The Director General of the Standard Organisation of Nigeria, SON, Mr Faruk Salim has disclosed that the organization would build a beffiting laboratory in Sokoto. The director general spoke with newsmen shortly after he paid courtesy visit to Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal at the Government House on Monday. According to him, the laboratory first of its kind in the North, would be use to test the standards of products, instead of taking them to Lagos. “The laboratory will be the first of its kind in northern part of the country. When it is completed, testing of products would be…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has advised Nigerians to stop ethnic profiling, but expose criminal elements in the society. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola made available to ASHENEWS on Tuesday. According to him, exposing criminals within societies was one of the ways to combat the challenges of insecurity. He cited the arrest of a kidnapper in Oyo State who was reported to the police by his fellow tribesman as lending credence to the group’s appeal. The kidnapper “had kidnapped and killed a farmer in Solalu village, Oyo State, after collecting ransom’’, he stated.…
A retiring Supreme Court Justice, Olabode Rhodes-Vivour has revealed that corruption is deeply rooted in Nigeria. He stated this at a valedictory session held in his honour at the Supreme Court complex on Monday. According to Justice Rhodes-Vivour, Nigeria is no exception when it comes to corruption, adding that what should be done is to reduce it to the barest minimum. He stressed that concerted efforts must be put in place to reduce the anormally to the barest minimum. Bowing out on attainment of mandatory 70 years, the Supreme Court Justice pleaded that corruption must be tackled headon through genuine…
The Publisher of Daily Nigerian, Jaafar Jaafar has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, IGP Muhammad Adamu against reported renewed threat to his life by governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano state. In the petition, Jaafar stated that should anything happen to him for publishing videos of the governor stuffing dollars in his pockets, the governor should be held responsible. The journalist published video clips of the governor in October 2018, which depicted him allegedly collecting dollars, believed to be kickbacks from contractors handling various projects awarded by the state government. Ganduje in an interview with BBC Hausa on Friday, March…
By Suleiman Dogara If there’s one thing some newspaper editorials and analyses by some self-appointed commentators promise is uncourted controversy – and some shocking revelations of unprofessionalism and intellectual poverty while you are at it. Case in point: a piece of junk analysis simply credited to “editor” and published on March 21, 2021 edition of Thisday newspaper. The writer or commentator or analyst talks about Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello, has been playing “stupid and constituting humongous nuisance since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic last year.” One is rather shocked that a public affairs commentator would choose to deploy…
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine performed better than expected in a major late-stage trial potentially paving the way for its emergency authorisation in the U.S. and bolstering confidence after numerous setbacks in Europe. The drug maker said on Monday that trials in Chile, Peru and the U.S. found the vaccine, developed in conjunction with Oxford University, was 79 per cent effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and crucially, posed no increased risk of blood clots. It intends to request U.S. emergency authorisation in coming weeks. More than a dozen European countries, including Germany and France, had halted use of the AstraZeneca vaccine earlier…
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 said it received 300,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines from MTN Nigeria. Speaking at the National briefing, the Chairman of the PTF and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha said: “Yesterday, Sunday, March 21, 2021, the PTF received 300,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines from MTN Nigeria. “This is acknowledged with thanks as we encourage other partners to contribute towards the fight against COVID-19.” Recall that the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, had said that the first part of the 1.4 million doses promised to be donated to…
Connected Development (CODE) says it is developing a website to assess the social gaps and challenges faced by citizens affected by COVID-19 pandemic in some African countries. The CODE’s Project Lead, Dr Onyekachi Onuoha made this known when he led a delegation to the Federal Ministry of Health, in a statement in Abuja. Onuoha said the organisation was seeking partnership with the ministry to assist it in countering fake news and misinformation about COVID-19. He said that the website would also help to give credible information about the pandemic and what the governments had spent to fight it. “A website…
Water has many values that are just not priced, Sasha Koo-Oshima, the Deputy Director, Land and Water Division, UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), told Xinhua ahead of the World Water Day on March 29. The official highlighted that with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a large part of the world population still lacks access to hand washing facilities at home. “This is the first line of defense against this virus and the value of water is very evident in this progression. “The first thing we realised is the hand washing. Many countries just don’t have clean water to even just…
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on Monday urged governments at all levels to consider multiple values of water which should be incorporated into decision making for water development. Mr Dimitri Sanga, Officer-In-Charge (OIC) UNESCO Regional Office, Abuja, made the call at a news conference which held concurrently with the organisation’s presentation of the UN World Water Development Report 2021. The event was in commemoration of the year’s World Water Day (WWD) and the news conference was organised by the Ministry of Water Resources in collaboration with Action Against Hunger (AAH) and other partners. WWD, established by the UN in…