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Expert calls for re-introduction of hand-washing to curb spread of Lassa fever

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Mr Bassey Ating, the Programme Coordinator, Wise Administration of Terrestrial Environment and Resources (WATER), has urged school administrators to re-introduce…

Facebook can’t guarantee social media is good for democracy

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Facebook Inc (FB.O) warned on Monday that it could offer no assurance that social media was on balance good for…

INEC creates 10 additional voters registration centres in Bayelsa

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has created 10 additional centres in Bayelsa to ensure that many residents of the…

Man remanded in prison for allegedly raping 13-year-old

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

A 55-year-old man, Mfon Iyang, who allegedly raped a teenage girl, was on Monday remanded in Kirikiri prison by an…

Customs intercepts 2,200 jerry cans of smuggled petrol worth N10m

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Seme Border Command, intercepted 2,200 jerry cans of smuggled of petrol with a Duty Paid…

Anti-Open Grazing: Law will enable herdsmen’s children acquire education – Bishop

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Bishop William Aveya of Gboko Catholic Diocese in Benue has said that the anti-open grazing law passed by the state…

Senator begins vocational skills training for 1,000 unemployed youths

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Senator Mustafah Bukar, APC representing Katsina north, has commenced skills acquisition training for 1,000 unemployed youths drawn from twelve local…

Nigerians need mindset restructuring not geo-political restructuring – Bishop

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Catholic Bishop of Gboko Diocese, Most Reverent William Avenya, has suggested the restructuring of mindset of citizens as a…

Facebook to open digital training centres in Europe

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Facebook said on Monday it would open three new centres in Europe to train people in digital skills.

77.5m Nigerians engage in economic activities in Q3 2017 – NBS

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says 77.55 million people are engaged in economic activities out of a labour force…

Lassa fever: Ebonyi Govt. reopens schools following absence of new case

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Public and private schools in Ebonyi shut on Jan. 18 to check the spread of Lassa fever outbreak in the…

China to commence selection of astronauts for space station

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

China will begin selection for the next generation of astronauts who will train to work on the country’s planned space…

Constant drinking in adolescence increases risks of liver diseases in adulthood – Study

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Swedish researchers confirmed in a study published Sunday that chronic consumption of alcohol during adolescence can lead to greater risk…

Triplets, brother killed in Jigawa fire outbreak

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

A fire outbreak has killed Triplets and their brother in Hadejia town, Jigawa, according to the Spokesman of the Nigeria…

U.S Vice President Pence in Israel, meets Netanyahu

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for talks on Monday, the second day of a…

Iran suspends executions after relaxing law on drug offences

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Iran on Monday suspended all cases in which people have been sentenced to death for drug offences, Ali Larijani, Speaker…

Ethiopia rejects call for World Bank arbitration in dam dispute

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has rejected a call by Egypt for World Bank arbitration in a dispute over a…

Indian minister dismisses Darwin’s theory of evolution

Lanre Babalola

8 years ago

An Indian minister has stirred a major row by dismissing naturalist Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution of humans, saying it…

Record number of candidates bid for Russian presidential election

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The number of people who have expressed their intention to run in the upcoming Russian presidential election is the highest…

Liberia: Abdulsalami Abubakar hails peaceful transition

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Former military Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd), on Sunday hailed the ongoing peaceful democratic transfer of power in…

Lagos charges residents to shun domestic violence, child abuse

Kazeem Ugbodaga

8 years ago

The Lagos State Government has urged residents of the state to desist from all forms of violent act and abuses,…

Armed herdsmen pose terrorist threats – Nigerians in Diaspora

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation Americas (NIDOA) has urged the Federal Government to check the activities of armed herdsmen in…

El-Rufai to introduce juicy incentives for rural teachers

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

Kaduna State Government on Sunday said it would introduce juicy incentives for teachers posted to public schools in rural areas…

CBN calls for calm over MPC meeting, says economy is strong

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, has allayed the fears of Nigerians and the international community…

82% of wealth generated in 2017 earned by world top 1% – Oxfam

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

Eighty-two per cent of the wealth generated last year went to the richest one per cent of the global population,…

Napoli go 4 points clear as Lazio hit five

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

Napoli survived a tough test at Atalanta on Sunday as Dries Mertens’ second-half goal secured a 1-0 win which kept…

Fulani herdsmen must pay N5,000 to operate in Ekiti – Fayose

Lanre Babalola

8 years ago

Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State has directed that for a Fulani herdsman to operate in Ekiti, he must pay…

Muslim body tasks Federal Govt on security

Lanre Babalola

8 years ago

The Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) has appealed to the federal and state governments to take proactive measures against security challenges…

Saraki visits Kwara community over monarch’s death

PM NEWS Live

8 years ago

Senate President Bukola Saraki on Sunday paid a condolence visit to Omu-Aran in Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara over…

2019: Buhari healthy to seek re-election – Adesina

PM NEWS Live

8 years ago

Presidential Spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, says President Muhammadu Buhari is presently in a better state of health than in 2015,…

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