Port Harcourt Distribution Company (PHED) will on July 1 begin implementation of a new electricity tariff to customers in four states, says an official of the company. The states are Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, and Rivers. The PHED Manager of Corporate Communications, John Onyi, said in a statement in Port Harcourt on Thursday that the tariff would be reviewed upward. He said: “PHED wishes to notify customers in Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River and...
Nigeria Consul General in Johannesburg, Godwin Adama, says the diplomatic mission is set to evacuate 167 stranded Nigerians from South Africa on Thursday. Adama made this known in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. “We are evacuating 167 stranded Nigerians from South Africa today Thursday, June 25, Air peace Airways was approved by the Federal Government of Nigeria to convey them. “The Nigerians got stranded as a result of...
Russians on Thursday opened polling stations for early voting on a constitutional referendum on whether to let President Vladimir Putin run for re-election twice more and potentially remain in power for the next 16 years. Putin, 67, has already been in power as President or Prime Minister for the past two decades. He is the longest-serving Russian or Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin. The early voting at polling stations throughout the country began a day...
The Enugu State Government has announced 30 new cases of the novel coronavirus disease, bringing the total number to 174. Prof. Ikechukwu Obi, state’s Commissioner for Health, made the announcement in a statement on Thursday. Obi said that the Ministry of Health confirmed the 30 new cases in the update by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). He noted that the number of confirmed cases undergoing treatment was 138 and 31 discharged. “New laboratory-confirmed...
Major League Baseball (MLB) and its players’ association agreed to a shortened 60-game 2020 season on Tuesday, ending weeks of heated talks between team owners and their players. Players will report for spring training by July 1 with the season set to begin on July 23 or July 24, MLB said. MLB postponed its 162-game regular season in March due to the coronavirus pandemic and had struggled to broker an accord between the two sides. “Major League Baseball is...
Governments and businesses are ramping up precautions as coronavirus case numbers rise to dire new levels in parts of the U.S. and around the world, potentially wiping out two months of progress. Indonesia was expected to pass the 50,000 mark for confirmed infections on Thursday. In Melbourne, health workers planned to go door-to-door to test more than 100,000 residents in a coronavirus hot spot that threatens to undo the nation’s success in battling the virus....
Four-times Olympic champion, Mo Farah, says he is targeting the one-hour world record at the AG Memorial Van Damme meet in Brussels on Sept. 4. He is returning to the tracks for the first time since switching to road racing in 2017. The men’s record of 21.285 km was set by Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie in Ostrava in 2007. The Brussels event is part of the revamped calendar of athletics meetings announced by the Diamond League...
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), says it will provide no fewer than 200,000 bed spaces for students in various tertiary institutions in the country. Mr Kashim Ibrahim-Imam, Chairman, TETFund Board of Trustees disclosed this in Abuja at agency 2020 Board Retreat for Research Grants. The retreat has as theme: “Consolidating TETFund as a Model Intervention Agency for Nigeria’s Knowledge Economy”. Ibrahim-Imam said the board was concerned with the issues of lack of adequate accommodation...
An advocacy group on Wednesday pleaded with the National Assembly to enact legislation, forbidding forceful takeover of the inheritance of widows in the country. Mrs. Atinuke Owolabi, founder of the Touch of Love and Lifting Hands Foundation, made the appeal at a rally in Ijaiye, near Ikeja, to mark the 2020 International Widows’ Day. She lamented that widows, numbering about 258 million worldwide, had been at the receiving end of practices that had resulted in...
The Federal Ministry of Youths and Sports Development has trained 7,000 youths in the IBM Digital Skill Training Programme in its bid to address youth unemployment in the country. The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr Sunday Dare, made the disclosure while speaking with State House correspondents on the outcome of the Federal Executive Council’s virtual meeting. The meeting was chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja on Wednesday “The one that we have...
