Biden Sweeps With a Big Broom – Scores Major Delegate Haul on Super Tuesday

The former vice president is now in a position to potentially win an outright majority of delegates to clinch the nomination. Joe Biden’s stunning sweep of most Super Tuesday states has rocketed him to the lead in the all-important delegate count over Bernie Sanders, according to NBC News projections based on early results. The total delegate haul is yet to be determined, because many states have yet to fully report their results. That includes California,...

Adoption of Digital Skills in Schools will Enhance Learning – NITDA Chief

Adoption of digital technological skills has been described as a veritable platform Nigerian educational sector could leverage on in order to be a key player in the Digital economy. The Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, Mr Kashifu Inuwa Abdullah, disclosed this today in Abuja at the ongoing EdTech Summit and Awards organised Federal Ministry of Education in collaboration with AFRITEX. The event was meant to bring critical stakeholders together in order to share...

FG to include Argungu Festival to the national program calendar

The Federal government says it has concluded plans to include the Argungu International Fishing and Cultural Festival in the calendar of Nigerian festivals. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed made this known at the publicity event for the 2020 Argungu International Fishing and Cultural Festival held in Abuja. The Minister noted that the ministry has made it a priority to attend all cultural festivals in the country as a way of raising their...

Once a viable White House candidate, Pete Buttigieg ends his campaign

After rising from relative obscurity to become a viable White House candidate, Pete Buttigieg ends his campaign His narrow, one-delegate victory over Sanders in Iowa was overshadowed by the vote-counting chaos there – and his win remained in doubt until it was confirmed after a final recanvass and recount were completed. But with his victory, Buttigieg achieved what would have been considered politically impossible just a decade ago. Let’s vote: When are the 2020 presidential election primaries? And on the night...

Coordination of Nigerian Professionals abroad gains momentum with publication to showcase their talents and occupations

“Who’s Who in Nigerian Diaspora” a partnership of governments, organizations, and businesses has yielded a platform to coordinate a much valued talents of Nigerians abroad Tension over the news that immigrants from Africa’s most populous country were blocked from coming to the U.S. may have been drastically eased when Who’s Who in Nigerian Diaspora Inc. announced its inaugural publication of Nigerian professionals living abroad.  The 2020 edition of Who’s Who in Nigerian Diaspora will unravels...

Coronavirus Latest News in Nigeria: What We Know About How the Italian Man Entered Nigeria Undetected

Since the announcement that a man who just arrived from Milan, Italy to Lagos, Nigeria, has COVID-19, many people have been asking how the Italian was able to go through the Lagos Airport undetected, despite the health screening reported to be carried out at the airport. In the early hours of February 28, the Government of Nigeria, confirmed the first case of COVID-19 in the country. The case makes Nigeria the first sub-Saharan Africa country...

Joint French-Nigerien military operation kills more than 100 jihadists in Niger

A joint operation by Nigerien and French troops in southwest Niger killed 120 “terrorists” and seized bomb-making equipment and vehicles, the country’s defence ministry said Friday.  As of February 20 “120 terrorists have been neutralised” in the operation in the vast Tillaberi region near the border with Mali and Burkina Faso, the statement said, adding there had been no losses among Nigerien or French troops. Niger’s defence minister Issoufou Katambe praised the “cooperation… in the...

War Against Insurgency: Are Nigerian Soldiers Traumatised?

Combat soldiers are generally trained to be hard-boiled and resilient, but with the increase in reported cases of Nigerian soldiers turning their guns and knives on colleagues and neighbours, many are calling for a check on the well-being of combatants, with some asking the question, are Nigerian soldiers traumatized? Telling the tragic story of how the lives of four soldiers were taken by their colleague, the Nigerian Army spokesman, Sagir Musa, on Wednesday 26 February,...

No Country Will Be Spared, Warn Experts, as Fight Against Coronavirus Ramps Up

GENEVA/DUBAI (Reuters) – No country should make the “fatal mistake” of assuming it will be spared the coronavirus, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, as governments from Iran to Australia raced to contain the epidemic’s rapid global spread. With new infections reported around the world now surpassing those in mainland China, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said even rich nations should prepare for surprises. “No country should assume it won’t get cases, that...

Afforestation: Nigeria’s Ekiti State to Plant 1m Trees

Ekiti State Government says it is ready to rejuvenate its forest reserves across the 16 local government areas of the state by planting of one million trees toward aggressive afforestation. The Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Mr Gbenga Agbeyo, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ado Ekiti. Agbeyo, who decried the current situation of the various forest reserves in the state, said most of them had been devastated and...

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