NNPC Limited has announced an adjustment to pump prices of petrol (PMS) across its retail outlets, in line with current market realities. Garba Deen Muhammad, Chief Corporate Communications Officer of the NNPCL issued the announcement in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. According to the statement, pump prices at NNPC’s retail outlets will now begin to […]
The Vice-Chancellor, University of Uyo, Prof. Nyaudoh Ndaeyo, has advised lecturers of the institution to avail themselves of the opportunity of digital world to become visible among their contemporaries. Ndaeyo gave the advice at a workshop on Digital Humanities for Lecturers. The Faculty of Arts, Digital Humanities Unit, organised the workshop on Wednesday in Uyo. […]
One of Africa’s most celebrated authors and playwrights, Ghanaian Ama Ata Aidoo, died on Wednesday, aged 81. A renowned feminist, she depicted and celebrated the condition of African women in works such as ‘The Dilemma of a Ghost’, ‘Our Sister Killjoy’ and ‘Changes’. She opposed what she described as a “Western perception that the African […]
A Sokoto-based women’s organisation, ‘100-Women Group’, has begun a house-to-house sensitisation to curb the recurrence of Gender Based Violence (GBV) and other harmful practices in the state. Hajia Fatima Umar, the group’s Coordinator, led the sensitisation at Magajin Gari in Sokoto North Local Government Area on Wednesday. Umar said the group considered educating women and […]
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has approved a law to stop the stealing of human organs and tissues, his health minister has said. Stealing of human organs and tissues is happening in a nation where they lured women into unnecessary surgeries. Local media recently reported cases of women recruited for domestic work in the Middle East […]
The Police in Kano, on Wednesday, dragged a 24-year-old Imamu Tijjani, before a Kano Sharia Court in Fagge for allegedly stealing a pot cover valued at N3,000 and tN13,500 cash. Tijjani, who lives in Kofar Na’isa Quarters, Kano is charged with theft. The prosecutor, Insp Abdullahi Wada, told the court a complainant, Rashida Abubakar reported […]
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said, on Monday, it intercepted 726 migrants, including women and children, and returned them to Libya during the past week. “In the period of 21-27 May 2023, 726 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya,” IOM said in a statement. So far this year, the organisation has rescued 5,784 […]
Fuel queues returned to Nigerian cities on Monday as many motorists scrambled to get petroleum products, hours after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced his government would stop fuel subsidy regime. During his inauguration, Tinubu declared that there would no longer be a petroleum subsidy regime as it was not sustainable. The President said the current […]
Several countries, on Monday, formally presented goodwill messages and letters of solidarity to President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Special envoys of the countries presented letters to Tinubu after his inauguration as the 16th President of Nigeria. Among the countries are Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, United States, South Korea, Brazil, Japan, Cape Verde, […]
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Monday, agreed to “immediately” upgrade the diplomatic relations between the two countries. They will also exchange ambassadors, the Egyptian presidency said in a statement. The move came during a phone call by al-Sisi to Erdogan to congratulate the Turkish president on his re-election for […]