Author: Adekunle Dada
Tambuwal commends Nigerian Army for establishing tertiary military hospital in Sokoto
Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has commended the Nigerian Army for its plan to site a tertiary military hospital…
Barca’s Dembele to miss 3-4 weeks with hamstring injury
Barcelona forward Ousmane Dembele has suffered another hamstring injury and will be out of action for between three and four…
Novak Djokovic beats Donald Young to reach second round of Australian Open
Novak Djokovic celebrated his long-awaited return to the grand slam stage with a 6-1 6-2 6-4 demolition of American Donald…
Saudi Arabia condemns Qatar’s interception of UAE civilian planes
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned Qatar for using fighter jets to intercept an Emirati civilian aircraft during a routine flight…
Paracetamol abuse damages liver, kidney says PSN chairman
Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has warned against indiscriminate or misuse of Paracetamol, saying such practice damages the liver and…
Israel vows to destroy all tunnels in Gaza Strip in 2018
Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Liberman vowed to destroy all tunnels in the Gaza Strip within a year and proposed to…
Parents urged to monitor websites their children visit online
Mr Bulus Danladi, the Secretary, Local Education Authority (LEA), Kuje Area Council, FCT, has advised parents to monitor the sites…
Pakistani clerics issue fatwa against ‘un-Islamic’ suicide bombings
No fewer than 1,800 Pakistani Muslim clerics have issued an Islamic directive, or fatwa, forbidding suicide bombings, a book due…
650 Enugu police personnel to participate in fitness exercise
A total of 650 police personnel in Enugu State will on Saturday partake in the monthly fitness exercise in Enugu,…
Vietnam seeks to raise retirement age
The Vietnamese Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has proposed raising retirement ages from the current 60 to 62…
Myanmar, Bangladesh plan to repatriate Rohingya refugees within 2 years
Myanmar and Bangladesh plan to complete repatriations of Rohingya refugees, who fled a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar’s Rakhine State,…
Afghanistan needs $430m to help most vulnerable citizens in 2018
Afghan government and the humanitarian community have appealed for 430 million dollars to help needy people in 2018, the Afghan…
Bundesliga remains top of the league for highest average attendances
The German Bundesliga boasted the highest average attendances in Europe last season, once again edging the English Premier League, a…
Ethiopian airlines to commence direct flight to Geneva
Ethiopian Airlines, Africa’s largest carrier, has announced its plans to commence direct flight thrice weekly to Geneva, Switzerland from June…
Martin Luther King’s daughter to Trump: ‘Civilisation originated from Africa’,
Children of the late civil rights icon, Dr Martin Luther King Jr. decried the disparaging remarks allegedly made by U.S.…
British, Belgian fighter jets intercept Russian bombers
The Royal Air Force scrambled fighter jets to track Russian bombers flying close to British Airspace on Monday as part…
China promotes online education
The first batch of 490 national quality courses are available online for the public, according to an Educational Official on…
Prime Minister urges Ethiopians to support establishment of Pan African Centre
Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn on Monday called on all Ethiopians to support the establishment of a Pan African Centre,…
Four killed in Badagry gas explosion
An explosion by leaking gas cylinder at artisan’s shop in Ajara area of Badagry, Lagos suburb, on Monday killed four…
Edo Inland Container Dry Port will soon commence exports activities
The Edo Inland Container Dry Port (EDO-ICD) will soon commence export activities from operational base, an official of the port…
Customs targets N1.5 trillion in 2018 – Ali
The Nigeria Customs Service has set a revenue target of N1.5 trillion for 2018.
Find lasting solution to lingering petrol queues, motorists urge Nigerian Govt
Motorists in Abuja on Monday urged the Federal Government to take lasting measures to end the lingering petrol queues in…
Increase ex-servicemen’s pension, Ganduje urges Nigerian Govt
Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano, on Monday called on the Federal Government to increase the pension allocation to ex-servicemen in…
Bayelsa building private-sector driven economy – SSG
The Bayelsa government on Monday reiterated its commitment to building a robust economy driven by economic fundamentals and private sector…
El-Rufa’i swears-in 3 new commissioners, 13 heads of agencies
Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State on Monday swore-in three new commissioners and 13 heads of agencies, saying the administration…
Unilorin will not join strike – VC
The Vice-Chancellor, University of Ilorin, Prof. Sulyman Abdulkareem, says in spite of the challenges posed by the ongoing nationwide non-academic…
India, Israel declare “dawn of a new era” in bilateral relations with 9 new agreements
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described his visit to India as the “dawn of a new era” in bilateral relations…
Humanitarian Aid: UN, Afghan govt launch $430m appeal for 2018
The UN and the Afghan Government on Monday launched a 430-million-dollar appeal for humanitarian assistance in the war-torn country in…
LASUTH aims to reduce medical tourism
The Lagos State University Teaching Hosptal (LASUTH), Ikeja, says it aims at reducing medical tourism to the barest minimum in…
World is on the “brink” of nuclear war, Pope warns
The world is on the “brink” of nuclear war, Pope Francis warned on Monday, as he set off on a…