The Plateau state government says it is one of the two states in Nigeria that has eliminated Onchocerciasis, known as River Blindness and Lymphatic Filariasis, also known as Elephantiasis.
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello has received more People’s Democratic Party (PDP) defectors into the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the struggle for the Lugard House intensifies.
The Managing Director of the Hatch Pest Control and Environmental Service Ltd, Mr. Francis Nwapa has opined that it is best for all tiers of government to redirect malaria elimination interventions from curative to preventive approaches.
ASHENEWS reports that the management of Dangote Refinery has denied reports that it neglected youths from Nigeria and other African countries to employ 11,000 expatriates, including Indians and Chinese to build its refinery
The Agricultural sector development is considered to hold the key to economic development for most Sub-Saharan countries including Nigeria (Olukunle, 2013). This is because it has the ability of changing the dynamics and contribute immensely to the growth and development of this African Economies as it provides food for sustenance, nutrition and raw materials to the non-agricultural industries of the economy, it provides employment opportunities to a vast majority of unemployed labor most especially in rural communities and avails a means by which valuable foreign exchange can be earned through the export of agricultural products.
The troops of Forward Operating Base (FOB) of Gwadabawa, and Rakka, in Sokoto state, have arrested a notorious armed bandits’ kingpin, Jabbi Ruwa, and four of his foot soldiers.
The European Union (EU) says it has suspended its financial support and cooperation on security with Niger with immediate effect following the military coup there.
The Finland-based leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Simon Ekpa, has described the letter purportedly written by Nnamdi Kanu as not only a joke but an insult taken too far.
Following the disturbing sit-at-home order implemented by Simon Ekpa, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has written to Ekpa ordering the immediate stoppage of the order. Kanu is being detained by the Department of State Services (DSS), and the Mondays Sit-At-Home orders are aimed at forcing the Federal government to release him. The IPOB leader stressed that he embarked on the movement only to liberate the Igbo people and not to enslave them, but and inflicting unnecessary hardship on the Igbo people. Kanu’s handwritten letter dated July 24, was read by his counsel, Aloy Ejimakor,…
The 2nd Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Summit has ended with a declaration to address common challenges and deepen relations between Russia and African countries.