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Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles

Kazeem Ugbodaga

8 years ago

Scientists have created a mutant enzyme that breaks down plastic drinks bottles by accident. The breakthrough could help solve the…

China willing to provide Venezuela help

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

China is willing to provide Venezuela with what help it can, Premier Li Keqiang told Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on…

Flood claims 53 lives in Katsina, Kaduna in 4 months

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The North West zone of National Emergency Management Agency, (NEMA) on Friday said 53 lives were lost to flood in…

2019: Group rallies support for Ambode, warns APC against dropping him

Kazeem Ugbodaga

8 years ago

A group, Ambodemania Movement Support Worldwide on Friday urged the All Progressives Congress (APC) to perish the thought of ganging…

Kenyatta proposes to cut fuel tax to 8%

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya on Friday said a new and unpopular tax on petroleum products was necessary but that…

Zimbabwe crafts short-term economic blue print

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Zimbabwean government is crafting a short-term economic blue print to help stabilise the economy as it pushes with its…

South Africa to continue to put African agenda on BRICS – Ramaphosa

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday said South Africa like in the past will continue to put African issues on the…

IPOB’s sit-at-home: Banks, markets defy order in Umuahia

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Commercial banks, markets and business outlets in Umuahia, the Abia capital, opened for business on Friday, defying the sit-at-home order…

2019: Dankwambo promises to offer solutions to Nigeria’s problems

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Gombe State Governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Mr Ibrahim Dankwambo, said he would provide solutions to the…

Doctors donate drugs to Kogi flood victims

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Kogi Chapter, on Friday, donated drugs to flood victims at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)…

Air Force recruits 7,644 Nigerians in 3 years

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

A total of 7,644 Nigerians have been recruited into the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) since assumption of office of President…

Man allegedly kidnaps 3 men

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

A 26-year-old man, Solomon Ojo, was on Friday brought before an Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly kidnapping…

2019: Ebonyi APC gubernatorial aspirant rejects zoning, consensus

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Prof. Bernard Odoh, a governorship aspirant in Ebonyi on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has described zoning…

Funeral for wife of ex-Pakistan PM Sharif draws huge crowds

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Tens of thousands of people defied scorching heat in Pakistan on Friday to attend funeral prayers for the wife of…

Evans’ kidnap victim narrates encounter

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

An Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos heard on Friday that kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, known popularly as Evans, was the…

Second Niger Bridge project reaches 50% completion

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Work on the second Niger Bridge linking Asaba in Delta and Onitsha in Anambra, has reached 50 per cent completion,…

IPOB’s sit-at-home: Enugu CP applauds residents for defying order

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, Mr Mohammed Danmallam, has applauded the residents for defying the order by the…

2019: Kwankwaso promises to tackle insecurity if elected president

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

A presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso, has promised to tackle insecurity…

Uganda dispatches teams to contain anthrax outbreak

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Uganda’s Ministry of Health and that of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries have dispatched teams of experts to contain anthrax…

Nigerian Govt advised not to allow politics to overheat economy

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

A financial expert, Dr Samuel Nzekwe, has advised the Federal Government not to allow politics to overheat the economy.

Nigerian govt plans 5-year pre-retirement training for workers

Lanre Babalola

8 years ago

The Federal Government says it will start a five-year training for intending retirees in the civil service on various businesses…

Bandit attacks: Zamfara Govt. commiserates with community

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Zamfara government on Friday sent a five-man delegation to Badarawa Community in the Shinkafi Local Government Area of the…

Police restore normalcy after suspected IPOB members burnt Dangote trucks

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Rivers Police Command says it has restored normalcy after suspected members of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) allegedly burnt…

AFDB to tackle armyworm with technologies

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The African Development Bank (AfDB) says it will deploy an integrated approach and proven technologies in tackling the menace of…

Power outage: Port Harcourt Disco appeals to consumers in Calabar

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) on Friday appealed to it consumers in Calabar to bear with it over…

NNPC commended for rehabilitating Ejigbo depot, storage tanks

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) on Friday said the ongoing rehabilitation of moribund storage tanks at Ejigbo…

Catholic Bishops advise Nigerians against vote-buying

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Catholic Bishops have urged all registered voters to ensure that they are equipped with voter’s card and reject the illegal…

3 women sentenced to 45 days imprisonment for fighting

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Friday sentenced three women to 45 days imprisonment for fighting and biting…

Gas explosion: Nasarawa to take victims to South Africa for further treatment

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Nasarawa State Government on Friday said it had concluded arrangement to fly some victims of the Lafia gas explosion to…

Cholera outbreak: Zimbabwe’s opposition leader postpones mock inauguration

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader has postponed plans for a mock inauguration on Saturday following a police ban on public gatherings…

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