TOKYO — The U.S. dollar clung to small gains on Tuesday as caution reigned in currency markets, ahead of major central bank meetings. The meeting begins with a two-day Federal Reserve gathering due to start later in the global day. The greenback hovered just off its highest since June versus the yen and cemented a position around $1.19 per euro in muted trading. The firmer tone for the dollar came despite a retreat in U.S....
ENUGU — The Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Deputy Governor, Mrs. Cecilia Ezeilo, and the State Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Priscilla Ngozi Emehelu, on Monday, were vaccinated with Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Government House, Enugu. The trios were the first stakeholders to be vaccinated in the state apart from some frontline health workers at ESUT Teaching Hospital Isolation and Treatment Centre, Enugu vaccinated on Friday. Speaking to newsmen, the Executive Secretary, Enugu State...
The spate of students’ abduction in Northern Nigeria has forced school authorities to close no fewer than 618 schools in six northern states over the fear of attack and abduction of pupils and members of staff. The six states affected by the closure are Sokoto, Zamfara, Kano, Katsina, Niger, and Yobe. The Sokoto state government has closed all boarding schools along with border towns. The state Commissioner for Security and Career Affairs, Col. Garba Moyi...
Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume who represents Borno South District in the National Assembly on Sunday said the retention of the party’s presidential ticket in the North in 2023 would be tantamount to a third term for the region. Ndume, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain said the pre-2015 agreement among the founding fathers of the party favoured the rotation of the presidential slot between the North and the South. Ndume spoke on the 2023 succession...
Governor Samuel Ortom Benue State says his administration will no longer negotiate with or grant amnesty to criminals under any guise in the state. He stated this on Saturday in Anyiin, Logo Local Government Area of the state at the burial of Mr. Terkura Suswam, the slain elder brother of the former governor, Sen. Gabriel Suswam. late Suswam was killed along with his aide, Mr. Solomon Utanor on March 2, close to his residence in...
YOLA — Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa state has announced automatic employment to five best graduating students at the Adamawa State University and overseas scholarship to further their education. The Governor made the announcement in his speech at the third to fifteenth convocation ceremony of the institution Saturday with ninety-two students graduating with first-class honour degrees. The University held its last convocation twelve years ago following setbacks caused by Boko Haram attacks and industrial...
The administration is now seven years old and with only one year to go; it’s therefore, fair that the administration is evaluated on the basis of what it set out to do during the celebration of its one hundred days in office ―Ebuka Onyekwelu Nigerian governors, steeped in a culture of fanfare both for good or bad, for little or big accomplishment, has now established celebrating their one hundred days in office, as a mark...
YOLA — Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa State Thursday received the COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine at the vaccination centre in the State Specialist Hospital Yola. The Governor in an interview with newsmen after taking the vaccine call on the people in Adamawa to avail themselves of the vaccination as it is safe and harmless. “People should take the vaccine because it is the only way to make them safe and built their immunity against the...
President Mohammed Buhari has ruled that security officers should deal less compassionately with criminals and any person unlawfully wielding a weapon. While addressing the security challenges in the country, the president reiterated the directive that anyone with illegitimate access to or ownership of an AK-47 should be shot at sight. He indicated this on Monday while speaking at a meeting with the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria at the State House, co-chaired by...
ENUGU– Enugu State Government alongside Ebonyi and Anambra states, on Wednesday, took delivery of the first batch of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu. The Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, codenamed AZD1222 is a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca given by intramuscular injection; AZD1222 vaccine against COVID-19 has an efficacy of 63.09% against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and the recommended dosage is...
