Stop Plotting And Destructing The Milliken Hill, Warns Edeoga Enugu Commissioner For Environment

The Enugu State Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources warns individuals, communities, and authorities involved in the ongoing destruction of the Milliken hills especially behind the new Enugu State Infectious Disease Hospital, formerly known as Colliery Hospital Enugu and other hills in the state, to desist from such actions. A statement signed by Chijioke Edeoga Commissioner for Environment and Mineral Resources, warns that defaulters will be made to face the full wrath of the state...

FUNERAL: Remains of WAP Regional Correspondent Ibrahim Abdul’aziz Buried In His Hometown, Amidst Tears

By Hassan Umar Shallpella, Senior Staff Reporter ______ YOLA — The remains of Ibrahim Abdul’aziz, a veteran Journalist who died in a ghastly motor accident on Friday 5th, February 2020 along Gombe- Bauchi road was buried at the Muslims cemetery Yola town, Adamawa state Northeast Nigeria after funeral prayer was conducted at his family residence along with Abuja road Yola town. The funeral prayer was attended by family members, colleagues in the pen profession, and...

West African Pilot News Regional Correspondent, Ibrahim Abdulaziz dies in an auto crash

“We are deeply saddened by his untimely exit and pray that the Almighty Allah grant him a peaceful eternal rest,” — WAP Editorial Board The West African Pilot News (WAP)  has confirmed the death of their Regional Correspondent, Ibrahim Abdulaziz. The veteran Journalist died on Friday 5th February 2021 in an auto crash along Alkaleri-Bauchi- Gombe road according to Family sources. Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, based in Yola coordinated news stories in the northern part of the...

U.S. Endorses Okonjo-Iweala for DG WTO, Promises Her Its Supports

The United States (U.S.) has commended Nigerian financial expert, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, for her desire to contribute her wealth of knowledge to the development of the World Trade Organization (WTO) as it salutes the decision of the Republic of Korea’s Trade Minister, Yoo Myung-hee to withdraw her candidacy for Director-General of the (WTO). This endorsement and salutation were contained in a statement released by the United State Trade Representative (USTR) Public and Media Affairs, in...

Nigerian Cloud Scheduling App, Calendly, Raises $350m to Surpass Initial $3b Valuation

Calendly, a world-leading cloud scheduling app that got more usefulness in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, has achieved a unicorn territory. In the report by The Atlanta Business Journal, the app which was founded by the Nigerian Tope Awotona has raised $350 million in the latest round of funding. Open View Venture Partners took the lead in the round with assistance from San Francisco-based Iconiq Capital. Calendly is a company that is one of the...

COVID-19: Nigerian Entertainers Need Palliatives From FG – Tee Mac

LAGOS — The President, Entertainment Database, and a Nigerian Flutist, Omatshola Iseli, popularly known as “Tee Mac”, on Thursday called on the Federal Government to provide COVID-19 palliatives to Nigerian entertainers. Tee Mac, who made this call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, said Nigerian entertainers were worst hit by the restrictions occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic. Iseli, also the Chairman of Entertainment Foundation, said the fact that night...

2023 : Nigerians Will Vote Out APC – Gov Wike

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent _____ YOLA — Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike says the inability of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to tackle insurgency, banditry, and corruption will compel Nigerians to vote out the party in 2023. Governor Wike noted with the current economic woe of the country and escalating banditry, it was obvious that Nigerians have realised they made a terrible mistake to have voted for the APC. The Rivers State governor...

Australian Brain Cancer Drug Set for Human Trials

CANBERRA —  Researchers from the University of South Australia (UniSA) have discovered a drug that can treat the most lethal form of brain cancer. Wang Shudong, Head of Drug Discovery and Development at UniSA, said on Thursday that trials of the experimental drug, Auceliciclib, have proven that it can offer a new treatment for glioblastoma, which currently has no cure in animals. Glioblastoma is the most deadly form of brain cancer with 95 per cent...

Influx of Herdsmen: Miyetti Allah Advises FG to Leverage ECOWAS Transhumance Protocol

ABUJA — Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has called on the Federal Government to leverage the ECOWAS transhumance certificate protocol, to check the influx of herdsmen from neighboring countries. The call was contained in a statement, jointly signed and issued by Alhaji Muhammad Kiruwa, President, and Alhaji Baba Ngelzarma, National Secretary, of the association, on Thursday, in Abuja. Ngelzarma, who explained that the advice was part of resolutions reached at the end...

Man Bags 66 Months Imprisonment for Human Trafficking

KATSINA  — The Federal High Court sitting in Katsina has sentenced one Muyeedeen Jamilu, 42, to five and a half years’ imprisonment for trafficking in persons. Jamilu, a resident of Brigade quarters in Kano, was accused of procuring illegal entry for 11 youths, comprising 10 female and one male to go to Libya, but were arrested while en route from Kano, through Kwangwalam border in Katsina state, on Nov. 30, 2020, by the Joint Taskforce...

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