Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno is to establish an outreach office in Auno village of Konduga Local Government, to encourage villagers fleeing from insurgency to return. Zulum, who stated this on Saturday during a visit to the village, said he would be using the office from time to time to boost the peoples’ confidence to return to the village. He described the move as strategic because of Auno’s closeness to the state capital and the...
Suspected hoodlums on Friday attacked policemen attached to Auchi Division in Edo and killed an officer enforcing the Coronavirus curfew imposed by the Federal Government. DSP Chidi Nwabuzor, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Edo, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin on Saturday. Nwabuzor said that serious manhunt was presently ongoing to arrest the hoodlums. According to him, ”on Friday night at Auchi, the officer, one Insp. Felix Egbon and...
The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has began virtual lectures and hands-on-laps training for 600 participants through its Africa Centre of Excellence on Technology Enhanced Learning, (ACETEL). Mr. Ambrose Gowong, Communications Officer, ACETEL, in a statement said the training was a partnership between ACETEL-CISCO Academy and the Directorate of Learning Content Management System (DLCMS) of NOUN. He said NOUN Deputy Vice-Chancellor Administration, Prof. Justus Sokefun, who declared the training open, said the training was part...
Senior international Olympics official John Coates said on Saturday the delayed Tokyo Olympics could end up being the greatest Games ever, coming next year as the world emerges from COVID-19 crisis. Coates, Australia’s Olympic chief and head of the International Olympic Committee’s inspectorate for the Games, cited the examples of positive Summer Games that followed the two world wars of the 20th century. The Tokyo Games were postponed for a year to 2021 in the...
More than 500 workers at an industrial facility in Ghana have tested positive for the coronavirus, the country’s health service said, as total cases jumped by nearly 30 per cent in a single day. The health service did not name the facility, where it said in a statement that 533 out 1,300 workers had tested positive. The overall number of cases in Ghana rose to 4,012, including 18 deaths, from 3,091 on Thursday. That represents...
Kano State Ministry of Health has confirmed that 65 new Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases had been recorded in the state. The ministry via its verified Twitter handle @KNSMOH, said that the development had raised the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the state to 547. “Update as at 11:35 p.m. May 8, 2020; 65 new cases of COVID-19 cases confirmed in Kano state. “Total confirmed cases in Kano state are now 547, three additional patients...
Bob Dylan is releasing his first album of new music in eight years following a spurt of creativity from the man regarded as one of the world’s most influential songwriters. Rough and Rowdy Ways” will be released on June 19, according to a brief announcement on Dylan’s official website early on Friday. It will be a double album but no further details were given. The announcement followed the release late on Thursday of a third...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday recorded 386 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 3912. The NCDC also said that 10 new patients have been confirmed dead to the virus in the country, bringing the total number of deaths to 117. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that this is the highest number of cases recorded in a single day in the country....
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), says that a lady Miss Bianca Chidi whose where about is not known is not a corps member contrary to reports in some quarters. Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, the Director, Press and Public Relations of NYSC, said this in a statement issued in Abuja, on Friday. Adeyemi was reacting to a publication by a newspaper with the caption “NYSC Where is Miss Bianca Ada Chidi”. “The management wishes to state that as...
Two persons were killed while several shops and vehicles were burnt on Friday when a tanker ladened with diesel fell around Moniya area of Ibadan and burst into flames. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the incident led to traders, commuters and residents of the area scampering for safety as the inferno continued to increase with high intensity. The extent of damage and fatality, however, could not yet be ascertained as of the...
