By Agency Report Eight ministers from the Horn of African region have vowed to develop a comprehensive roadmap to help boost food security amid a looming famine in some countries, the regional bloc said on Tuesday. “The failure of four consecutive rainfall seasons over the last three years has pushed communities in Arid and […]
A political support group, Nigerian Business Communities (NBC) for PDP Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, has pledged it would begin to mobilise voters for the former vice president in the South West. The group made the pledge after its zonal meeting on Tuesday in Lagos. The convener […]
Nigeria’s Flamingos lost their opening match in their campaign at the 2022 U-17 Women’s World Cup in India bowing to Germany in a 2-1 loss. Captain Dah Zossu Alvine was brought down in the 29th minute and 15-year-old Miracle Usani gave Nigeria the lead as she excellently fired the resulting free-kick into the net. The […]
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has assured that his administration would break the shackle of poverty and destitution in Nigeria if elected in the 2023 general elections. Tinubu made the pledge during the inauguration of the Tinubu-Shettima Women Presidential Campaign Team at the State House Banquet […]
Kenya’s apex bank, on Tuesday, announced the successful separation of telecommunications and mobile money business of the country’s second-largest telecom, Airtel Kenya, a first in the east African nation. The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), in a statement issued in Nairobi, said it welcomed the milestone done by Airtel Networks Kenya Ltd, which sets a […]
The PDP Governors’ Forum has congratulated its members who were conferred with the prestigious National Honour of Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON), by President Muhammadu Buhari. This is contained in a statement by the forum’s Director–General, CID Maduabum, in Abuja on Tuesday. Maduabum named the members to include Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of […]
Nigeria has opened a new office in Cairo to provide visa application, passport, Bank Verification Numbers (BVN) and National Identity Number (NIN) services in Egypt. Mr Abdul-Razaq Musa, the Executive Assistant to the President of the Nigeria-Egypt Cultural and Socio-Economic Forum (NESCEF), made this known in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday in […]
An appeal has gone to Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State to initiate a policy to support twins and families with multiple births with a view to stopping the culture of using twins to beg for alms. A twin brother, Taiwo and Kehinde Oguntoye, made the call at the 2022 World Twins Festival, an event […]
Police in Ebonyi, on Monday, pledged that they would track down gunmen who attacked a mining site close to the state’s border with Benue on Saturday. The assailants shot sporadically at workers in the process of which a Chinese and a policeman sustained gunshot injuries. The Chinese later died in hospital. The mining site is […]
By Our Correspondent The Deputy Governor of Lagos state, Dr Kadri Hamzat, on Sunday said that the state government has placed a high premium on the security of lives and properties. Hamzat made the remarks said in his keynote address at a symposium organised by the Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSSN) Lagos State […]