, petrol scarcity is back again as if it were a bad coin. The only devilish trend that could probably surpass perennial petrol scarcity or the stretched-out queues occasioned by the scarcity is corruption; another evil that has almost become intractable in Nigeria. Except for the honey-moon years (2015-2018) of President Muhammadu Buhari’s first…
[ad_1] French prosecutors said on Friday they would investigate the appearance of vast quantities of tiny toxic plastic pellets along the Atlantic coast that endanger marine life and the human food chain. The criminal probe will follow several legal complaints about the pellet invasion lodged by local authorities and the central government in Paris, Camille…
[ad_1] Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), says he is going to stop the poverty cycle in Nigeria if elected. Obi spoke on Friday at a town hall engagement with students of the University of Abuja. The LP candidate said the elections are about the youth, and that they should seize…
[ad_1] A veterinarian and the President of the Commonwealth Veterinary Council of Nigeria, Dr. Olatunji Nasir, has alerted pregnant women who keep cats that such infected animals could cause a miscarriage of their babies. Nasir gave the warning in Ilorin in his paper presentation entitled: “Veterinarians in the Face of Global Health Security”. The programme…
[ad_1] Edo State has recorded 10 new cases of Lassa fever, raising the total number of confirmed cases in the state to 107. The Edo State Commissioner for Health, Obehi Akoria, who disclosed this to journalists in Benin City, said the state also confirmed three more deaths from the disease, raising the fatality figure to…
[ad_1] The World Health Organisation’s emergency committee on Covid-19 was meeting Friday to discuss whether the pandemic still merits the highest level of global alert. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus suggested the emergency phase of the pandemic is not over, pointing to surging numbers of deaths and warning that the global response to the crisis…
