Max Air Crash Land At Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, 144 Passengers Are Safe

NewsNigeriaTransportationMax Air Crash Land At Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, 144 Passengers Are Safe

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)May 8, 2023

Max Air with 144 passengers on board had crashed landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Sunday after it experienced a tyre burst. According to some passengers on board the aircraft who took off from Yola said the plane lost one of the tyres after take off while the second tyre burst into flames after landing in Abuja. The management of Max Air in a statement said the aircraft experienced two tyre bursts...

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Anambra’s Afam Ogene Emerges Leader of Reps Minority Caucus

NewsNigeriaPoliticsAnambra’s Afam Ogene Emerges Leader of Reps Minority Caucus

PilotnewsMay 8, 2023

The 35-member Labour Party caucus in the 10th Assembly of the House of Representatives has elected Hon. Afam Victor Ogene as its Leader. Hon. Ogene, a ranking member from the 7th Assembly, emerged as the Labour Party leader with 21 votes, after a keenly contested election yesterday in Abuja. Although 34 Members-Elect of the Party were present at the voting session, only 31 of them took part in the exercise, with the trio of Honourables...

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Gov. Ugwuanyi Transfers Enugu Medical Diagnostic Centre to NSIA

NewsNigeriaPoliticsGov. Ugwuanyi Transfers Enugu Medical Diagnostic Centre to NSIA

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)May 7, 2023

The Managing Director and CEO of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, NSIA, Mr. Umar-Sadiq, say Enugu will serve as a site for NSIA’s first oncology centre in the South East. The MD stated this at the official transfer of the Enugu State Medical Diagnostic Centre to NSIA for rehabilitation, upgrading, and re-operationalization of the health facility to a comprehensive diagnostic and oncology (cancer) treatment centre in line with NSIA’s healthcare expansion programme. “NSIA is excited...

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The second Batch Of 130 Returnees From Sudan Arrives in Nigeria

NewsNigeriaPoliticsThe second Batch Of 130 Returnees From Sudan Arrives in Nigeria

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)May 7, 2023

Each Received N100,000 From ADF The second batch of Nigerian evacuees numbering 130 were airlifted from the Port Sudan border by Tarmac Airline and arrived in the country from Sudan. Recall that on Wednesday the first batch of 376 evacuees had arrived in Abuja onboard Air Force and Air Peace planes. Dr. Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, Permanent Secretary Ministry of Humanitarians Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development who received them at the General Aviation Terminal of the Nnamdi...

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COVID-19 Is No Longer Global Public Health Emergency-WHO

HealthNewsNigeriaCOVID-19 Is No Longer Global Public Health Emergency-WHO

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)May 7, 2023

The International Health Regulations Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization has said COVID-19 is no longer a global public health emergency. The global health body, about six weeks before describing it as a pandemic, had declared the coronavirus outbreak to be a public health emergency of international concern in January 2020. During that time, there were more than 10,000 cases of the virus, most of them in China. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General at...

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Sports: Nigeria Osimhen wins Scudetto for Napoli after 33 years

NewsNigeriaSoccerSportsSports: Nigeria Osimhen wins Scudetto for Napoli after 33 years

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)May 6, 2023

The Super Eagles striker, Victor Osimhen, on Thursday won the Serie A title for Napoli with his equaliser in their 1-1 game at Udinese. According to reports, Napoli that needed a draw to win the Scudetto for the first time in 33 years conceded in the 22nd minute only for the Nigerian to score the much-needed equaliser in the 52nd minute and won the league with five games to spare. Osimhen’s second-half equaliser proved decisive...

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Nigeria: UNICEF Targets 1.5 Million NLP Users By 2024,

EducationNewsNigeriaNigeria: UNICEF Targets 1.5 Million NLP Users By 2024,

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)May 6, 2023

…As active users hit 142,000 In 18 states In Nigeria, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is targeting to reach 1.5 million Nigeria Learning Passport (NLP) users at the end of 2024 according to UNICEF Chief of field office in Kano, Mr Rahma Rihood Farah. Farah who spoke in Kano while handing over materials to support the learning passport initiative said that NLP now has 142,000 active users across 18 states in Nigeria....

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Ekweremadu, wife bags prison sentence in the UK for organ trafficking

NewsNigeriaPoliticsEkweremadu, wife bags prison sentence in the UK for organ trafficking

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 6, 2023

The trial of former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, which began in March ended on Friday as the politician was sentenced to nine years and eight months in jail. His wife, Beatrice was sentenced to four years and six months imprisonment while their doctor, Obinna Obeta received a ten-year prison term. The trio stood trial at London’s Central Criminal Court, also known as the Old Bailey for conspiring to bring a young man, David Nwamini...

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Igbos and their growing dominance of Nigeria’s economy

NewsNigeriaPoliticsIgbos and their growing dominance of Nigeria’s economy

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 6, 2023

The Igbo ethnic group in Nigeria is known for their entrepreneurial spirit which has been wrongly interpreted as the ‘love of money’ by other ethnic groups. The enterprising skills of the Igbos make them migrate in droves away from their cultural enclave in southeastern Nigeria to other parts of Nigeria and beyond where they establish different lines of business ventures, which turn out to be successful in a few years. In recent times, the entrepreneurial...

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South Africans sign petition for Britain to return the diamond in King Charles III’s scepter

AfricaNewsNigeriaWorld NewsSouth Africans sign petition for Britain to return the diamond in King Charles III’s scepter

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)May 4, 2023

Amid the global conversation on returning artworks and artefacts that were pillaged from Africa during the colonial era, South Africans are calling for Britain to return the world’s largest diamond, known as the Star of Africa. The diamond is set in the royal sceptre that King Charles III will hold at his coronation on Saturday. Officially known as Cullinan I, the diamond in the sceptre was cut from the Cullinan diamond, a 3,100-carat stone that...

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