Nigeria’s Super Falcons lost their first game to Jamaica by a lone goal in the four-nation tournament in the United States. Goal by Deneisha Blackwood in the 51st minute in the game played at the BBVA stadium, Houston, late Thursday night was enough to hand new coach, Randy Waldrum, his first defeat with the African champions. Efforts by Oluwatosin Dimehin, Onyinyechi Zogg, Roosa Ariyo and Vivian Ikechukwu, who received their first international cap for the Falcons were not enough to secure a victory. The team definitely missed the absence of players like Asisat Oshoala, Onome Ebi, Halimatu Ayinde, Osinachi Ohale and…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Maj.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya has in a major shake up, appointed a new spokesperson, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu as the Director of Army Public Relations, who will take over from Brig. Gen Mohammed Yerima. In the same vein the COAS has approved the appointment of Major General CG Musa as New Theatre Commander Of Operation Hadin Kai North East Region. He takes over from the Chief of Army Staff. According to a statement by Brig. Gen. Mohammed Yerima on Thursday, the postings by the Chief of Army Staff of other senior army officers, are in line…
The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) says the country loses up to 400,000 hectares of forest annually to environmental degradation. The NCF Director-General, Muhtari Aminu-Kano, disclosed this in Lagos on Thursday at a seminar to commemorate the Word Environment Day. The theme of the seminar was “Ecosystem Restoration’’. Aminu-Kano also used the occasion to appeal to Nigerians not to pollute the waters anymore. “Our waters and lands have been destroyed by soil erosion and oil pollution and in all of these; we are doing damage to the natural environment. “Nature is the basis for our existence, nature gives us air, fresh…
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) says Nigeria’s proven natural gas reserve stood at 206.53 trillion cubic feet (tcf) as at January 1, 2021. Mr Sarki Auwalu, Director, DPR, made the announcement on Thursday in Abuja at the 2021 Nigeria International Petroleum Summit. The new figure represents an increase of 3.37tcf, representing 1.66 per cent percentage increase over the 203.16tcf recorded in the corresponding date of Jan. 1, 2020. He said that the growth of gas reserves was a critical lever to achieving Federal Government’s “Decade of Gas Initiative’’, aimed at transforming Nigeria to a gas-powered economy by 2030. Auwalu…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday inaugurated the commercial services of the Lagos-Ibadan railway project, describing it as another milestone in railway transport revival in Nigeria. The president spoke at the inauguration of the service, which took place at the Mobolaji Johnson Railway Station in Ebute Metta, Lagos. Buhari described the feat as “another milestone in the drive of this administration to revitalise the railway system and establish it as a choice mode of transportation for both passengers and freight’’. He pledged that his administration would continue to prioritise the railway system as a transportation backbone that could transform industrial and…
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the military and police to deal ruthlessly with insurgents and other criminals across the country. The president made this public on Thursday in Abuja while fielding questions from journalists on a live television programme. Buhari, who expressed the confidence that the order would yield positive results within weeks, recalled that he had in the past visited Chad, Niger and Cameroon as part of efforts to promote good neighbourliness and security at the nation’s borders. Warning that the country might experience food shortage, Buhari said that there was the need to decisively tackle insurgents who are…
A professor at the University of Sydney, Dominic Dwyer has said in an article in the Sydney Morning Herald that a lab-leak hypothesis about the origin of COVID-19 was flawed. The key flaw, he said, is that no evidence shows that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had SARS-CoV-2 before the pandemic. “The laboratory leak, for that to be the origin meant they must have had the virus to begin with, and we don’t have evidence of that,’’ said Dwyer, who was also a member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) team sent to China in January. As a “pretty prominent…
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration plans to buy 500 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to donate to other countries over the next two years. According to U.S. media reports, about 200 million doses will be distributed this year while with the remaining doses will be delivered in 2022. Although, the White House is yet to officially comment on the plan to roll out 500 million doses worldwide but the U.S. leader mentioned it as he landed in the UK at the start of his first foreign trip. But when asked if the U.S. government had a vaccination strategy…
The Chairman of the Northern Senators’ Forum, Sen. Aliyu Wamakko has called for lasting solutions to tackle the menace of growing insecurity in the country. The senator made the call while briefing newsmen after the caucus’ closed-door session, held in Abuja, on Wednesday. “We must continue to find more solutions that can be applied to the security challenges. “Of course, there are many ways of finding a solution. I know we are using the security outfit very well, but there are other ways of finding lasting solutions to the challenges, facing our country today. “We are concerned as Nigerians and…
Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State on Wednesday inaugurated the new ultra modern Zamfara State House of Assembly complex constructed at the cost of over N1.4 billion. The new edifice comprised administrative block, House Chamber, committee rooms, restaurant, filling station, clinic, mosque and perimeter fence. Masari who was the special guest for the event held in Gusau, urged people of Zamfara to rally round the state administration for more development projects. He also urged people in the North West to contribute to ending the security challenges in the region. “The threats posed by insecurity in our region requires all hands…