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...
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...
…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....
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...
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...
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...
” …Many of them started using walking stick, just because Obiano uses it. They started wearing hart, just like Obiano. ” —Ebuka Onyekwelu Mentorship I suspect has some form of uncanny influence on mentees or so it seems. I recall with clarity as an undergraduate student in the university some years ago, how followers of a particular Pentecostal Church pastor, specifically students’ preachers in that Church’s campus fellowship in those days; all, dressed up like...
The Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on Wednesday placed a bounty of five million naira on the killers of Engr. Dons Udeh, Enugu State gubernatorial aspirant under the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the 2023 general election. Ugwuanyi made this announcement when he received delegates from Ozalla in the Enugu State Government House led by the President General of Ozalla Development Union, Barr. Charles Nwagbara; the group demanded for justice and appealed for government...
President-elect Bola Tinubu and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, yesterday, washed their dirty linens in public over the repayment of the cost of some federal road projects undertaken by the Rivers State government. The Governor hosted the President-elect in his state on Wednesday for the commissioning of the Rumuokwuta–Rumuola flyover in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area. In his speech during the event, Wike reeled off some projects embarked upon by his administration which ought to...
The Governor of Anambra State Professor Chukwuma Soludo has sworn in Christian Udechukwu as the new Commissioner for Industry. Mr. Evarist Ubah was also sworn-in as Special Adviser to the Governor on Trade and Markets. The swearing-in ceremony which took place at the Executive Chambers, Government House, Awka was witnessed by members of Anambra State Executive Council. By the ceremony, the duo were officially inducted as members of the Council. Reeling out his charge to...
