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Instructional materials: World Bank to support Kaduna
The World Bank Senior Education Specialist, Dr Olatunde Adekola on Thursday said that the bank would support Kaduna State Government…
2019: UN Women solicit media support for Nigerian female politicians
The UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) on Thursday in Abuja expressed commitment to…
Xmas: Price of children wears soars in Benin
Ahead of the Yuletide season, prices of children wears is skyrocketing in Benin, Edo.
Victims Support Fund provides education support to 150,000 Northeast children
The Victims Support Fund (VSF), an NGO, says it has constructed schools and provided other forms of educational support to…
Oil falls on rising U.S. inventories
Oil prices fell on Thursday after U.S. crude inventories swelled to their highest level since December adding to concerns about…
NGO unveils website to fund MSMEs
A non-profit making organisation, MSME Crowd Funding Foundation, Nigeria, on Thursday unveiled a website `Fundanenterprise.org.’ to raise funds and grants…
Army donate equipment to hospital in Akwa Ibom
As part of activities marking the end of Operation Crocodile Smile 111, the 2 Brigade of the Nigerian Army has…
National Building Code: Experts push for implementation
Bothered by the delay in the implementation of the National Building Code (NBC), some operators in the built-up environment have…
Free my husband – says Hedges’ wife
The wife of a British academic who was jailed by a UAE court on spying charges called on the Emirati…
Euro bounces on trade deal hopes; dollar slides
The euro briefly rallied to the day’s highs on Thursday after Britain and the European Union agreed in principle to…
Namibian minister speaks up against women abuse
Namibian Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare, Doreen Sioka, on Thursday, castigated the growing cases of violence against women…
Liverpool has more to offer – Klopp
Liverpool has made their joint-best start to a Premier League campaign since it was launched in 1992, but manager Jurgen…
Yuletide: Lagos moves to address gridlock
The Lagos State Government on Thursday said it had fashioned out workable solutions to ensure the free flow of traffic…
Russian military intelligence chief is dead
The Head of the Russian Military Intelligence Agency Col.-Gen. Igor Korobov, who Britain accused of poisoning a former double agent…
Tunisian public workers protest over poor pay
No fewer than 650,000 public sector workers went on strike and thousands protested across Tunisia on Thursday over the government’s…
Trump ‘apologises’ as oil prices crash ’causes’ traffic jams
U.S. President Donald Trump has ‘apologised’ to Americans for allegedly causing traffic jams in the country following the crash in…
Verification of ex-Nigeria Airways workers living abroad may begin 2019
Mr John Waitono, Deputy Director, Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit (PICA), says verification exercise for former workers of the defunct…
Africa Industrialisation Day: Quality products, services indices to global competitiveness
Dr Funsho Tehinse, a National Expert on Food Safety, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) says quality products and services…
Organisations urge women’s involvement in agric policy-making
ActionAid Nigeria and the Small-Scale Women Farmers Organisation in Nigeria (SWOFON) have called for the involvement of smallholder women farmers…
South Korea’s Jong-yang elected as Interpol president
International police body Interpol elected Kim Jong-yang of South Korea as president for a two-year term on Wednesday, beating a…
Australian researchers look to skin cancer self-diagnosis via Smartphone
Australian researchers on Wednesday said they are developing novel artificial intelligence technology that will allow people to self-diagnose skin cancer…
Japan ready to work for Nissan-Renault alliance stability
Japan said on Wednesday it is ready to work for the stability of the Nissan-Renault global alliance.
Kenya MPs debate giving women a third of parliament seats
Kenyan parliamentarians on Tuesday debated a bill that would allocate a third of all seats in parliament to women, with…
2019: Buhari Campaign Organisation demands 90 per cent of Ondo votes
The Buhari Campaign Organisation (BCO) has urged its newly inaugurated executive members in Ondo State to work tirelessly to deliver…
EU supports Kano Anti-graft Agency
The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-graft Corruption Commission (PCACC) has received the support of the European Union (EU) in…
2019: Female aspirant calls for credible, fair elections
A female aspirant in Bauchi State, Mrs Maryam Alexander, has called on stakeholders in the 2019 elections to ensure a…
Outage: BEDC to reconnect Ekiti communities
The Ekiti Government on Tuesday received assurances from the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) that power supply would be restored…
Olofa of Offa tasks indigenes on communal services
The Olofa of Offa, Oba Muftau Gbadamosi, has called on wealthy indigenes of Offa in Kwara to redouble their efforts…
Amina Mohammed, 3 others make BBC ‘100 Women’ list
Amina Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General and three other Nigerian women made the 2018 BBC ‘100 women’ list.
Fans worldwide support points’ deductions for racism at matches
Racist abuse from the stands remains widespread at football matches — and a large majority of fans don’t know how…