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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC has given the statistics for Monkeypox infection, cases and fatalities recorded in the country within the last five years, just 72 hours after health authorities in the United Kingdom announced that a traveller from Nigeria tested positive for the disease. NCDC in its latest report said the country recorded 558 cases and eight deaths across 32 states of the federation and the Federal […]

The House of Representatives yesterday secured the cooperation of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC to make available six million liters of JETA1 also known as aviation fuel to marketers chosen by the Airlines Operators of Nigeria AON. The deal which was struck at a meeting with AON representatives at the National Assembly has stakeholders like the representatives of the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Ministry of Aviation, Central Bank of Nigeria, NNPC, Midstream […]

Chairman of the youth wing of the Christian association of Nigeria CAN in Enugu state, Samuel Ani, has charged youths to arm themselves with their permanent voter cards, stressing that it is the only way their voices would be heard. Ani, who stated this yesterday at St Lukes Anglican Church Ogui, Enugu, during a one-day sensitization programme, said the programme was aimed at creating political awareness among youths in Enugu […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the recent attacks by bandits on communities in Zamfara State, after about 55 people were killed in separate attacks by bandits in four Zamfara communities in three days. The affected communities were Sabon Gari Damri, Damri, and Kalahr, in Bakura Local Government Area, as well as Faru in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara. Buhari in a statement through his Senior Special Assistant on Media […]

The Commissioner for Culture and Tourism in Enugu State Ugonna Ibeh, has revealed that tourism can earn the nation more revenue, if well harnessed. Ibeh who said this when he declared open the 2022 edition of the Flowing Feathers Tourism Writing Competition FFTWC, said the competition is coming at a time when the government is diversifying its economy away from the crude oil, adding that it would expose the students […]

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday praised the Governor of Ebonyi State Dave Umahi’s infrastructure drive, describing the Ebonyi leader as an engineer with repute. Buhari who is on a two-day visit to the South-East State said this while inaugurating the 700-metre length twin-flyover also called King David’s University flyover which cost two billion Naira, adding that he is impressed with the performance and he knows the projects will last. The President […]

The Former President, Goodluck Jonathan has described late Umaru Musa Yar’adua as a good man whose type is rare to find. Jonathan who stated this today in a statement to mark the 12-year remembrance of the former president Yar’adua who died in 2010, said the legacy of Yar’adua would always be remembered in the country, as he was a man of peace, a patriot and a selfless leader. Jonathan noted […]

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC has threatened to embark on a three-day nationwide warning strike, in solidarity with affiliate unions in the universities and Nigerian students. This is contained in a communique jointly signed by its President, Ayuba Wabba, and its General Secretary, Emmanuel Ugboaja, and issued to newsmen yesterdayat the end of the Congress’ Central Working Committee, CWC meeting in Abuja. The NLC had on April 13, given the […]