He observed that the occupants blocked the street with shanties, which also served as hideouts for criminals who carry out their nefarious activities in the area, as well as constituted obstructions to motorists and pedestrians using the road…
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Parents, Caregivers Urged To Present Their Eligible Children For Inactivated Polio Vaccine
Igwe Ajodo explained that the second inactivated polio vaccine second dose is free, safe and effective, hence, the need for the citizenry to give their children opportunity for protection…
Vegetable Farmers Advised Not to Use Chemicals to Grow Vegetables
She explained that not only does organic production help reduce public health risks, mounting evidence shows that food grown natural material with cow dung, and poultry dropping among others are rich in nutrients such as iron, magnesium and phosphorus with less exposure to nitrate and pesticides…
Nigerian Swimming Representative at the Olympics, Abiola Ogunbanwon Smashes Nigerian Women’s 100m freestyle record
Ogunbanwon, who is 17, won her heat with 59.74 seconds, becoming the first Nigerian woman ever to finish the event in less than one minute and surpassed Ngozi Monu’s record of 1:15 m achieved at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney…
Disqualified Nigerian Athletes Protest In Tokyo
Nigerian athletes disqualified from the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games for failing to meet the Olympic testing standard took to the streets of Tokyo in protest on Friday…
Nigerian Army Captures Scores of Boko Haram Fighters and Their Families
In a separate operation, troops of 73 Battalion, Forward Operating Base (FOB) in conjunction with combined team of Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) and Hunters intercepted a Boko Haram Terrorists Logisitics Supplier during a fighting patrol along Molai – Damboa Road. On being alerted, the combined team swiftly mobilised and stormed the location, where they arrested the suspect, while he was perfecting plans to deliver logistics to the insurgents in the forest…
Kaduna State Government Files Fresh Charges Against El Zakzaky Barely forty-Eight Hours After His Acquittal
According to the state Director of Public Prosecution, Daris Bayero while speaking to the press, the charges border on terrorism and treasonable felony against the state and federal government, explaining that some of the actions of the IMN leader upon which he is now being charged, dated back to pre-2015…
Federal Government Set to Begin Roll out of 5G Services In Nigeria
Professor Danbatta, noting that the commission has submitted the proposal to the Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy and is awaiting approval, added that the commission is also discussing the fees and pricing for the technology…
Abia State Takes Count of Teachers, Cooks, Pupils for Home Grown School Feeding Program
The Focal Person, Social Investment Programme of the state, Chinenye Nwaogu, in a press statement made available to newsmen, advised Head Teachers and parents to ensure that all concerned pupils were captured in the exercise, stating that all Schools are to remain open from 8 am to 2 pm daily while stakeholders are encouraged to support the exercise…
Court Appeal Voids Judgment Sacking Executive Council of Anambra PDP
Delivering Judgement over two judgements brought before the court on Friday, the court upheld the appeals filed against an earlier judgement of the lower court on a suit filed by Samuel Anyakolah at the FCT high court Abuja, claiming that the PDP arbitrarily imposed the state chairman, Exco and other national delegates on members in its South-East zonal Congress of March 6, 2021..