The Jigawa state command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has said that six persons died in a lone fatal auto crash in Malamadori local government area of the state on Saturday. The spokesperson of the command, Mr Ibrahim Gambo confirmed this to newsmen in Dutse on Saturday. Gambo said that four others sustained various degrees of injury in the accident that occurred at about 3:45 p.m., at Yadi area, along Malammadori road. He explained that 10 people (male adults) were involved in the accident, caused by tyre burst and loss of control of a commercial vehicle (Sharon Wagon)…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
Abia state governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, has inaugurated an Interim Management Committee (IMC) to oversee the affairs of Umuchieze Cattle Market, Lokpanta Umunneochi, charging them to ensure peace and security of the market. This is contained in press release by Chief Okiyi Kalu, Abia Commissioner for Trade and Investment and made available to newsmen in Aba on Saturday. Ikpeazu, while inaugurating the committee at Umuahia, charged its members to ensure the market did not serve as launching pad for attacks by criminal elements against innocent citizens and visitors to the state. He said that Abia had always been…
Taraba state governor, Darius Ishaku on Friday, said that the Taraba International Milling Company (TIMC) would commence rice milling operations in December. Ishaku made the disclosure during a working visit to the company site in Gassol town, Gossol local government area. The governor said that the company had great potential to boost rice production and marketing the state. He said that the machines for the firm had been installed and were ready to commence milling operations. ”It is also our hope that the rice milling firm will add value to our efforts towards economic growth,” he said. He said that the…
Namibia and Germany signed a financial cooperation agreement that would see the latter providing about $170 million in a loan on favorable terms to support economic development in Namibia. This is disclosed in a joint statement by the two governments on Friday. According to the statement, the loans will be used to fund the Namibia Water Sector Support Program which aims to implement new water projects. The projects are to improve access, quality and sustainability of water supply and sanitation in Namibia, and the Renewable Energy Program which sought to expand production capacity in the African country. It said that part of the loan…
Revemi Trade Limited, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), through a grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has trained no fewer than 2,000 youths and women on cassava value chain in Delta. Revemi Chief Executive Officer, Mr Oreva Amata, disclosed this at a capacity building workshop, tagged, “Eki Farmers Support Programme” organised by the company for peasants farmers in Delta South Senatorial District on Friday in Ozoro. Amata noted that the programme was sponsored by USAID in partnership with Delta government and Townstalk. According to him, Revemi, an Integrated Agrotech and Agro Commodities Trading Company has as target…
The Nasarawa state government says it administered malaria preventive drugs to 775,905 children under five years across the state in 2021. Mr Ahmed Yahaya, the Commissioner for Health made the disclosure at a media parley to commence the second round of the Seasonal Malaria Chemo-prevention (SMC) campaign on Friday in Lafia. The Commissioner said that 816,532 children were being targeted for the second round of the exercise in 2022. According to the Commissioner, government keyed into the SMC intervention, as part of its efforts to reduce the burden of malaria from the current 14.6 per cent in the state. Yahaya explained that…
Some 23 million Nigerian children have received the seasonal malaria chemoprevention, aiding reduction in severe malaria in children in the country. President Muhammadu Buhari made the declaration on Friday in Kigali at the Summit on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). The summit is part of activities at the on-going 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in the Rwandan capital. President Buhari was represented by the Minister of Health, Mr Osagie Ehanire, who delivered a speech on his behalf. “I am pleased to say my country has recorded gains in reducing the burden of malaria and NTDs and averting…
Nigeria and Brazil are to partner on the supply and distribution of 10,000 tractors to farmers across the country. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Abubakar made this known at the opening of Africa’s Agricultural Machines and Equipment Technology Expo in Abuja. Abubakar said the partnership aimed to fast track the mechanisation of the Agricultural sector, improve production, boost economy, enhance food self-sufficiency and create job opportunity for Nigerian youths. He said that the purpose of the expo was also to expose African Farmers to cost- effective farm machines, new farming technologies, to increase foreign direct investments,…
The WHO says Nigeria is one of the countries that have reported cases of monkeypox. It says more than 3,200 cases have been confirmed in 48 countries and in five of its regions globally. “In Nigeria, the proportion of women affected is much higher than elsewhere. “It is critical to better understand how the disease is spreading there,” WHO’s Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, has said. He made the declarations at the first meeting of the WHO’s Emergency Committee on monkeypox outbreak on Thursday. Ghebreyesus said the outbreak in newly-affected countries continued to be primarily among gay men and men who reported…
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday held a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister of Great Britain on the margins of the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Kigali, Rwanda, during which he once again reiterated his resolve to respect the maximum term limit in the Nigerian Constitution. The PM, obviously not quite familiar with the maximum two terms limit, had asked if President Buhari would run for office again. To which the latter responded: “Another term for me? No! The first person who tried it didn’t end very well.” (General laughter). On the leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of…