By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent ABUJA — The Federal Government has approved additional N8.9 billion to pay up the large chunk of the June 2020 COVID-19 allowance to all Medical Health Workers in the country. Sen Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment disclosed this during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the end of the meeting between the Federal Government and the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) in Abuja. It...
Deputy President of the Senate, Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, has urged Nigerians agitating for state creation to reach out to elected representatives and groups from other geopolitical zones in the country. This, he said, was to get the support of legislators, groups, as they were key in determining if such demands could scale through in the ongoing constitution amendment exercise. Yomi Odunuga, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, in a statement indicated that Omo-Agege made...
Top officials of the United Nations have decried rising armed attacks on education, with a call for immediate and strong preventative actions. UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the President of the General Assembly, Amb. Tijani Muhammad-Bande made the call on Wednesday. They spoke at a virtual event commemorating the first International Day to Protect Education from Attack. In his speech, Guterres emphasised that education, besides being a fundamental human right, is fundamental to peace and development....
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved 27.33 million dollars in grants to boost the African Union’s efforts to mobilise a continental response to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a statement from the AfDB, the approval is made by the organisation’s Board of Directors on Wednesday. The approval followed a meeting of the extended Bureau of the Conference of Heads of State and Government with Africa’s private sector on April 22 April. The meeting was...
The President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Tijjani Muhammad-Bande has challenged Nigeria to continue to ensure that it asserts itself as a leader both at the regional level and the global stage. Muhammad-Bande who is from Nigeria gave the charge during a virtual interaction with Nigerian journalists. He noted that Nigeria had been providing leadership in Africa, but urged the country to ensure that it continues to play positive roles. “Nigeria has been...
The Executive Secretary, National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO), Mr. Ado Muhammed Yahuza, has said that some Nigerian Languages might go into extinction if urgent measures were not taken to reverse the trend. Yahuza said this at the 2nd edition of the Nigerian Indigenous Language Programme (NILP) on Monday in Abuja. According to him, some Nigerian languages including Igbo and Yoruba, may not survive next 50 years. “The alarm has been raised in socio-linguistic circles...
The Federal Government through its Minister of State for Health, Dr. Olorunnimbe Mamora, said it has paid about ₦20Bn in COVID-19 inducement allowance to doctors and health workers in the country. Mamora said this on Wednesday morning while speaking on Channels Television’s programme, Sunrise Daily. The Minister applauded all front-line workers in the country amid the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. About 16,000 doctors across the country have knocked the government over its inability to...
The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami (SAN) has said he is ready to testify before the Justice Ayo Salami-led Presidential Panel if he is being summoned. Malami said this in an interview on Arise TV. The Nigeria Minister of Justice was reacting to a letter by the suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, asking the panel to summon the AGF for questioning. The AGF in his reaction...
By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent YOLA — The Adamawa State Command of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has paraded six suspected illicit drug dealers and consumers with 1000 kilograms of cannabis sativa seized from them. The State Commandant of the Agency, Idris Bello who paraded the suspects at the Command headquarters in Yola, said the seizures were made in Mubi, Numan, and other parts of the state. Bello, however, added that the suspected cannabis...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that 218 Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients have recovered from the infection across the country in the last 24 hours. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Monday. The health agency said that this brought the total number of successfully treated cases in the country to 43,231. It said that there were 155 new COVID-19 infections reported in 16 states with the total number...
