NCDC Announces 163 New COVID-19 Infections, Caseload Now 60,266

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 163 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in the country. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Sunday. The public health agency said that the 163 new infection brought the nation’s confirmed COVID-19 infections to 60,266. It also stated that the new infection were reported from 12 states. The NCDC also announced the discharge of 24 patients from isolation centers across...

Academic Performance: Stakeholders Blames Teachers, Allege Some Cannot Write Their Names

Students and Pupils across Adamawa State are in high spirits to resume classes on Monday 12th October, 2020 following a directive by Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri to reopen schools after a long break occasioned by COVID-19 pandemic. One thing is certain, that some schools may spend a couple of days clearing weeds that have taken over some portions of the schools. Aside this, some Stakeholders in the education sector in the state have expressed concern over...

End SARS Campaign: Beyond the Rhetoric

By Ebuka Onyekwelu There is nothing more brazenly scandalous than abuse of power and public trust. But somehow, Nigerians have been able to put up with more than enough outrageous abuses, vandalism of sorts and dehumanization of the highest level. This, to the point that most Nigerians now justify or at least rationalize these incongruities, perhaps those are part of what it takes to be a Nigerian. In public bus, once police stops a bus...

Presidency Should Be Open to All – Kaigama Speaks Ahead of 2023

The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Ignatius Kaigama, has spoken about the election in 2023, saying Presidency should be open to all Nigerians irrespective of their tribe, culture or religion. According to him, there is no particular religion or ethnic group has a monopoly of the leadership of Nigeria, therefor, everyone should be included in the Presidency race. He said this while responding to the principle of rotation and agitation for the zoning of the Presidency...

Nigerian Female Journalists Enjoins to Desist From Peddling Rumours

One of Presidential aspirants of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) Hajiya Aisha Ibrahim has enjoined Women Journalists in Nigeria to desist from peddling unfounded rumours and campaign of calumny, but work towards the unity and progress of the union. Hajiya Aisha Ibrahim made the remark while addressing members of the Association (NAWOJIANS) at the NUJ Press Center Yola to woo votes ahead of the National delegate conference slated for next month in Minna...

Louise Glück: Literature Nobel for American Lyric Poet a Healing Choice After Years of Controversy

Louise Glück is the first poet to win the Nobel Prize in Literature since Tomas Tranströmer in 2011 and the first American to win since Toni Morrison in 1993. In their preference for the muddiness of everyday life over explicit engagement with their political and social issues, you can see a broad link between Glück and Tranströmer. On the surface, though, Morrison and Glück couldn’t appear to be more different. Morrison’s work lays bare both the lasting scars and...

5 dead, 30 Injured as Trailer Skipped-off in Adamawa

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent At least five (5) persons have been confirmed dead in an auto crash that occurred on Saturday on the Mayo-Belwa –Ganye road in Adamawa State, local officials ave said. The accident reportedly happened after a trailer conveying cattle traders and their helpers -‘ yan –tike –boys’  skipped-off. Eyewitnesses account said the accident  occurred at a sharp bend along Mayo-Belwa-Jada Road on Saturday morning, attributed it to ‘’ reckless and over...

A Ghanaian Lawmaker Shot Dead After Campaign at His Constituency

The Ghanaian Police on Friday had said they were investigating the shooting death of a Ghanaian lawmaker. The lawmaker was reported to have been shot after attending a political event in his constituency, in an apparent robbery case. Ekow Quansan Hayford, who was a member of the President Nana Akufo-Addo’s ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), was campaigning ahead of the December elections in his constituency, some 108 kilometers (67 miles) from the country’s capital, Accra....

FG Set to Relax Conditions Attached to Mining Loan

Mr Olamilekan Adegbite, the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, says the ministry is relaxing conditions attached on mining intervention loan meant for miners. Adegbite told the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Abuja that the conditions would be relaxed for artisanal miners to enable them access the loan which was domiciled with the Bank of Industry (BOI) NAN recalls that the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development (MMSD) had signed a Memorandum of...

Misconduct: Commission Dismisses 10 Senior Police Officers, Demotes 9 Others

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the dismissal of 10 senior police officers and demotion of nine others over misconduct. Mr IKechukwu Ani, the Head of Press and Public Relations of the commission disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. He said the commission also approved the punishment of severe reprimand for eight officers, reprimand for 10 and letter of warning to three other officers. Ani, however, said another three officers were...

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